Hey, everyone, it's Jen, and this is Lindsay.

And this is Corpusillicti, the podcast.

We are still in our Cold Case series going strong.

And just a warning, this episode, don't listen to it on your speaker.

Go get your smear buds, because you may need it.

Yeah, there are some pretty gruesome details, and it does include sexual assault.

So if that is not your thing, please feel free to skip this episode.

So we're going to go ahead and jump right in because there is a lot to cover.

So we're going to kick this off on May 3rd of 1996. This was Jessica Bagan's 17th birthday. And by May 4th, which is

just the very, very next day, she had disappeared. Jessica disappeared in the early morning hours of May 4th, 1996, in Sitka, Alaska.

So she and her friend had been at her sister's house, visiting her sister, where Jessica was

celebrating her birthday. So she's with a friend, with her sister, at the sister's house on May 3rd.

This goes into the wee morning hours of May 4th, and that's when she decides to walk home

that night at approximately 1.30 a.m. It's about a mile away, so she's like, it's close enough.

I've done it before. Weather's not bad. I'm going to go. Now, her parents woke up the next morning and they realized

Jessica was not home. They called her sister. She was not with her sister. They spend the rest of the

day making calls. They're looking for Jessica. And Jessica's father reported her missing to the

Sitka Police Department early on May the 5th.

They managed to determine that no one had had contact with her, or at least that they knew of.

No friends or family had seen or heard from her.

A search and rescue team was established, and they focused on the woods west of the Indian River near

Sheldon Jackson College campus. The search soon turned up a shirt. It was identified as having

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