He Shot Into Their Car… Then Kidnapped Her

Añadido: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Imagine being shot, kidnapped, assaulted, abducted, and trapped inside the home of the man who murdered your cousin right in front of you. And then imagine realizing that the only way you could possibly make it out of this situation alive is by convincing the murderer that he is actually the hero.

[00:00:22]Because this is exactly what Jennifer Holiday done in 2005.

[00:00:27]And unbelievably it worked. Hi everyone. Welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel if you are new here. I hope you're all doing so so so well. Welcome back to another true crime and makeup episode.

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[00:02:13]If I sniff during this, I am so sorry, but I've blew my nose like 10 times. I don't know what else I can do. So today's case, we are starting off on Memorial Day weekend in 2005. We have 27year-old Jennifer Holiday and her cousin, 18-year-old Anna Franklin. Now Anna, this evening, she had been working. She had been babysitting and Jennifer, she had picked her up to take her back home. Anna was someone who absolutely loved and adored children.

[00:02:46]wanted children of her own one day, wanted to work with children one day.

[00:02:50]So, babysitting was kind of a regular occurrence for her. And sometimes Jennifer would go along and she would pick Anna up after her shift. So, this night should have been like any other night. It should have been forgettable because it truly should have been like any other evening that's happened before. Now, I don't know if I said, which is rather stupid of me if I didn't, that Anna and Jennifer were cousins. So, we've got two cousins driving through East Texas. They're on their way home. They are chatting together, laughing together. They're heading home after a very brief stop, and I can't stress enough, a brief stop at a convenience store in Lufkin. Now, when you stop at a convenience store or a petrol station and you're getting a refreshment, getting gas for your car, maybe getting a we questionable snack, questionable gas station sushi or something, or maybe you're going to relieve yourself and the portaotty that you don't really want to use, but you just have to. There's nothing dramatic about that. Nothing dangerous. There shouldn't really be anything that is going to follow you home. But somewhere between that very brief convenience store stop and a long stretch of Highway 69, they would realize that there was a certain truck tailing behind their vehicle, a truck that they recognized from that same convenience store. The pair would become very aware that after every turn, the truck took the same.

[00:04:19]After every mile, the truck was still behind them. And I'm sure we have all been in a position before where you've been driving for a long while and maybe the same car or the same truck has been behind you for what feels like too long and you start to get that overwhelming sense of dread that maybe they're not just driving behind you anymore. Maybe they are deliberately following you.

[00:04:40]Maybe they're watching you. And within minutes, absolute chaos and terror would take over that Ford Explorer. Shattered glass would explode all through that vehicle. A frantic 911 call would begin in the dark and one deeply, deeply unstable, pathetic little man with an ego problem would turn a very ordinary night into something so horrifying. So before we jump into this attack itself, it's really important that we take a minute to discuss Jennifer and Anna because true crime as we know has a really really nasty terrible habit of turning women, men, children, the victims into labels. You get the victim, the survivor, the body, the witness.

[00:05:29]Meanwhile, these weird psychotic little losers who actually commit the crimes, they get dissected like they are some mesmerizing psychological puzzle.

[00:05:40]Instead of them being seen as what they are, which is deeply pathetic, unnerving, unsettling, stupid little men with violent impulses and the personality of a wet paper bag. Also, I'm not coming for men because I'd say the same for women as well, but in this case, it is a man. So, I'm just using men as an example. But I'm sorry men.

[00:06:01]You know, I love We have great men in this community on this channel. No slander. But that is the thing that I want you to remember here that Anna Franklin and Jennifer Holiday, they weren't just victims. They weren't labels. They are not just names attached to a crime. They are real people. They were cousins. They were family. They were loved. So, let's start out with Anna Franklin. Like I said in the beginning, Anna Franklin was 18 years old. She had literally just graduated from high school and she was very much still in that stage where it feels like life is truly starting to begin. Her family and friends described her as being incredibly bright. She was funny.

[00:06:40]She was loving. She had so much life and soul about her. And the main thing that people would know about her is that Anna just adored children. Like I said, she would babysit. She really enjoyed this.

