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foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] Lake Mississippi June 2017. it's a hot morning and early summer and
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a town of about 26 thousand located just about five minutes from the Mississippi
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border and fewer than 15 miles south of Memphis a U.S Postal Service mail carrier is
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delivering the mail on Angel Drive she nears a black metal mailbox mounted on a sturdy wooden post
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but as she was about to reach in to drop the mail the mail carrier draws back in horror
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sitting on the ground below the mailbox tied to the post with what appears to be
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shoestrings is a woman she is clearly dead her head is tilted upwards at an angle
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her mouth is open authorities are alerted and told that they would find a young woman tied by
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the neck and jaw to a rural mailbox post how long had she been there how many cars passed by the mailbox and
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never noticed a sight that none of us would forget if it weren't for all the Tall Weeds up
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by the road and surrounding the mailbox someone would have spotted her hours before
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who could have done this how did this happen and why this week we discussed the case of
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Jessica Renee Johnson foreign [Music] Jessica Johnson was 37 years old when her body was discovered on June 2nd
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2017. Jessica was a brunette and she was five foot three inches tall 115 pounds with greenish hazel eyes
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even though Jessica was in her mid-30s she lived at home in Horn Lake with her parents Linda and David Johnson
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this was largely because Jessica was a single mom with two children a daughter who was just eight years old when
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Jessica died and a son who was 19. until a few months before her death Jessica worked at a logistics service in
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Memphis but lately she was unemployed her parents helped out with child care her son lived with Jessica's
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grandparents whose home was just yards away when we talk about who Jessica was as a
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person there's a lot to talk about but one thing that is very often said is that Jessica was very pretty yeah and
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you often see this in cases where they talk about the victim's looks or whatever but in this case it's it's like
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a 100 consensus yeah she's described by all as exceptionally beautiful