14-year-old raped, murdered Thanksgiving day

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Wendy Jerome was last seen alive delivering a birthday card to a friend who lived nearby, but the 14-year-old misses her curfew. Less than three hours later, Wendy’s body is found behind a school near her home. She had been raped and beaten to death. That was 1984. Thirty-six years later, her murderer has now been identified. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Phil Vetrano - father of Karina VetranoWendy Patrick- California prosecutor, author “Red Flags”, Host of "Live With Dr. Wendy" on KCBQ Radio www.wendypatrickphd.com Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, ww.drbethanymarshall.comJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Dr Pamela Marshall, Duquesne University, Director and Associate Professor Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Forensic Science and Law Master's Program, Expert - DNA Interpretation, Forensic DNA Analysis Tony Destefano, Journalist for Newsday

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:07.0	Thanksgiving, a beautiful, young, 14-year-old girl goes to deliver a birthday
0:22.7	card to her friend, and she is never sane alive again. Needless to say, we want justice.
0:42.2	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:51.2	Wendy, just 14 years old, now think about it. Think about it. When I prosecuted cases,
0:59.6	it was and still is the law that you, the prosecutor, may not ask the jury to place themselves
1:09.5	in the shoes of the victim or the victim's family, but luckily those rules of evidence
1:16.3	are not binding me right now, and I want you to think. Place yourself if you dare to
1:22.5	do it in the shoes of the mother and dad that are waiting for their 14-year-old girl, Wendy,
1:31.0	to come home. This little girl, just one year older than my little girl, Lucy.
1:39.5	And my big boy, John David, I can't imagine them not coming home from something so simple
1:49.5	as dropping off a birthday card, but that is what happened. And this is the story. Take
1:56.5	a listen to this.
1:57.5	From what we can get her now, she left the friend's house around 730 at night in
2:03.6	a rude home and she never made it home. In about 20 minutes after her body was found,
2:10.9	she was reported missing by her parents.
2:13.0	She'd been returning home from a visit with friends Thanksgiving night when she was murdered.
2:17.6	Jerome had been beaten, raped and slashed. Her body dumped in the courtyard of school
2:21.8	number 33, just blocks from her home.
2:25.4	Police have questioned one suspect in this case so far. On the night of the murder, detectives
2:29.6	picked up a man near the school who was covered with blood. But after hours of grilling,
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