[00:06:52]She would really connect and bond with the children she babysat and that was something she wanted to take into her future. Jennifer Holiday, she was 27 years old. She was a mother and a paramedic. She had a son who was her entire world. And before this attack took place, she was making a living helping other people through emergencies. And I feel as though that detail in this case is so important because Jennifer wasn't someone who was just lucky. I mean, I'm sure in some moments in this case, luck maybe played a tiny role. But what would truly save Jennifer's life in this crime was her presence of mind. She had training. She had experience staying calm around blood, fear, injury, and she knew what catastrophic blood loss would mean. And she also knew very quickly that if you panicked around someone like Eric Pernell, you would die. So Jennifer and Anna when they are doing this drive heading back home, they would stop at the convenience store in Lufkin of Texas. And also there at the time of their stop was Eric Steven Pernell. Now Eric, he would be 31 at the time that the court proceedings began. And this was a man who already had a history that suggested he had absolutely no business being near other human beings. And I'm just going to say it, but when you see the photo of him, the lights are on and no one's home or the lights are on and Satan's home, something's not right there. Like, I can see it in his eyes that he is dodgy AF.

[00:08:29]Now, less than a year before this attack had taken place, Eric Parnell, he had been arrested and charged with domestic violence assault. And not only that, but he was also caught making terrorist threats. So, at this point, it's not one person's life he's threatening. He's threatening the lives of people within a town. At this time, he also had warrants out for his arrest, which is going to become quite a big deal in this case because he could see a woman bleeding to death in front of him and refused to call 911 all because he had warrants out. So, according to reporting, Parnell would later tell the police that the reason he was so angry with the women and why he wanted to follow and stalk them and do the worst of the worst was because they hadn't spoke favorably to him at the convenience store. Let's just sit with that for a second. Couple of deep breaths. Really take that in. Two women did not respond to his creepy ass lingering stare the way that he wanted them to. And in his mind, that was justification for murder, rape, torture, abduction. This is not a man who is having a bad night. This is a grown ass adult man with the emotional regulation of a toddler who's been denied a chocolate digestive. Except, of course, toddlers are usually less murdery, less armed. And what's just crazy about this is apparently the interaction that they had with him at the convenience store was nothing to note. It was very brief.

[00:10:02]It was very short. He was bas Did I just go New York there? I swear to the heavens above I just heard short. It was short. Okay, Anna. Um, rain that in, buddy. But yeah, apparently it was it was a really short interaction. And Jennifer and Anna, they weren't confronting him. They weren't taunting him. They weren't arguing with him. He was trying to get their attention, being a creepy ass weirdo, and they simply dismissed him. And that's the thing. I feel like most women have had that level of interaction where a man wolf whistles or he's like, "Are you all right, darling? Come over. I'll share a good time." And you're like, "Fuck off, mate.

[00:10:36]See you." Honestly, do not cat call me.

[00:10:39]Do not cat call or will fussle me because I will I'll lose it and I will publicly shame you. But Anna and Jennifer, they hadn't said like, "F off." They were literally just keeping their heads down, getting on with their evening. They weren't wanting to interact with him. But I guess this is just another example of how fragile this man's ego was. He throws his toys out the pram because two women didn't respond to his creepy ass. And this man was apparently so emotionally unstable that two women not speaking to him enthusiastically at a petrol station triggered a chain of events that were absolutely horrifying. Now, many people who knew Eric, they would later say that he was incredibly volatile, angry, unpredictable long before the attack.

[00:11:26]And this tracks, considering what we know, the domestic assault, the terrorist threats, it shows us that this wasn't a man who was of sound mind. He wasn't a man who was stable and then snapped one night. It was a man who was just escalating over time until one night he crossed the line into complete monstrosity. So, Jennifer and Anna, they are back in the Ford Explorer. They take off from the convenience store, and quite honestly, they're not thinking much else of that interaction that they had yet. It was weird, but they're moving on from it. But as they're driving, they notice that the truck that was parked at the convenience store whilst they were there is now behind them as well. But, I mean, that could be anyone. It's not to say it was a creepy guy. It could literally be anyone who came out after them. And at first they do try and brush it off. You know what?

