Mom’s New Meth BF Burns Baby’s Privates Off With Propane Torch 

we usually don’t start episodes with warnings but this case is one of the most horrific we have ever covered and it involves a young child I can’t even begin to think that a human being is capable of doing such unimaginable things to a little girl in such a brutal fashion day after day after day if you are faint of heart I strongly suggest you skip this one I’m not even kidding tesn Elizabeth oal was born in ont IO California on June 8th 1994 to parent Stella Anne Kaiser in Jason Adam oal she was the couple’s second child

there first was a boy named Jason who was named after his father tesn loved her big brother who was described as her best friend tesn had blue eyes and blonde hair cut into a bob with short bangs framing her face her grandfather Keno call said she was a sweet baby who grew into a smiling and loving toddler her aunt said that she was wonderful she loved life she loved music she loved animals many relatives mentioned her love of all sorts of animals from horses to dogs cats and bugs whenever she found a bug her grandfather said she had to

show it off to everyone in the house she liked dolls drawing playing in the tub with her bath toys and her favorite toy was a truck her uncle said she was always happy when they took her to the park and she loved being on the swings pictures taken December of 1996 show tesn dressed up to celebrate Christmas in bright red tights a green and red plaid skirt and a white shirt in one photo she holds up a candy cane and looks at someone behind the camera as if she was showing off a prize other photos taken that day show her enjoying her

candy treat tln’s mother Stella had a difficult childhood she had a twin brother named Billy along with two older brothers and an older sister she described her father as a controlling man with a violent temper and said she was a victim of his physical mistreatment her twin remembered their childhood a little differently however he said he personally didn’t see his sister get hurt but said his father was a very strict parent who was tough on his children Stella was about 13 years old she and her mother were in the house

when her father removed himself from the earth with a gun Billy was outside that day and he were called hearing The Gunshot said Stella and his mother ran out of the house screaming that kind of a sudden violent death would be a traumatic event for anybody but even more difficult for a young teen for the next few years she acted out by smoking drinking experimenting with drugs and running around causing trouble she used Crystal for the first time when she was 14 years old she started dating Jason Adam oall and was soon pregnant she was

16 when Jason Jr was born her boyfriend was 17 she moved in with his family in Victorville California and lived with them on and off over the next several years 2 years afterwards when Stella was 18 tesn was born Stella continued to live with Jason and his family but she wasn’t happy with her life there Jason’s father described her as a party girl who was immature and liked making Jason jealous sometimes even encouraging Jason to fight with other men over her Jason went back to school graduated and got a good job as a steel worker to take care

of his family but Stella wasn’t ready to grow up and give up the party life Stella’s older sister lived in Oregon and when her twin brother moved there she decided that she also wanted a fresh start in mid 1996 she moved herself in both children to Springfield Oregon Jason’s father said she saw the kids as her meal ticket because Jason sent money to Stella for their care not much is known about her first few months in Oregon but life as a single mom wasn’t easy she struggled to take care of her son who was almost 5 years old by this

time and she was often impatient with him though the agency Never released any records her twins said that Oregon’s DHS had gotten involved and Stella was required to take parenting classes at Christmas that year she and the children visited Jason and his family in California when Stella lived there they said that she had been caring and attentive and a good mother to the children but when she and the kids arrived at the bus station after living in Oregon the family saw the first signs of neglect despite the cold weather both

children were were Barefoot the visit lasted 6 weeks and over that time Jason’s family saw Stella treat her son harshly she spanked him pushed him slapped him and yanked him around by his arm she told Jason’s father I just can’t handle the boy no more Stella treated tesn kindly though and seemed to be able to take care of her Jason’s father said she’d never shown any tendency to be abusive toward the baby concerned for the 5-year-old’s safety the family convinced her to leave Jason behind when she went back to

Oregon but they let her take tesn with her after her return to Oregon Stella met Jesse Caleb Compton who was newly single for all of the worst reasons one could imagine starting in July of 1996 police were called six times to this apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because of CA and DV his girlfriend left for a little bit but soon let him move in again she was reported to DHS and their daughter was taking away until the mother could prove Jesse wasn’t allowed any contact with her realizing that she

needed to protect her little girl girlfriend finally found the courage to end the relationship kick him out of her home and her life for good this left Jesse free to make another woman miserable he found Stella soon after they met she and tesn moved into his dirty and smelly bachelor apartment in Springfield the fence behind his unit and the walls inside were marked by a number of holes because Jesse was in the habit of throwing knives and punching the walls when he got angry most mothers would want to keep their children far away from a place

