‘Shock and fear’: Local journalist looks back on horrific murder of Jessica Chambers, the small-town cheerleader burned alive — and still, no one knows why
Murder
A Mississippi-based reporter will never forget the December day when she learned a 19-year-old girl had been burned alive in a small southern town not far from where the journalist lives and works. Theresa Apel was one of the first reporters on the scene of the shocking murder of Jessica Chambers, a well-liked teenager in …
