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Case Description
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In the quiet woods near Mendota, Virginia, the life of 17-year-old Joslyn Alsup was tragically cut short in March of 2019. A traveling carnival worker named James Michael Wright, then 23, would later confess to her killing, weaving a tale of what he claimed was an accident. Wright, an employee of the Blountville, Tennessee-based Pony Express carnival, knew Joslyn as the daughter of a coworker.

According to Wright's account to authorities, he and Joslyn were in the woods near his home on o ...Read More
Victim Details

Joslyn M. Alsup

Female

White / Caucasian

Mendota

VA

2019-03-09

17

Joslyn

Alsup

01/07/2026