Jessica Hamby

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Hamby was trying to come home. After months of fighting to get clean, after voluntarily entering detox, after choosing—again—to try—she stepped back into the Alabama winter…and disappeared. But Jessica’s story doesn’t begin the night she vanished. It begins six months earlier, when her friend Jeremy Abbott went missing and was later found hanging in the woods—exactly where Jessica told police his body would be. Why was she afraid to tell them? And why, after finally speaking up, did she leave the state for months? When Jessica returned, her phone began moving through Winston and Marion counties in the early morning hours of January 3, 2018—ending with one final message. What happened in those final hours? And how does a young mother simply vanish without a trace? Please also consider supporting Coffee and Cases by joining us over on our Patreon page! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content?! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register! Check out Secrets True Crime Podcast Season 3 for a DEEP dive on this case! https://www.secretstruecrime.com/episodes/season/3/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	is something sacred. We celebrate the return. We light candles for it. We wait at doors and windows
1:09.8	for it. We tell ourselves that no matter
1:12.4	how far someone drifts, no matter the mistakes they make, the storms they weather, the roads they
1:17.8	wander, home is the place where things can begin again. Home means safety. Home means order.
1:25.1	It means the chaos of the outside world finally loosening its grip.
1:30.0	But sometimes coming home is not a restoration. Sometimes it is the moment everything unravels.
1:37.9	For some people, home is not protection. It is proximity to old habits, to old people, to old secrets that never really died.
1:47.8	And for one young mother in Alabama, returning home would place her squarely back in the shadow of a death that had already begun to fracture her life.
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