Mother of Slain Rosemont Teen Speaks About Arrest of Suspect

“We have somebody … I’m like, ‘what? Excuse me?’”

It was an after midnight call from a detective who worked more than a year to solve Jessica’s murder.

“It was shocking because it had been a lot time since I had gotten phone calls for questions at two in the morning,” Tara Haslam said.

She got updates by phone about once a month for the past a year-and-a-half. Only this time, it was different.