{"id":2749,"date":"2022-04-02T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedness.net\/?post_type=murders&p=2749"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:13:41","slug":"jessica-renee-johnson","status":"publish","type":"murders","link":"https:\/\/wickedness.net\/murders\/jessica-renee-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Renee Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Was this a murder or a suicide? Jessica Renee Johnson\u2019s death to this day remains an unsolved case. The police claimed Jessica committed suicide, however, her family point their fingers at Garland Hart – her ex-boyfriend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The horrifying events regarding the death of <\/span>Jessica<\/span><\/a> were a very popular topic in the media. This incident has drawn so much attention from the public simply because the police believe there is no valid case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thirty-seven-year-old Jessica Renee Johnson lived with her two children, a son, and a daughter, at her parents, David and Linda Johnson’s house.<\/span><\/p>\n David and Linda Johnson loved having their daughter Jessica and her children over at their house. Jessica Renee Johnson lived a happy life until one morning, on the 31st of May, she left the house and the next day called her daughter, telling her that she would be back home soon.<\/span><\/p>\n Jessica told her mother, Linda, that she was staying with her boyfriend, Garland Hart, when asked where she was. Her family and friends did not like Hart because they believed that he abused her daily.<\/span><\/p>\n But there wasn’t much that they could do since Jessica felt like she needed him to help her with her current drug addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n On the 2nd of June, Jessica’s mother, Linda, receives a disturbing phone call from the town coroner. Jessica was found dead, and the police claimed it was suicide. She could not believe what she had just heard. There was no way that Jessica had committed suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n The news was even less convincing when Linda heard that the official cause of death was ligature strangulation. Her body was found hanging from a mailbox.<\/span><\/p>\n Jessica died by the mail carrier in the morning while delivering mail. The location was near the house of one of Garland’s best friends. That house is within walking distance from her parents’ home.<\/span><\/p>\n Upon inspection, the position and placement of the body were highly unusual. Jessica’s arm was tied up to a mailbox, she was in a sitting position, and her knees and legs were curled underneath her. There were shoe strings tied around her neck, and one side of her neck was pressing against her cheekbone.<\/span><\/p>\n Jessica’s purse was left open on the ground between her legs. This makes the whole situation make even less sense than before. Everyone in their right mind would start to see that the chances of Jessica hanging herself on a 38inch mailbox are slim to none. It does not make sense that someone would commit such a bizarre suicide. The whole thing looked like a staged crime scene.<\/span><\/p>\n Another thing that made no sense in the whole situation was the fact that nobody saw her from 6 pm the night before Jessica’s death up until the discovery of her body between 9.30 and 10.30 am the following day. Whatever happened between the last time she was seen and the discovery of Jessica’s body remains a mystery to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n Some people thought that an overdose might have caused Jessica’s death since she had a drug problem, but even though there were signs of methamphetamine and Xanax in her bloodstream, those were not the cause of death. The official cause of her death on her death certificate is asphyxiation which the DeSoto County Coroner Jeff Pounders ruled without the performance of an autopsy on the body.<\/span><\/p>\n The family hired a forensic scientist because they didn’t believe that Jessica was capable of committing suicide. They were seeking answers that the police refused to give, so they hired Dr. Maurice Godwin to take a look at the case. According to Dr. Godwin, Jessica’s hand would not have remained resting on top of her purse if she had hanged herself.<\/span><\/p>\n The night before Jessica’s body was found, the homeowner, a friend of her boyfriend, claimed that there were a couple of people at his house. At some point during their stay, Jessica and Garland got into a fight which led to Jessica wanting to leave right away, but for some reason decided to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nWho Was Jessica Renee Johnson?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Investigation Details<\/b><\/h2>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Jessica’s Boyfriend<\/b><\/h2>\n