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Jessica Payton

Case from Lubbock, TX dated Oct 31, 2015

Victim Details

Jessica Payton

Female

White / Caucasian

Lubbock

TX

2015-10-31

35

Jessica

Payton

07/26/2026

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Jessica Payton, a 35-year-old woman from Lubbock, Texas, was tragically killed on October 28, 2015. She was found the next day, wrapped in a comforter and weighed down with cinder blocks in a creek near County Roads 7300 and 3600. Investigators believe she was shot four times in the head. Jessica was Mark Bethel's girlfriend, but evidence showed she was also in a relationship with Shawn Summers, who was found dead in a burning SUV on October 31, 2015.

Mark Bethel, 59, and his cousin David ...
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