In the case of murder, suspicion almost always falls first upon the shoulders of the spouse or significant other. The idea that the wife, husband, boyfriend, or girlfriend did it seems the most obvious: but even the most dedicated investigators can get the information wrong some of the time.
Jodi was, in general, a good girl. But she was still fourteen and therefore still a teenager and therefore prone to rebellious or experimental endeavors. One of these endeavors was her relationship with her less-than-stellar boyfriend…
Grounded
Jodi’s social life was in disarray, which for a 14-year-old girl is a catastrophic thing. She wasn’t allowed out, wasn’t allowed to talk to her friends outside school, and perhaps most disastrous of all, wasn’t allowed to contact or see her boyfriend Luke. There was a reason for that of course, as Luke was the bad influence that got her in trouble in the first place.