Woman Charged in Triple Murder of Partner, His Parents

Jenna Strouble, a 30-year-old resident of St. John, Indiana, faces nine counts of first-degree murder for the fatal shootings of her occasional intimate partner Jacob Lambert, 32, and his parents, Patrick Forde, 55, and Stacy Forde, 54, in suburban Chicago on March 22.

According to court documents, Strouble contacted Lambert that evening and invited him for a drive, later telling investigators she entered the meeting with the intention to harm him. The two, who shared two young children and had co-parented amid an on-again, off-again relationship, drove toward Plum Creek Nature Preserve in Sauk Village, Illinois. When they found it closed, Strouble pulled over along Burnham Road and suggested giving Lambert a back massage to address his complaints of back pain.

Lambert reclined the passenger seat, removed his shirt, and lay on his stomach as Strouble straddled him and massaged his back for about 20 minutes using an electric massage gun. Prosecutors say that after Lambert criticized her technique, Strouble retrieved a Glock 19 handgun equipped with a suppressor from under the seat. She held the weapon to the back of his head for approximately eight minutes before firing a single...