Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails about cold cases all
Speaker 1: the time, and this one the first. I was kind
Speaker 1: of struck by the fact it's another girl. It's another
Speaker 1: situation where there are a lot of suspects. Usually when
Speaker 1: I look at a story, I can tell in the
Speaker 1: first five minutes what probably happened. But this one is
Speaker 1: really strange. My sister was like the B group and
Speaker 1: the other girls were the A group, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of like how they treated her. Jennie Ward was sixteen
Speaker 1: years old when she died under mysterious circumstances. She was
Speaker 1: at a party at a cabin in the woods in
Speaker 1: the small town of Marshall, Arkansas. When I went and
Speaker 1: saw my daughter, but there in the lord and when
Speaker 1: I had to fill over her neck and her head
Speaker 1: kind of rolled like that. Her hair was purpul up,
Speaker 1: the heir was purple. Love my finister like this, and
Speaker 1: this stuff kept coming out. It was like sand and down.
Speaker 1: I was told she fell off his porch. There's a
Speaker 1: cause of death, and then there's a manner, right, and
Speaker 1: it went from manner fall up the porch and cause
Speaker 1: I know too, manner undetermined, cause undetermined, and that's homicide.
Speaker 1: What they done is they washed her and they cleaned
Speaker 1: her up. When I saw her, I was by the
Speaker 1: story that she fell off a little porch. It's only
Speaker 1: about the eight come my daughter was beaten to death.
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Townsend and I'm heading back to Arkansas on
Speaker 1: a new case to find out what happened to Jennie
Speaker 1: Wharton on September nine. It's not just a victim. In
Speaker 1: the victims family, it's the worst for them, but there's
Speaker 1: also the people who were accused, and it's never cleared
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Really, when there's no justice done,
Speaker 1: it hurts a lot of people of her, the whole town.
Speaker 1: From School of Humans and I Heart Radio. This is
Speaker 1: hell and gone.