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we were talking about the initial investigation and how it started to stall out now that was 20 years ago
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almost to the day that Jennifer Meck was found dead in the Long Branch Creek over
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the years there has been several efforts to reinvigorate the investigation and kind of Kickstart this thing one more
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time in 2006 we have playing cards that were released and 2006 a deck of playing
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cards featuring cold cases was released the two of diamonds was Jennifer's card her photo General case information and
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where to report any information that you may have were all on Jennifer's card tips did come in but sadly the tips
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generated from this tactic so far in the Jennifer menck case LED nowhere in 2013
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the case got a little movement this was in May of 2013 when the Clay County deputies and
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the FDLE the Florida Department of Law Enforcement searched a home at 200 meland Road for possible evidence
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relating to Jennifer's murder it's not clear whether this was pursuant to a tip that they received or what in fact led
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the investigators to this property but we do know that it was searched the home was about 2 miles away from where
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Jennifer's Body was eventually found from my understanding Captain the short version of the result of this search was
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that nothing was located in the home related to the case well what's interesting in this case is when
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Jennifer went missing from her home we have a lot of eyewitnesses around the park that saw her so we have this knife
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handle that is a piece of evidence that the police can go around and say does anybody in this tight-knit community
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they're all like really close together has anybody ever seen this knife before yeah because they have the handle for it
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they are referring to it as a unique item it doesn't look to me to be particularly expensive but that doesn't
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mean that it's particularly common so you're right this is a um like a a gold color brass color metall looking handle
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that they could at least go around with a picture of asking is this something that you've seen before this is not a
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small item right this is not the kind of knife that you're putting in your pocket
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and walking around with this is kind of picture Rambo right survival knife type situation where this is going to be I I
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don't want to say a foot in length from from the butt to the the point but it's going to be a a a rather decent size
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item here in December of 2013 the Clay County dive teams decided that they were going to combine a
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training exercise with an additional search effort for more evidence in the Stream where Jennifer was found so they
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ended up using sophisticated underwater metal detectors that could penetrate the
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2 feet of silt that lay at the bottom of the water they were looking for the night
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blade of course and any other potential evidence in Jennifer's case they did not
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find the knife blade they did recover some items these items were a padlock and a
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pocketknife but law enforcement say that these items are not believed to be related in any way to their
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investigation or the murder well that answers my question cuz initially when they find the handle under her body my
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my question was May maybe the blade broke off and I hate to be graphic but maybe the blade broke off inside of
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Jennifer that's very possible and with no autopsy report we can't confirm that but but with this extra dive and what
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they're looking for we can confirm it wasn't found inside Jennifer in case you haven't figured it out so far A little
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spoiler alert here Jennifer's case is unsolved 20 years ago this week in Jacksonville Florida someone killed this
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14-year-old girl and now as we approach this 20-year marker we can only hope that this case does not continue to
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remain unsolved and unresolved yeah maybe we can turn up the heat a little bit on someone yeah get hot in the hot
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tub because I hope that the person responsible knows that there are plenty of people on this case that are not
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going to give up law enforcement has told us that this case case is solvable and will be solved so let's take a quick
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look see at some suspects who are either being considered or were considered at one time in this case now my thoughts
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are captain that basically we have what I believe would be our two highest of probabilities here right basically two
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choices for who killed Jennifer or where we're going to find this individual or individuals either someone in the the
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trailer park attacked and killed this still naive and vulnerable teen possibly even grooming her or after grooming her
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or someone outside of the trailer park maybe even a stranger was responsible here so we have to consider the
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possibility however remote it may be the Jennifer fell victim to an opportunistic
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killer if she left Woodland Estates and walked off on her own yeah and we have the report of her being seen leaving
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Woodland Estates then anyone could have killed her I mean perhaps she accepted a
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ride from a stranger wanting to head to Downtown Jacksonville or got talked into
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going somewhere getting into the vehicle well a piece of evidence that we have that I'd like to know more about and I
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think is really kind of the Crux of this case is this possible engagement ring because to me if it is a a possible
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engagement ring or even a promise ring or just a gift in a romantic gesture or someone trying to woo her to me that
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that leans more towards the idea that Jennifer knew her her murderer intimately yes knew her murderer and I
