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The upcoming episode of Dateline on NBC is all set to cover the murder of Justin Hilbert and Bailey Sharp, which took place weeks apart. Jared Bischoff, who killed his girlfriend, Bailey, was taken in and charged with the murder. He remains in prison now, but the police could not concretely link him to the murder of Justin Hilbert, which remains unsolved to date.
The upcoming episode of Dateline season 33, titled Wrong Turns, will explore this case in detail. The episode premieres on Friday, October 4, 2024, at 9 PM on NBC. The synopsis for the episode reads:
"A new father is found dead on the side of a road. Then the stabbing of a young woman leads police on a high speed chase. Could these two chilling murders be connected?"
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This case, with all its mysteries, has many small but intriguing details spread throughout. Ahead of this upcoming episode, let's go over five such details.
5 key details about the murders of Justin Hilbert and Bailey Sharp
1) Justin Hilbert's body was reportedly found in a terrible condition but no DNA evidence was found
In the very early hours of June 21, 2016, Justin Hilbert, a 25-year-old father of one, was reportedly found shot, stabbed, and beaten to death on the side of the road west of Lake Mathews. Despite the condition of his body, no DNA evidence was found around the body, which led investigators to assume that he was killed elsewhere and dumped here.
2) Jared Bischoff emerged as a suspect due to his violent past
Even before Jared Bischoff was embroiled in a separate murder case of his own, he was questioned by the police about Justin Hilbert's death because of his violent past and his link to the victim. Justin's fiancee and mother of his child, Tonya, was previously married to Jared, but she left him because of his violent tendencies.
This made the police question him about the murder but they found nothing tangible to connect him to this case.
3) Weeks after this, Bailey Sharp was allegedly stabbed to death
On the evening of July 12, 2016, police reportedly responded to a call of a domestic dispute near Calmhill Drive and California Avenue. They found Bailey alledgedly stabbed to death, lying in a pool of blood. The perpetrator, Jared Bischoff, ran off and tried to flee the police before he was arrested and charged.
4) Bailey had tried to connect with Justin and Tonya before Justin was murdered
In what remains a weird twist to the tale, Bailey, who was dating Jared at the time, sent friend requests to Justin and Tonya, something they chose to ignore. It remains a mystery why she wanted to connect with them just before Justin was murdered.
Moreover, text messages between Jared and Bailey also contained some exchanges that could have meant a lot of things. For instance, there was one text from Bailey on the night of Justin's murder, where she reportedly said Jared had no idea what she had done for him.
5) Jared Bischoff was sentenced to prison but Justin Hilbert's murder remains unsolved
Jared Bischoff was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the stabbing murder of Bailey Sharp. But he neither admitted to killing Justin nor any concrete evidence of the same was found. This means that though Jared Bischoff is in prison, Justin's murder remains officially unsolved.
The upcoming episode of Dateline on NBC will cover this case in more detail.
