Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm grit and you guys we are here Christmas and all because we know that you crime junkies need your fix

So instead of taking the week off we decided to bring you an extra special Christmas episode because we all know

Evil does not take time off around the holidays and there is still a Christmas killer out there needing to be caught

You

Five days before Christmas in 1984

Janelle Matthews insisted on going to school despite the fact that she had been pretty sick like the two days before and had to stay home

So she admits those days was like begging her mom to let her go for a couple of reasons

One she had handmade some Christmas gifts for friends that she really wanted to give to them and two

That night was a Christmas concert that she wanted so badly to perform in

So Janelle's parents agreed to let her go to school and participate in the concert, but with one condition

After the concert you go home and rest which wasn't ideal because Janelle sister Jennifer had a basketball game that night that she wanted to go to

But she'd have to cut her losses two out of three ain't bad, right? Yeah, so

Janelle goes to school that day

She sees her friends goes to class does all of the wonderful things a seventh grader does

Then she goes home to get ready for her Christmas concert now today

There was a little more hustle and bustle around the Matthews house than normal because

Along with the Christmas concert and Jennifer's basketball game that night

Janelle's mom Gloria was taking a late flight from Colorado where they lived

To where her parents lived in California. I guess her father had been really sick

So she was gonna go spend some time with him

So that evening everyone's like getting their stuff together

Janelle and her dad Jim say bye to mom and Jennifer actually wasn't home

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