Jessica Lunsford’s 2005 slaying is the focus of the season premiere of ‘People Magazine Investigates’ on Monday, Oct. 28, at 9/8c on Investigation Discovery/ID and streaming on Max
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Jessica Lunsford
At bedtime on the night of Feb. 23, 2005, Jessica Lunsford got under the covers — wearing a pink nightgown and clutching her stuffed purple dolphin under her arm — and drifted off to sleep.
Jessica was never seen alive again.
The 9-year-old vanished in the middle of the night from the Homosassa, Fla., home where she had been living for the past year with her father, Mark Lunsford, then 41, and her grandparents…