31-year-old Jessica Earl was last seen in Tallapoosa, GA on June 8, 2018. Jessica was looking to purchase an ATV for her son's birthday. A man that Jessica had met just about a month earlier offered to help her find one to buy. In fact, he said he had a friend who was selling one. Jessica gave him the money but never received the ATV. She was very upset over this and tracked the man down to get her money back. The two had an argument and the man took Jessica’s car keys. Jessica decided to leave on foot and called a friend asking for a ride. That was the last time anyone heard from Jessica Earl.
You can find more information and updates on her case on Facebook. The page is called: Missing Jessica Earl.
The Haralson County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $1,000 reward for any information pertaining to Jessica’s whereabouts. Jessica’s family has also added a $13,000 reward.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jessica Earl, please contact the Haralson County Sheriff's Office at 770-646-2011.
2019 UPDATE- In October of 2019, a backpack was found containing Jessica's identification. Further searching was conducted in the area and human remains were located. On October 26, 2019, the Haralson County Coroner's Office was contacted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Medical Examiner’s office, confirming that the human remains discovered on October 17, 2019 were in fact the remains of Jessica Victoria Earl.
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junot two thousand eighteen. Thirty one euro jessica, Earl was last seen and tell the proofs of georgia. She was in the midst.
An argument with a man she had met the month before named jeffrey set odin.
argument was over money jessica had given odom to purchase a formula for her sons, upcoming birthday after some time
had not done so and refused to give jessica her money back according to witnesses just gone south where out of friends,
When the argument broke out, odom took the keys to the car jessica was using that day in hid them
trying to prevent her from leaving the house at some point during the argument. Jessica left
house and walked away from autumn. She called her friend
asking for a ride but was unable to get one jessica stated that she would just walk back to her home after
sk. I walked away and made that one phone call she would never be seen or heard from again
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I had the opportunity to speak with jessica's mom sandra about the events leading up to her daughters, disappearance. According to Sandra Jessica son had a birthday coming up around the time that she went missing. She had been waiting eagerly for her tax refund to come in, so she could by him
president specifically, she wanted to buy him in a tv jessica,
recently made friends with a man named Jeffrey south odom, but he more
only goes by his middle name. Sack he informed her that he had a friend who was willing to sell one, and he
was willing to help her out by doing the transaction for her. All he needed was the money for the htv
she had been waiting on her income tax, refined for quite a few months.
and on the saturday before she disappeared, which I guess would have been a second,
She had received notice that her refined had been deposited to your bank account, but generic hard for that account. So
on either Monday tuesday. She went to the bank and she managed to get there.
to order her a card on that account, and then she went and got her a prepaid card from Walmart. What a couple thousand dollars on it. Her sons, barton
it was on the twenty third and so
She wanted to buy him a formula for his birthday,
She knew this guy seth for about a month. They were, I guess she would
call them friends. I wouldn't really calling friends but more like acquaintances
at any rate she had mentioned that she wanted to,
get her son a formula for his birthday, and he told her that he had a friend that it had one that
silence so issue
it him money for the four wheeler and she spent the next couple days. Trying to find out from here
you know where the ball wheeler where's my money, what have you done? You know with more money in and the like. On thursday, she spent most of the day thursday, with a friend of
there's an have friends husband job.
to locate set to get the money back from him and when
she finally caught up to him. He was
the house,
on little circle drive this house on little circle. Drive is the last place. They just
was ever seen alive. Hatred,
during this stay in there with him and her friend left and went home, and she stayed there.
and the night there got up the next morning and there is still no full wheeler and there still no money,
and so they had a huge argument inside the house
his argument was Seth was too much for jessica. He wouldn't give her the car keys back, so she decided to just walk on her own. She called her friend back and asked her friend to come and pick her up, because
says had taken the keys to do a car that jessica had borrowed from the same friend. By way,
jessica- was borrowing her friends car because she didn't have one of her own, but she was
the process of looking for one to purchase.
the days leading up toward disappearance. She was seen on video surveillance at a local car dealership test driving cars with south odom
Jessica was left stranded when south wouldn't give her the keys to the car she had borrowed hebraic couldn't getting bigger.
shall newborns just add surgery, so I'm she wasn't able to drive an her husband had their other vehicle at work, so she told jesse
look just you know, just calm down, she said jessica was hysterical. She told
just get a calm down. Hang on and as soon as you know, J gets home from work outcome and pick you up
and she said Joe
I told her, I'm just gonna walk, so she said jessica
and say good by the phone.
kind of sounded. Like somebody hung it up. She
to lay down about an hour later she got a phone call from jessica.
Ass. She was sleeping and she didn't get it and the first
I came in at about nine thirty. The second phone call
came in about an hour later, and then there was a third phone call
it came in, and around some
between eleven and eleven. Thirty, just
and leave a message. Brittany woke up about. Thirty may
after that last call came in and tried to call jessica back and her phone went straight to voicemail. She just kept calling
and when she couldn't reach her sheep. While I called just as older brother
sancho to call her, and it also went to voice mail, and they did this all day friday on Saturday?
sign called me and asked me more than last time. I had spoken to jessica and I told him on
wednesday, I thought you were on wednesday when she was finally able to get her bank card.
