Jessica Marie Lunsford was a nine year-old American girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February 24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later murdered by 46-year- old John Couey, a convicted sex offender who lived nearby. The media covered the investigation and trial of her killer extensively. On August 24, 2007, a judge in inverness, Florida sentenced Couey, to death for kidnapping, sexual battery, and first degree murder. In his confession, Couey stated that he entered Lunsford’s house through an unlocked door at about three o’clock in the morning, awakened Lunsford, told her “don’t yell or nothing”, and told her to follow him out of the house. He occupied a trailer …show more content…
Three days after he abducted her, Couey tricked Jessica into getting into two garbage bags by saying he was going to 'take her home'. He instead buried her alive as he decided he could do nothing else with the girl. He said he 'Didn't want people seeing him and Lunsford across the street. On March 19, 2005, the police found Lunsford's body at a residence located on West Snowbird Court, buried in a hole approximately 2½' deep and 2' circular, covered with leaves. The body was removed from the ground and transported to the coroner's office. Her body had undergone "moderate" to "severe" decomposition and according to the publicly released autopsy reports was skeletonized on two fingers that Lunsford had poked through the bags before suffocating to death. On this mock crime scene as a Forensic technician I would take analyze the body, fracture bones, the decomposition of the body. Also search for other evidence like weapons, tire tracks just to get close to Couey. The call out and briefing in the scene was that I appeared on the scene at March 19, 2005. Spoken to other investigators about the scene, then I write down and analyze the decompose body part of Jessica