When I got the first phone call about Jessica, we had just come in from our day. My mom called and I thought, let me relax and I'm going to call her right back.

And then she called again.

Before I could even listen to the voicemail,

she was calling the third time.

And I thought, let me just answer this phone, hello.

And it was a sound that just go straight through you.

Jessica had been set on fire.

I thought she burned her arm. What do you mean she's been set on fire? She

told me Jessica was being flown to the hospital. That's when I knew it was more than just her arm. I just I fell

to my knees.

And I remember just silence.

She finally choked up enough to say, they don't think she'll make it.

That was A.J. Prince, Jessica Chambers' sister.

I'm your host, Beth Karas, and this is unspeakable crime the killing of

Jessica Chambers.

I was a prosecutor in New York City for eight years before joining court TV, now called

True TV as a correspondent.

For almost two decades I covered trials across the country.

I followed this case since the beginning and was part of a documentary team that produced

Oxygen's television series by the same name.

This podcast follows the case as we examine Jessica's death,

the search for her killer, and the trial of the accused. In episode one we covered

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