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MURDERED: Jessica Starr

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7358.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Starr was 26 years old when she was murdered outside the trailer she was staying at in 2011. Despite friends and family having theories as to what happened, they feel that police in Elkhart, Indiana, have all but abandoned them in their search for justice.

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0:00.0

Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And today, Britt and I are going to divide and

0:05.3

conquer because two Indiana cases recently came across my desk that are both pretty recent and both in

0:12.0

need of some eyes and ears. So you get two episodes in your feed today, one from me and then one from

0:18.3

Britt. And if you follow me on social, you'll know I was recently back

0:22.2

near my hometown, scoping out an area in Elkhart, Indiana, that was once a crime scene because I just

0:29.9

needed to see it for myself. How did someone lay in wait, blitz attack a young woman, then drag her to the side of her trailer,

0:39.5

and cut her from ear to ear without a single witness seeing. It didn't seem possible.

0:45.9

And how have police not tracked down her killer after 14 years? Well, being at the scene and doing

0:53.3

some digging of our own has made it pretty clear that the police bungled the investigation.

0:59.3

And it might be up to all of us now to help the family get justice.

1:03.5

And we might be close because our digging led to someone who said that they know what happened.

1:09.7

And based on who they're connected to, they could be telling the truth. This is the story of Jessica Starr. This is the story of Jessica Starr. I'm Thank you. 9-1-1. Where's your emergency?

1:52.0

It's in Elkhart, Indiana, in Melody Lake.

1:59.0

I was sitting on the couch and one of my mom's friends was getting home from work,

2:06.3

one of our roommates, and I had to run up the deck, and it was screaming, and then she

2:13.3

sounded like she got like her hand hooked onooked on her mouth and she got pulled away.

2:21.4

So we need somebody to get to reset yet and redway.

2:25.9

That was part of a call that an 11-year-old named Jeff made to dispatchers just after 1130

2:31.6

p.m. on August 8, 2011, from inside his trailer. He'd been home with his mom and little brother,

2:38.0

expecting his mom's roommate and co-worker, Jessica Starr, to be coming home any minute, like any other

2:44.2

normal night. But he's pretty sure that he just heard her getting attacked in front of their home.

2:50.2

And now, having called the police,

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