[00:12:16]It's probably just a coincidence. Maybe they're just going the same route.

[00:12:19]They'll take a turn off somewhere. And the thing is when you drive at night, every pair of headlights that you see feels far more threatening because the roads are less busy. So the headlights are less frequent. So when there is someone behind you and you can't see any other traffic, it is a bit like you know what's going on back there. But they're trying to remain calm thinking that it is just a coincidence. It's nothing to be fearful of. But as miles and miles go by and that truck is still there, that uneasiness that they feel, this just completely escalates into terror.

[00:12:52]Because this is not paranoia when the danger is real. It is your body reading a situation before your brain has finished making excuses for it. It was said that 18-year-old Anna, she was becoming increasingly terrified and frightened. This really felt off to her.

[00:13:09]And I mean the atmosphere in that explorer, the way it must have shifted so quickly from having a laugh, having a joke, chatting away to suddenly being trapped in a scenario that is most women's worst nightmare. And then suddenly whilst Jennifer and Anna are driving on Highway 69 north of Lufkin, suddenly Eric Parnell, he pulls up alongside Jennifer's moving vehicle. She sees him lift a shotgun and he fired into Jennifer's car all whilst driving.

[00:13:42]And devastatingly, this blast hit Jennifer's arm. Glass was shattering everywhere. Pellets were going everywhere. The glass from the driver's side window had literally exploded into Jennifer's face. And as you can imagine, there was blood everywhere. There was so much blood and glass that Jennifer said that she had no option but to pull over at the side of the road, which is probably what Eric Parnell knew would happen. And I can't even imagine having to pull over at the side of the road and this freak is coming after you. And you know, he's not just following you because he wants your number. He is now actively trying to kill you. Anna Franklin immediately she is calling 911.

[00:14:24]She is doing exactly what you're supposed to do. what you are told to do if you find yourself in an emergency.

[00:14:30]This young girl was trying to save herself and also her cousin. Eric Parnell, he had also pulled over at the side of the road. I mean, of course, he did because he's a creep. But this time, when he approaches the vehicle, he's not armed with a shotgun. He's not trying to attack the woman. Instead, he pretends that he is a concerned passer by. He is acting as though he is there to help.

[00:14:54]Like, I'm sorry. Excuse me, sir. You have just blasted my arm to smithetheriness with a freaking shotgun and now you want to play Superman. I think not. But it shows you just how quickly this man could switch masks. He has just pulled up alongside them, fired into their vehicle, blasted this woman's arm into pieces, and he wants to ask if they're okay. Like, oh, I you know, I seen that or you know, I participated in that. How you getting on? How's that arm? Yeah, you're you're covered in glass. Yeah. you all right? The audacity of this man would actually be funny if it wasn't for the fact that what he does is so horrific. Now, parts of this 911 call that Anna had made, I mean, it really just tells you how chaotic this entire scene was. Anna is freaking out.

[00:15:42]She is desperately trying to explain to the operator what has happened, that someone shot into the vehicle, that her cousin's been shot, her arms in bits, there's blood everywhere, that the man who did this is going to try and kill them. I don't know about you all, but I find 911 calls really difficult to listen to, especially when people are very much aware of what is happening to them because you are listening to people panic and trying to save themselves in real time knowing that the situation could go either way. They've called for help, but it doesn't always mean that help is going to get to them before it's too late. Anna Franklin did everything she was supposed to do in order to try and survive. Whilst Dana is trying to make this 911 call, whilst she is trying to help Jennifer, whilst Jennifer is bleeding out in the front seat, Eric Parnell would walk back to his truck. He then pulls out his shotgun once again.

[00:16:35]He approaches the Ford Explorer, doesn't say anything. He raises up the shotgun and he shoots Anna Franklin in the head.

