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Case. >> the biggest and the most personal case lead detective barry thompson had ever faced. jessica's father was not only a friend but a colleague as well. >> ben actually supervises our maintenance shop. that's part of the reason that we keep it covered up. >> i'd just be glad when they do something with it, get rid of it and do something with it so i never have to see it again. >> very seldom that i don't look at this case and history to start on something. >> even if that something seems unconnected.

There's one thing i know above all about ben and that's ben loved his children. it didn't matter what they did or how bad it was, he'd be there for them. >> months before jessica's murder, he helped jessica enter a brief voluntary women's center and after a few weeks after she returned home, jessica appeared to be turning in another direction. >> she got a job, was working every day. >> she wanted to go back to church, she wanted to stop smoking. >> everybody makes mistakes. everybody can overcome them if they're given the chance. i think she wanted a make a change. >> but tragically for jessi...

>> i wished i could have been there to save her, you know. i started wondering how bad did she suffer, what was she doing her last minutes of her life? >> the last minutes before his daughter was set on fire and left for dead on the side of the road just a few miles from home. >> ready? good hit, good hit. >> the same home where ben chambers is now raising jessica's little sister. when you look at annabelle, do you see jessica? >> oh, yes. spitting image. sometimes i forget and call her jessica. i got to keep going forward to raise her right. god has a reason for everything, you know. he answe...

She want strung out like people tried to make her seem like she was. she just liked to get high. >> and getting high in courtland, mississippi, like so many counties in mississippi, was common. >> was she going down a bad path would you say? >> she was a higher risk victim because of the fact that she did dabble a little bit in drugs and the fact that she did dabble or hang out with some people that had been to the penitentiary. >> a world that hit close to home. years earlier her father served prison time for possession of methamphetamine. >> but since, ben has turned his life around, turned ...

The funeral. brian, where does the investigation stand rights now? >> right now i can tell you we spoke to the da, district attorney john champion who's telling me they're still working their leads in this horrific murder case but there are no known suspects at this time. jessica was found justice of her car in that small town of court/ land, mississippi, she died at a hospital but not before telling firefighters, something, investigators aren't disclosing what she said, but jessica's father ben chambers said she uttered the name of her killer before passing away. now mr. chambers also said th...