This is Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020.

This week, we'll be starting Season 2 of Death in the Dorms.

It's a true crime series from ABC Studios that tells the stories of young people whose lives were cut tragically short during their time on campus and the subsequent investigations into their untimely deaths. In our first episode, we'll hear the story of Jenna Burley, a passionate social justice advocate at Temple University, who vanished after spending a night out with her friends, leaving only questions in her wake.

Take a listen. Jenna, she really wanted to get into film.

Her trajectory was probably going to do great things. She just wanted to give people a voice.

She was able to go right over to Temple, and she was excited about that.

Temple University is, in my opinion, a safe place. The surrounding neighborhoods, you have a different story.

Temple University police need your help to track down a missing student.

I remember having a conversation with my friends, like, whoa, We just got here. This is happening already.

The entire purpose of going inside of this apartment was to find out what happened.

I just wanted to know how a human being could do that to somebody.

This is Jenna's room. She had recently redone her room because she knew she'd be living here through her time at Temple. I definitely do sleep in here. I find it comforting to just spend time here with Jenna. I just love remembering her laughter when she'd be watching something funny. She had a great laugh.

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Just We met at Villanova University. My mother said, You should go to Villanova and you'll meet somebody with money. But I met Ed. And before our first anniversary, we had our first child.

We had Janel, and then two years later, we were blessed with Jenna.

When Jenna was young, she said she was going to be famous. I'm going to do in this world.

Jenna and I met on the very first day of kindergarten. I had an accident, and I got to go to the nurse and get new clothes. Jenna didn't like the outfit she was wearing that day, so she also had an accident, so she could change her outfit.

Jenna's personality was very large. Immediately, when she entered a room, you could tell that she was going to be a very large light in that room. Above anything else, she really loved her friends and her family. She always let you know how much she loved you whenever she was around you, which to me was always something that was really wonderful. Jenna's fashion was very sparkly, very loud in a outfit type of a way. A lot of bright colors, a lot of sparkles, a lot of glitter.

She used to joke that my parents never knew who she was because her hair was always a different color. She just was someone that was so open and free and unapologetically herself.

Jenna was in NetAlert, which was their production studio at high school, and she just totally embraced it.

Each kid took a turn being the host, or they would create documentary segments or fun little skits. I always knew it was going to be a good episode when something of Jenna's was going to be on it.

She really wanted to get into film. She's very creative. I think she would have been very good at it.

This is what she wanted to do, and this where her passion was.

Her trajectory was probably going to do great things. She just wanted to give people a voice. Anything she touched was something beautiful and something really thoughtful. She was passionate. She was ready to pursue film. She was really excited to finally get started on her career path.

When Jenna was a senior in high school, we looked at many colleges, and she ended up choosing University of Tampa for film. We had gone.

She was excited. She loved the school. She had met so many new people, and she was doing really well.

In her freshman year of college, she was home for the holidays around Christmas, and she She slid on an ice patch and shattered her ankle. It was a really bad injury. She had a plate in her ankle and screws.

There was a 0.1% chance that she could get an infection from the surgery, and then, of course, she got that infection.

She was on IVs for a number of weeks, and we thought it was best if she came home so we could take care of her.

As mature as she is at 19, to be able to care for an infection, it would have just been too much, especially when she had the IV because she couldn't go anywhere. She couldn't do anything. That was going to be for months. Once Jenna healed, I guess we realized or she realized that she wasn't going back to Tampa. She did get into a dark place. The year after the accident, she came to me the day after Christmas and said, Mom, I need help. She said, I'm not good mentally, and I need to go someplace. And I was so proud of her for doing that because so many kids wouldn't do that. And we found some place for her to go temporarily, and she got some help. It was not something we hid. Her friends came and visited her when they could. And she came out on the other side, a much more secure person. And that's when we said, You started school. These are things you want to do. Don't change things just because things change. Changed for you.