like that but Stella was drawn to it she was a party girl and Jesse liked to party as well he was known for throwing some drug parties featuring lots of Crystal and lots of drinking sometimes these parties would not stop for several days at a time he liked to smoke his Crystal by melting it with a small propane torch and as a party trick he would sometimes hold the torch to his own hand showing off how much pain he could withstand Stella let Jesse take over tesn discipline she would leave the girl alone with him while she attended

her parenting classes because of the parties a number of people were around to see Jesse’s interactions with tesn Jesse always seemed to be angry with her always called her names slapped the toddler’s face made her stand in the corner for hours was on end he smacked her with a wooden spoon a spatula and a belt he was seen dragging her around by the hair and often forced her to take cold baths and showers once when Jesse angrily threw a knife across the room it almost hit tesn missing her head by mere inches one witness saw him pouring a

beer down her throat until she gagged another saw him beating her with a belt to make her go to sleep when the woman asked Stella if they should stop him Stella simply said just let him take care of that Witnesses also saw Stella slapping teslin on the bottom with her hand they said she didn’t feed the toddler regularly and sometimes pulled her hair or yanked her by the arm reminder this is a 2-year-old girl The Neighbors in the apartment complex often heard shouts screams and thumps coming from Jesse’s apartment they saw teslin

outside she was covered from head to toe in long pants and long sleeve shirts this is the middle of summer when one neighbor threatened to report the ca to the police Jesse threatened to kill the man and his girlfriend as well if he did after a few months Witnesses no longer saw tesn during the parties but they could still hear her Jesse kept her in the bedroom only he was allowed to go in and when he came out they would hear her crying for hours no one was allowed in to comfort her or to see what he had done to her the most incomprehensible

part of the story is the number of people who knew teslin was trouble but never got any help for her some might have been afraid of Jesse but they could have made an anonymous call many likely were more concerned that their source of Crystal would dry up if they reported what they saw and without a report explaining the severity of the situation the few people who tried to get her help were unsuccessful one unnamed member of Stella’s family reached out to Tesla’s father in California she said Stella was neglecting her daughter and offered to

arrange for the toddler to attend a birthday party in this plan Jason would have essentially kidnapped teslin and taken her back to California unaware of Tesla’s dangerous living situation Jason declined and instead hired an attorney to try to get custody legally though no Witnesses contacted authorities someone told Stella’s mother and twin brother that Jesse was hurting her in teslin the anonymous person said that Billy needed to do something so Billy went over to the apartment with a few friends to check on his sister and niece when they

got there Jesse had nailed the front door closed and would not talk to him Billy contacted the police and a sergeant and several officers responded to his call Jesse told the officers that he had nailed the door shut because he was afraid of Billy the officers asked Billy to leave saying he was escalating the situation the officers were there a neighbor came out of her apartment and told the officers they need to go in and get that little girl somehow the authorities also missed the severity of the situation Stella told them she was

unhe hurt and that everything was fine one officer broke down a couple of boards on the backyard fence and shined his flashlight into a rear window he saw tesn on the couch covered with a blanket and waved at her she waved back he decided that she was fine and concluded this odd welfare check the whole visit was finished in half an hour had they entered the apartment even a cursory examination of the toddler would have shown ligature marks on her wrists and ankles bruising all over her body and cigarette burns on her legs in their

final mistake the cops never filed a report with DHS even though state law requires them to do so in any case involving reports of CA not only that Jesse was already forbidden from seeing his 2-year-old daughter because of CA if they had filed the report the agency would have been able to take teslin into custody immediately but instead they sent her Uncle Billy home and left her with her Tormentor one week later on June Stella and Jesse left tesn tied up in the bedroom while they partied sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. on the 14th

they came back to find her blue and Limp Jesse cut her bindings instead of calling an ambulance or the fire station staffed with paramedics that was located right across the street from the apartment complex he attempted to revive her on his own when CPR didn’t work he hit her several times and splashed her with cold water in some sort of Crystal fueled Frankenstein craziness he cut the cord off a lamp plugged it into the wall and used The Fray an to try to shock her back to life but tesn was gone he and Stella decided to leave her in the

bedroom while they try to figure out what to do they knew that tesn had so many severe injuries that they’d go to jail if anyone saw what they did to her so they decided to bury her Jesse called his 18-year-old sister Lac and asked her to come to the apartment Jesse and Stella put Tesla in a laundry basket loaded her in a car and Lacy drove to a wooded area about an hour away near Sweet Home Oregon they buried the toddler there in a shallow grave now back at the apartment the couple put all of Tesla’s clothes and

