Prosecutors laid out the shocking series of events they say unfolded when a woman shot and killed three “unsuspecting” people in a Chicago suburb over a “general dislike.”
While petitioning a court to keep Jenna Strouble detained until her trial, prosecutors detailed what happened after a woman called authorities at 2 a.m. on March 23 saying her sister called her and said she had shot three people in Crete.
Authorities responded to 3430 E. Norway Trail shortly after and, with the front door open when they arrived, quickly found the bodies of Stacy and Patrick Forde in the entryway.
A third victim, 32-year-old Jacob Lambert, was found in a vehicle in a cul de sac just southeast of their home. He was face down in the passenger seat with the seat reclined, authorities said.
All three victims had been shot.
Police later discovered Lambert was the father of Strouble’s two young children. Stacy Forde was his mother and Patrick Forde was his stepfather.
Prosecutors said Strouble and Lambert met in 2020, briefly lived together and had two children, now ages 3 and 4.
On the night of the murders, prosecutors said Strouble asked Lambert if he wanted to go for a drive. She picked him up sometime after 11 p.m. on March 22.
While she told authorities she at one point lamented the couple’s poor communication, she noted she “went there with an intention,” prosecutors said.
According to court documents, Strouble admitted she went to Lambert’s home to hurt him, but said she didn’t expect to “have the nerve to do it.”
At one point in their drive, prosecutors said Strouble pulled over and offered to give Lambert a back massage, saying she brought a massage gun because he complains of back pain and “that she doesn’t do enough for him,” the documents said.
Strouble told authorities she had Lambert recline in the seat and lie on his stomach while she climbed on top of him and began the massage, which went on for about 20 minutes.
During the massage, Strouble said she retrieved her Glock, which had been stored under the passenger seat, and pointed it at the back of his head for several minutes, court docs stated. Then she allegedly opened fire.
“[Strouble] didn’t provide much of a motive for the killings other than not liking the way Jake speaks to the children or that she feels his parents are overbearing,” court documents read. “She didn’t like the fact that Jacob showered with a toddler, that people took naps with children, that Stacy was snarky, or that rules seemed to change in their home.”
Prosecutors said Strouble lit a cigarette and then drove to Lambert’s parents’ house, where she attempted to open doors using Lambert’s key.
When Patrick Forde heard the noise and asked who was there, she told police she answered, but said she was there with Lambert. When Forde opened the door, she began shooting, court docs said. Stacy Forde, hearing her husband’s screams, then came down the stairs before being shot in the stairwell, police said.
Strouble then returned home to parents’ place in St. John, Indiana, and called her sister “because she wanted her to look after her children.”
“She did not want her own parents to have her children,” the court docs stated, noting that Strouble admitted to police that she considered killing her own parents too.
Prosecutors added that Strouble had a history of suicidal ideation, but those turned homicidal at the end of 2025. She told police she never planned to “get away with it.”
Prosecutors said Strouble provided police with a note she wrote the night before the killings in which she made a list of people she believed could take care of her children.
Testing from the Northeastern Illinois Regional Crime Laboratory found 13 shell casings matched the gun recovered from Strouble, prosecutors said.
Strouble, 30, has been charged with nine counts of first-degree murder in the shootings.
“The defendant orchestrated a plan to kill three unsuspecting individuals with no real motive other than a general dislike for them,” prosecutors said. “It is obvious to see how easily this motive could extend to anyone who crosses her path, appears overbearing, speaks to her children, or dares to have a ton she would characterize as snarky.”
A hearing for Strouble was scheduled to take place on Monday but was delayed until Tuesday. Her defense attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.
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