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mean even if how brief we cannot say right but again it could be so simple that she found this on the ground or
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that she when she was couch surfing that she maybe stole some items and that's something that law enforcement can
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figure out pretty easy figure out who she was staying with but again we have that problem because some people aren't
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stating that oh well yeah she slept on my couch because I'm an adult man and I don't even want to admit to that but
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they could go around and say who did she stay with is there any items missing and
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again this is just like the knife handle this is a item that you can now go around to the community and say have you
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seen this before so two things I couldn't find a definitive statement of anyone saying anywhere that this ring is
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something that appeared on her after she left her mom's house but I have to believe that it is with the way that
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it's worded and stated in some of these reports but what is not also readily available and if anyone can find this
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out there and can confirm that it is from Jennifer's case this is a call to action for sending this to us or or
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posting a link of the picture on our blog at true Crim garage.com exactly what the captain just
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said we have a nice visual a picture of the knife handle that was found the murder weapon handle that was found we
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don't have a nice visual or a picture of this quote unquote engagement ring and you're exactly right Captain this is
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something that you could be taking around what we don't have you know we we talk about maybe she could have stolen
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it from someone or someone gave it to her for reasons that are not evil Deeds at
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all but we don't have anybody coming forward saying yes I gave that to her or oh I I did see her briefly and I was I'm
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missing some jewelry and that's a piece that I'm missing right and look it could
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it could also be just one of her friends going oh she ran away from home she's going through a hard time I'm going to
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steal this from my parents and and maybe they those people have nothing to do with her murder but you could see why
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they wouldn't want to come forward uh especially I guess but I I don't know why you wouldn't want to help
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in a situation where you're not guilty of anything no I understand that but and a 14-year-old was murdered no I
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understand that but I also think that if maybe some time past I could see an individual with maybe has a bad history
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just going I I don't want to look we we've seen a lot of cold cases where a couple years go by and nothing is moving
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and and the law enforcement gets a little string and they keep pulling and pulling even if they're going in the
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wrong direction they just keep because they feel on some level we have to blame this on somebody so I I could see
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somebody you know maybe realizing a couple years after the fact all that that ring is somehow related to us uh
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and I don't want to come forward because I don't want to be possibly thrown under
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the bus and where my mind goes is when you have this ring that that's on her person found on her person mind you
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she's not clothed when found so there's not a lot of items found with her or on her at the time when you find her
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murdered and this item on her and this is something she didn't have in her possession to anyone's knowledge before
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she quote went missing then this is important to her murder this item is part of the murder
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investigation until you can explain it away and Rule it out as not being anything to do with the murder now what
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we have here when we review the possibilities of a killer known to the victim or a killer unknown to the victim
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we do have to consider the fact that she was 14 years old and could be called a run way if you want to and sometimes you
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know 14-year-old runaways get ideas that are not founded in rational thinking and
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there was one suspected serial killer who was looked at in Jennifer's case and so we do have to at least explore the
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idea and we know that law enforcement explored the idea that there was a possibility that maybe she did leave the
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mobile home park and got into somebody's vehicle so the suspect that I'm talking
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about has never been entirely ruled out in this case so news4 Jacksonville reported one year after Jennifer's
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murder the following that the Clay County Sheriff's office has confirmed to channel 4 at that time that they were
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looking at Richard avanet as a possible suspect in the murder of 14-year-old Jennifer metek earlier this year so who
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is this Richard avanet he is an individual that abducted a a 15-year-old girl in South Carolina
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in June of 2002 he raped her and physically abused her in other ways but she managed to escape and then she goes
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to police so the way that I this works this this portion of what he's guilty of works is he pulls up he sees this
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15-year-old girl in her front yard pulls up streets side says that he's selling magazines she approaches the vehicle and
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once she's close enough to maybe view these magazines if they even existed at all he pulls a gun and at gunpoint he
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orders her into his vehicle from there he takes her back to his apartment where she's restrained and
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assaulted this is like the Twisted psychological torture stuff that some of these guys really get off on right he
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made her or or sat with her and watched the that night's news to see if there were if they were going to report her
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missing or if there was any reports of her missing she says that he he goes into the other room she's handcuffed but
