Jessica Chambers’ murder drew a substantial amount of media coverage, especially in the days after it occurred. Over time the attention from the media started to trail off, the story had captured the attention of internet sleuths around the world.
According to Buzzfeed, amateur detectives began trying to solve the case on their own, however, they developed their own theories and sometimes followed information that was blatantly false, and at times even harassed Chambers’ family and friends.
Chambers’ mother Lisa — who died in 2021, according to Darkhorse Press — was frequently contacted on social media by people trying to solve her daughter’s murder.
One of Chamber’s ex-boyfriends, Bryan Rudd, was ruled out as a suspect by investigators early on in the investigation as he had been living in Iowa at the time, a move he had made to get out of Courtland after Chambers broke up with him. However, that didn’t matter online, where some amateur investigators remained convinced that he still had something to do with the crime. They even wrote to his mother asking for answers, “Bryan can’t take this anymore,” she told Buzzfeed.
