{"id":1346,"date":"2019-09-20T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2019-09-20T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T12:27:39","slug":"what-happened-to-jesse-alvin-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/what-happened-to-jesse-alvin-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Jesse Alvin Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesse was last seen in Hemet, California late at night on February 6, 1959.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He disappeared with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Joyce Ramsey. Jesse was an apprentice lather and Joyce was a student at Riverside High School.<\/p>\n<p>They were last seen when a friend dropped them off after a party. The next day, Jesse&#8217;s convertible was found abandoned on a dirt road near Hemet.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Phillip Kretz Jr. later confessed to murdering the couple. The killings had been part of an eight-hour crime spree where Kretz shot at his ex-wife and missed, assaulted her roommates and stole their car, car-jacked another man&#8217;s vehicle, and raped a woman after tying up her husband. Kretz was sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled in 1964, but jailed again for parole violation in January 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Kretz confessed to the murders and led police to Joyce&#8217;s body in February 1971; it was in a shallow grave in the remote Mud Hills area four miles north of Indio, California. He said Jesse&#8217;s body was buried along Highway 74 between Hemet and Idyllwild, California, but when authorities searched for it they didn&#8217;t find any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Kretz was convicted of first-degree murder in 1972 and died in prison in August 1996. Jesse&#8217;s body has never been found, but foul play is suspected in his case due to the circumstances involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse was last seen in Hemet, California late at night on February 6, 1959. He disappeared with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Joyce Ramsey. Jesse was an apprentice lather and Joyce was a student at Riverside High School. They were last seen when a friend dropped them off after a party. The next day, Jesse&#8217;s convertible was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[224,19,107,140,265,78],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mysteries","tag-education","tag-history","tag-missing","tag-missing-person","tag-mysteries","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}