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Posted: June 24, 2007

National Newspaper Plans Full-Page Ad for Murdered Mother

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Raleigh, N.C. — A national newspaper hopes a full page ad will help Raleigh police solve the murder of a pregnant woman.

USA Today plans to run the ad Monday requesting information in the death of Jenna Nielsen. The 22-year-old was killed more than a week ago in Raleigh.

Nielsen worked as a paper carrier for USA Today to earn extra money. A Raleigh police officer found her body around 5 a.m. on June 14 behind a convenience store.

She was likely killed between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. when the store was closed, investigators said. She apparently was stabbed in the neck, according to a preliminary report from the state medical examiner's office.

Nielsen was buried Saturday in Salt Lake City near where she lived before she and her husband, Tim, moved to Fuquay-Varina last August. The couple already had two young children before her death. She was also eight months pregnant.

RELATED TOPICS: Fuquay-Varina, Raleigh

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By the way jj31 - if you know so much: look over the comments on www.justice4jenna.org. Jenna's mother made several comments about USA Today on June 20 that blow your statements right out of the water! And surely she would know about this even more than you or I! And I can assure YOU that Jenna's family is united in the feelings Mrs. Blaine has conveyed.
mrs. me
June 25, 2007 9:38 p.m.
Well jj31, I worked at the N&O for years & when my shift was over at 2 AM, I was afraid to even cross the parking lot alone to get to my car. You are right that people who work at night need to be extra careful. You just never know what's out there. However, I know this family & I know some details that you may not. USA Today is another big corporation that tends to treat people as numbers. USA Today did not step up to the plate, the family had to approach them first. And if you think that for safety's sake they would consider paying for carriers to ride in teams, think again!!!!!

mrs. me
mrs. me
June 25, 2007 9:31 p.m.
mrs. me I work for USA Today. I can assure you that USA Today had already planed to give money to a fund for her children the day she was killed. It wasn't announced what their plans were until a few days later because they had not determined how much that would be. They were initially planning on setting up a trust fund themselves for them. But decided to put it in the one that the family had already set up. It was not because of public scrutiny. USA Today gave $5,000 and Gannett the parent company of USA Today gave $10,000. I really hope they catch the creep who did this. It makes all of us a little worried when we are out just trying to do our jobs at that time of night.
jj31
June 25, 2007 9:31 a.m.
May God bless her family and children.
mebell31
June 25, 2007 9:29 a.m.
I have a bad feeling that they're not going to get ths guy. I think he's long gone. It makes me sick because he will most likely kill again.
Trixie
June 25, 2007 9:22 a.m.
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