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48 Hours

"48 Hours" Live to Tell: Murder on Prom Night

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A survivor deals with the trauma after her stepbrother is convicted of killing her family in order to go to the prom. CBS News chief investigative and senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.2

Here we are.

0:40.0

So we're at Alabranch, the church that I grew up in for three years.

0:46.1

This is the house that I lived in.

0:49.8

This is probably not a door I want to open. I just I don't. I don't know if I could handle

1:03.8

being in there. Knowing what happened.

1:12.3

My name is Jessie. My hair is pink. I decided to change my hair. I also changed my name to Jessie.

1:24.2

Jessica, I no longer wanted that name because she was a very sad, lonely, angry little girl.

1:32.8

And I just didn't want that anymore.

1:42.5

When I was a young child, I lived with my mom and my dad. And then there was me the oldest,

1:49.4

my middle sister, Janelle. And then there was my little sister, Jolene.

1:54.9

My dad died when I was five years old. After my dad had died, my mom married Bob Pelley.

2:03.4

And Bob had become a minister because my stepdad was the minister of the church. We lived in the

2:07.9

personage. Bob's kids were older than me and my sisters. My first impression of Jeff was he

2:15.6

was very tall, skinny, crazy big hair. And Jackie, she was a little more quiet, reserved.

2:24.4

My sister, Janelle and I had a best friend, Stephanie Fagan.

2:30.1

She was like one of the family. We played in the backyard. We ran through the corn fields.

2:35.7

It was typical country girl stuff. The Pelley family through my eyes seemed normal for the most part.

2:52.7

In April 1989, I was nine years old. My whole world was shattered.

2:57.6

Jeff was planning to go to the prom that weekend.

3:03.1

Jackie was at a church camp. I had planned to go to a friend's house. So I ended up going to the

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