[00:16:45]Anna Franklin was killed right there on that roadside at 18 years old. She was doing everything she could to try and save her cousin, to try and save herself, and she was shot dead. And Eric Parnell had decided that her life was worth ending because they never flattered him when he spoke to them at a gas station. His ego could not survive the failure. So after shooting and killing Anna Parnell, he then drags Jennifer back to his truck. Jennifer is bleeding profusely, like to a point where you can't even understand how she would possibly survive this. Reports later stated that Jennifer was bleeding from 40 separate pellet wounds on her arms or chest or neck. Now, Eric Parnell, once he got Jennifer into his truck, he would then go back to the Ford Explorer, Jennifer's car, and he was basically trying to move Anna's body off the road to try and I don't know, take attention away from the crime scene if people were driving by. So, he's doing that.

[00:17:44]Jennifer's in the truck and she sees in the front seat the shotgun. Now, she is calculating in her mind, he's still got this gun, like he could shoot me, he could kill me. and she takes that shotgun and she throws it out the window. She had later recalled thinking if she can get rid of the only weapon he has, maybe, just maybe, she would have a chance to live. So, she's grabbed it, threw it out the window. It's lying on the highway. Eric has not noticed. And this should have been such a huge moment. And I mean, it it was a huge moment. But then suddenly when Jennifer turns around and she looks in the rest of that truck, she would see multiple firearms. And I don't just mean like a couple. I mean they're scattered through this truck. Eric Parnell, he had the same relationship with firearms as we would have with reusable shopping bags.

[00:18:38]They're just piling up. They're getting in the way, but you're too scared to throw them away because who knows, you might need them. At this point, all Jennifer can really do is look at the forge explorer and see Eric Parnell trying to drag her cousin away. And Eric, he's not exactly the strongest of guys because he's he's riding the struggle bus. There's not much muscle up top, I'll tell you that much, because he cannot shift Anna off the road. So, at that moment, he decides, "Oh, well, I'm just going to have to leave her and then I'll just have to drive off into the wilderness with Jennifer." And this is where the story really starts to shift because it is no longer a roadside shooting. It has now become a prolonged survivor story because Jennifer is now trapped inside a truck with a man who murdered her cousin. So she knows at this point this man will kill. She knew that he had multiple weapons. She knew just how badly she was injured, how much blood she was losing. And above all else, Jennifer knew that if she never stayed mentally sharp, she might never see her son again. And her son would become the focal point of her survival because every step of the way, all she thought about was getting home to him.

[00:19:54]So Eric Parnell, he starts driving off the highway onto back roads. He's trying to go incognito, hoping that the police won't see him. And Jennifer, all she can really do is think about what she could do. She's thinking, you know, there's multiple weapons. Could I grab one?

[00:20:09]Could I try and kill him? What if the weapon's not loaded? And then I shoot at him and then there's no bullets there and then he might just murder me because I was going to shoot him. This woman said that she understood that she might die regardless, but that wasn't going to stop her from weighing up her options.

[00:20:23]And as they're driving along, Eric Parnell's behavior just becomes increasingly violent. Like one minute he is cool, cam collected, cool as a cucumber and then next minute he's all aggravated, irritated, agitated. He's hitting Jennifer, shouting at Jennifer, just completely raging at her. And then he bursts into laughter. He's like the teu version of the Joker from Batman.

[00:20:49]Jennifer actually started to wonder whether or not Eric Parnell had thought she and Anna were different people because he just seemed so intensely angry. Like, surely this didn't all come from us ignoring you at a convenience store. And let me tell you, this man's mood swings were worse than mine at my time of the month where everything just erupts. One minute he's violent and screaming, the next minute he's crying, seeming confused and emotional, and it was just gone back and forth through anger and rage to crying and concerned.

