The doorbell camera at 3430 East Norway Trail in Crete Township, Illinois, recorded every horrifying second.

A woman approaches the front door in the dead of night. She fumbles with a set of keys — keys she had just taken from the body of her ex-boyfriend, Jacob Lambert, whom she had executed minutes earlier with a single silenced gunshot to the back of the head. She tries desperately to unlock the door. Inside, 55-year-old Patrick Forde hears the noise and comes to investigate.

The door opens. Patrick sees Jenna Strouble standing there, gun in hand. In that split second, he utters the last words he would ever speak: “What are you doing, bitch?”

Then the gunfire erupts.

According to prosecutors and court documents, Strouble unleashes a relentless barrage — firing 14 shots in rapid succession at Patrick Forde. The bullets tear through the doorway as she advances from the porch into the house. Patrick collapses in the front dining room, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Seconds later, 54-year-old Stacy Forde, hearing her husband’s screams, rushes down the stairs. Strouble turns the gun on her too, shooting her at least three times in the stairwell. Both Patrick and Stacy Forde lie dead in the entryway of their own suburban home.

The entire sequence — from Strouble trying to use Jacob’s keys to the final shots — was captured on the family’s doorbell camera, giving investigators and the public a raw, terrifying window into one of the most calculated triple homicides in recent memory.

It was the night of March 22–23, 2026. Jenna Strouble, 30, a mother of two from St. John, Indiana, had allegedly planned the massacre for months. She bought a Glock 19 fitted with a suppressor specifically for the killings. She texted her on-again, off-again boyfriend and the father of her two young children, 32-year-old Jacob Lambert, asking if he wanted to “hang out” and go for a drive.

Jacob agreed. He had no idea he was walking into a death trap.

Strouble drove him to a quiet area near Plum Creek Nature Preserve. She offered him a “surprise” back massage. Jacob reclined the passenger seat, removed his shirt, and lay face-down. For about 20 minutes she massaged his back. Then she reached under the seat, pulled out the silenced handgun, and pressed it to the back of his head.

She held it there for several minutes, later telling investigators she wavered and considered stopping. But something — a comment from Jacob — made her pull the trigger. One shot to the head. Jacob Lambert was dead instantly.

Instead of panicking, Strouble allegedly lit a cigarette, composed herself, and drove the short distance to his parents’ home on East Norway Trail in Crete Township. Her plan wasn’t over. She intended to eliminate the entire family she blamed for constantly interfering in her life and how she raised her two small children.

The doorbell CCTV shows her arriving, keys in hand — keys taken from Jacob’s body. She fumbles at the lock. Patrick Forde hears the disturbance and confronts her. His shocked outburst — “What are you doing, bitch?” — becomes the final trigger. Strouble opens fire immediately, shooting from the porch and continuing as she steps inside the house. Patrick is hit multiple times and collapses in the dining room. Stacy rushes down the stairs and is shot in the stairwell.

When deputies arrived for a welfare check around 2 a.m., the front door was still open. They found Jacob Lambert’s body slumped in the car in the driveway, and Patrick and Stacy Forde dead inside near the entryway. Shell casings littered the floor.

Strouble, 30, now faces nine counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say the killings were premeditated and targeted, driven by deep resentment over co-parenting. She allegedly complained that Jacob’s parents were “overbearing” and kept intervening in her life and the children’s lives, even though she was never married to Jacob. She had voluntarily turned the kids over to him and his family at one point, only recently getting them back.

In interviews with investigators, Strouble spoke with disturbing calmness. She admitted the sequence of events and showed little remorse. When asked about killing Jacob’s parents, she reportedly indicated it was partly so they could not have custody of the children. She even allegedly mentioned considering killing her own parents for similar reasons.

The two young children — ages 3 and 4 — have now lost their father and both paternal grandparents in a single night of unimaginable violence. They are left with a mother charged with wiping out their entire paternal family.

The south Chicago suburbs and northwest Indiana are still reeling. Crete Township is a quiet, family-oriented area where such brutality seems unthinkable. Neighbors are horrified that a simple text to “hang out” could end in a triple execution — one carefully staged massage turned death trap, followed by a home invasion using the victim’s own keys.

The doorbell camera footage has become a crucial piece of evidence, capturing not just the shootings but the cold determination in Strouble’s actions as she tried to let herself into the house with Jacob’s keys. It shows a woman who had just killed the father of her children and then drove straight to his parents’ door to finish the job.

Strouble waived extradition from Indiana and is being held in Will County without bond. Prosecutors have emphasized the calculated nature of the crimes, asking the court to keep her detained until trial. Her next court appearance is being closely watched as the case moves forward.

This triple homicide has ignited intense discussion about toxic co-parenting relationships, custody battles, and how resentment over family “interference” can allegedly spiral into unthinkable violence. A mother of two allegedly planned for months, lured her ex with a friendly message, made him vulnerable with a fake massage, executed him, then used his own keys to enter his parents’ home and gun them down after one defiant question.

Patrick Forde’s last words — “What are you doing, bitch?” — echo with raw defiance in the face of death. They were met with a hail of 14 bullets.

For the Forde and Lambert families, the pain is unimaginable. For the community, the doorbell camera footage serves as a haunting reminder of how quickly suburban normalcy can shatter when long-simmering grievances turn lethal.

Jenna Strouble allegedly carried out her plan with chilling precision: lure, isolate, execute, then eliminate the rest. The CCTV from the family’s own front door now stands as silent, devastating proof of those final terrifying moments.

Three people are dead. Two small children are left without their father and grandparents. And one woman sits in custody facing nine counts of first-degree murder — all because, according to her, the family wouldn’t stop interfering in her life and the way she wanted to raise her kids.

The suburbs south of Chicago will never forget the night a “surprise” massage turned deadly, and a set of borrowed keys opened the door to horror.