Our money on it.
and I said when's the last time you talked to her, he said. Well, I talked to a thursday on Monday, Jessica's friend, great name went
The police department and filed and missing persons report, and
I told her that since Jessica was an adult that they couldn't report her as missing that friday,
which would have been a week to the day that she's not gone missing. I had been contacted I'll, try
and to contact the detective that was working on the case and they never would call me back and so finally, on on on a friday, I left a
not so nice message to them and let them know
primarily that if they didn't call me back, I was gonna come up there in stone the police departments, or someone gave me some answers, and she finally,
I'll be back, and when she called me back, she tells me that she had not listed jessica
Missing Jessica was listed as above and beyond the look out, which is
Generally something that they issue for someone who they suspect of having committed a crime or been involved in a crime sale as proceeded to give her
The information that I had she got a low concerned
she said okay, now I'm gonna go and I'm gonna do a missing persons and will you know, will start from here according to see
throughout the investigation into just cause disappearance. It did not start off on the right foot. The house of Jessica was last seen at was known to be a place where drug use would occur frequently and some one stated that jessica appeared to be high the day she went missing something her family.
Doesn't believe, while Jessica had issues in the past with drugs. At the time of her disappearance, she had been clean for some time. However, even if it was true it
taint the investigation in any way jessica, still a person. She still someone's loved one,
People wanted to know where she had gone. According to the sheriff's office, Seth smother stated that jessica called her to inform her where she was headed as s mother,
well, then that she got a phone call from jessica saying that she was gonna
better Louisiana says she could get into
rehab and get clean and the mom
his mother said that jessica had called her from someone else's phone. The odd thing about that was that when Jessica was able to get that prepaid card the first day
she did was go to the eighty entity store and purchase a brand new found. She got
that the new galaxy found they had just come out. A friend, brittany was whether she bought a unique case board and everything, so
he would not have needed to use somebody else's fault. She had a bramble bomb and, secondly, it
he's gonna come the louisiana. She would have had the content at somebody, because you didn't have a vehicle to get down here and she would have been able to bring britney's par and she had did not yet have a car of her own
so I mean that kind of fell apart from the beginning, in every statement issued by
the sheriff's office spokesperson and every interview
then by the sheriff and or his spokesperson, they told the public that just
was not mere saying that she was had in fact checked herself into rehab. They just didn't know which we had it wasn't. There were certain that, as
his jessica's mind, was clear that she will come out and let everybody now that she was ok at one point. They even made a public, please
to jessica in writing with a newspaper, you know tell unheard,
It all please contact your family and let them know that you're, ok, sandra and those closest to jessica knew she wouldn't have just up and left
life in georgia without letting a single person know her plan, especially if the plan was to check herself into rehab facility. Something about this whole situation was off.
sandra knows her daughter better than what the sheriff's office was projecting her to be one thing that I should tell you is that justice?
father passed away in two thousand and eleven. His birthday is July, the third that was a day that jessica celebrated quiet
me why she always made certain to really
a chinese lantern with her children and celebrate,
his life. Her sons birthday was on june twenty.
Or she would never miss that regardless of winning, but he says-
we have never missed it. I'm his
birthday came and went without notification. Her other's birthday came and went. She spoke to her brother every single day. His phone calls from her stopped that thursday
It was the last all he got from her on the seventh of june. I spoke to her every two or three days on the phone
but she message me every day and I didn't getting messages from her since that thursday. Her younger brother had not
received any messages from her in three or four days. They did speak quite as often as the rest of us dead, because he works a lot so but
He did try to talk to him on the weekends when he had his daughters than she could talk to them and that stopped he was killed
sandra that something happened to jessica on Juny. She was
much involved in her family life and she had two children a care for she would have never just cut them off. Suddenly. I was curious to know,
If there is activity on any of jessica's accounts that would possibly help figure out what had happened to her.
The last transaction on her bank card was on that friday. I dont know
What time it was because that that information, I could not get
but the last transaction was that a walmart for tuna
in forty three cents, and that was on.
At that prepaid card, not on the regular bank card, which was kind of odd, because she had gotten that that bank card and had activated
I see her brother was their women when it when fedex delivered it any sign for it and handed it to our. So we know that she got that bank card there's just a lot of things that have occurred.
Between then that time and now that have gone on events
the gate unchecked. No one's really followed through warning them and at last no, the sheriff's office had to say
that she just walked off in the woods the commit suicide of which they have no evidence. I might add so,
you know she went from being on drugs in we had two now having committed suicide. Why would the sheriffs department make such huge assumptions
jessica with no evidence to back it up. As Sandra previously stated, the sheriff's office had accused jessica of being on drugs
saying that maybe she had gone to rehab and now that she had committed suicide. It doesn't make sense as to why they would make such leaps. During this time, the sheriff's department did want to speak to Seth Odum. They wanted to see if he would be able to provide some information as to what happened to jessica. However, they could not locate him for some time, but he eventually turned himself in for questioning seth charged himself at all July
worse, which is the day after just as follows, birthday and he had been bitten by snake Annie despite was infected and when they picked him up, he too
then that he had no idea where jessica was. He asked for a lawyer, but a week after sat turned himself in, he had a change
heart and decided to speak to the police is statement to them.