[00:21:24]He actually acted concerned for Jennifer's wounds. Eventually, after driving for what seemed like forever to Jennifer, Eric Parnell would pull over in nearby woods. Jennifer was then dragged from the vehicle, taken further into these woods where she would be brutally raped by Eric Parnell. And it wasn't just that. She was also being tortured by this man. He was putting cigarettes out on her arms. He was trying to inflict pain. He was using a needle and jabbing it into Jennifer's scalp. After this rape and torture, Jennifer was left half naked. She was forced back into the truck and Jennifer noticed something very quickly. Eric Parnell's behavior had changed again. He started crying when he seen Jennifer's injuries. He was shocked. He was asking her, "What happened? How did you get so hurt?" He seemed to be worried about her as though he had not caused the very wounds he was staring at. Hon, you just want to be like, "That's your work there, buddy. Don't play dumb." And then guess what happens once he's done crying and like, "Oh, your wounds. Oh, you're so badly hurt." He switches into a little bitch again. He starts screaming and raving. He's hitting her again. But that emotional instability, what he is displaying right there is the opening that Jennifer needs because Jennifer quickly realizes that this man's grip on reality or at least on responsibility was unstable enough that she might just be able to manipulate him. So Jennifer is literally bleeding out. And to be honest, her time is probably very limited for how long she has to actually get help to be able to survive this. But even through that, wounded everywhere, she starts speaking very affectionately to Eric. Apologies. My fianceé just came home in his lunch break with our bathroom stuff cuz we're doing up our downstairs bathroom. Um, and I got the fright of my life because I was not expecting him. So, not entirely sure where I am in the case. But yeah, so Jennifer, she starts speaking very affectionately to Eric Parnell. She tells him that the sex was great, that she had enjoyed her time with him, and she even thanked him for a good time.

[00:23:40]Jennifer pretended to be pleased. She pretended to like him, and she pretended to be grateful. And Jennifer can see that Eric's responding really positively to this. So, she decides she's going to take it one step further. She starts saying to Eric, you know, you saved me.

[00:23:57]Thank you so much. Like, if it wasn't for you, I would be dead. I love you. I want to marry you. Thank you for saving me from the man that shot me. And honestly, let's just imagine for a second that level of psychological control that is required here. This woman has been shot, abducted, raped, tortured, and yet she is still able to calculate every word that comes out her mouth. She is able to calculate every single one of her actions. She knew how important it was to keep feeding Eric's ego, to keep him attached and invested in this fantasy version of himself because if she's able to keep him attached to that version, to believe what she's saying, that might stop him from killing her, at least immediately.

[00:24:43]So, Eric goes back to speaking about Jennifer's injuries, her wounds, like how did it happen? Like, who did this to you? And Jennifer conjures up the fake story that there was another man named John. He was the asalent. He was the one that shot her and was leaving her for dead. She then tells Eric that he had drove along the road, that he had seen Jennifer in desperate need for help, and that he had pulled over and he had saved her life. He had put her in his truck, and that he was taking her to his house for safety. Every time Eric asks more questions, Jennifer had to carefully expand the story in a way that lined up with what she was telling Eric. So when Eric is asking why were you on the side of the road? How did you end up there?

[00:25:27]Jennifer tells him that her and Anna had got stranded and that this man John had came along shot them. But thankfully for them, Eric the hero had driven up alongside the roadside and had taken Jennifer to safety. Now, Jennifer stated that there was a point in time when she was explaining exactly what had took place and Eric Parnell, he kind of like snapped out as trans and he was like, "No, no, no, no. That's not what happened." Like almost going to do himself in it. But Jennifer, she just kept reinforcing this lie very calmly, very consistently until eventually he began again, slipping into that version of reality that Jennifer had created.

[00:26:10]Like this woman is so freaking smart, fighting for her life and still able to manipulate this scumbag. I love to see it. She is literally gaslighting this man whilst fighting for her life, fighting against catastrophic blood loss. The fact that this worked is insane. And it it leads me to think, though, was he just so freaking dual.

[00:26:35]Scottish word of the day, by the way. I think we've had it before, but we're going to have it again. Scottish word of the day. Dual. Mental. Insane. Crazy.

[00:26:45]But was he just that insane that he was genuinely believing the lie? Or did he believe that Jennifer believed that that's what's happened? So, he wanted to play into that to try and avoid getting into trouble.

