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Pocatello girl remembered 23 years after one of Idaho’s most horrific crimes
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9:53Now PlayingPOCATELLO – It was one of the most horrific crimes ever committed in east Idaho.
An 11-year-old collecting money on her newspaper route was abducted, sexually assaulted, murdered and thrown into the Snake River.
Jeralee Underwood is a name and face many will never forget.
It’s been 23 years since her murder made national headlines, and now her parents are talking about lessons they’ve learned since their daughter’s shocking death.
Jeff and Joyce Underwood say their daughter, Jeralee, was the perfect child. She was kind, loving, smart and a friend to everyone she met.
“She was a lot of fun,” Jeff recalls. “She was always fairly outgoing, and she always liked to include everybody on things.
Jeralee was also a hard worker. She was only 11 when she started her first job delivering Idaho State Journal newspapers with her older brother.
“She got tips quite often,” Joyce remembers. “People really liked her. After only a few months on her route, she won a trip to Yellowstone from the Journal for enrolling the most subscribers.”
It was along that very newspaper route when the unimaginable happened around 5:45 p.m. on June 29, 1993.
“Joyce and I were out in the garden when a lady in our (LDS) ward tried to call us,” Jeff says. “She then came over and asked if someone was helping Jeralee because a woman had just seen her get in a car with somebody.”
The Underwoods immediately left their home on Kurtwood Place and drove to the woman’s house – less than a half of a mile away. She told them a man had forced Jeralee into a vehicle on the corner of Carter and Main Streets.
Jeff called police to report the abduction and went out to search for his little girl while Joyce waited anxiously at home.
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