any other evidence that they could find into two trash bags and threw it all into the apartment building’s dumpster witnesses that saw them in the days after so they acted like they were on their honeymoon they were not fighting as much as they usually did and seemed happy and affectionate they talked about wanting to move out of town and about their plans to have a baby boy together when anyone asked about tesn they said she was with a babysitter or visiting Stella’s aunt but their lovey-dovey child-free vacation was short-lived two

days later Lacy overcome by guilt and grief confessed to Springfield police she told them what she had seen where she had driven following her directions down a remote Logging Road cops found and Unearthed tln’s grave on June 17th buried with her they found a blue braided belt piece of cloth torn from a curtain strip of gray cloth and a woman’s ring police searched their apartment in the complex for evidence they found trash bags and easily linked them to the couple they had thrown away the cut electrical cord but left the

lamp with a matching end in their apartment they threw away all the ropes and knotted cloth they used to tie teslin up and also tossed in a handmade Mother’s Day car that the toddler had made for her some of the knotted cloth and rope they threw away matched items recovered from Tesla’s grave strands of the toddler’s blonde hair were found caught in the knots inside the apartment investigators found the propane torch that Jesse was so fond of they found a pair of pliers covered with burn residue multiple bottles of rubbing alcohol and

more strips of knotted white cloth the significance of some of this evidence would not be clear until after Tesla’s autopsy was completed Captain Jerry Smith the Springfield officer in charge of the investigation said this is the most severe case of CA that we’ve ever seen this kid was literally tortured in his interview with police Jesse tried to say that some of Tesla’s most serious wounds were accidentally caused he said he spanked her a little too hard and broke the skin when the skin got infected he and Stella poured rubbing

alcohol in it and he blamed the rubbing alcohol for her Burns he admitted he didn’t get any medical treatment for the little girl even though she was only steps away from the fire station staff with paramedics he also never asked his mother for advice or help even though she was a nurse Stella also admitted that she didn’t get any medical help for teslin she told police she was aware of what was going on but didn’t get help because according to Stella I didn’t want them to find out what Jesse had done when police asked if

Stella realized tesn could die from her mistreatment Stella said I feared there was a possibility it could happen if it didn’t stop I would have gotten out of there before then though that might have been her intent Stella didn’t get out before the worst had happened she wasn’t even trying to get out neighbors reported that in the days before Tesla’s death she was talking about going back to California and bringing her son back to Oregon the same day teslin was found June 17th Stella and Jesse were arrested

for her murder he was charged with aggravated Mur murder six counts of Murder By abuse two counts of first-degree penetration and abuse of a corpse though prosecutors believe Jesse inflicted most of these injuries they claimed Stella knew about it that she sometimes even tied teslin up herself she also was charged with aggravated murder after about a month in prison Jesse hatched an Escape Plan he wrote his idea out on paper including details about how they should incapacitate the prison guard and use knotted bed sheets

to crawl out the window and then he gave it to another inmate that inmate handed over the handwritten plan to the guards and Jesse was given a 60-day stay in solitary confinement he was charged and found guilty of an escape attempt sentenced to over 2 years for that before his murder trial even began the murder trial started on October 19th 1998 and was presided over by Lane County Circuit Judge ly vure in his opening statement assistant DA Robert Goram apologized to the jury for the testimony and evidence they would have

have to evaluate he said I’m sorry I have to tell you about these things you must face the reality of this case he described tesn final months to the jury sometime in the month or two before her death Jesse had broken four vertebra in her back after that injury he ramped up his torture he beat essayed and starved her he repeatedly tied her up he burned her with cigarettes in his propane torch he stabbed her with a fork on multiple occasions he and Stella poured rubbing alcohol into her open wounds assistant

