Two years after death of Rita Jordan, not much has changed inside home where she was murdered

Walk into Rita “Theresa” Jordan’s home today, two years after she was found brutally murdered in her home, and many things still look the same.
Her furniture is still intact. The pictures of her children and grandchildren are still in place in the living room. Walk into the kitchen and on the freezer door of her ice box, the pictures of her grandchildren are still there.
On the other refrigerator door is the word “MeMe” created with toy letters.
Next to the refrigerator is a wall calender with the days of the month crossed out. The last day crossed out is April 26, 2012. It is also the day she was murdered in her home - being stabbed multiple times.
Her killer is still free and trying to live a normal life. On the other hand, Jordan’s family has not let go or moved on with their lives, two years after her death.
Jordan’s daughter, Waldean, has slowed down on visiting her mother’s home over the last year. The first year after Jordan’s death, she would drop in a few times a month to mow the yard and check on the house. Now, it’s about twice a month and that is mainly to check on the house.
“People ask me about the house. They want to know what I am going to do with it,” said Waldean. “I still do not know. This is my mother’s house. This is where we grew up. This is our family home. I can’t just get rid of the home. When I come visit the house, it is like coming to visit my mother. I can still see her, hear her.”
Family members have taken things away from the house as a way to remember Jordan. Waldean did get rid of her mother’s clothes, but her bed is still in place. The kitchen still has plates and pots in the cabinets.
Waldean said everything in the house will remain as is until her mother’s killer is found and prosecuted.
It will be two years on Saturday that Jordan was killed in her home on Martin Luther King Drive.
A $5,000 reward, established by her church, St. Mary Magdelen Catholic Church, is still available for anyone who helps solve the murder.
Jordan was 71 years old when she died. At the time of her death, she was baby sitting her one-year-old grandchild in her home.
Two years ago, Waldean’s daughter, Kelly Allen, who was 17 at the time, got off the school bus, walked to her grandmother’s home but could not get in because the doors were locked. Allen figured something was not right. Then she heard her one-year-old nephew crying as she went around the house, pounding on the doors and windows, shouting for her grandmother to open the door at the same time.
Kelly called her mother (Waldean) who told her to call Damian Landry, the father of the one year old in the house.
Landry was a member of the Abbeville fire department and the father of the one-year-old in the house. He and the fire department arrived on scene and he had to break a window to get into the house.
They discovered Jordan on the ground, full of blood. Waldean never saw her mother after she was stabbed nor did she want to. She has a place in her heart and mind, on how she remembers her.
“I miss her laugh. Since she died, nothing is the same. It has been hard to go through life without her,” she said.
Waldean has not given up on the Abbeville Police finding Jordan’s killer. She still checks in with the Abbeville Police Department to see if there is anything new. They told her they have not given up on solving the crime.
“I have hope,” she said.