Police Believe Missing Girl Jhessye Shockley Was Killed & Left In A Landfill
LatestIt became apparent that the story of Jhessye Shockley, the 5-year-old Arizona girl who’s been missing for more than two months, wasn’t going to end well when police said last month that her mother lied about her disappearance and they don’t expect to find her alive. Today authorities released more information about Jhessye’s possible fate, and said they still consider her mother, Jerice Hunter, the number one suspect.
In November, police arrested Hunter for abusing Jhessye, but she was released a few days later and the charges were dropped. Prosecutors are concerned that if Hunter is charged with murder later, it will amount to charging her for the same crime twice. According to the Associated Press, Glendale police Sgt. Brent Coombs said that they now believe that before Hunter reported Jhessye’s disappearance, the girl was killed and dumped in a trash bin on the other side of town.