Voices for Justice is a podcast that uses adult language and discusses sensitive and potentially triggering topics, including violence, abuse, and murder.

This podcast may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Some names have been changed or omitted per their request or for safety

purposes. Listener discretion is advised. My name is Sarah Turney and this is Voices for Justice.

Today I am discussing the case of 26-year-old Desiree Given.

Desiree was murdered in 2017 over Thanksgiving weekend, about 20 minutes away from her grandmother's

hotel in Jamaica.

Desire spent almost every summer growing up at this very hotel.

So when she was found murdered, not only were her parents devastated, but they were also

completely shocked. After taking a closer look at the circumstances, her mother is certain that

the perpetrator is someone that knew her and lured her away. There isn't a ton of media coverage

on this case. In fact, I'd never heard of it before I was

contacted by Desire's best friend Valerie. She sent me an email with the subject line in all

caps, murder. Her email was only a few sentences long, and basically said that Desiree was

brutally murdered almost four years ago, that they have no answers and that no one would help

them. She also attached a picture of Desiree, who is stunning, by the way. And when I googled her name,

I was even more shocked, because Desiree was actually a model and an actress. She'd worked for MTV,

she traveled the country with the truth anti-smoking

initiative, she worked with the rapper Asap Rocky at one point, and she was even on the Nickelodeon

show, Blues Clues. People flew in from all over the world for her funeral, yet no one is

talking about her case, or the insane and frustrating circumstances

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