Jessica Lyn Keen was killed in the Foster Church Cemetery in West Jefferson, Ohio. She was a homicide victim. Her story has been featured on the TV reveals “Unsolved Mysteries,” “On the Case with Paula Zahn,” and “Lifeless Silent on Investigation Discovery.”
Jessica Lyn Keen is a star pupil, an honor pupil, and a dancer. She is 15 years previous and lives in Columbus, Ohio. However when she met and fell in love with Sean Thompson, an 18-year-old boy from her college, she give up cheering and her grades went down. Her people didn’t just like the younger man, however they didn’t know what to do about it.
They known as Columbus’s toll-free quantity on March 4, 1991, to ask for assist. Huckleberry Home is a spot for troubled teenagers to remain for 2 weeks and get remedy for themselves and their households.
Two days after Keene went lacking, his physique was discovered early on March 17 behind Foster Church Cemetery, 20 miles from the youth detention heart. She was each crushed and raped. She nonetheless wears her ring and Watch, however the necklace her boyfriend gave her that claims “Take it” is gone.
Her boyfriend is the probably particular person to have performed it, however DNA analysis reveals that he didn’t. Police assume she ran away from her captors and to the graveyard. On the graveyard, they discovered a pair of her socks and knee prints in the dust behind the gravestone. This implies that she tried to cover behind the gravestone. She was killed by her captors, who had been in all probability following her, close to the graveyard fence.
Since then, her household has put a cross together with her title on it subsequent to the fence of the graveyard the place her physique was discovered.
Marvin Lee Smith Jr. was caught by cops in Burlington, North Carolina, on April 9, 2008. Based mostly on DNA proof, Smith was charged with committing a felony by having an unlawful sexual act with Keane. He was despatched to Ohio to face the fees.
Smith pleaded responsible to first-degree homicide in Madison County courtroom in 2009. He stated that he had raped and killed Keene. There may be proof that Keane bought out of his automotive and bumped into Foster Chapel Cemetery, the place she hit a fence submit and fell. Then, Keane was killed by being hit with a tombstone and having it thrown over a close-by fence. The police say that they discovered bloody items on the tombstone. In trade for his responsible plea, Smith was not placed on trial for the demise sentence in March 2009, as was initially deliberate. He admitted to 1 rely of homicide with rape and homicide and was sentenced to 30 years to life in jail.