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I Wish You Were Here

Abducted From Her Own House: The Jessica Lunsford Story

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, we’re going back to one of the most heartbreaking cases in modern true crime — the disappearance and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. A little girl who should’ve been safe inside her own home, and a predator who was hiding just steps away. We’ll walk through the night she vanished, the frantic search, the devastating discovery, and how her story sparked a nationwide movement that forever changed how America protects its children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Based on the worldwide best-selling novel.

0:02.5

Why do you want this job?

0:03.5

I really enjoy being a housemaid. This Christmas. Would you like the Grand Tour? See what you're getting yourself into? Discover what lies. I don't know what's been going on with her lately. Behind closed doors. I need this job. I do not want to go back. Sydney Sweetie. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred. What kind of monsters are we?

0:24.0

I want you to feel... back. Sydney, sweetie. You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred.

0:23.0

What kind of monsters are we?

0:25.4

I want you to feel safe here.

0:26.4

The House Maid.

0:29.8

In Cinema's Everywhere Boxing Day, see it first with previews from December 22.

0:35.2

There's something so incredibly eerie for me when someone disappears and then they're found incredibly close to their house just knowing that there

0:38.7

are massive search parties so many search efforts to look for this one person and then they're

0:43.8

found right there and they were there the entire time it sends shivers down my spine and in this

0:50.3

case particularly there was one incident that's going to make you so angry because obviously

0:55.6

in hindsight, I don't want to spoil anything, so I'm not saying, but in hindsight, it's so easy to say,

1:01.4

oh, well, if I was a cop, if I was the investigator, I would have done X, Y, and Z differently.

1:06.9

Obviously, now we know, knowing the difference that that would have made made it's just that that side of it is so

1:12.6

heartbreaking knowing that if one small detail would have been different than this little girl would

1:18.1

still be alive today that being said today's case is about a nine-year-old child so if you think that

1:24.0

listening to this is going to harm your mental health in any way, shape or form, please skip this video.

1:28.9

I know none of these cases are easy to listen to, but I know the ones with children involved

1:33.6

are especially hard.

1:35.9

So I've said this a million times, both on the podcast and on TikTok, I would hate nothing

1:41.1

more than for one of my videos or one of my episodes to hurt your mental health.

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