MY COUSIN JENNY
We were close to our cousins growing up as you can tell in these pictures. The first picture is of my Uncle Doug who was my mothers oldest brother and his two children Judy and Jenny. Jenny is the smallest child on the right. She is in all of these pictures. I had a crush on her when we were teenagers and it bothered me that I felt that way because we were cousins. Although I am from the South and we are famous for dating our cousins I wasn't about to go there. Years later I found out we weren't biologically related. She and her sister Judy were both adopted. Maybe that is why I had the hots for her. Anyway we were close. I was painfully shy and she was always trying to get me to dance with her. She was the only one that could get me to dance and we would do the twist together. They lived right across the street from Hattie Cotton elementary school and were in walking distance from our grandparents house on McKennie Ave.
Jenny grew into a very attractive teenager but was always wanting to grow up too fast. She was a wild child and went from one relationship to another. Jenny was murdered in 1989. Her body was found lying beside a road in Mt. Juliet by a mailman. For several days her body was unclaimed in the Nashville morgue because nobody knew who she was. She was a Jane Doe murder victim. A police sketch artists picture of her was on the front page of the newspaper in the hopes that someone would come forward and identify the body.I remember seeing the picture but I didn't have a clue that it was Jenny. Luckily her teenage daughter recognized a necklace that the artist included in the picture. She and an older relative went to the morgue and identified the body. It was later discovered that her live in boyfriend strangled her to death and dumped her on the side of the road. He claimed that he had a flashback from Vietnam and this is why he killed her. My Aunt Catherine and my cousin Judy appeared yearly at his parole hearings trying to keep him behind bars. After only a few years in prison, however; he was finally paroled.
Jenny grew into a very attractive teenager but was always wanting to grow up too fast. She was a wild child and went from one relationship to another. Jenny was murdered in 1989. Her body was found lying beside a road in Mt. Juliet by a mailman. For several days her body was unclaimed in the Nashville morgue because nobody knew who she was. She was a Jane Doe murder victim. A police sketch artists picture of her was on the front page of the newspaper in the hopes that someone would come forward and identify the body.I remember seeing the picture but I didn't have a clue that it was Jenny. Luckily her teenage daughter recognized a necklace that the artist included in the picture. She and an older relative went to the morgue and identified the body. It was later discovered that her live in boyfriend strangled her to death and dumped her on the side of the road. He claimed that he had a flashback from Vietnam and this is why he killed her. My Aunt Catherine and my cousin Judy appeared yearly at his parole hearings trying to keep him behind bars. After only a few years in prison, however; he was finally paroled.
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