She enrolled in our local community college. They actually do have a very good media program, television studio, that type of thing. Once she got there, she really enjoyed it, and she flourished in community college.

Most of her friends went to school in the area. They all lived at school, but they stayed in the area.

It really was a small blessing in disguise for both of us because she did come home and I did get to have her around for so much of my college career.

I think that's really when she became enlightened, if you will, and said, I need to do something.

And she put a notice on Facebook that she wanted to do something for the less fortunate She asked her friends to gather some clothes, toiletries, food that could be placed in a backpack, and She called them blessing bags. She was able to receive enough donations to fill about 30 backpacks.

She would go on her own to Philadelphia and hand it out to the homeless. Her first post about it was like, just want to give out a blessing.

That's what she really wanted to make sure is that everybody felt that they were also loved.

She had graduated from Montgomery County Community College and was transferring.

She was able to go right over to Temple, and she was excited about that. I don't want to be on my own tonight.

I don't want to be left alone.

Temple is really just a couple blocks of college campus, and then it is North Philadelphia. It was like, literally, the city was your campus. You could do anything. It makes it a really cool space for the arts and social justice. Temple is also really well known for its communications and journalism school. Students who go to Temple have to be really independent. They have to be very on top of their things. They know that there's opportunities in the city that they can go and look for. Most of the things we did outside of class were off campus. Jenna was really, really excited to start. I remember her posting that she was so excited to start her first semester at Temple.

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Jenna decided to commute from here, from Harleysville, to start. It's about probably an hour drive in traffic. But it was not unusual for her to stay with friends that lived near the campus.

I remember very clearly the first week of school. Ed had gone with Jenna. They were going to have dinner.

I met her down at Temple University. We did have the chance to go out to dinner, talk. We were going to leave, and she said, I think I'm going to stay at one of my friends' houses tonight because I have an early class tomorrow. I do remember giving her a hug and a kiss, and I said goodbye. I said, I'll see you tomorrow. And then she was meeting her friends at a local bar, and I saw her around the corner, and that was the last I saw of her.

We went to bed. Went to work the next day, and I got a call on the 31st, and I looked at the phone, and here I thought it was Jenna. It was her friend's phone. But I thought, I bet you that's Jenna. Her phone probably isn't working. And so I answered, and it was not. It was her friend. I It felt a little strange that he called me, but it was even worse when he said, Jenna is with you, right? My heart just dropped. Temple University police need your help to track down a missing student.

Jenna Burley was reported missing after a night out.

The story of Jenna Burley, a Temple University student who went out for the evening near Temple's campus on Thursday.

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Listen to Radioactive, the Karen Silkwitten Street from ABC Audio. Listen now wherever you get your podcast. I was at work, and I received a call from my wife, Jackie. One of Jenna's friends had sent Jackie a message that they didn't know where Jenna was. They couldn't find her.

I had gotten a call from my sister at around eight o'clock in the morning, letting me know that Jenna had not ended up with her at the end of last night, and that she was not able to get a hold of her just yet.

I remember it got weirder and weirder that we hadn't heard from her. So then you just start to be like, What's going on? Are they okay? Why isn't she answering? But you never think of what happened.

The best place for me to be that day in that morning when I got those phone calls was to be on Temple's campus, looking for her directly.

So we just start looking around campus, really anywhere that she could gone or talking to anyone that she could have reached out to to crash at their place, too. But as the answers kept coming up as no, or we haven't seen her, then it gets worse.

I had such a feeling of something bad that had just happened that I knew I had to make the call. I called Jackie, and it was a very quick phone call.

Hey, Hey, I haven't been able to find Jenna.

We're not sure where she is. I think you and Ed should come down here.

I was in a panic mode, and I called Ed. And Ed said, Stay there. I'll be right there to get you. Do not take your car. I mean, thank God I had somebody who could take me because I don't really think I could have driven safely.

