10/30/2026
We want to tell the story of a relationship that sits at the center of the days around Addison’s death, and we want to tell it in order.
We want to preface this by saying: we aren't accusing anyone of anything. We say that every time because it's true. What we're doing is taking official statements, laying them side by side, and asking the questions they raise.
Please read it slowly. It's long, but we think the order matters.
Before: the relationship.
ACJ and AP dated for about a year, maybe a year and a half. This account comes from LJ (ACJs grandmother) in her own words to investigators.
LJ also told investigators that AP moved into the house three to four months before October 1, 2025. A girlfriend of more than a year, living in the house for months with the family.
Now put this next to what AP told investigators after Addison Rose was found…
She said she had never seen ACJs guns. She said she doesn't like guns. She said she had never been around him when he shot them, never saw a gun in his house, and never knew he had one there.
Months before Addi Rose died, investigators executed a search warrant at that same house and found a semi-automatic pistol hidden under the pillow in ACJs bedroom.
We don't know when AP moved out, or whether she was living there on September 30th. We don't know what she did or didn't see. But a year+ relationship, months of living in that house, and a statement that she never saw a gun there is something we can't stop turning over. It may have an ordinary explanation… We'd like to hear it.
Before: Addison.
In the weeks leading up to October 1st, Addi was writing in her notes about being harassed by AP. She was keeping track of the messages being sent. She had told people she trusted… she was holding on to this proof in case it ever escalated.
We won't characterize what AP did or didn't do beyond what Addison herself kept track of. We only know that a 17 year old girl was worried and cautious enough to write it down and maintain a detailed record.
Before: the gun.
In the days before Addison Rose died, ACJ talked with his close friend about the gun. He told him it was kept in a black bag at the edge of his bed or on a chair. That he had displayed it to his girlfriend.
Multiple separate sources told investigators about a fi***rm being used during s*xual activity in that relationship. When asked about it in February 2026, AP denied it and said they had a normal s*x life. One account says it happened. The other says it didn't. Both are in the file, and we have no way of knowing which is true. We only know they can't both be.
The statements:
This is the part we most want people to see, because three people were asked about the same relationship and gave three different timelines.
AP told police she hadn't seen ACJ since July.
ACJ told police the breakup was recent, and that he had seen her two or three days earlier.
LJ told police that ACJ broke up with his girlfriend yesterday. That's September 30th, the day Addison Rose walked into that house.
She also said AP had been living there.
Those accounts can't all be right…
If AP lived in that house for several months and hadn't seen ACJ since July, how does that work? If the breakup was two or three days before October 1st, why does LJ say it was the day before? And if it was the day before, September 30th, then a relationship ended in that house on the very day Addison Rose arrived.
What happened that day? Who was there? Who was upset? Who was angry? Who left, and when?
We don't know. We're not suggesting an answer. We're pointing out that the question exists and that the only people who can answer it have each given a different version.
September 30th:
HL picked Addi up around 8:00 pm. At 8:03, ACJ was at a gas station in Montfort. He bought water and condoms and left at 8:06.
LJ told investigators she knew nothing about Addison or when she arrived. Addi Rose, by every account we have, was a girl LJ had never met.
Neighbors have described seeing someone matching APs description at the house that day, in a vehicle that wasn't her usual one.
We want to be careful with this. We can't say for certain it was her. And if she'd lived there recently, seeing her there wouldn't be surprising. But she told police she hadn't seen ACJ since July, and a sighting that day, even a possible one, is hard to square with that.
Addison’s last message was at 10:35 pm.
At least two messages sent to her afterward were never opened. After that there is nothing at all until a 911 call at 2:35 in the morning. Three and a half hours that no one has accounted for.
The morning:
The J family called an attorney was called before investigators had asked a single question. There is audio of LJ telling ACJ not to speak to police, and telling police not to speak to ACJ.
In that same early window, ACJ was given a double dose of his own prescription medication. His father told investigators it would keep him asleep for six to seven hours.
Everyone who might have said something about ACJs relationship, about that day, about what was happening in that house, was either silenced, sedated, or told not to talk.
The days after:
Within days, AP messaged Addison's little sister. She said they could meet up and talk about what happened. That she would know more than anyone else.
We have thought about that more than almost anything. You can't explain something you don't know about. What did she want to say?
What she told police about ACJ also doesn't match what she texted our family about his behavior, including things she described as violent. Two versions from the same person about the same subject, one given in a formal interview and one given in private to someone who actually knew Addison Rose.
People who know AP have also told us she hasn't seemed like herself lately, that something seems to be weighing on her. We don't know what it is. We only know we've heard it from more than one person.
What we keep coming back to:
When you lay the pieces side by side, they form a picture:
A relationship of a year or more.
A girlfriend who lived in the house for months.
A statement that she never saw a gun in it, and a pistol found under the pillow in the same room.
A breakup that happened either months ago, a few days ago, or the day before, depending on who you ask.
A 17 year old who wrote that she was being harassed, and then walked into that house on the day the relationship may have ended.
Three and a half hours of silence.
And then a lawyer, a sedative, and a wall of "don't talk to them."
None of that proves what happened. We want to be clear about that, because we know the temptation to read more into it than the pieces can bear. We've felt that temptation ourselves.
But we also won't pretend those pieces fit together neatly. They don't. And every one of them can be resolved by someone telling the truth.
What we're asking:
LJ, AP, ACJ: the dates and details you each gave don't line up, and you're the only people who can fix that. We aren't asking you to confess to anything. We're asking you to sit down with investigators and say plainly what happened, when it happened, and who was there. If there's an ordinary explanation for every one of these gaps, we'd welcome it.
AP, you talked with our family once and offered to talk. It isn't too late to finish that conversation.
To everyone else: if you saw AP, ACJ, or anyone else in that house between September 30th and October 1st: please come forward.
Even a small detail helps pin down a timeline we're still trying to build.
Our family has spent more than a year asking questions into silence. Addison Rose deserves answers.
She deserves better than to become a footnote in a story where everyone else's version mattered more than hers.
We love you, Addi. We're still asking. We're still here.
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