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at some point he falls asleep and she can hear him snoring so she knows that he's asleep this is when she manages to
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get out of the handcuffs flee the apartment and go off and get some help well she's able to
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tell the police the apartment where she was kept even though just briefly for you know some hours so they know who
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this dude is and he must have got up discovered rather quickly that she's gone he decides he takes off so police
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are out on the lookout for this dude they put in an APB out for avanet he's then spotted sometime later
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and Sarah inota Florida where police tracked him down there was an armed standoff that ensued which ended when
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avanet shot himself in the head the Navy times wrote a great piece about this incident one portion of it reads as
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follows quote trapped by a half dozen cops with guns drawn on a dark Florida Highway as a police dog's teeth sank
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into his ankle Richard Mark avanet put the muzzle of a 45 caliber handgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger end
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quote well this guy was a giant piece of [ __ ] but if you look up Richard he looks like the dad next door
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we see this from time to time where we bring up a serial killer and you Google search him and you go that guy looks
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like a monster that guy is nothing behind those eyes now what's interesting about a lot of Richard's pictures is it
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remember when we talked about uh we talked to that one private investigator and she talked about just the black eyes
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it's like everything about him looks normal but it's almost like he has these really like dark dead nothing eyes
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people often say when they encounter one of these individuals that there seems to
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be nothing behind the eyes yeah isn't that kind of a trait of like a psychopath where you feel like they're
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constantly looking through you and not at you well his death did not conclude the investigation into him personally
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right since now it was evident that he was a predator and a child rapist the Navy times goes on to say the single
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gunshot brought a quick death to the 38-year-old Navy veteran but only started the questions of what he did in
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his life so the FBI requested that anyone who knew avanet during his time in the Navy to
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please contact the FBI a per the Jacksonville 4 news station that we quoted earlier clay and Duval counties
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were two of they were just two of 20 police agencies that were examining unsolved crimes from the times that avit
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was in or known to be in their areas in the 80s and early 1990s avit was a Navy sonar technician he was stationed aboard
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the SS kulch from 1985 to 1989 out of Naval Station mport in Jacksonville Florida so he's familiar
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with this area in 1987 in what is now known to be his first offense let's right underline that first known offense
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right it's believed that we do not know the full extent of this man's crimes or possibly even his
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murders so in this 1987 offense he drove up to a young girl and started this is M this is disgusting he
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drove up to a young girl and started masturbating near her she ran off crying and a neighbor wrote down the license
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plate number before avanet drove away after he was caught he pled no contest to a felony of lwd and lascivious
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conduct in front of a minor per the Navy times according to a police report from
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the 1987 arrest avanet told investigators that he hadn't he had a habit of driving around spotting a young
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girl preferably a brunette catching her attention and then masturbating for this
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incredibly disgusting hobby avanet got three years probation at this same time he was separately undergoing treatment
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for drug and alcohol addiction now none of this this was apparently enough to get him kicked out of the Navy which
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Navy officials later admitted it should have in fact he went on to receive some Good Conduct medals for before leaving
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the Navy in 1992 you whip it out we lock you up you know what they say click it or tick it right zip it or tick it I
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don't care what anybody says you know how disturbing it would be for these females to come up walking wherever and
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you see a guy just you know beating it as if it owes him money that person there should be no probation there
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should be at least some minimal minimum jail time after his time in the Navy avanet worked a series of jobs in
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Virginia and South Carolina including a job at a machine shop uh where he was an
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employee in Virginia from 1995 to 1999 then his home was foreclosed Ed and he moved to South Carolina where he was
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originally from and here's where it gets I guess I guess interesting is what we're going to say when the police
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raided Avon's home after that 2002 rape of the South Carolina girl and then his suicide when they cornered him they
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found some interesting stuff it was evidence possibly linking him to the kidnapping and murder of three girls
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in Virginia where he was living at the time of their murders so this would be the 1996 to 1997 time frame these were
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sisters Kristen and Katie Lisk and a girl named Sophia Silva the clues found included newspaper articles about the
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murders and handwritten notes mapping out the areas where the victims lived we're not going to to get into the
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Weeds on these murders here because we're talking about Jennifer's case but these murders of course were unsolved at
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the time at 2002 when they found these items in his apartment but the FBI called avit a strong suspect in the Lisk
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and Silva cases and boy were they right because after his death analysis showed that hair from Richard avanet matched
