Transcript
Ashley Flowers (0:00)
Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
Britt (0:03)
And I'm Britt.
Ashley Flowers (0:04)
Now listen, there is not a lot of information that has been shared yet in the story I'm about to tell you, which is why it's gonna be so brief. But what we do have points to a perpetrator's bizarre and unsettling MO And I think I know exactly where we can find answers. This is the story of Jules Connor and Casey Monroe. It's 3am On August 4, 2012, when Jenna Connor wakes up alone at the home she shares with her sister Jules. Now, when she went to get a glass of water, she was surprised to see the door to Jules room open and an empty bed inside. Because even though Jules worked a late shift at the dive bar, this place called Harry's over in South Bend, Indiana, that night, like she would normally be home by like one or two in the morning. So it's weird that it's three and she's not. And at first Jenna tried just calling her a few times, like she knew that Jules's car was pretty unreliable though, you know, she would have thought that if something had happened, like she would have expected to see a missed call from Jules at some point, like if she got stranded, you know, but you just never know. So she's trying to call her. When call after call went unanswered, anxiety began to build in Jenna until she physically just couldn't sit still and wait anymore. Like she had to go looking for her sister. Now she tried Harry's, but it was long past close. There weren't even any cars in the lot when she got there. Which at first brought a little bit of relief, like maybe she was being a dramatic older sister. Like if Jules left in her car, maybe she had just gone over to a friend's or who knows, and she felt better. But there was still something sitting in the back of her mind. A like what if? What if she was on the side of the road somewhere? Jenna hadn't passed her car anywhere on the road as she had driven two Harry's from their place. But she knew that there was more than one way to get there. So to quiet that last little whisper in her mind, she told herself she would just go home. One other route that she knew her sister might sometimes take. She wasn't going to find anything, right? Like that's what she's telling herself, but it would help her sleep. She hoped she wouldn't find anything. But as the couple of shopping strips faded into cornfields and tree lines and the street lights disappeared. Her headlights hit on something that made all of her fear come roaring back till it was like ringing in her ears. It was Jewel's car on the side of the road with the driver's side door open. And when she gets a closer look, she sees her sister's phone, wallet, money, everything is sitting on the passenger seat. But Jules is is nowhere to be found.
Britt (3:12)