The Girl Who Vanished in Her Own Home: The Jhessye Shockley Cold Case

In 2011, five-year-old Jhessye Shockley disappeared from her apartment in Glendale, Arizona. There were no witnesses. No signs of forced entry. And no body. Within days, suspicion turned toward her mother, Jerice Hunter—a woman with a criminal past and a complicated history. But as media coverage faded and the investigation narrowed, disturbing questions emerged. Was this case solved too quickly? Did race and poverty shape the outcome? And what does it mean to convict someone of murder without ever finding the victim? This 7-part documentary unpacks the heartbreaking disappearance of Jhessye Shockley—a case that exposes deep flaws in the justice system, troubling patterns in media coverage, and the silence that often surrounds missing Black children in America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.