Kim Major
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By 2016, Jessica had been involved in LifeWorks for years, working her way up from volunteer to assistant director.
She had known Elizabeth Griffith for all that time.
Elizabeth had a lot of friends, people she'd met at LifeWorks and at her church, where she was a regular and enthusiastic attendee.
Though she was popular, Jessica said there were also difficult parts of Elizabeth's personality.
Jessica said she could be confrontational.
According to court documents, Elizabeth suffered from mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia, and mania.
She didn't have a job and relied heavily on local services.
She had a caseworker who helped her manage her budget, and she rented a small apartment in town.
Elizabeth Griffith and Jane Doe shared some key similarities.
First, they lived in the same apartment complex.
Second, they both had a strong connection to their faith.
And third, they both regularly went for a midday meal at the Kroc Center.
Jane said they knew each other.
In her interview, Jane Doe told Detective Major that she'd seen Elizabeth earlier that summer while Jane was spending time with her new friend, Sean Great.
She warned her not to talk to strangers, not to give up too much information.
Hearing about that chance meeting earlier in the summer would not have meant much to Detective Major were it not for one key detail.
Elizabeth had since gone missing.
No one had seen Elizabeth Griffith for four weeks.
And just before she disappeared, she'd been telling people, including her friend Jessica from LifeWorks, that there was a new man in her life.
Elizabeth told Jessica Anderson that this man wasn't her boyfriend yet.