[00:26:58]What do we think? But it's just so funny cuz she very quickly realized that this weasly little man's ego was so fragile that a way to win him over was by painting him to be the hero. She made him the center of the story. She made him feel important. This man is being mentally outmaneuvered by his own need to feel special. And if that is not pathetic at its peak, I don't know what is. So whilst at this stage, Eric Parnell, he is buying what Jennifer's selling. Okay, he truly is starting to believe that he is or at least he's pretending he believes that he is the hero in this story. And whilst Jennifer feels like there's a bit of give, she emphasizes the fact that she needs to call for help. She needs to be able to call 911. She's losing a lot of blood.

[00:27:47]She had fashioned like a how do you say a t turn ti tiette ticue I don't know one of them she fashioned one of them using Eric's shirt because of course this man had stripped her when he raped her so she didn't have any of her own clothes to use now this turn this did help slow the bleeding quite a bit but it was clear that time was still running out if she never got help that turn Jennifer said herself it was around this point that she could really feel herself becoming weak and she was getting laded. She felt dizzy. She felt faint. She said at this moment that the blood loss had become very apparent to her. Now Eric, he is saying, you know, I get that you need help, but I have warrants out for my arrest, Jennifer. I really can't afford to, you know, play ball here. So, he's refusing that 911 call, that call for help. Even though this woman is gravely injured, bleeding out in front of his very eyes, he is still worried about his warrants. And I'm sorry, but it takes a certain level of moral emptiness to see a woman bleed out before your very eyes, but still think to yourself, "Yeah, but how does this affect me?" But Jennifer, she kept playing to him, playing him like a fiddle, and she was eventually able to convince Eric to take her back to his home and to call 911. Now, as they approach Eric's home, Jennifer notices immediately there was like this mini cemetery out the front of his property.

[00:29:21]Was that his cemetery? I'm not entirely sure. And I mean, seeing a little mini cemetery outside of your rapists, abductors, murderers home isn't exactly screaming safety to you, is it? But Jennifer had to go through with it. She had no other options. This was her last resort. So Eric, he leads Jennifer into his home and Jennifer saying, you know, like, where's the phone? I really need to call 911 now. Like this is getting serious. and she is able to talk Eric Parnell around to her being able to call 911. So Jennifer makes this call, but Eric is still standing right in front of her. So she has to be so careful about what she says. When the operator answers, Jennifer remains inside this lie. She tells the operator that someone shot her at the side of the road and this gentleman that she is with right now, um, he saved her life. She reiterated that her arm was basically in pieces from the shotgun wound and the man in front of her saved her. She begged them to hurry. She told them that she had lost a lot of blood and she felt like she was running out of time. And this phone call is such a stressful moment within the case because essentially at this point, Jennifer is having to play two different roles here.

[00:30:35]She's having to work two different conversations because she needs that dispatcher to understand she's in danger without actually telling her that the danger is in the house with her. And she also needs Eric to understand and believe that Jennifer still sees him as a rescuer. At one point, Jennifer tells the dispatcher, "He found me. He helped me." Meanwhile, Eric's standing by wearing his freaking Superman cape like, "Yeah, you know, I I I helped her. I'm a hero. Now, what Jennifer and Eric didn't know at this point is that the police, they had already located Jennifer's abandoned vehicle and the body of Anna Franklin. They had worked out from the scene that the other passenger had been abducted. So, when Jennifer is speaking to emergency services, they are eventually able to connect the dots and they realize that the woman they're speaking to on this line is the woman who's been abducted from that site. When the operator carefully mentioned another gunshot, Jennifer had repeated, "It's the same one. That's the same one." She is trying to signal to the truth whilst also being safe about what she says because Eric is right there in front of her. Eric then says to Jennifer that she has to tell the emergency services that he will only allow one ambulance to his home and that there can be no police. No police are allowed on the scene.

[00:31:57]Jennifer, she reassures them that this will be the case and she has to continue performing this charade. She was telling Eric, you know, they're going to be so happy that you saved my life. You're a hero in this. Everyone's going to be so impressed and proud of you. And of course, because Parnell's ego had the structural integrity of a wet tissue paper, he went along with this. He was eaten up. Now, it's around this time on the phone call where Jennifer, she really, really starts to become weak. At this point, she is desperately struggling. She has lost so much blood.

