The Story of Jenna Burleigh
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🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Episode 71 – Originally Released January 2019 Content warning: This episode contains adult subject matter including discussions about missing persons, sexual assault, and murder, which may be upsetting to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. In September 2017, I shared a story on Patreon about Temple University student Jenna Burleigh. Jenna was a transfer student …
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| 0:00.0 | In September 2017, I shared a story on Patreon about Temple University student Jenna Burley. |
| 0:06.0 | Jenna was a transfer student from suburban Philadelphia. |
| 0:09.0 | She just started her junior year at Temple in North Philly, |
| 0:12.0 | majoring in film and media |
| 0:14.0 | art studies commuting from her home in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. The |
| 0:18.0 | semester had barely begun. Classes had only been in session for four days |
| 0:21.7 | when Jenna was reported missing by her father on Thursday, August 31st, 2017. |
| 0:27.0 | Temple University campus police, Philadelphia police, and the Pennsylvania State Police worked quickly, and within days they'd found Jenna Burley in Northeast Pennsylvania. |
| 0:38.0 | She'd been murdered. |
| 0:40.0 | Police identified a person of interest who was arrested and charged with Jenna's murder. |
| 0:45.0 | A man named Joshua Huppertz. |
| 0:48.0 | Joshua was a former Temple University student with a criminal record that went back to his teenage years, although nothing in that |
| 0:55.0 | record came even close to murder. |
| 0:57.9 | In January 2019, Joshua Huppertz was tried for Jenna's murder, and within less than two hours after the case |
| 1:05.0 | was handed over to a jury he was found guilty of murdering 22-year-old |
| 1:09.5 | Jenna Burley on the morning of August 31st, 2017. |
| 1:13.0 | This episode includes background about Jenna's life and her murder from the 2017 |
| 1:18.0 | Patreon episode, and a case update about the trial of Joshua Huppertz. |
| 1:23.6 | In December 2018, he was given the option |
| 1:26.2 | to accept a plea deal. |
| 1:27.7 | If he pled guilty to the murder of Jenna Burley, |
| 1:30.4 | Joshua Huppertz would spend between 30 to 60 years in jail. |
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