May Pretty Jessica Rest In Peace

Although it’s not much new here, I felt it necessary to finish the story.

For that sweet child’s body was found under the steps of the lovely John Couey’s half sister’s trailer.

It turns out that John Couey was her murderer. Couey had been the “person of interest” ballyhooed all last week by the investigators. For a long time it was whispered that Couey was not involved in Jessica’s abduction, even posted to America’s Most Wanted web site as a bad lead.

Then Couey suddenly confessed to the law folks right after taking a lie detector test which he knew he failed.

 


It’s a sad ending to a happy child’s life and America’s heart hurts.

There are a few unanswered questions.

First, the law people announced they are looking for three people in a white car. I wonder why.

Although it’s open scuttlebutt that Couey was living in that trailer across from Jessica with a bevy of people who are believed to have in some way participated in Jessica’s burial. If not, and this is the horrific thought, outright participants in her actual death.

Also, what was the legal people’s announcement that Jessica’s Grandmother had two “red flags” raised in her lie detector test all about?

My own self speculated that it was a ploy to bring in this person of interest but hey, it could have been the truth. John Couey knew he was under suspicion which he why he took off to Georgia to begin with. So why all the drama of the aspersions cast on Grandma?

My hat goes out to Jessica’s Dad, Mark Lunsford. It’s obvious that this is a man unused to media attention and he struggles for words. He did a fine job handling this given what he was facing. I never suspected Mark Lunsford although I was eyeballing Jessica’s Grandfather.

 


Children abducted from their own homes are a rare occurrence, thank goodness, and often the family is involved. Or perhaps an estranged parent came along and stole the child. Children do not walk willingly off with strangers in the mid of night is what I’m saying here.

Which brings me to the final puzzle of Jessica Lunsford. Both grandparents were home when Jessica was abducted. The dog, a dachshund I note from the pictures, did not bark. Dachshunds bark like the dickens when strangers are seen just walking past the house. Also, a beloved toy of Jessica’s was missing.

It seems unlikely that Jessica would have grabbed this toy when Couey covered her mouth and took off with her right out of her bed. Assuming it happened this way. Jessica’s grandfather answered a reporter’s inquiry as to how Couey could have taken Jessica.

“He had to have come into the house,” he answered.

Trailer homes are smallish affairs. There’s a yappy dachshund on the premises. Jessica somehow grabbed a favored toy during her abduction.

It doesn’t add up to me.

However I’m done speculating on this case. John Couey is a monster and the scary thing is how many monsters like him live amongst us.

I ponder if this case won’t bring a review of this registered sexual offender law. For I have never checked the list of predators that might be living near me and I am on a computer almost 24/7. Would Jessica’s Dad and Grandparents have known enough to check that list?

Little Jessica is in heaven, a child who deserved to live. John Couey is society’s problem now and in due course he may die too at the hands of the law.

Somehow it seems like it’s just not enough.

My two other posts on the Lunsford case:

Where Is Jessica?


Jessica Lunsford Update