She never mentioned their mother's recent cocaine possession arrests. She wrote Angelia that her dad - "the best dad in the world" - worked all the time and that she hadn't talked to their mom in months. Jessica told her sister how comforted she was to dream about her and have her back again. Wish you were here to help me study for my restricts (restricted driver's license). lol (laugh out loud.) Daddy Grey is still driving those trucks. She wrote captions like, "C-U-T-E" and "Lookin' beautiful."īy May, four months after Angelia's death, Jessica was writing to Angelia on MySpace a few times a week - chatty, informational notes, as if her sister had gone on a summer trip and wouldn't want to miss the latest. Jessica loaded her site with hundreds of photos of herself posing and laughing and the few pictures she had of her sister and her together. You have to live it up every day and have no regrets." Jessica names Angelia as her MySpace hero because "she made me look at life a whole different way. "We were always side-by-side," she said, not mentioning that she seldom heard from her sister in the last months of her life.īesides, now that Angelia was dead, Jessica felt they were communicating more frequently: "I'll write her and ask for a sign and, sure enough, a door will creak open or a rainbow will appear," said Jessica. She also wrote about the "special bond" she and Angelia had. I make better choices," she wrote on Jan. On her page, Jessica mentions nothing about drugs or the brutal murder, choosing to see the loss of her sister as a lesson, rather than a tragedy. It means you have decided to see beyond the imperfections." Jessica's MySpace page began: "Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. She dedicated her MySpace site to her sister and posted photos of them together. "My sissy was killed as payback for a bad drug deal," Jessica says.
In early 2007, three young men were charged in the stabbing, beating murder of Angelia and the burning of her corpse. Then Jessica returned to the dark, dusty house where she lives with her father. When her mom went to sleep in the middle of the day, Jessica, 14, and Angelia, 17, fixed chicken with pasta and Alfredo sauce for Christmas dinner and ate it while their mother slept. Jessica went to her mom's house to be with them. The last time Jessica was with her sister and her mother was Christmas Day 2006, about 10 days before Angelia was murdered. "I was worried about her," said Jessica, who spoke to the Times with her father's permission. She was becoming more and more distant, according to family friends. "U know my number if U ever just wanna talk."īut Angelia seldom responded. When Angelia's boyfriend was arrested for cocaine and marijuana possession, police in Haines City say, Angelia took over his drug sales while he was in jail.Īfter Jessica moved away from her sister in late summer 2006, she sent several MySpace messages to her: "I love you and miss you," Jessica wrote. Jessica moved in with her father 5 miles away because of the "drug situation" at the house with her sister and mother. Until five months before the murder, Jessica and Angelia had lived with their mother, who was divorced from both of the girls' fathers. She quit her youth group at the local Baptist church and stopped going to the dance school where she and her sister had taken tap and ballet for more than a decade. She had been a straight-A student, cheerleader and varsity volleyball player at Haines City High School, but suddenly dropped out in the 11th grade to get a degree online. Jessica's sister, Angelia Michelle Headrick, was 17 when she died. Against a backdrop of pink hearts and a country-western ballad, she maintained a sunny one-way conversation with her sister, sharing a version of her life in which everything was how she wanted it to be.
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