Editing John Couey (section)

===Kidnapping, rape, and murder of Jessica Lunsford===

On the morning of February 24, 2005, Jessica Lunsford is noticed missing from the trailer she occupied, with her father, Mark Lunsford, and grandparents. At 3 a.m. , John Couey made entrance to the home from an unlocked door. According to his confession, Couey initially only planned to burglarize the home, but took Jessica on an impulse. He awakened Jessica and said "Don't yell or nothing."  Then instructed her to follow him out of the house.  

He brought her to his bedroom at his half-sister's residence. He admitted to then raping her, and keeping her in bed with him for the rest of the night. He proceeded to rape her again the next morning.  She was told to remain in his closet, while he went to his job at "Billy's Truck Lot." Three days after the abduction, Couey restrained Lunsford's wrists with speaker wire. She was placed in a couple garbage bags, and layed in a shallow grave, where she suffocated and died. 

Lunsford's body was found by authorities on March 18, 2005. She was buried under the front porch, her grave covered with leaves. Her body endured moderate to severe decompisition. Before she suffocated to death, Lunsford protruded two fingers through the bags. The two fingers were found decomposed. The coroner mandated that death had occured within three to five minutes, due to lack of oxygen.