We immediately went down to the Temple University Police Office. At that time, the officers, detectives, they weren't really concerned. They said it happens all the time. Kids decide to go take a day off, go somewhere down to the beach. But we knew that wasn't Jenna. She always responded. She always answered her phone. She always told us where she was. Although the police officers were not concerned, they didn't know her, and we knew her. We knew she would respond if she could.

The first 24 to 48 hours are critical in a missing person's case. There's a couple of reasons for that. If somebody is hurt or injured, and that's the case, you have to find them within that period of time so that you can administer medical care. The other reason why it's critical is the more time that takes on. In the modern era, there are too many ways for a human being to reach out to a family member to let them know that they're okay. Her dad and her family were looking for her and trying to text her and see where she was, and she wasn't responding. That starts to at least indicate to investigators that foul play may be the situation.

After Jenna's parents had reported her missing, Temple Police has a ton of things at their fingertips to figure out where their students are. Temple Police pulled Jenna's swipe card to see if she had swiped into any buildings on Temple's campus. She hadn't. Jenna was supposed to go to class that day, so one of the detectives went over and waited outside her classroom with a picture of her.

We were just hoping by some miracle she would appear in her class, but it never happened.

After she's not reported for her classes, the Temple police talk to the family, they talk to the friends, and when they do that, they get an idea of where Jenna was the night before.

We start talking to the officer that was there, and he said, See where she was last. She was going to a bar with friends for a 21st birthday party. We knew that that was happening.

Many of her friends met us when we were at the police station at Temple.

I was involved with the police giving statements a lot. The Wednesday night before classes start is a popular hangout night with all the students. That's where Jenna found herself, was out in the city. She with some of her friends from Temple. I did see her that Wednesday on August 30th. We went out with two different friend groups, but ended up at the same place.

Jenna was with four or five of her friends at various times throughout the night.

I was not with Jenna. They were at Pubweb that evening. Pubweb is a local bar. College students work there. A lot of college students go there. It was familiar to everyone that was there.

And one by one, the friends started leaving. There was a little mix up of who Jenna was with and she ended up being alone.

Temple University is, in my opinion, a safe place. The normal crime you're talking about there from a prosecutor's perspective are, for the most part, petty crimes. The surrounding neighborhoods, you have a different story. Crime in Philadelphia is obviously a problem. The murder rate is very high. It's one of the highest in the country.

Temple University is surrounded by more high crime neighborhoods. So there was a little bit of a concern just for the nature of where this was and where it happened. Crime around campus. Safety has become the leading conversation.

Crimes increase exponentially outside campus boundaries.

It's just natural to be concerned. You hear about the crime. It's just really bad. I knew in my heart it was not going to turn out good.

Temple University police need your help to track down a missing student. They say 22-year-old Jenna Burley was last seen near the bar Pubweb.

I remember getting an email from the President saying, This Temple student is missing. Here are her details. Keep your eye out.

We had just started classes, and I remember having a conversation with my friends like, So we just got here.

This is happening already. After that, we changed the way that we went out and we operated at Temple.

If we go out, we're all going home together or at least make sure that we're in pairs.

We just made sure that we were extra safe at that point.

So at that point, what investigators do is try to see if they could find Jenna Burley's phone. The last time that any activity happens on Jenna Burley's phone is August 31st, 2017.

She did reach out to two of her friends early in the morning, and both of her friends slept through the message.

After that, her phone doesn't have any more activity. And the last general area that they could put the phone in is in the general area of Pubweb.

When the investigators got to Pubweb, they showed Jenna's picture. The bartenders recognized her. There was also video recovered. Pubweb has a lot of cameras.

So the detectives were able to not only talk to the people that worked there, but review the footage themselves.

They saw her at the bar the night before. Jenna stood out. She had her hair parted right in the middle in pigtails. So she was easy to identify.

Closer to the 2:00 hour, Pubweb is going to close. A young man approaches her at the bar where she's sitting and starts buying her drinks. There's beer on the table. There's definitely conversation being had. That's the only person that's left with her. All of her friends are gone.

