Ep. 14: Who's Eric??

Hello and welcome to Crime on the Clarkfork, the true crime podcast that covers cases that happened in areas with populations of 15,000 or less. On this week's episode, I am telling you about the unsolved murders of Jessica Chambers and Meing-Chen Msiao.

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Hi and welcome back to Crime on the Clarkfork, the true crime podcast where I tell you about big crimes that happen in small places with each case having occurred in areas with populations of 15,000 or less. My name is Mackenzie Spence and I am your host. If you listen on Spotify, can you do me a huge favor and turn on automatic downloads? This will help the algorithm recommend the show to others! If you want to be notified every time an episode goes live, you are also able to click the little bell button on the shows page and it will send you a notification! 

This episode, we are staying in the United States and heading south to Mississippi.

The sources for this episode are: People, United States Census Bureau, Reddit, Clarion Ledger, Action News 5, Darkhorse Press, BuzzFeed News, CBS News, Law & Crime, Oxygen, E News, Daily Mail, WREG Memphis, Find Law, 

Courtland, MS. 2014. Population: 514.

In December 2014, a young woman was found burning to death on the side of the road in her hometown in rural Mississippi, 70 miles from Memphis, TN. 

Jessica was found doused in fire accelerant on the side of the road, next to her black, 2005 Kia Rio, which was also on fire. She was immediately transported to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis via helicopter, but unfortunately, Jessica didn’t make it and passed on Sunday, December 7th, 2014 at 2:37am.

Jessica Chambers was a regular 19 year old girl. She worked in a clothing store, was a cheerleader and softball player in her high school years at South Panola High School, and often had attention from boys. While she did have an arrest record for selling drugs from time to time, no one in her small town of Courtland, Mississippi seemed to have any issues with her. She grew up in Courtland on the same street her mom grew up on. She lived across the street from her grandmother and a few doors down from her father and step-mother. She was known to be bubbly and generous. The kind of person that would give you the shirt off of her back if you needed it or needed cheering up. With that being said, she did have a tumultuous home life. Her father was arrested in the early 2000s for manufacturing crystal meth and driving under the influence, her neighbor was shot multiple times in 2006 in his front yard, her older brother died in a car accident in 2012, and she would often get in fights with her mother and move out for weeks at a time. At one point in 2013, she got in an argument with her ex-boyfriend and claimed that he tried to shoot her for not getting back together with him, but he claims she shot at him to get him out of the house. 

Jessica left home on the night of December 6th, 2014 to clean her car and grab something to eat before returning home. She left her house in camouflage sweatpants and her hair in a bun, telling her mother that she would be back soon and would clean her room before heading to bed for the night. About two hours later, Jessica’s mom called her to check in and JEssica told her that she would be home soon. The last sighting of Jessica was on gas station footage just one mile and 90 minutes before she was discovered aflame. The footage was grainy, but in it, she can be seen walking towards the gas station and waving at someone who she walks over to, which was off camera. The only other person that was picked up on that camera footage was a man in a striped shirt who was filling up gas and walked in the same direction that Jessica eventually did. Not long after she walked over to the unknown person, Jessica returned to the footage where she got in her car and drove away.

On December 6th, 2014 at 8:09pm, firefighters received a call regarding a vehicle that was on fire on Herron Road in Courtland. The firefighters arrived on the scene and began extinguishing the flames coming from the vehicle. As they were doing this, a young woman, engulfed in flames, in nothing but her underwear, emerged from the direction of the nearby woods. She was burned beyond any recognition and said two words. “Help Me.” She was quickly laid down on a blanket. The fire chief, Cole Haley, was on the scene along with a handful of other firefighters that attempted to figure out what happened to the girl. They asked her who did this to her and she responded, but it was hard to hear what she was saying with the commotion going on around them. Cole laid down next to the girl to get closer and he asked who had done this to her. She responded, but it was unclear if she said Eric or Derrick. When they asked her what his last name was, she indicated that she didn’t know. Cole then asked who she was and originally, he thought she said Katrina, but he was eventually able to decipher that she was saying “Jessica.” It is unsurprising that understanding her would have been difficult because, as it is found later, she had burns to her airway, lips, and tongue, which would have made speaking very hard for her. 

