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6:11 p.m.
Some of the key players are speaking to reporters outside the courthouse where a jury just recommended death for John Evander Couey.
Sheriff Jeff Dawsy, who oversaw the investigation by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office into Jessica Marie Lunsford’s disappearance and death, spoke first.
“We all wanted Jessie to come home alive,” Dawsy said. “It didn’t happen.
“But Jessie’s name will live on forever and ever.”
He said the 10-2 vote for death for Couey represented a “true mandate.”
He said this is one of the most memorable cases he’s ever worked.
Part of that, he said, is because Jessie became so important to everyone involved.
“Jessie became our child,” Dawsy said.
He urged people to hug their children and cherish them.
“There [are] other John Coueys out there in America,” he said.
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