What the bartenders did notice is she was trying to text and call people and was getting frustrated. Jenna and this guy just sat there next to each other talking. But the bartenders didn't suspect anything weird or off. Maybe she looked a little uncomfortable. No red flag. The bar was closed. The lights turned on, so it was time for them to go.

After investigators see this footage, it became very clear that Jenna, at the end of the night, had left with the young man that she was having drinks with. The detectives were able to ask the people that worked at Pubweb whether or not they knew that individual at all, however he had been there before. They did know him. He was a regular. His name was Joshua Hupnerts.

Who is Josh? Can we get a hold of him? Let's try to find out what he remembers. Let's see if he knows where Jenna is.

At this point, this is critical because the police now at least have a confirmed place where they were last and a confirmed person that they were with.

We did know that they had footage of her leaving the bar with someone. We didn't know all the details at that moment. They were doing their investigation, but we did know that they did share that with us. It was very hard to understand.

The people at Pubweb were able to give detectives Josh's cell phone number. The captain of the Temple Police Department called him. Josh didn't answer. It wasn't until 11:00 that Josh did reach back out to the Temple police. He said he was wasted the night before. He did $200 worth of shots. He has no memory.

His recollection is that he did not know where she went, had no other information for investigators. They're certainly not done with Joshua Huppertur. They want to bring him down. They want to talk to him. They want to potentially see where he went after that. But at that point, they don't have any other reason to believe that he's not telling the truth.

The second day that she was missing, we did go back down to the police station at Temple because we didn't know what else to do. What do you do in that situation?

We just started putting posters up.

We went down to Temple. I remember passing out the flyers. Do I remember the drive getting there? No.

I still had hope she was like a Jane Doe at a hospital, and we did find a few Jane Does, but they weren't Jenna.

The police still had some hope that they would find her.

It was the morning of September first of 2017, Jenna still hadn't turned up. Nobody had contact with her. Nobody could find her. So the detective started again with her investigation. When the investigator spoke to Josh the night before, Josh gave his address.

Investigators were interested in going to a meeting with him in person and also going to his apartment.

They call him again. Josh doesn't answer. At this point, Jenna has been missing for about 36 hours.

Hey, Josh, this is that Captain Walter made again from a couple of places we spoke last night. Could you call me back as soon as you get this? We're basically down in your block.

We'd like to talk with you.

So please call me back.

I'm going to keep calling you.

Sounds good.

Once Hupbert doesn't meet them at the apartment building, they look outside and there's a sign. They call the number on the sign and it happens to go to the landlord. Somebody who works for the landlord's company comes out and he's got a key. Now, at this point, the investigators are concerned about Jenna Burley. They don't have a warrant to go inside the house. They're looking for Joshua Hubters, but he's not answering. So you are creeping up now on 24, 36 hours since her disappearance. At that point, they asked the person to open up the apartment so that they could go in to look for her to make sure that she's not in there hurt, injured, or otherwise. So at this point, we're not talking about a criminal search warrant. We're talking about a search for a missing girl. They're not going to toss the apartment. They're not searching inside of a sock, drawers, etc. They're not collecting evidence. They're not even photographing anything. The entire purpose of going inside of this apartment was just to make sure Jenna was either there and okay or to find out what happened. And they didn't get any other answers by looking to the apartment the way they did.

And while they were walking around, there were two things that the captain noticed. There was a little bit of blood on a toilet paper roll, and there was a smear of blood on some sandals, and so they became more concerned about Jenna.

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Everyone knew we had to find Josh, and hopefully, finding Josh would lead us to Jenna, and hopefully, she might still be alive.