Was that he and Jessica had had a fight over a needle and that she walked off because he wouldn't give her the needle.
and the last time you saw her that she went into the woods on. He said
Well that, alongside her ass, she was walking and ask her to get in the car, and she said I might get in the car.
You go and look for arrowheads and ass. She walked into the woods. There is a problem with that statement because
as the people that were in the house when they had the argument, told the police that they were arguing, because just
I had given him this five hundred dollars and she want
your money back, the only people that really know the truth.
Aren't really tonnage. We know that, and they know the police department knows that
The argument was over money, not over a needle, but yet they still.
The information to the public, making
soundly jessica was inadequate is unclear as to what
police would release a statement like this, especially if there are conflicting stories as
With argument was about between south and jessica. Regardless Sandra knows the tape,
person. Her daughter is, and also
something was wrong with odom story about jessica hunting arrowheads. This was a pastime for jessica
when she wasn't busy or working. She would
familiar areas and look around for arrowheads heads to collect sandra stated that
zack. I wouldn't just storm off into the woods because of an argument and decided
four aero heads in a play she didn't know Sandra, pointed out what jessica's friend, Brittany recalls.
Their conversation. The day jessica went missing when she talked to her friend
Nay, she was hysterical. Brittany said
She was so hysterical that she could barely
understand what she was saying, but she understood enough to know that they were fighting over the money that he wouldn't give the money back
and that now she wasn't gonna be able to get her son when she wanted to get him for her work and for his birthday
Is she was hysterical and achieve
She was known to have panic attacks and it did not take much to set her off. I hate,
say that she was emotionally fragile, but she,
had been through a lot and there wasn't anything that she didn't know
How'd you handle. She knew how to calm herself down
giving herself from this situation was her way of calming herself down, and then you know the phone call to brittany.
and you know Britain each. I just thought you were to get her to calm down and, like I said, the lasting brittany heard from her is ignored.
He's gonna walk again, and that was, it
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In this case, I came across an article indicating that sets mother was arrested for giving police false information. Apparently, while police were looking for
his mother, along with a few other, stated that she didn't know his whereabouts. This is something that would prove to be untrue.
I asked sandra about this and found out that Seth's mother had actually called her at one point regarding this whole situation. She actually called me as soon as that wanted posters came out with his name and Jessica's name on it. She called me on my phone and asked me to
These have them take his name off the poster in his picture down- and I told her now, you know
he was the last president. She was seen wit and now was when she told me that jessica contacted her from somebody else's phone and said that
She was going to check herself into rehab. This ring
have story just wasn't adding up to sandra, so she asked seth's mom, just how that could be possible. She's got no insurance, there's no way the money that she's got left in the bank is going to cover any amount
we had. So you know how the shutters up rehab
It's always again and she couldn't answer those questions, and then
You know I told her. I said when you see your son and I know you're, going to see your son and said you need to let him know he needs to come clean. He needs to come clean
and she said she would do whatever she could well. Apparently after set was arrested, they were able to go through his moan and they found
the judges and phone calls between he and his mother. That was the real
and that she was arrested. Now what those conversations entailed
I dont know so. I dont know in what fashion she helped him. I just know that she did. I was curious since it appeared that the police have their own theories. When it came to her jessica was if there were any search
its put forth by them to help locate any evidence as to what happened to jessica according to them day. They do
five searches in the words on
What wheelers and walking through the was harrison county and
system to other counties that day they named, I want to say
one of them was pope
I'm not sure what the other one, maybe paulding, those searches were done without
the assistance of any kind of search animals. I
a friend of mine that works with a search and rescue brute down here and saint tammany parish, and they offered their assistance and the sheriff.
I was told them no at research, tat of florida
echo search out of texas, both contacted the sheriff's office and offered their assistance in search in the woods on horseback and the sheriff's office told them no, we
got together a search party to go and search the woods between the area. Where jessica lived in where she was last seen. We searched one piece of work
pretty and the sheriff's office stopped me and threatened me with jail. If I went to another property, the search that was the only
conversation that I have within that was when they had occurred. I asked him,
You know we have three different places that we'd
given permission by the owners, and he said flatly, I don't care if you have permission or not. If you set foot on one other piece of property to do any,
searches at all. I will arrest you and everyone with you and you will go to jail and you will stay there, and I mean it
since his words. He told me that he sabena asked me where I was promised and from always anna. You know, I'm from any use of well get your button, your car and rob yourself back to louisiana, because we don't
you up here trying to do our job. I sit on that
trying to do your job, I'm trying to find my daughter, he said that's my job, I said then do it every officer you have
global right now is standing out here in this parking lot to keep me from going to look for money.