She was quickly loaded into an ambulance while responders were still attempting to understand what happened to her. They asked her if Eric had done this to her, but according to the first responder, she had said “no.” The paramedic, Casey Autin, spoke with Jessica as she was being assisted by another paramedic, but eventually, all Jessica was able to say was that she was cold. The other paramedic also spoke with Jessica and said that she understood their questions, but her speech was garbled. Even so, he stated that he understood her when she said the name of the person that did this to her, Eric. Finally, Deputy Chuck Taylor was also on the scene and spoke to Jessica, who he had known prior to this. He also testified that Jessica said Eric had done this to her. When he reported this to his superiors, they asked him if Eric was black or white. He then went back to ask Jessica and she said that Eric was black. 

The girl was soon able to be identified as 19 year old Jessica Chambers. Her father worked as a mechanic at the Sheriff’s Department, so he was told of his daughter first. He told his wife, Jessica’s step-mother, who immediately went to Jessica’s mother’s house and started pounding on her door to let her know what was happening. This was about an hour after she had gotten off the phone with Jessica to check in. Jessica was quickly airlifted to Memphis and at this time, her family was rushing to meet her at the hospital there. They pulled up to the hospital as the helicopter was landing. They found that 98% of Jessica’s body was injured from the burns and the only part of her body that wasn’t burned was the bottom of her feet. The next morning, Jessica’s mother, Lisa, sat with Jessica and told her that if the fight to stay alive was too hard, it was okay if she let go. Jessica died a few short minutes later. 

Authorities were able to track where Jessica had been before she ended up on the side of the road that night. Her phone records showed that she had stopped at the gas station where the final footage of her was captured. After she got gas there, she made a few more stops, one at an unnamed residence and another around 5 miles away in another town. She finally arrived at the scene of the crime, about a mile from the gas station, around 7:30pm that night. The fire crew was called about the car being on fire at 8:09pm. It was found that Jessica was force fed gasoline. Some had also been squirted in her nose as well, so the fire was not only injuring the outside of her body, but she was also actively on fire on the inside. It is also thought that she had been knocked out at one point because she had a large gash on the top of her head. 

Authorities investigated every single Eric, Derrick, and even a person named Jerrick that lived in the Panola County area as well as other counties that were nearby. When they got Jessica’s phone information, they attempted to see if there were any Erics or Derricks in her contacts, but not a single one was found. They did notice that there were two Erics that she was friends with on facebook, but both were cleared. Jessica’s boyfriend, Travis Sanford, was in prison at the time of her death. Even though he was behind bars, authorities looked into him. They wondered if he thought Jessica had been unfaithful to him and had put a hit on her, but to police, Travis’s grief was so genuine that it did not seem plausible that he would have harmed Jessica in any way. 

There was one man, Derrick Holmes, who lived in Courtland, MS that investigators took a closer look at. Derrick was a registered sex offender who was convicted of the exploitation of children in 2012. He had also been accused of stalking Jessica prior to her death. Even so, it was determined that Derrick was not a good lead in the case because he had an alibi at the time of the murder. He was rubbing his mom’s feet at home.

While interviewing people, authorities found out that Jessica and a man named Quinton Tellis, a local gang member, had recently been romantically involved after being introduced by mutual friends. Tellis was born in Courtland, Mississippi and had spent much of the time between 2009 and 2014 in and out of prison. His arrest record seemed to date back to around 2006 and he had been convicted for crimes such as fleeing from police and burglary. He had last been released on probation in October of 2014. Just weeks later is when he met Jessica. 

According to Tellis, he and Jessica had slept together one time, weeks before her murder and told them the area that it had occurred. With him stating that it had been weeks since they had slept together, it is interesting to know that he and Jessica had only known each other for 12 days total. On December 2nd, Jessica had gone to the ER with Tellis to get some medicine. Over the next couple of days, Tellis continued to text Jessica about how he wanted to have sex with her. His and Jessica’s cell phones both pinged in the area where she died the night of her death, putting the two together on Jessica’s last day alive. At first, Tellis denied that he was with her that day, but eventually admitted that they had been together in her car, but he didn’t kill her. Jessica’s car’s passenger seat was laid back, which is how Tellis described how he had left her car. He told authorities that he had been begging her to have sex with him, but she blew him off, instead asking him for money or to buy her some food. 