DA gorm said there are 64 different talking points I have written down on the autopsy report there are more injuries than that she has an injury on every part of her body he explained that during the first two weeks of June 1997 Stella and Jesse tied up teslin up to 10 to 15 separate occasions sometimes leaving her that way for 10 hours at a time they bound her with her hands and feet up above her head and shoulders they secured her with knotted ropes sometimes her hair got caught in the knots and ripped out that is how she

spent her third birthday on June 8th tied up and tortured the assistant DA called Jesse’s assault of the toddler merciless while she was tied up on at least two occasions Jesse penetrated her private parts with an object he also burned them while Jesse claimed those Burns were caused by the rubbing alcohol evidence of the trial showed he used his propane torch to inflict those injuries sometime on her last day he hit her on the head so hard it bruised her brain he punched or stomped on her causing internal injuries and he scraped bruised and

punctured the skin on her belly with a fork some reports at the time stated that the medical examiner cried during the testimony graphic photos of tesn injuries were shown to the courtroom she was bruised all over her body she had several hundred electrical burn marks from Jesse’s attempt to revive her with a lamp cord her wrist and ankles had been rubbed raw from the repeated binding her back was broken in four places and her private parts had been violated she had infected and unhealed blisters all over her body she had what

was described as a gaping wound on her back caused by the propane torch the toxicology report showed a large amount of isopro alcohol in her system alcohol she had absorbed through her many open wounds internally her brain and other internal organs were bruised and her liver and one of her kidneys had ruptured she was bleeding internally she also suffered from septic shock and fluid loss from her multiple third degree burns the medical examiner listed her cause of death as battered child syndrome and said she died of shock

caused by her many injuries in his closing statements the defense attorney tried to argue that Jesse hadn’t deliberately killed the girl and said her death was the result of inappropriate misguided medical care if the burns had not been caused by the rubbing alcohol lawyer argued they could have been caused by overly hot bath water accidentally used to clean the toddler and even if his client had caused heslin’s death he argued that Jesse would not have had a reasonable expectation that her death would follow

in response to the defense’s closing argument the prosecutor asked the jury to imagine Tesla’s final days in detail he spoke in plain language about the truly horrific events it was a compelling and convincing argument but we will warn you it is not easy to listen to it is probably arguably worse than the autopsy testimony here’s what he said deliberately means a state of mind that examines and considers the contemplated act and whether that act should or shouldn’t be done deliberation is present if the thinking is done in a

cool mental state under such circumstances and for such a period of time as to permit a careful weigh of the proposed decision I want you to unfortunately I am going to draw you back a little bit to what was going on in that home the last few days of Tesla’s life what we know pretty clearly is there was a violent blow at least to her back and perhaps a violent blow to her abdomen that caused internal bleeding we know she was essayed as she was vaginally penetrated within the last couple days of her life we know the night she died

she was tied up with her legs up over her head we know she had vomited by all accounts the abdominal bleeding was apparently causing her some distress and we know if think logically that the defendant was well aware that the child was in some severe distress and that alone might be enough for deliberation but I want you to think about the condition that this little girl was in when those terrible injuries in and of themselves were inflicted on her you can look at the pictures and see that the liia is essentially burned off and

whether or not it is burned off by boiling water poured over her area when she was tied up or whether or not it’s burned off by a propane torch doesn’t really matter when Jesse is essaying her he is looking at the full sight sound smell package of that child she must have begged for mercy she must have expressed the terrible pain she felt and he went on anyway I guess she was probably crying when he stomped on her back and think about what he was stomping on a little girl 31 lbs damaged almost Beyond repair beaten repeatedly

fed occasionally tied up essayed burned with cigarettes for weeks weeks even months did he deliberately do those acts what other word would you put with it he extremely deliberately did those acts he knew exactly what he was doing was it reasonable for him to expect her to die could she survive another week in this household would she have lived another week ask yourself that probably not would she have lived another month no was he going to kill her one day or another think about what she must have felt in the bedroom internally bleeding

tied up while her mother and Jesse parted in the other room what a terrible torturous brutal way to die it would be terrible for all of us for adults or for a little girl who just turned 3 years old the week before it must have been much more terrifying much more hard to understand were these acts deliberate absolutely after hearing this part of the closing statement one of the jurors began to cry uncontrollably repeatedly saying God that poor baby the defense moved for a mistrial accusing assistant DA Goram of inflaming the jury judge

vure denied the mistrial and replaced the crying juror with one of four alternates Jesse thankfully was found guilty on all count November 5th the penalty phase of his trial began the jury deliberated for 4 hours before returning with a death sentence Tess’s grandfather Ken thanked the jury saying they have had the hardest job in the world they just took somebody’s life but he deserved it this is exactly what we came to Oregon for Jesse appealed his death sentence multiple times last appeal started in 2003 and didn’t finish

until 2012 when it was denied Stella’s first trial began in January of 99 and was presided over by judge Pierre van Riceberg she was also charged with aggravated murder for her role in Tesla’s death during the trial Stella often cried when evidence of her daughter’s terrible injuries was shown much of her defense centered around her mental stability the defense’s expert witness testified that Stella suffered from PTSD and personality disorders caused by childhood CA and Trauma from witnessing her father’s death

