Girl's diary reveals murder plot

Girl's diary reveals murder plot

The most compelling testimony that would link 14-year-old Jevette Walters to her mother's death came from a diary recovered in her bedroom closet.

According to Schaumburg Police Department Detective Robert Czerniak's testimony Thursday, Jevette outlined the attack in her journal, just less than a week before she allegedly committed the attack.

Jevette faces two counts of first degree murder for the brutal slaying of her 34-year-old mother JeTaun Walters last fall. She escaped being charged as an adult at the discretion of the State's Attorney's office.

Czerniak read excerpts from the teen's diary which gave details of how she would carry out the murder of her mother. The Schaumburg detective attempted to piece together the young teen's writing as she described how she would hide in the hallway of their new Schaumburg apartment and wait for her mother to arrive. She then said that upon her entrance, she would "stab her in the back until she dies."

Jevette allegedly wrote that after she stabbed her mother, she would return inside her home and notify her grandmother of the tragedy.

"Come back in the house, call grandma, tell her my mom said she she was going out to the car to get something [but] that was like twenty minutes ago," the teen allegedly plotted in her diary, Czerniak said, still struggling through her sentences.

He continued reading passages written in Jevette's journal and recited how she planned to tell her grandmother that she was going to look for her mother. The journal defined how she would contact her grandmother and alert her of the gruesome discovery.

"Oh Mama, Oh Mama, Mama dead, Grandma, help, somebody!" the detective read from Jevette's diary. She would allegedly stage the whole event and plead for help to anyone nearby.

The diary's description is different from the actual account, but the State attempted to prove that she anticipated killing her mother and by stabbing her to death.

Cook County Medical Examiners Dr. Phamrong Chira also testified. Chira, who performed Walters' autopsy, told jurors that he uncovered at least 214 injuries to her body. Chira said she sustained 89 deep stab wounds, 123 incisions and punctures and two abrasion wounds.

Jevette, then 13-year-old, allegedly used three knives, including a butter knife, to fatally stab her mother September 2, 2000.

According to Schaumburg officials, the teen initially said she found her mother bleeding in their Schaumburg apartment complex parking lot but after a 12-hour interview, Jevette gave a videotaped confession revealing her guilt at 2:30 a.m. She allegedly confessed to detectives, telling them that she committed the crime because "her mother had an attitude."

If Jevette is convicted, she faces a prison time until she is 21-years-old. She has also been entered into an Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction Prosecution (EJJ) which states that if Jevette violates the agreement between the time she is convicted up until her 21st birthday, she could face an adult prison sentence which could be as much as 60 years.

Jevette's trial will reconvene today at the Cook County Juvenile Courthouse under presiding Judge Edward N. Pietrucha.

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