[00:32:28]She's going to pass out. Now, the dispatcher, they are trying to locate Jennifer. They are trying to get information from her so they can locate this rural property. But Jennifer being so weak, she was unable to do this. And unbelievably, this woman is able to convince Eric Parnell to get on the phone with 911, speak to the dispatcher, and guide them to his home. and he did it. This ass swipe gives 911 directions to his home. At one point, he even tells the operator it's right before the cemetery. Now, during this 911 call, Eric then told the operator, you know, I'm covered in blood from head to toe because I've been saving this woman. And it sounds a lot less like somebody horrified by violence and more like a man who is suddenly realizing that reality is catching up with him. Now, the dispatcher, they continue to reassure Eric. They tell him, "You know what you've done is amazing. You've saved this woman's life." All the while police and SWAT are starting to close in around the property. And I have to say, I think the dispatcher deserves a lot of credit here because not at one point did they slip up, not at one point did they panic. They didn't say the wrong thing.

[00:33:44]They immediately understood the assignment. They immediately knew that this was a life and death situation and they handled this perfectly and so carefully not to trigger Eric. And I must admit, the fact that this POS loser actually gave police directions to his house leaves my flabbers gasted in the best way possible. Like, how stupid do you have to be? When I read that, it actually made me chuckle to myself. So, whilst they wait for the police, it very much seems as though Eric has fully bought into the story. He is sitting there like the hero. He is waiting with Jennifer as if he really is that innocent bystander who is making sure the stranger gets help. Jennifer said that it really seemed as though he believed he hadn't done anything. Like he really believed another man had shot her. Eric was then asking Jennifer where her friend had went. And that friend that he is referring to is obviously Anna Franklin who he had shot dead. But Jennifer again being very careful, very tactful, she tells Eric that Anna is back at the vehicle that she didn't want to come. She just wanted to wait there on help. And Eric buys it. Now, it would take around an hour since that 911 call was placed for police to arrive at this rural property. But the thing is, they knew they couldn't just go up to that house. They couldn't walk into that house. That was far too dangerous. That put Jennifer's life and possibly officers lives at stake. The dispatcher on the phone told Jennifer that she has to exit the house and walk toward the ambulance. Now, Jennifer would do that, but Eric Parnell followed very closely behind her. As Jennifer is making her way out the house, she recalls seeing a lot of movement near the trees. She honestly thought she was hallucinating from the blood loss, like it was some kind of freaking mirage. But what she was seeing was not a hallucination. That was a SWAT team moving through the trees trying to approach Eric Parnell. As Jennifer continues her way forward, the officers immediately swarm Eric Parnell.

[00:35:42]They overwhelm him and he would be arrested and taken into custody. So less than one day after this vicious attack and murder, Eric Parnell, he would be charged with first-degree murder, aggravated sexual assault, and kidnapping. Now later it moves toward a trial, but during jury selection in December of 2006, Eric Parnell unexpectedly plead guilty to capital murder and aggravated sexual assault. He admitted to murdering Anna Franklin and for shooting and sexually assaulting and abducting Jennifer Holiday. For this, he would be sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. An official said that he would have to serve at least 70 years before he could even be considered for parole, which like, yeah, good. I'm glad, but I just feel like we're missing a harsher punishment somewhere between life in prison and the death penalty.

[00:36:39]Maybe like a torturous prison environment. That might be an idea.

