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Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers

Episode #1 - Murder in Mississippi: Social Media Mayhem

Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers

Oxygen

Oxygen Network, Jessica Chambers, True Crime, Beth Karas

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Jessica Chambers is found outside her burning car on a rural Mississippi road in 2014, she is severely burned and would die hours later. With no obvious suspect of this vicious crime, everyone is asking who did this and why? Hosted by Beth Karas, this episode covers the police investigation and the effect of a viral social media campaign to solve the crime. 

Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers premiers Saturday, September 15, at 7pm ET/PT on Oxygen.

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3 or 4 other firefighters were sitting at our station and we're getting ready to leave, go home, and the call come out.

0:13.0

They set a car in the field on fire.

0:17.2

One of them got across on the radio and said,

0:19.3

hey, we need a deputy out here.

0:20.8

There's a girl I hear them been burned standing in the road naked.

0:27.0

According to investigators 19 year old Jessica Chambers was inside her car when someone lit it on fire, but somehow, though

0:37.3

injured, she miraculously got out of it.

0:40.8

It was Saturday night, December 6, 2014, and her car was parked just off a rural road in

0:47.1

Cortland, Mississippi.

0:49.0

Two men driving by, saw the fire, and called it in just after 8 p.m. Eddie Eidson, a volunteer

0:56.0

firefighter at the time, was one of the first responders.

1:02.0

We pulled it up and I remember the heat coming off the truck we started rendering

1:10.0

medical aid for Jessica and I remember looking down and she was laid on her side and

1:17.7

they had this old army blanket covering I mean I don't think she had on was a

1:21.6

pair of panties.

1:27.0

Just seeing her laying on that ground that piece of skin,

1:31.0

every time she braids go in and I don't know you.

1:36.0

And the damn thing you do about it.

1:40.0

The burn spots were red,

1:42.0

but like in some places maybe look like somebody who smeared charcoal on her.

1:47.0

She wasn't complaining about pain or nothing.

1:50.0

Yeah, she was shaking.

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