Island Justice

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When 26-year-old Desiree Gibbon’s brutalized remains are found in the bushes four miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica, her mother is convinced the killer was someone she knew and trusted. But in a small, poor country where the sheer number of homicides overwhelms law enforcement, the Jamaican investigation has turned up few clues. Who killed the young model and what was their motive? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Desiree always said to me she would die young.
0:09.6	She says, I don't think it's a car accident, mom, but it's going to be tragic.
0:15.1	I'm going to die when I'm young.
0:17.3	So you got to be prepared.
0:19.4	Just know that it's going to happen.
0:22.2	And I use to tell her, Des, don't talk like that.
0:26.2	My mother doesn't bury her child. It's not right.
0:35.9	It's Thursday, November 23rd, 2017.
0:39.2	Thanksgiving evening.
0:40.7	26-year-old Desiree Given is on vacation in Montego Bay, Jamaica,
0:45.4	staying at her grandmother's bed and breakfast.
0:48.1	At about 11.30 pm, she heads downstairs, telling the security guard she'll be right back.
0:53.7	But she never returns.
0:55.6	Three days later, her body is discovered at the side of an abandoned jungle road.
1:00.8	Now over five years later, Desiree's mother Andrea is still searching for the truth
1:06.0	about what happened to her daughter, that dark November night.
1:10.2	I'm Steve French, and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Island Justice.
1:32.8	On Tuesday morning, November 28, 2017, Andrea Given is about to begin a meeting in a conference
1:38.4	room at the long-term care facility where she works in Queens, New York.
1:43.4	As she takes a seat, her cell phone rings.
1:46.4	It's a Jamaican number, and she assumes that's her daughter, Desiree, who's been vacationing
1:50.7	in Montego Bay for the past month.
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