[00:36:43]Because this man, he took Anna's life and he tried his best to destroy Jennifer's. And then he had the freaking cheek to worry about his outstanding warrants whilst a woman lay in front of him dying. And the thing is Jennifer Holiday, she survived this. Okay, she survived the attack, the shooting, etc. But it's not a nice neat ending like you would hope or expect. This attack on Jennifer, it cost her physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, and even professionally. Before the shooting, Jennifer was working as a paramedic. She was earning around $40,000 every single year. After this shooting, she lost her job. Not only that, but she also lost her health insurance and faced enormous medical debt. And Jennifer's recovery, it would be absolutely brutal. She later described living with chronic pain, nerve damage, reduced mobility, PTSD, and permanent physical limitations that this gunshot wound had inflicted upon her. Some of the shotgun pellets had to be left inside her body permanently because if they were to remove them, it risked further damage. There was a point in her recovery where she ended up with a really bad infection. I mean, an infection so bad that it was eating through her bone and tissue. And there is something so cruel about the fact that this woman is still trying to fight to survive whilst little weasly Eric Parnell just sits in prison all cushy, all comfy. This woman's injuries were so severe. The injuries to her chest, her neck, her body. Years later, she still couldn't feel the back of her hand. She couldn't even bring her hand up to her face. And she had lost fine motoring skills. Now, in 2007, after learning about her situation, Memorial Herman's Hospital CEO, they had actually arranged for Jennifer to receive free care and to get the surgery that she couldn't afford to have. So, at least we have some human decency in the world because other people were just saying, "Nah, sorry, you don't have the money. See you later." This surgery was so critical to her recovery. It helped restore some movement back into her elbow. Before that, she couldn't tie her shoes. She couldn't even open containers without it being this mass struggle. And Jennifer's goal after all of this, she just wanted to get back to herself somewhat, but she knew she would never be the same mentally or physically, but she just wanted to feel like she was able to get a part of herself back. Anna Franklin's family, however, they were left dealing with a grief that no sentence could undo. Anna's mother would speak about the pain of losing her daughter and she said something that I just really want to reiterate. She encouraged everyone to spend every second you possibly can with the people that you love because one day you'll wake up and they won't be there.

[00:39:41]She said that this is precious time that you don't get back and you must make the most of it. And I'm sure that is words that we could all do with hearing sometimes that reminder that life is too quick. It goes by too too fast and we should spend it with the people that we love, our friends, our family. And this is the part of these murder cases that no courtroom can even compare to, no courtroom can repair. I mean, listen, a sentence matters, a conviction matters, but it doesn't return celebrating birthdays. It doesn't return normal daily conversations, future plans, or the version of a family that existed before that crime took place. Anna Franklin should have had decades and decades and decades ahead of her. She should have been planning for her future, getting into work that she loved, spending time with children, build relationships, make mistakes, change directions if she wanted to. She should have had the chance to become whoever it was that she wanted to be.

[00:40:40]But Eric Pernell took this away from her. And Jennifer Holidayiday, she shouldn't have had to become a survival story. She shouldn't have had to lie to a violent waste of space loser about loving him to try and secure her own safety. She shouldn't have had to promise marriage to the man that murdered her cousin right in front of her. And she shouldn't have had to use every single ounce of psychological intelligence that she has to simply be able to reach for a phone and call for help. And that right there is the power of this case. It isn't about Eric Parnell. It's not about him being fascinating because he absolutely isn't.

[00:41:16]He's a freaky little weirdo who deserves no more breath to be spoken about him.

[00:41:22]He is a violent, entitled little coward who used fear and weapons because he had nothing else to offer the world. Anna Franklin, she deserves to be remembered as that 18-year-old with her whole life ahead of her. The one who loved children, the one who had great plans for her future, not to be remembered for the violence that took her. Jennifer Holiday deserves to be remembered not only as a survivor, but as one of the quickest thinking, psychologically resilient people that you will ever hear about in a true crime case. And Eric Parnell, he doesn't deserve to be remembered at all. So, I am going to do a we control alt delete him from my memory. And I yeah, Eric Parnell who don't know. Genuinely, my thoughts and prayers go out to Anna's family. I can't even imagine the pain that they went through, but they will still face on a day-to-day basis. And of course, to Jennifer, whose life has been changed forever. Her strength, her bravery, her resilience should be studied. But I am just sending that entire family so much love and so much prayer. But my loves, that is it for another true crime and makeup episode. Thank you so much for sitting down with me today as we go through this case. It means the absolute world to have you here with me. I just want to say thank you so so so much from the bottom of my heart for every bit of support that you give me because it honestly means everything to me. If you do enjoy my content, please make sure you are subscribed. Get the notification bell on so you don't miss when I upload.

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