author, instead of gaul searching for my daughter, you're trying to stop me. Where is the logic in that the hostility that this
Europe has toward sandra, and those working to locate jessica doesn't make much sense. Why
when they want their help. Like Sandra stated many services that do just what she was trying to do, a search for a missing person or denied by the sheriffs department. But why sandra things that may have to do with the fact that the sheriff second cousin was arrested for help
sat autumn evade police. It should be noted that around the time of jessica disappearance, Seth Odin was seen on camera footage riding in a atv with a duffel bag, both of which have not been located since the people who lived at the house were just
it was last seen were also spotted loading items from a shed into the back of a pickup truck, and then those items were taken to a dump. Several calls were made to police for them to look into this.
but it wasn't until days later that they actually followed up on the tipp. By this point,
items were moved officials called jessica?
or to inform her that there was no indication that odin riding the four wheeler with a duffel bag had anything to do with jessica or her disappearance. Nor did the items being taken to the dump. According to them
It was all legitimate dumping items that were disposed of before we,
go into any more on that, let's take a step back and figure out who is Jeffrey sachs autumn, and when did he meet jessica according to Sandra Jessica, texas,
on may eighth telling her.
Meeting him and how good looking he was the following day jessica.
who's going to drive down to louisiana to get a car her mom had purchased for her. She was originally supposed to drive down by herself, but now she was accompanied by south oda.
I had actually purchased her
a vehicle and
She was supposed to be coming down here. To get it. I had rented the car and
I drove the rental car. Her brother drove the rental car up there to harm
and then she drove back down here in the rental car dropped him off and she went back to georgia could get a job and she needed a way to get to work.
so she had the rental car for about a week. Em, and then I found her a car down here that I purchased for her, and she was
post to come down here on the ninth and get that car when,
spoke to her on the aid, and she told me that she had met this guy
just sky
her meeting him had something
to do with her coming down here to get the car I know,
She did not want to draw down your by herself, because she just did my job and alone, and she was trying
find somebody who could get a ride down here with her because she was just
pick up. The car turn around a draw right straight back.
Somehow or another. He ended up
the one to ride with her? They drove them,
and your car down here we
turned it in and they drove the car that I purchased for her to georgia.
They got back to george on thursday and on friday, south was driving
car to bring her to work and he fell
sleep at the wheel and totalled her car out.
for two days and he total it out
he would not let her drop the car at all in, and that was some one else told me that.
She was not now he
parent lay some kind of way manage to get out of the car
carried her away from the car,
somebody to come and pick them up and left the car wherever it was and because she was knocked out, she didn't even know where they have wrecked meat,
take her to the doktor he didn t give the hospital he took an somebody's house. I guess she's
for a while, and then he managed to get her a ride to get her back to the house as she was living at
and on saturday she called me and told me that he had read the car. Many news reports and articles have stated that jessica and seth were dating
but according to sandra that was not the case. She told me that jessica had a boyfriend.
I would not say they were dating jessica, had a boyfriend and
I tell you my daughter's enter a lot she's it's on
cleavable some of this stuff that she's had to persevere in march, her boyfriend, the crap out over on recognizably
and she call this and my sons and drove up their picked her up act or things
her heard down here. A week later, the same boyfriend showed up
down here, and she went back to georgia with him April,
she called me lying down. This
because he had hit her again.
and she called me and begged me:
call the police, because
this coming behind her and she didn't feel like she had time. So she call me- and
genuine, be speed, so I called the
his department and then I called her brother who also called the police department. They showed up at the house
jessica and her boyfriend we're staying and they arrested her boyfriend, not for beating her
Although she was visibly, you could tell that she had been hit a couple of times
This bleeding
was bleeding and she had not on her head. She sent me pictures and
they said they arrested him and he
went to jail for an outstanding more for probation violation after jessica's boyfriend was around
said she continued to live at the home that they shared along with her boyfriend's mother. It's important to note that this
boyfriend, who had abused jessica in the past was incarcerated,
at the time of her disappearance. She
met, says about a week after
her. Boyfriend went to jail, though they they taught
she had given him rides to work.
Not sure where he worked himself, but did now,
this is what she told me that she had picked him up and give him given him rides. So
I'm assuming that they met through him needing
a ride
and she had shed the rental car.
I don't really know exactly how they met but to classify them
as having dated. I know this
had a steady girl that he dated on a regular basis, because that euro contacted me. Her friends contacted.
And let me know that she and suffered dating- and then
jessica. South were not dating, and then quite a few people made it clear
again. That was something else said. The police department to harp dawn
is that she and were dating, even though they were not. I wanted mccall in france are upon. I call
quaint and says, because I don't think she really knew him and
she found out through a mutual
friend of bears that he had
an extensive record that was poor
The reason for her trying to get away from him when she did that. Third,
they, when she was trying to get our money from him
I was when she had learned about his record
She didn't want anything.
