JESSICA TETTER - 16 yo - Illinois/Hammond IN

Girl, 16, 'battered to death before being slung in a dumpster by her mother's former boyfriend'
Jessica Tetter found day after going missing from home

• John Hurt, 27, charged with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide
  
• 'Admits killing teenager after she had tried to fight him'
  

11:20 GMT, 11 June 2012

A teenage girl was allegedly beaten and strangled to death by her mother's former boyfriend before being thrown into a dumpster.The body of Jessica Tetter, 16, was found in Hammond, Indiana, the day after disappearing from her Illinois home last Wednesday.
Detectives yesterday charged 27-year-old John Hurt with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide.


'Battered': The body of 16-year-old Jessica
Tetter (pictured) was found in a dumpster in Hammond, Indiana, after
allegedly being strangled and beaten to death by her mother's former boyfriend

Assistant Police Chief Dante Zorzi said Hurt
was the ex-boyfriend of Tetter’s mother, although the Assistant State's
Attorney Sylvie Manaster claimed he was her husband.
Tetter's mother said her daughter had stepped in during a row between the
couple, who were said to have an 'on again, off again' relationship,
last Wednesday, it was reported by The Chicago Tribune.

When Tetter's mother returned later that day, Hurt said her daughter had
left the house and not come back and refused to help look for the
teenager, Manaster said.On
Friday, it is claimed he walked into the Calumet City Police Department
and told 'a witness... that his daughter tried to fight him and he had killed her'.


'Admits killing': John Hurt (pictured) has been
charged with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide over Miss
Tetter's death

Manaster said he admitted to choking her and hauling her body to Hammond.

An autopsy by the Lake County Coroner’s Office ruled that she had died of trauma to the head and body.
Hurt's bond was set at $1million by Judge Israel Desierto when he appeared at Cook County Bond Court yesterday.
Around 200 classmates, friends and teachers gathered at Thornton Fractional
North High School in Calumet City on Saturday for a vigil to honour Miss Tetter, it was reported on CBS 2.
Track coach Moses Hulbert said: 'I believe that Jessica now is an angel above in heaven, smiling on us.'
Her friend Kathryne Sneed said Miss Tetter had taken up boxing for six years and was on the track team.
'She would use that to her advantage and people thought was so funny because she was so small,' she added.
Neighbor Lanesha Sibley said: 'It’s just sad to see something like this happen
so close to somebody you’re used to seeing daily in and out the building.

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