psychologist said her mental issues and drug addiction made her an easy mark for a monster Like Jesse at the trial Stella claimed she hadn’t seen her daughter for the last two weeks but videotaped statements she made to police contradicted that claim her sister Karen spoke in her defense she said Stella had always appeared to be a good mother who never even spanked her kids her sister her mother and another female relative all testified they had given tesn a bath about 1 month before her death and saw no injuries on the toddler this was

contradicted by medical evidence that claimed some of her Burns had occurred as much as 8 weeks prior in his closing arguments assistant DA Goram told the jury that Stella knew enough about right from wrong to try to save herself from what what she did he pointed out that she made sure to dress tesn in long sleeves and pants anytime she was outside and lied to police when they could have helped her he said you should look at her ability to make choices the choices she made to protect her child the choices she made to protect herself

she aided Jesse Compton in torturing that child to death the jury deliberated for almost 2 days but couldn’t come to an agreement one jury member didn’t think she was guilty of aggravated murder normal circumstances the jury would have considered lesser charges but they weren’t allowed to because of a law that had been passed by the Oregon legislature the year before without the unanimous vote needed to find her guilty and also without two votes needed to find her not guilty the jury was hung and the judge declared a mistrial her

second trial started on April 23rd and concluded 6 days later she was found guilty of all counts including aggravated murder murder By abuse by neglect and abuse of a corpse on May 7th she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole she healed and her conviction was affirmed in July of 1999 she’s currently serving her time at the Coffee Creek Correctional Institute in Wilsonville Oregon where she goes by the name Stella singing crow in December of 2022 Oregon governor Kate Brown commuted Jesse’s

death sentence along with 16 other death row inmates she said the commutation had nothing to do with the inmates Behavior their attempts at Rehabilitation or whether they deserved forgiveness in stad she said it reflects the recognition that death penalty is immoral it is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction it is wasteful of taxpayer dollars does not make Community safer and cannot and never has been administered fairly and equitably instead of facing death Jesse will now face life in prison there had

already been a long moratorium on the death penalty in Oregon and even when it was active only two people had been executed since 1984 the governor acknowledged the stress this placed on the victim’s family saying I also recognize the pain and uncertainty victims experience as they wait for decades while individuals sit on death row My Hope Is that this commutation will bring us a significant step closer to finality in these cases in other words the families at least know to stop waiting now Jesse is currently serving

his time at Two Rivers correctional institution in matilla Oregon let me know what you think about that in the comment section down below as for me I really hope his fellow inmates finish the job Tesla’s family in California buried her in Desert View Memorial Park in Victorville pictures from her funeral show her father grieving by her casket her gravestone reads walks softly and Angel lies here her grandfather Ken passed away in 2007 he was buried at the same Cemetery not far from his beloved granddaughter her father never spoke

publicly about her death family members spoke of his great grief shortly after her funeral her grandfather told reporters the other day it was 5:30 in the morning and I had to go out and take care of the horses Jason was sitting out front on the conrete by the driveway was crying his eyes out Tesla’s brother Jason Jr stayed in California with his father and grandparents for some time after her death he often woke up terrified screaming about monsters Jason’s cousin Michelle Smith told reporters that Jason wanted both his

children to stay in California but Stella had legal custody if he had taken his daughter he could have gone to jail for kidnapping he was trying to do the right thing she added if we had known what was going on we would have kidnapped her she doesn’t understand how so many people could have seen what was happening to tesn and not one of them notified authorities she said I’m really frustrated that not one single person picked up the phone and called someone should have called that’s what would have saved her members of the

Springfield Police Department realized they had the opportunity to save teslin but made fatal mistakes that day they visited after her death they made a policy change allowing officers to enter a home without a warrant in order to complete a welfare check they also committed to enforcing state regulations that already required a report to be made anytime CA is reported even if officers find no evidence Susie day the Lane County branch manager of DHS said said if we can take this terrible loss and turn it into a call for action for

the community to save others at least we have honored her and helped other children and this is what the agency tried to do for teslin after her death the agency created a public service campaign reminding the public it is everyone’s duty to protect children they featured a picture of teslin on their poster tagline read The Invisible Child it takes all of you to see me hear me speak of me before I’m gone forever right red letters on the bottom of the poster read stop the abuse