Did you do with them? So she just wanted her money, but then, like I said somehow,
convinced to stay there that night, because he was gonna, go get the four wheeler and then he never did since June
gone missing, set his turn himself into the police, but has
provided no information as to what happened to her. He is
dylan jail.
is not in jail on any charges relating to jessica's disappearance, though he is in jail on war,
it's that were issued prior to jessica disappearance, there's they possession of a gun back.
victor phelan, then knelt and there's a stolen
vehicle charge, there's three four different charges that he was charged with
one. Other thing I was curious about was the theory that south and jessica were fighting over a needle witnesses state that this isn't true. They claim that the argument prior to
His appearance had to do with the money that set refused to give back to jessica,
sandra if she'll be comfortable, shutting more light on this part of jessica's life. This is a joke
and for me to answer just a guy had a and a problem
december of two thousand and sixteen she dated a guy. They had lived together for about three years
following hard divorce and he
as a very heavy drug user. She
up until December two thousand
sixteen had never use drugs, so at some point,
sambo. She had a meltdown and she's
out of use, and I dont know what drug it was that she was using, but in march of,
two thousand and seventeen. I just I don't
Something tells me I needed to go get her, so I drove up there and packed her house output
When are you hall to get you a storage and basically
you coming home, she hasn't.
Things that she needed to take care of.
to get a driver's licence at some other stuff, and
talk to her landlord, and then she was going to come down to Louisiana that weak
I'm not really sure what happened, but somehow another her
the guy that she was living with, ended up
in the car and he was they were going to the probation officer and his he.
on probation jessica, had never been in trouble with the law a day in her life, the probation,
MR found some pills on her boyfriend.
and she and her word from above both arrested because it was her car that they were in
so she was in jail, for that was in march. Of two thousand in. I think it was march operate,
she was march of two thousand. Seventeen
between december and march, she used- and you could tell that she usually,
very emaciated when she got
out abounded around in may, I believe, an she stayed injured
because she was on bond and she was allowed to leave, although she wanted to, but she was allowed to leave she met.
He in june. That's the boy from that should lead with this past year.
and she had been living with him since early august of two thousand seventeen
and see all the time that he went to jail
to my knowledge she
it was not using drugs
you say that she had not at all that. I can't, I can't say
that, because I dont know, I wasn't there, but I dont believe that, because
you know when I talk to her, I could tell a difference between the jessica when she was using and the job
when she was not using and the fact that her brother had gone up there almost every week in and stay with her every
we again if she had been using, he would have no
he had told me that he that she was not using an end like I said he was there, though the week before so
I I can't say that jessica was using at the time of her disappearance. It's no secret that this type of history with drugs canes people's opinions of a person, but what people tend to forget is that this is some
his loved one. Jessica Earl was a daughter, sister, mother and friend her past issues with substances
should not hinder an investigation into her whereabouts in a perfect world, it wouldn't sand,
knows that this information about jessica ripples out into untrue theories about where she has gone. Even if jessica was having issues with drugs, she would have
told him on that she needed help. She would have told us there
She felt she needed to go. You have told us
he was a grown woman and what she did with her life,
our business and you know when could
wanted and ask just got argued
using drugs. She didn't,
I d me so
would have been no reason, for I do not say to me or to her brother.
I need to go to rehab. I can't begin to fathom the frustration that sandra and her family feel when it comes to the investigation into jessica's disappearance.
to know your loved ones so well and to not be listened to, for reference is a roadblock that no person should ever have to face, even though Jessica's mother
has had the threat of being arrested thrown at her. If she tries to search for her daughter, other people are still looking for jessica.
I mean I'm not gonna tell you that people aren't looking because people are there, just not looking with the public
Knowing that there looking it's hard to come,
and why sandra searching for jessica would be such a problem. Sandra has crossed paths with the deputy who warned her that the sheriff had specifically told them to arrest her or any one else searching for jessica
spot when we went to search the place where we went to meet up ad. There was this
deputy that drove past, and he waited
till he saw a bunch of us out there and he stopped at the roadside, and he said look
We're here to do y'all a favor, I'm just letting y'all know that the sheriff has told us that if y'all go on anybody's property, that we are to arrest you on the spot- and I look in dentist's face
That's it well watch and arrest, because I'm going and acid
it must do you know who I am. I am jessica's mother
I'm not gonna. Let you stop me from looking for my kid and he said I'm just
tell you what the sheriff said. So I asked him again as it so you're telling me that sheriff mixing said that if I go to a proper
tea and look for my daughter that
go to jail, and he said yes ma. Am we left that
bought and went somewhere else. We went to the ladys house, it was with us and
we searched her property and then
was contacted by journalists who wanted to meet me somewhere. We met it that a parking lot and while we were standing in the parking lot doing
on camera interview the sheriff
and two other deputies pulled up and way,
until the interview was completed,
it. Tell me, then I wasn't allowed to search anymore, and I will also tell you that while we were driving from one spot to the next, we were incurred
with several other property. All those who said please come check my property everywhere,
headed there to do that. These
I've had his deputies, part jessica, going
Listen from two sixty six little circle draw intel up. Who said this
I've had his deputies part at both ends of levels.
