DEAD ON VACATION: Aspiring filmmaker attacked, murdered on Jamaican getaway

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Desiree Gibbon, 26, works as a model but has plans to attend film school in Europe to be a director. Not wanting to rely on her family to pay for it, Gibbon looks for work in Montego Bay, Jamaica, while staying at her grandmother’s hotel. After a Thanksgiving dinner with her relatives, she walks outside at 11:27 p.m., telling the security guard she will be right back. She walks to the left and out of view of the resort and was never seen again. About 20 minutes away from the hotel, residents find Desiree Gibbon’s body around 9:15 a.m., two days after she disappeared. She was lying in the heavy brush beside an overgrown roadway with her throat slashed, Nearly decapitated, her spine was severed. Andrea Cali-Gibbon - Victim's MotherGary Davidson - Partner, Diaz Reus [ROYCE] international Law Firm & Alliance, www.diazreus.com, Twitter: @DRT_Alliance, Instagram: diazreustargDr. Jorey Krawczyn [KRAW-ZIN] - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” (July 2021) bw-institute.com Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics, Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime NetworkMary Murphy - Investigative Reporter, PIX11 News, New York City (WPIX TV), Recipient of 30 New York Emmy awards, Facebook: Mary Murphy Mystery, Instagram: @marymurphypix, Twitter: @MurphyPIX https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dsire-gibbon-murdered

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
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0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:42.0	As you get ready to go on vacation on your own with your friend, your partner, your
0:47.3	loved one, or your family, think twice. Does the name deseret gibbon ring a bell?
0:55.0	It does to me because when I first read about deseret I was so moved I ended up writing an entire
1:02.5	chapter about travel safety because of deseret gibbon and the book don't be a victim.
1:12.0	Gorgeous, beautiful. In fact she was a model headed to film school just 26 years old.
1:20.5	When she goes on a faded vacation to Jamaica.
1:34.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:41.3	Take a listen to our friend Jim Dolan at ABC7.
1:44.4	Deseret Gibbon was 26 years old and all that was holding her back was that she had so many
1:49.8	options in life. She could do so much. She wanted to go to film school. She wanted to learn
1:56.7	producing and directing. So she wanted to make money to go. She didn't want us to have to pay
2:01.2	for. She wanted to go and make it on her own. Deseret went to Jamaica where her father lives and
2:05.5	where her grandmother owns a hotel to earn that money for college. She was close to landing a job at
2:11.0	a tourist bar there. Deseret had already created a social life in her short time in Jamaica.
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