Tellis’s story changed multiple times, which caught up to him more than once. At one point, he told the police that he had an alibi because he was with Big Mike Sanford the night Jessica was murdered, but Big Mike was able to prove with phone records and receipts that he was in Nashville at a Tennessee Titans game that night, nowhere near Courtland, Mississippi. To further authority’s suspicions regarding Tellis, when they brought him into the station for the initial questioning, he stated that he had only seen Jessica the morning of her death and he had no reaction to the fact that Jessica was dead even though he had admittedly spent some time with her the day of her death. He then later changed his story and said that he had seen Jessica the evening of her death to sell her marijuana. By the end of questioning, Tellis had admitted to being with Jessica that evening until 7:26pm. Even so, the authorities interviewed more than 130 people, including Tellis, but didn’t find any solid leads in the case. 

Since Jessica had been associated with gangs in the area, both through her boyfriend that was in prison and Tellis, the police went and spoke to the gangs to see if any of them had any untowards feelings about Jessica, but they found that the local gangs had no problems with Jessica and had nothing bad to say about her. In total, the authorities interviewed more than 130 people and had over 20,000 telephone numbers analyzed, but unfortunately, nothing seemed to be moving the case forward. 

Just months after Jessica’s death, Tellis posted a video on facebook with the caption: “I see dead people.” He then posted again in June 2015 in all caps, “THE DEVIL CAN DRIVE YOU CRAZY.” Then, in August, he didn’t show up to a meeting that he was supposed to have with his parole meeting. It was eventually found that not long after missing that meeting, he married a woman named Chakita Jackson and the two moved to Monroe, Louisiana. 

A few days after Tellis and his new wife arrived in the city, a 34 year old Taiwanese woman named Meing-Chen Msiao went missing. Meing was an exchange student at the University of Louisiana. When authorities went to her apartment to check if she was there, they found her body. She had been stabbed over 30 times all over her face and body. When searching the rest of the apartment, they found that her debit card was missing. Due to this, the police issued a warrant to see Meing’s bank records. 

When they received the records, police noticed that there had been two recent withdrawals from the account, but both were dated after her death. This caused police to issue another warrant for phone records that had been associated with her account. When the records came back, they found that someone had called the bank and inquired about the balance and PIN on the account so they could make a withdrawal. The phone number was tied back to none other than Quinton Tellis. On September 14, 2015, Tellis was charged with three counts of unauthorized use of a credit card and possession of half a pound of marijuana to which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison since he was a habitual offender. 

In 2016, Tellis was indicted for the murder of Meing because police believed that he tortured her in an attempt to get her to reveal her PIN for her debit card. They believed this because, in 2015, a man named Eric Hill told authorities that Tellis told him about a credit card robbery that he had committed where someone was stabbed in the process. Hill is the cousin of Tellis’s wife, Chakita, and had also dated Tellis’s sister back in Courtland. Since Tellis was already charged and serving time, he remained in his jail cell awaiting trial for the murder of Meing. Now, I am just going to take a second to see if you heard what I just said… Tellis had connections to a man named Eric. Coincidence?

When it comes to Meing’s murder, the charges against Tellis were dismissed by a judge in 2022 because they claimed his right to a speedy trial was violated. The state of Louisiana appealed the dismissal because it was often Tellis who pushed the date of his trial back. Now, this is ridiculous, so stay with me through this explaination. In October 2021, Tellis’s counsel filed a motion for a speedy trial, but then stated that they intended to hire an expert witness, so the trial was pushed from January 2, 2022 to March 14, 2022. Then, Tellis waived his right to a jury on January 18, 2022 and stated that the expert witness had given an oral opinion of his findings, but hadn’t put it in writing. The court then paused the running time for the speedy trial request until Tellis’s defense could get the statement in writing. The prosecution stated that the request for a speedy trial should be dismissed entirely since Tellis’s team was not actually ready to go to trial as they had alleged before. From February to October 2022, this happened multiple times due to an abundance of reasons, including things going on with Tellis’s expert report, the state’s inability to read the expert’s report, COVID-19, the unavailability of the defense council during specific months, and the state’s expert not being available on certain dates. Finally, a new trial date was set for October 24, 2022. 

