Jessica Reid grew up with no dad and a very 'seldom at home mom". Due to lack of structure and support at 17 she left school and hitched her wagon to the wrong guy, 19 year old Greg Fester who was a drug-addled, suicidal, car thief. A Very vulnerable, naive and smitten Jessica followed Mr. Fester into a world of drugs, crime and eventually a double murder in Murdock Nebraska. During a 3 State Crime spree in a stolen truck Jesse and Greg pulled off the road onto a farm looking for a house to break into. Craig suggested they both be armed so they had procured two shotguns during their crime spree. Entering the farmhouse Greg went upstairs followed by Jesse  he put on the light and saw two people in their bedroom. Jesse wanted to leave but Greg turned the gun, fired it and hit the man in the leg. The man tried to wrestle the gun from Greg, Startled, Jessica's gun went off but nobody knows where the shot went, The man was startled enough so Greg got control of the gun and blew the back of his head off. Greg saw the woman(wife) in the bedroom struggling for a phone so he returned to her side of the bedroom and shot her in the face.. Jessica was not in the room during either slaying and both ran down the stairs and out of the house soon after. The truck was found in Louisiana later that week and evidence tied them to the truck and eventually the murders.. Jesse was wrongfully advised to plead to second-degree murder by her court appointed and inept defense attorney. She also would have testified at Fester's trial and got a break on her sentence but the district attorney dropped the ball in filing for the death penalty request. Both the prosecutor and defense attorney wanted to avoid a trial so Jesse was wrongfully advised to plead to second-degree murder when she was only present and did not commit either of the actual homicides. (Yet receive the same sentence as Fester) She was also Seventeen at the time and you cannot sentence a juvenile to death unbeknownst to her. She would definitely have faired better at a jury trial due to her lesser culpability, no past record and youthful appearance .(she was 17 but looked 14) The Defense attorney took the easy way out ..She was also threatened with the death penalty by Wisconsin and Nebraska detectives during 8 hours of interrogation without a parent or attorney present .She and Fester subsequently received the same setences of 2 consecutive life without parole. Jesse was denied a new sentence on appeal based on false things she wrote in her diary trying to impress Greg after the fact. The judge used those false statements in her diary to heighten her culpability. The judge also speculated that her behavior in the hallway( gun firing unintentionally ) would have prevented both crimes which is absolutely asinine. In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that LWOP for juveniles was unconstitutional due to cruel and unusual punishment but because of technicalities and the lack of effort by the Nebraska State Legislature to honor that ruling  Jesse still has the same sentences.  Also she has written many lawyers in Nebraska to help her with appeals and possibly a clemency petition but nobody responded to her as of yet. She's been incarcerated now for 13 years and is a model inmate and mentor with many accomplishments. She needs help through the justice system and has reached out to the Coalition for Fair sentencing of Youth but to no avail. Please sign the petition to help her make the next steps to get her an out date as the punishment in no way shape or form fits the crime... The outline of the case can be seen on YouTube under Dateline: In the Dead of Night which is a 2-hour episode and also on ABC 20/20 under : 2 murders 2 confessions. There is also a book you can read on Kindle titled : CSI on trial   Murder in the Heartland by John Ferand.. Please research these media tools and help Jesse any way you can. She is a wonderful caring  loving and unselfish human being and deserves another chance at life. Regards, Eddie McAveeney