LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — She spent just two weeks in the hospital but will likely remember the pain for a lifetime.

Jesserae Beck, 42, with metal pins in her ribs and a partially collapsed lung, is still missing patches of hair after a brutal alleged assault and kidnapping at the end of September .

Beck, from Palmyra, has spent her life in Nebraska, building a community much more extensive now after Lincoln came together to share her missing persons photo just weeks ago.

“I met Chris in July of last year. We started seeing each other, going on dates,” she said. “Our relationship was kind of on-and-off.”

Beck explained she loved being around Christopher Collins, 36. They loved cooking together, and it fit perfectly with her nurturing nature that she got to cook for him, too.

But their

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