During this time, the time delays for a speedy trial were suspended for 60 days for reasons on both sides. At this time, the state filed a motion for continuance. On August 29, 2022, Tellis claimed his rights to a speedy trial were being violated and the motion for continuance should not be held. On October 13, 2022, there was a hearing on the motion to continue the trial that was set for October 24, 2022. The state brought up the fact that the 120-day time limit of the speedy trial motion would end on October 19, 2022 and if the time expired, Tellis would be released without bail. They were informed that if the continuance was not granted and Tellis was released, the Mississippi Department of Corrections had a detainer on Tellis, which would require he be transferred there to serve an outstanding sentence. The trial court maintained the trial date of October 24, 2022. Since it was required to release Tellis without bail since the 120 day period had expired, Tellis was transferred to the Mississippi Department of Correction and since Tellis was removed from the jurisdiction, his trial was removed from the court’s docket. 

Then, on October 24, 2022, the date that Tellis was scheduled for trial originally, he filed a Motion to Dismiss or in the Alternative Release from Bond Obligation. It stated that he had filed a motion for a speedy trial and that continuances were granted to the state three times against his objections. He also argued that he had been transferred to Mississippi without notice and had been deprived of the ability to give his testimony, violating his 6th amendment rights. He then claimed that the actions by the state were so egregious that it merited a dismissal of the case. Pretty rich coming from someone who is thought to have killed two women in extremely horrific ways. But okay. The trial court was annoyed with the fact that Tellis was removed from their jurisdiction and the case was then removed from the docket. They also accused the Assistant District Attorney of preventing the case from going to trial and for being unprepared for court. This is when the judge dismissed the charges against Tellis in the murder of Meing. The State of Louisiana eventually determined in April 2024 that the trial court correctly released Tellis without bail, but that his right to a speedy trial was not violated and the dismissal of the murder charge was an abuse of discretion by the trial court and that judgement was reversed and the matter was remanded.

Tellis sat in a Louisiana jail cell until 2017 when he was transported to Mississippi to face charges of capital murder for Jessica’s death. This was three years after Jessica’s death and the prosecution believed they had strong evidence against him. If convicted, he would face life in prison without parole. They had found texts and voicemails that Tellis had written and sent to Jessica that were seemingly incriminating, had video evidence of Tellis at the gas station that was close to where Jessica and her burning car were found, and when they finally found Jessica’s car keys, ⅛ of a mile from her car, Tellis’s DNA was on the car keys. It also came out that Tellis had deleted all of Jessica’s texts as well as her contact from her phone, stating that he didn’t see the point in saving any of it if she was dead. Prosecutors claimed that Tellis strangled Jessica and thought he had killed her, but when he noticed she was still alive, he drove her car with her inside to the road she was found on, ran to his sister’s house, grabbed her car, drove to the gas station, and then returned to where he left Jessica and set her and her car aflame. The defense attorneys really pushed the testimony from Jessica herself about Eric or Derrick doing this to her, and in the closing arguments, the defense ended by stating that “Eric isn’t on trial here today, but he should be.” The fact that first responders stated Jessica had indicated that she didn’t know the last name of her murderer was an issue for the jury because she did know Quentin Tellis. With the amount of reasonable doubt the defense was able to provide, the trial ended in a hung jury.

In 2018, the case was brought forward again against Tellis. The prosecution brought in an expert witness. The witness was a doctor that testified that there was no way that Jessica would have spoken discernable words when the firefighters found her, so even if firefighters believed she had said Eric or Derrick, there is a chance that she was attempting to say something else, but that is what sound was able to come out of her scorched airway. They also brought in a witness that claimed that she had picked up a man not far from the crime scene as he was hitchhiking and that he seemed really nervous and sweaty. He asked her to drop him off at a relative of Tellis’s house, but the witness couldn’t remember if the person was Tellis or someone else. She did remember that the man was black and in his 20s. She had initially pulled over because she thought the man was her cousin, but still gave the man a ride because she knew the person whose house the man requested a lift to. Even so, the woman whose house she dropped him off at claims that Tellis was never at her house that night. Even with the new witnesses, the jury came back hung once again. They felt that Eric and Derrick were too omnipresent in the case. 

Since he was not charged, Tellis was returned to Louisiana to continue serving his 10 year sentence in the theft and drug charges he was already charged with while still awaiting trial for the murder of Meing. The trial was scheduled for November 2020, but Eric Hill, the man who gave a witness statement about Tellis informing him about a robbery gone wrong where someone was stabbed, recanted his testimony stating that he was pressured by police to give false testimony about Tellis. The main issue with this is that, while he didn’t testify against Tellis in the court case, the interview was featured in warrants that were associated with the investigation. In the warrant, it stated that Hill had intimate knowledge of the crime that only the killer would know and that Tellis provided him with those details, specifically the fact that she was stabbed multiple times, which was not released to the public. 