At some point in this investigation, they learned that Joshua Huppert has had a roommate. If Jenna Burley had gone back to that apartment, it also became important to talk to the roommate. The roommate talked to the Temple Police. He told him that he didn't know who this woman was, that he had gone home from the bar that night alone, and he had also been drinking pretty heavily. They asked whether or not he could get in touch with Joshua Hupperturts. So somewhere in the afternoon, it was actually the roommate who put a call into Mr. Hupperturts saying, The police are looking for you. You need to call them back. They have some questions about a girl that went missing.

Around four o'clock, Josh called the captain back. He said he was in South Philadelphia, which is about 25 minutes from Temple University's campus. Josh agreed to come to Temple University to the police Department. The captain waited for about an hour. Josh never came.

The next thing that investigators start to do is because Joshua Hupperturce has not met with them and refuses to basically be questioned at this point, They started asking people at the address whether or not they knew who Joshua Huppertur was.

Investigators learned that Joshua Huppertur had gone to Temple University. He is a 29-year-old living a couple steps away from Temple University's campus, and he told people on campus that he was going to Temple and that he played soccer or was on the soccer team at points. There's just different stories that he tells to different people on campus. But at this point in his life, he was not enrolled in Temple University.

They started to get up on his phone to see where he might be physically.

Police are tracking his phone, and they're pinging it up in the Poconos.

So once investigators realize that Joshua Hupperturts is nowhere near Philadelphia, they decide they're going to involve other law enforcement agencies. Specifically, they call it up to the state police.

So they end up calling state police and saying, Hey, we have a phone pinging up here in the Pocanos. Do you guys mind going to basically check it out? And they find out that it's Joshua Hupperturts It's his grandmother who lives very nearby where that phone is pinging from. So they drove out, got to the house, knocked on the door. No response. But while they were standing there, a car pulled up. And out of that car, walks Josh and one of his family members. Josh explains that he was visiting his grandmother because he had a very, very busy semester coming up at Temple, and he wanted to see her before the school year started. Remember, he wasn't enrolled at Temple at the time.

And there they start to have a conversation. The state troopers let Mr. Huppertritts know that they're looking for Jenna early, and he's the last person that was seen with her. He tells them that he's already talked to people at Temple University and that he's given all the information that he has.

They see that he has some markings on him. There were some scratches that were on his neck area, but then he also has a really large cut on his hand.

So as trained investigators, they start asking some questions.

Josh explained, Oh, those scratches? I had a sexual encounter earlier in the week with a girl named Vicky from New Jersey. My hand, I was drunk last night, and while I was eating cereal, I broke a bowl.

So they ask him whether or not he's willing to continue the conversations, to which he says yes.

The investigators got there from Philadelphia, and they took Josh back here to Philly.

At that point, investigators know that it's crucial to document the condition of Mr. Hupperturts at that time. So he's photographed. His hands are photographed, his chest is photographed, his neck's photographed. So the observations that are made by the state police on Holly PA are now preserved so law enforcement can see exactly how Joshua Huppertritts looked on September first, 2017. What investigators know at this point is that Jen is still missing. They also now have surveillance footage that is putting her with Joshua Huppertitz. They know where Joshua Huppertritts lives, and the best of the surveillance footage they could put together at the time suggests that she went home with him. When the police looked for Jenna and Huppert in this apartment earlier that day, they did not collect any evidence. But now, they had enough to obtain a search warrant. They entered the apartment, they collected evidence, and they documented the scene.

The apartment itself was messy, so it looked like a typical college kid's messy apartment. But there were certain things that looked a little suspicious to the trained eye. There was a knife in the kitchen that looked like it maybe had a little blood on it. There was some blood on those sandals. Pieces of a broken bowl.

On that bowl, there clearly appeared to be what was human blood.

And so they wanted to preserve all that. They took photographs. They swabbed them for DNA. There was no obvious crime scene. There was no big pool of blood. There was no murder weapon. Nothing. But something was off.

On September second, 2017, there was basically a break in a case.

Josh's grandfather called the police. He'd been doing yard work out back up at that same house that the state troopers yours had found Josh at. When he opened up this little storage shed, he saw a blue plastic container that he didn't recognize.