Circle drive with the end
DR way, driveway blocked, so that we could now
even drop down that road, a public road, he had a blood. There were
The two that went into two cars at one end and to cars
other end. Nobody was
looking for jessica. There
for me, there were looking to stop me from China find my daughter and then, when we start
do the interview I dont know how he knew we were there, but he pulled up to the ball park where we
We stand and do in the interview he pulled up.
off camera, so you couldn't see him and he waited until the news report or put her camera away and got it
her vain before he spoke to me,
and when he spoke to me, I tried to talk to him civilly and he immediately got an attitude with me and
Basically, I told him the same thing. I told the other officer in you know. Out of unlooked. For my daughter, I have permission to go on people's property. To look for my child, you can't,
not me legally, and
Let me know that, regardless of whether or not I had profits, I had permission from
pretty owners that I would go to jail if
they saw me in the woods are saw me go,
into the woods
because I didn't belong there. It wasn't my home,
Was it not place, and there was no reason for me to need to be there in those woods other than to look.
My daughter, so there would be no excuse. For me to be there, so
I was there. I was going to jail and I said
even if I have consent and he
said, consent doesn't run my town. This is my tale. I run.
His town, and he said
people don't want you here so
oh I've got in the vehicle
I got there in an hour drove off after having
in an emotional moment on the pavement:
because at this point I was destroyed in
literally unable to hold myself anymore, not collapsed in the parking lot at the ball park. Couple people had to help me pull myself
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sheriff is supposed to be on your side. Act in such a way would intimidate. Most of us, but not sandra I'll, feel
intimidated. My husband was a police officer for many many years. He died with a badge on his chest.
told the share this. So for me, that was
You know it's just courtesy, professional per
see. If you will, I don't feel
intimidated by him or by any other member of law enforcement, because I've lived with law enforcement. Most
of my wife. Twenty five years. We were married so now
don't feel intimidated, but do I think
he would throw me in jail in a heartbeat. I believe
that he would not waste a moment put in a pair handcuffs on me and taken me to jail
you know I'm not going to let my grandchildren just
his children, all my other children's children,
I'm not gonna. Let them worry,
about whether or not their nana is going?
they arrested. There are other people who can do that for me without you,
when attention to themselves. So, for me, it's best that I dont go that had stay away
because they're not looking for anybody else there looking for me and as long as I'm not there, then
in search all they like, without being hindered. It's hard
Imagine what it must be like in this kind of situation, having alone
One go missing, is difficult enough, but to be threatened.
Told you are not allowed to look for them? That's just adding salt
To an already raw wound, thankfully Sandra has people looking for jessica.
Sandra told me more about the searches it's very rural
You know, there's an area where there is there's a pasture over there. The houses are kind of pretty well spaced out on the property, but there's a lot of woods. That is
they are. There is quite a bit of wooded area. It would be a lot of ground for you to cover if you work
familiar with the area and you did not have helped the also found this
later there were several other people who contacted Harold
county, offering their assistance. They had search and rescue canine and could ever dogs, and when I asked the detective why they would not utilise
the services of these individuals- and let me tell you
as I have not spoken to the detective on the phone, except for twice every other correspondence
has been through text messaging. She will not call me- and I have not heard from them in a month now, but at any rate,
when I asked her why they would not utilize the services that were offered to them by the search and rescue groups. Her response
I was in writing. We have to know
Harold the search area down first, because it's too,
much area to lead a search and rescue dog out to search. The fact of the matter is
is that the sheriff had no intent of putting forth any effort to try to find my daughter
it was media that he did not want to receive for his county because he has done a horrible job had taken care of his constituents.
People in the county are fed up there, fed up with the drug use their fed up with the drug trafficking
and the only once you are opposed to
Having been up, there are my doing any public
The at all are the ones who are involved in that type of life
You know your regular citizens who get up every day and go to work, and you know
care themselves in their family and their business there. The war
Is that are supporting me and saying you know, come look, please we want you to,
We need you to find your daughter, and we know what we can do to help its the ones that have a past that are keeping their
from being more than what it really should be. You know that
lady that went missing from ohio. I believe she was nationally on
national news, and I could never get the local news to cover.
Daughter until a month and a half to two months after she had already been missing and the body of the
the woman from ohio was found rather quickly once they then
national news in old, got wind of it and they started reporting it. You know people just
the coming out of the woodwork looking at his girl, and I feel like it
in county had handled it in a similar fashion that my daughter would not be another one,
missing statistics from harrelson, counting gb I was,
brought in for a brief moment when they found a phone.
in the area close to them
ass, the jessica was, I seen walking away from the guy.
lives in the house had thrown the phone.
Out of the window because he thought it was jessica's phone gb
was brought in to get into that phone and once gb I detect.
That it was not jessica's phone. They were told,
by the share of to stand down that they no longer needed their help and that information came straight.
from a gb. I official that I contacted to find out
what's going on with the investigation, I myself contact,
The fbi had a two and a half our conversation on the phone with an fbi agent who also contacted harrelson county.
An harrelson county, refused their assistants as well and the one up
to remember. I said I had to phone calls with the detective. That's the only two times I've spoken to her on the phone that second phone call was made the day that the fbi,
contacted them to let them know that I had contacted them and she called me.
not long after she got off the phone with the fbi agent and those are the only two conversations that I've had with her apparently just
it has not been the only missing person in the area that the police have turned a blind eye to two sandra. It
here's that law enforcement is stigmatizing, select individuals and not doing their best to assist those who are asking for help. I think there are a lot of connections that that could be put together. There have been quite a few people, I don't know if you ve looked or not, but they ve been. Quite a few people that have come
missing in the area around where jessica came up missing as well as a young man, are they called him
maybe G. His name is Stephen goodwin
he has been missing for a couple years now, with about his
any leads on him.
as they have on jessica. When
say the same area I mean in this
within the same mile.