Tellis and Meing were seen together on a security video from Walmart and a neighbor of Meing had given authorities a license plate of a man who had given Meing a “creepy feeling.” The man was then identified as Tellis. He had also been in Meing’s apartment on July 27th and 28th, according to the neighbor and she heard the two yelling at each other. The crime scene had been cleaned, leaving no suspect DNA, but the phone calls to the bank, GPS records that indicated Tellis was in Meing’s apartment the day she died, and a receipt for $0.07 charged to Meing’s card found in Tellis’s apartment, was enough to charge Tellis with Meing’s murder. Further into the investigation, authorities found a pair of Tellis’s shoes that had been spray painted white, but under the paint were dark stains that investigators believed to be Meing’s blood. 

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Some news outlets have put together a timeline of the days leading up to Jessica’s death on December 6th as well as the day of December 6th. The timeline is based on testimony from the trials against Tellis, so I want to share this with you. 

Again, on December 2nd, Tellis went with Jessica to the Emergency Room, like I stated earlier in the podcast. On December 3rd, Tellis asked Jessica for sex via text for the first time to which she replied, “Oh Lord.” The conversation then continued and Jessica pointed out that Tellis’s mother and sister were both home and they would “freak out.” She refused to go to Tellis’s house if his family was there. On December 4th, Tellis texted Jessica that he was horny to which she once again said, “Oh Lord.” On December 5th, Jessica asked Tellis for money for food to which he responded with a sexual proposition. She tells him that she only needs $6 and minutes later, gas station footage showed Tellis walking across the street to Jessica’s car and then back to his house. 

Now, onto December 6th. At 9:02am, Jessica texted Tellis that she had just woken up. 9 minutes later, Tellis texted Chambers back that he also had just woken up. At 9:50am, Jessica left her house and at 10:08am, Jessica says she is going to pick Tellis up. One minute later, at 10:09am, Tellis texted Jessica that he was ready to be picked up. At 10:13am, Jessica pulled into Tellis’s driveway, which was caught on video at the gas station because his house was close enough to the station that his driveway was able to be seen by their surveillance camera. At 10:14, the two leave Tellis’s house. According to investigators, there was no one else in the car with Jessica and Tellis, but Tellis states that Jessica’s friend, Kesha, was in the car when he was picked up. According to Kesha, she was picked up after Tellis had been picked up around 10:00am. Around noon, it was testified that Jessica and Kesha dropped Tellis off around “the store” on Highway 51, but security footage showed Jessica dropping Tellis off at his house around 1:30pm.

After dropping Tellis off, Jessica apparently asked him for money, but Tellis stated that she never showed up to grab it. He then later said that she did show up, but that he threw $10 into her car during the daylight hours. Sometime in the early afternoon, Jessica did return home and took a nap, according to her mother. At 2:03pm, Tellis texted Jessica. She then asked him what he wanted to which he replied, “some loving.” Around 3:30pm - 4:15pm, Chakita Jackson, Tellis’s girlfriend, tries to contact him to get him to send her some money so she can go and visit him. At 4:23pm, Tellis called Jessica and it woke her up from her nap. At 4:30, Jessica texted Tellis that she was hungry and would go eat with him if he would pay for it. At 4:35pm, Tellis texted Jessica “call me.” At 4:40pm, the gas station surveillance captured Tellis at the store. At 4:56pm, Jessica texted Tellis and asked, “where are you?” At 5:00pm, Jessica left her house to go get something to eat and it was already dark out at this point. Between 5:24 and 5:30pm, Jessica was at the gas station, which is the last footage of Jessica. At 5:29pm, Jessica called Tellis, but it went to voicemail and it was the last call she made to Tellis. At 5:34pm, Tellis called Jessica back and she picked him up from his house to go to Taco Bell in Batesville. Tellis stated that he didn’t ride in Jessica’s car to the Taco Bell, but rather followed her in Big Mike’s truck, which we know is false because Big Mike was not in town at this time and had his truck with him. 