This was the bin that college students routinely used to put in their stuff, their books, a lot of their worldly possessions as they were moving around. And then he opened it up. He opens up the bin. He finds a young woman, obviously deceased. The state troopers once again respond. This time, they have a search warrant, and they search the whole property. And it's obvious to investigators almost immediately that they found Jenna Burley's body.

This wasn't a missing person anymore. We found Jenna. It's now a homicide. Investigators from the Dunmore Barracks, as well as the Philadelphia Police Crime scene Unit, searched the property. They took photographs. They did DNA swaps.

They searched the house, and they found a bag. And inside that bag, they found basic clothing items. A few pairs of underwear, some socks, T-shirts, and $3,000 of cash. Josh Hubbard was not sticking around. He was going to dump that body in the lake, and we were never going to see him again.

On Saturday, September second, we had a full house of visitors and received a call for Jackie and I to go to Philadelphia Police Department. There's no easy way for a police officer to tell you that your daughter has been murdered. We were in shock. We just couldn't believe it. I just wanted to know everything that happened to her. I wanted to know how a human being could do that to somebody.

When we drive home, the whole family was here, but I just went right to my room. I had to come and tell everybody.

Telling your children they lost a sibling is devastating. A mother should never have to go through losing a child, and you never get over it.

My children came up to be with me. I just really didn't want to see anybody, talk to anybody besides my children and Ed.

Her father had texted me that they had found Jenna's body. You still don't realize how much hope you have, even though it's deteriorated, until you get that text and all of it is ripped out of you and you're left very empty.

I just remember screaming like, now is it. When I got to my parents, I just fell into their arms. No, she's not dead. I don't know what you're talking about. And I have to tell this whole group of friends that love Jenna that she's dead. That was really hard. Here at Founder's Garden, in the heart of Temple's campus, students have left index cards with thoughts about the murder of 22-year-old Jenna Burley, a Temple junior. Having the whole world have that information before we got to digest it was really difficult, especially when it's about a friend that's so close to you. We don't want it to stop us from living our life, but we're definitely going to remember it every time we go out to look out for each other and be aware of our surroundings and not get involved with people who can hurt us. This was something I couldn't look at as just a story. It had happened in the neighborhood I was living in. I was a temple student. That could have been me. It could have been one of my friends. The grandfather of the suspect, Josh Hupperturz, found the body in a bin.

Joshua Hupperturz was arrested and formally charged.

Philadelphia district Attorney's office charging him with murder, abuse of a corpse, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with evidence. So at this point, while Joshua Hupperturz has been charged, this investigation is far from over.

What did Josh do from the time he walked out of the bar with Jenna to the time they found him in northeastern Pennsylvania?

The investigators to obtain surveillance footage not just from Pup Webb, but from different cameras around the city.

There's cameras that captured them walking away from the bar together towards Josh's house. There was also a video recovered that showed the front door of Josh's apartment building. And that video showed Josh and Jenna walking in a little after 2:00 AM on August 31st of 2017, but it never showed Jenna walking out. What they did find from that same video camera was Josh and a person carrying a large blue storage container that looked heavy down the front steps of that apartment and towards a car.

The investigation continues tonight after a Temple University student was found dead at a home in northeast Pennsylvania. Tonight, police are still trying to piece together why and if the suspect had help.

After After investigators see this footage, investigators are able to determine that it's Joshua Hupcher's cousin caught on camera, carrying the bin that later contained or found to contain Jenna Burley's body. Obviously, they need to talk to the cousin about what happened. Investigators are able to speak to the cousin, and they ask him about what happened. He tells them that he had got a call and also a text from Huppert as saying, I need your help. When he arrived in the apartment, the only person that was there was Joshua Hupperts, and he saw the a large blue bin sitting in the living room. He didn't think much of it, he said. He grabbed the bin and he helped his cousin move it out. He did know that it was very heavy. He was surprised by the weight.

