On November 22, 1984, Wendy Lynn Jerome was attacked. It was Thanksgiving night and Wendy left the house before dessert to take a birthday card to her friend. But along the way, a 20-year-old stranger intercepted Wendy, raped her, stabbed her, cut her throat, and dumped the 14-year-old's body at a school. According to her mother, "she was beaten badly, horrible." It was over 35 years before DNA evidence tied the killing to Timothy Williams; in an interview about the unsolved case, Wendy's mother said, "I can't work. There are days when I don't get dressed. There are days when I don't go out of the house. I've trained myself not to cry, if I get teary eyed — sometimes I do — I stop. I get a nasty headache, but I very seldom cry."