From 6:08pm to 6:17pm, Tellis and Jessica’s phones pinged off the same tower in Batesville near a Taco Bell. At 6:17pm, Tellis made a phone call to someone and Jessica leaves the taco bell and then comes back. At 6:25pm, Tellis and JEssica’s phones ping off the same cell tower again. According to Tellis, from 6:30pm - 7:30pm he was in an area called the Sand Box, but said he may have been messing up his days. At 6:30pm, Tellis’s and Jessica’s phones pinged off a cell tower that places them in Courtland and Tellis states that they both went back to his house. At 6:48pm, Jessica called her mom and told her that she would be home soon, but it isn’t clear where Jessica was at this time. Between 6:49pm and 7:26pm, neither Jessica or Tellis were using their phones. At 7:10pm, a vehicle leaves Tellis’s residence and Tellis states that it was his uncle Sammy. At 7:26pm, a vehicle leaves from the driveway next to Tellis’s house, but the security footage is too grainy to determine what kind of car it is, but authorities know that it isn’t the vehicle of the woman who lives there because she was at work at this time. At 7:29pm, Tellis’s mother’s car leaves the home and she goes to the gas station where she stays for around 20 minutes. At 7:30pm, Jessica’s phone is pinging dramatically to the west, specifically near Herron Road, where she is eventually found. At 7:42pm, Tellis’s phone wakes up for the first time since 6:49pm and he texted Jessica and said “Honey, sorry I can’t be there with you tonight.” and then continued to text her that he cannot see her because his girlfriend is coming to visit from Louisiana. He then called his girlfriend, but it is unclear where Jessica or Tellis are at this time. At 7:46pm, Tellis calls Chakita back and tells her that he is walking to his sister’s house to borrow her Chevy Tahoe. Authorities point out that there is a cut through trail that leads from where Jessica was found to the subdivision where Tellis’s sister lives and on this route is where Jessica’s keys were found a few days later. At 7:50pm, a vehicle is seen pulling up to a shed in Tellis’s driveway, which is where he stored his dirtbike and extra gasoline. At 8:04pm, Tellis’s sister’s SUV drove past the gas station at a high speed, heading towards Batesville and the scene of the crime. Investigators believe that Tellis was the one driving the vehicle. Also at 8:04pm was when Jessica’s phone pinged off a cell tower for the last time. Investigators believe that it eventually got too hot and shut off. 

At 8:09, the 911 call was placed about the car on fire. At 8:26pm, Tellis was seen on surveillance video at Fred’s store in Batesville. He was purchasing a “Green Dot” money card. According to Tellis, at this time, he had gone to the Piggly Wiggly in Batesville, but he wasn’t able to purchase a money card there, so he went to Fred’s store instead. He then stated that he passed first responders on his way back to Courtland from Batesville, presumably the first responders that were headed to the car fire. 

Authorities believe that Tellis had changed his clothes multiple times around this time and that had 36 minutes to get from Fred’s store back to Courtland, drop off a vehicle, and then change his clothes. At 8:57pm, the gas station surveillance footage captured an SUV driving towards Tellis’s sister’s house and minutes later, Tellis was seen walking from his driveway to the gas station. 

Now, with that entire timeline laid out, I want to mention that just because two peoples’ phones ping off the same cell tower doesn’t mean that they were together. In rural communities, cell towers can be pinged from up to 20 - 30 miles away since there are so few towers in the area. I just want to mention that because cell tower evidence may not be as convincing as other evidence in cases like this. 

Lisa, Jessica’s mother, died on October 29, 2021, never knowing if there would be justice for Jessica. There are an immense amount of theories on the internet ranging from her ex-boyfriend doing it, a drug deal gone wrong, a jealous best friend that snapped, her dad who had spent time in prison for cooking meth, white supremacists killing her for being in an interracial relationship, and ISIS. Some think that Jessica may have gotten in over her head with some people and found out things that she shouldn’t have known. Her friend Lakesha Myer said that Jessica knew some shady people and also sold marijuana here and there. When she passed, there were gang members that reached out to the family to offer their condolences. Her father also said that Jessica had made comments about how people thought she was “snitching” to the police a few weeks before she died because he worked at the sheriff’s office.

As of today, Tellis has not been charged for the murders of either Jessica or Meing. There are no dates set for the initial trial in Meing’s murder or a third trial in Jessica’s murder. As time goes on, I will keep my eye out for updates and let you all know what is going on! Today, Tellis is serving a prison sentence in Mississippi for burglary and is set to be released on October 16, 2027. 

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