That cousin thought it was just a big container of books, and Josh had asked his help to take it up to his mother's house, which is in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Josh's cousin helped, had no idea that it wasn't books. He drove Josh to Josh's mom's house in the suburbs, helped him move the storage container into a garage, and that was it.

So investigators were trying to figure out how it was exactly that Joshua Hupcher has eventually got the body up to Holly PA. They discovered that he'd used a lift. Through the help of a lift, they're actually able to find who the driver was, and they interview him.

When the investigator spoke to the lift driver, they were able to find out that Josh put a blue container into his car.

From there, Hubbard says, I'll pay you $200 cash. We need to go to Holly PA. Don't put it in your lift. Don't put it in your GPS. I'll tell you where to go and how to do it. He tells the lift driver to drop him off at his grandmother's house. They both take the bin out of the trunk and leave it in the driveway.

The only people that know what happened in that apartment that night are Josh and Jenna. Jenna was gone, and Josh wasn't talking, so we had to figure out with circumstantial evidence what happened. An autopsy was performed.

There were some significant injuries that began to tell the story of what actually happened that night.

Jason and I sifted through the evidence, all the crime scene photos, the lab reports. Our theory was that Josh and Jenna were involved in some sexual encounter together, and it took a turn. What happened? Who knows. But whatever it was, it caused a struggle.

What was significant was the cause of death, and that was strangulation. The medical examiner was able to determine that the blood flow had been blocked to her brain, and that's how she died. She had what they call defensive injuries all over her hands and all over her arms.

They took pieces of her nails to try to determine whether or not there was any DNA underneath of them. And that DNA came back to Josh.

Trial is expected to begin for Joshua Hooper-Turz, who's the accused murderer of a 22-year-old Temple University student, Jenna Burley. This is a circumstantial case. Nobody ever saw anybody kill Jenna Burley. There was going to be no eyewitness testimony. There's no recording. There's nothing of that nature. You have to prove your case through circumstantial evidence.

So myself and Jason Grinnell were tasked with preparing the case for trial. As part of that, we met the Burleys.

We became really close with Jason and Danielle.

We found out very early, even before the trial, that Danielle and Jason were wonderful.

It's a lot of pressure because Because at the end of the day, you have a family sitting behind you that has lost a child, and you want justice for them, but you never know what a jury is going to do.

The Philadelphia Jury pool is known for acquitting people that are seemingly guilty, so you do worry about that.

But we did have a lot of support through that time.

The entire courtroom packed with people who loved Jenna and wanted justice for her. The trial was one of the hardest things I ever did, but it was one of the easiest decisions I ever had to make. There was no question about it. And once one of us made the decision to go, we all the friend group, decide that we were all going to go together.

When I got to the courthouse the first day, it was definitely like, Oh, this is real. You saw Jenna's mom, you saw her dad.

And it It became really clear that this was a story that was hitting very close to home. I've never been at a case before that felt like that could have been me. One of the first things that happened at trial was that Joshua Hoppeters actually did plea guilty to abuse of course and tampered with evidence. That's the first day that this happens. He says, Yes, I did. I moved the body and I tampered with evidence, but I did not kill this girl. The defense attorney said in his opening statement that Josh and Jenna were involved in some sexual encounter that got out of hand, and Jenna started to scream. At that point, Josh His roommate came upstairs from his bedroom, struck Jenna, pushed her down the steps, and then stomped on her at the bottom of the steps.

We had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Joshua Hupert has committed this crime, but we also had to make sure we let the jury know there wasn't a shred of truth that the roommate was involved whatsoever.

The roommate testified at trial, so the jury could hear what he had to say. I questioned him. The defense attorney cross-examined him, and it was extensive.

The prosecutors, the attorneys, they talked to Ed and I through show what things would look like. If there was anything that they were going to show or that they were going to talk about that they might think I might not want to hear or see, they would let me know so I could gracefully leave the courtroom.

