Jessica Dishon
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Dishon was abducted from her family's driveway in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. After years of wrongly targeting her uncle, DNA led to neighbor Stanley Dishon.
On September 10, 1999, seventeen-year-old Jessica Dishon was last seen in the driveway of her family's home in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. She had gone outside after dark to meet someone. Her body was found eleven days later in a wooded area, sexually assaulted and strangled.
The investigation was marked by controversy. Detectives initially focused on Jessica's uncle and neighbor, arresting him despite a lack of physical evidence. A grand jury eventually cleared him.
Years later, DNA evidence from Jessica's body was matched to Stanley Dishon, a distant relative who lived nearby and was already in prison for sexually abusing other girls. He had been questioned early in the investigation but was not considered a prime suspect.
Stanley Dishon was convicted of murder, kidnapping, and sexual abuse in 2017 and sentenced to life without parole.
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