There's a lot of shady stuff going on out there that, in my opinion, the the share of doesn't
what get now and
That's part of the reason why some of this stuff is covered up. There's no
reason why missing persons case should not be looked into whatever the outcome is to any particular case. Those who are searching for a loved one deserve answer
and they most certainly deserve help. Lynxes county is taking to make sure that no negativity is leaked about their community is shocking according to sandra
she has been minutes away from doing interviews with media outlets when they have called it off. Also, as she stated before, police have not followed up uncritical tips regarding jessica's disappearance, especially with the suspicious behaviour of south odin
set up appointments for them to do a deal interviews with me and had them call me. Fifteen twenty minutes before we were supposed to have
conversation to tell me, I'm look. We can't run the story. The
producers have been told by the mayor that they don't want.
they don't want, is to run anything so where we're gonna pull it, they pull this from it there being quite a few leaves that have been called in
several people. They called it leads that has seen south in the words that have seen
said, walking down the road with a shovel stopped and spoke to him and
can what he was doing and you know I'm looking for something
what have you these people have reported it to the police department
police departments done nothing. There was a man. I contacted me that found ourselves with
vehicle that was stuck in the mud.
and he helped him get the vehicle out before he realized who he was, and he was by a lake more and more of a pond than a lake
but anyway to body of water and tell us who said anything about them,
body of water is the share of his sister and his brother. Own property surround.
that lake ascent was pulled out of that lake and his truck
Second them in them in the mud and, moreover, was trouble
core vein. I don't know what it was. The vehicle was broken that mud
gentleman was flag down and asked to help him get out. I pulled him out and when the guy shook his hand- and he thanked him for poland amount
told him. His name was sat him
the guy left straight from their went directly to herald and county police department and father report. That was never followed upon either. It makes you wonder if such odom Helen
turn himself in what they have actually look for him to the extent that they should have, he seemed to have enough
will covering for him to keep his whereabouts hidden for a significant amount of time, as fate would have it set. They turn himself.
and but only when he had been bitten by snake and the bite became infected sandra told me about a facebook post that she came across that sets cousin had posted
right after jessica had gone missing right out.
Jessica, went missing, has said- and I said to the detective that said that
wouldn't be found alive, just go ahead
in his house that Wednesday evening,
before she went missing because south wanted to go see his mom is mom. Was over there, the cousins house he drove desk,
over there and he ended up-
in then the keys and leaving jessica. There
and she had to find a way to get home. Well, at any rate, she
she did manage to get home
which is how she ended up in the day with brittany on thursday is Brittany went gather his cousin made a comment
says, showed up at his house two days after jessica was reported missing.
and had a conversation with him, and he said all I can tell you is they won't find that girl alive the police never questioned him
so baffling that law enforcement appears to be doing so little in regards to jessica's case
four sandra and her family, no matter what they do they keep hitting. Roadblocks is actually so bad that there was a body that was recovered
in a neighbouring counting the weekend that we were
they are trying to search the,
the woman that was found in the damp that had been dismembered. I had called helsing county too.
I doubt about that young lady and you know, because they
at the time they weren't releasing any information. I couldn't get
I was in county to tell me if they thought it might or might not be jessica. So I contacted the
in the county that it was from
I can't even get them to call me back, so I finally call gb- I
gb. I actually connected me too. The coroner's office and the woman at the corners off
went and checked the body parts that they had an came
to the phone to. Let me know that this young lady, that they had found had tattoos when my daughter did not have any tattoos or piercings,
This young woman did, and that's it took about a week for me to find out that that was not my dad
and it would have been a simple as harrelson county calling and asking them. You know
still haven't eaten a twos, and if yes, then, is that we know just getting them
me right back in saying no man she's got tattoos, it's not your daughter, but
now they wouldn't even give me that courtesy, there was
also another young lady who was found on the side of the road and woodland where jessica used to live. I was completely lethargic and unresponsive and she was found
on this side of the road lady founded driving to work with her husband to Lady better.
wake up enough to ask stop asking to watch it,
What's your name? What's your name and funding,
said. Her name was jessica. They found a backpack, not form
from where she was. It wasn't white where the girl was. It was away from her, but they found this backpack an apparent
backpack had an idea in it. The idea you said that the girls birthday was nineteen. Eighty six
just when my daughter was born. So, of course, I'm thinking- oh my god,
my child, the girl, was very badly beaten. Her face
she was being so badly that her eyes were swollen, almost completely shut and several of the people who are trying to help me locate. My daughter actually went
To the hospital to see if it was my daughter,
we had asked them? Could you please just take a picture? I asked to call the police department. Can you please just take a picture of her face because people fake ideas all the time
and this backpack that was found may or may not actually belong to this person. It could be someone else's backpack. So if you take a picture of her there
and then just send it Jimmy I'm. No, if it's my daughter, even if she's been beaten to where you can't tell I'll know if it's my daughter and they wouldn't you
do that they will send you a picture of a face and about three hours later. The
young lady was checked out of the hospital against medical advice, still not completely coherent,
she had to I'm the columns plants on her legs on the on both legs.