The only thing the family left for, and not all of the family, just I think Jackie, was the pictures of Jenna's body in the container.

The photograph of her when they first discovered her out in the shed was horrific, and it's something I'm never going to forget.

But her father sat through all of it.

I wanted to be there for Jenna, but I also wanted to let her murderer know that I was there, and I wasn't leaving, and I was watching them.

It was harder than I imagined, but with the countless people on our side, we somehow all made it through.

You see it on TV, but to be in it for real is just a whole 'nother experience. That is not a good one, not one that I would want anybody to have to go through.

In my personal opinion, the most compelling piece of evidence in this entire case was the fact that they found Joshua Hupperturts' DNA underneath Jenna Burley's fingernails. It was as if Jenna Burley was the person that actually got to testify in the end to who her killer was. Because when that was analyzed, the entire narrative about the roommate being involved whatsoever was obviously immediately extinguished, and there was only two people that were part of that DNA sample. Hupperturts was the source, or Jenna Burley was the source of all the other biological material that was collected as part of that crime seat. On January 17th, 2019, it was time for closing arguments. Defense went first, I went second, and then the judge charged. The charge is when he tells the jury the law that they have to apply to the facts coming to their verdict. Then the jury went out, and they were back within 2 hours with a verdict.

You're going through that, too. The jury leaves, and what's the verdict going to be? And then if it's fast, if it's slow, what does that mean?

The verdict is in.

The man who stood accused of murdering Temple University student, Jenna Burley, in August of 2017, has been found guilty on all count.

In sentencing Huppertur to life in prison without parole, Judge Glenn Bronson told him, You deserve every single day. This was just an outrageous, depraved crime, the worst he's seen in a long time.

You just distinguished the life of a very special person who had a lot to give.

When you hear the guilty verdict, your whole body just relaxes. You're so tense. You realize it's never going to bring your daughter back, but you're grateful of that person that murdered her will never see the light of day again.

We had done our job. The jury got it right. I remember being shocked because at the sentencing, I looked over at one of the reporters, and a tear was rolling down her face. This was a case that was really emotionally charged. I think it hit everyone hard, but especially temple students.

When I thank one of the temple police officers, he said, We're not here as police officers, we're here as fathers. That struck me.

After seeing everything that happened, I would just hope that college students everywhere will be a little bit more cognizant of their safety to stick together. And you really have to lean on your friends. I just think it's important, especially you're in college, you think you know it all. You think you're invincible. It's a scary world we live in, unfortunately. Just protect yourself and protect people around you.

It might seem strange, but you go through all this and then you wait for a year and a half for this trial, and then the trial is over, and then what happens now? Ed said, We have to do something. He said, We have to do something to keep Jenna, Jenna spirit, alive.

The day that Jenna was found, it just came to me. Our foundation, Jenna's plastic bags. So we have to do something to support her passion.

Jenna created the blueprint for the foundation. She was very passionate about the homeless community and helping them. It was just her natural way of living is just being a good person, kind, and spreading as much love as she could.

In 2016, Jenna had decided to do things for the homeless. Ed and I had gone out with her a few times give bags. So we're really happy that we did that. Within a day or two, he was able to get Jenna's blessing bags up and running.

She wanted everyone to feel loved and included, and she just wanted to shine, and she did shine, and she will continue to shine through her foundation.

Sometimes when I'm driving in the city, I'll see one of bags. It has her tag on it, and it just makes me feel good. To this day, we are still delivering blessing bags. I know Jenna would be very proud of what we've done with the foundation.

She would have been 28 right now. I would hope that she would be doing whatever made her happy. She'll probably be traveling and doing documentaries stories because that's what she wanted to do.

I just like to keep talking about her. I never want to stop talking about her. You said you did it for the light inside me.

Well, stand up and fight beside me. Bright eyes, light This is Deborah Roberts.

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