and she was brought to the car put in the car, and one of the ladys that was miss working with me- walked over to the vehicle and asked the girl
you know. She said I'm looking for jessica early, you, Jessica, Earl and the girl looked up at her and from the description
and she said sandy. She could have been your daughter, but,
woman that was sitting in the driver's seat snapped at her and said this is not jessica. Earl go away, my friend said,
the young lady again she said MA am. I need to know. If your name is jessica, Earl, I'm trying to find it
the got Earl and her mother is worried about your jessica Earl. Let me know, and the war
when said the other woman. The woman that was driving said, I already told you she's, not
ass. The girl now get away from my car and put
vehicle in the and started back in our job way. So we still don't know,
that was my daughter or not. You know, because nobody would
and all they had to do was take a picture at the hospital.
Send it to me and say: can you verify what really start
me as odd about that was that there was a woman who was picked up not long after
ask her went missing that the detective called me and she said this girl. We got a phone.
far from another sheriffs department, they picked up this woman she's been it in a dream
the violence, a situation and
Deborah verify with you that she's, not your daughter before they let her go and the girl was able to speak
and she told him what name was by the sheriff's office- would not release them
not release the girl until they knew whether or not she was not my daughter. So the detective called me she's
sent me a text message and then she sent me a photo of the woman and ours.
on the back and said no man, that's not my daughter, and they let the
may go. Why did they not do the same thing in this situation would have been very easy. So what happened to jessica, Earl, eighth, two thousand feet.
We know that during her last phone call, she was walking down the road. Could you
gotten a ride with someone would about these theories at the
sheriff departments suggested like she's at a re happened, just doesn't want anyone to know or that she had just walked into the woods to commit suicide. Many suspect that Seth was involved in her disappearance. It appears that she was initially
harmed by the sky, but it didn't take long for her to start see through him. Jessica was so excited
to that for we for a son and was so upset when she realised that she'd been swindled. Could she have threatened to go to the police over this matter? Set? Has an extensive criminal history
Fact, at the time he too felony warrants out for his arrest,
You ve been worried about jessica, turning him in. Could that have been a motive to make her disappear? No matter what sandra
Family will follow up on every lead. That comes our way. They aren't giving up until they find her at the time of jessica's disappearance she was described,
as five foot, five inches taller and weighing around one hundred and twenty pounds. She has brown
hair and green eyes. You can find
more information and updates on her case on facebook. The pages
missing jessica, Earl, harrassing, county sheriffs off
This is offering a one thousand dollar reward for any information pertaining to just cause whereabouts Jessica's.
Only has added a thirteen thousand dollar reward. The hope that the increase reward will encourage some one to come forward,
you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jessica Earl. Please come
the harrison county sheriff's office at seven, seven, zero. Six, four six choose your
one one. It's been different
but you know one of the things that I was raised by fear fearing christian woman and one of the things my mama told me was, you should never happen,
defend yourself again
an enemy that your job is to
care view in yours. Do not worry about things that you cannot control, but you
sure what you can
the ignorance of some of these individuals.
Those sometimes more than I can possibly stand to bear is part of the reason that
I keep going because I'm gonna
my daughter,
no matter what my life
Spread will be taken trying to find
my child, but I don't have the time nor the wherewithal to respond
to some of the ignorant comments.
and statements that have been put out there, that the public, I know better people
that no jessica, no better, and
These are just they're just
people with nothing better to do than to slander somebody's name and I'm not gonna give them my time.
the total just do whatever it is that we can. You know just to try to go through the day and handle it
However, we can it's not. I mean I know a sound like I'm, ok, but somebody cottages thousand, once might being an emotional basket case in my response to them, was a fall apart. When I found much all
he had found the child from that level headed and
I am I'm an emotional wreck. That's
not going to solve anything. Why now, when I find my baby I'll, take a moment.
Sit down. I fall apart and then I'll get up and I'll start wanted about. Justice
there's an order that things need to be done in an right. Now me fallen apart, you only as strong as it
people that you have supporting you and I
and also an awful lot of support around me. It's one of the things that
keeping me going. I have grandchildren who depend on me. I have children that depend on me. I can't let this one thing interfere.
You know my having to take care of all these other people.
Being said, everybody also understand that sometimes I just need to have a moment and they give me that
we are as a family were broken. Just go, was kind of our go to girl. Do we call
if something came up and we had an issuer now just started class,
again the semester and I was not gonna go.
Son said, you know what mamma jessica jessica would be really mad at you. If you didn't get back in school away in astonishment.
Ass is again and as something that just can, I would share on a regular basis. We can
that everything in our life has been turned upside down by the fact that
jessica, is missing
the.
The
That brings us to the end of episode. One hundred and forty two I'd like to think sandra for sharing her story,
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