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hairs found on the bodies of all all three girls and blue acrylic fibers from a pair of furry handcuffs right he owned
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were gathered from the three victims perhaps the most damning evidence was a palm print and fingerprints matching
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Christen Lisk found from the inside of the trunk of a vet's car these were found five years after
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break his legs off shove him up his ass and then [ __ ] down his throat well good
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news you won't have to do any of that because as said the police surrounded him the dogs are biting into his legs
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and he's he decided to end it for us now that can be good that can be bad it's bad for some of these investigations it
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seems to me pretty cut and dried right that this guy is guilty of these three murders but what else is he guilty of
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well he's also guilty of the Abduction of Cara Robinson but she got free and then once it's brought to light what
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this creep was up to you know neighbors recalled avanet as someone who had an unhealthy interest in young girls and
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believe you me this seems like an understatement so what is it that connects Richard of vonet to Jennifer
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metac not a whole heck of a lot but but there is enough to be intriguing first avanet lived in Clay County where
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Jennifer's Body was eventually found he lived there in the late 80s and then after his death in 2002 from the
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Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Rick Graham said quote we do have a connection of him being in this city in
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the late 80s we will be going back to that time period and looking to see if there's possibilities that Mr avanet
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could be connected to any unsolved murders back in that era now it's worth noting that they do not have specific
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information or did not at that time that ianet was in the Jacksonville area in the year of 2001 when Jennifer was
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killed the last time he was known to be in that city was more than a decade beforeand but avanet traveled around a
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lot as we've already pointed out neighbors reported that he had an unhealthy interest in prepubescent girls
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and by his own admission avanet was into young brunette girls further the murders
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of Sophia Silva and sisters Katie and Kristen Lisk bear a similarity to Jennifer's case here's some information
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from the Navy times see if you can discern why we've included these cases and why these cases would be of interest
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to Jennifer metx investigators Silva 16 years old disappeared from her front porch on September 16th 1997 her body
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was found Days Later wrapped in a blanket near an area Creek Katie 12 and Kristen 15 were
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abducted from the front yard of their home on May 1st 1997 their bodies were found in a nearby River just days later
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so pretty obvious right here Captain where we have our victim Jennifer madanick that was known to be or
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believed to be still in the area in her General neighborhood and then later found in a creek similar situation with
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all three of these girls at ranged in age from 12 to 16 and of course Jennifer fits right in the middle of those ages a
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vonet who was intimately familiar with the area where Jennifer was found liked to murder brunette teen girls and then
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dump them in or near waterways now that's not enough of course to connect him to Jennifer's case right and at
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least two of his other victims were strangled not stabbed but we do know from the
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abduction that he was also known to use a gun so he's he's not wedded to the use
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of just one type of weapon right and because he also these could be crimes of opportunity so it's could just be
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whatever he has on him at the time both of these crimes the three murders together they do appear to me to be
00:32:08
crimes of opportunity and we have his own admission to police saying that he would drive around looking for girls
00:32:15
well let me throw out one thing that might just seem very obvious but in this case like we know when she leaves her
00:32:23
mother's house we have multiple eyewitnesses to say Where She Went afterwards or that they saw her and we
00:32:31
believe them because the story checks out so to me the idea that she left the park because we have eyewitness accounts
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of this to me this is information that we should believe because the other eyewitnesses accounts were correct she
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was seen leaving the park the interesting thing to me here Captain is we don't know the the details of this
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but we do have the statement from police that she was at a party right and so several of these ey Witnesses could have
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been at the same party and I want to know exactly when this party took place because is she there at this party
00:33:15
talking to her peers and kind of filling them in on her whereabouts or what she's been up to
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since she's left Mommy's house right so these would be statements that they're later a ble to pass along to the
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sheriff's department and as you pointed out they're probably backed up by other Witnesses statements right if a vonet
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did Kill Jennifer long story short he took that secret with him to his grave but I think what we should do here is
00:33:45
circle back to our other idea that someone closer to home someone that likely knew Jennifer even no matter how
00:33:53
brief and the killer could have been someone that she possibly trusted so let's look at what evidence we have that
00:34:00
the killer was someone who resided or spent time in Woodland Estates the original investigator on the case
00:34:09
remember this is a 20-year-old case here was Lieutenant Jim Redmond who was a seasoned dedicated law enforcement
00:34:18
officer he said publicly after the murder that he believed that Jennifer's killer was quote from the area he told
00:34:26
the union and went on to say quote the fact of the matter is she didn't run away from her
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community it was more of an issue of frequent curfew violations we believe she was still
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right in the community where she lived this case will get solved right in that area where she lived end quote so
00:34:50
clearly police were looking at someone close to home but like you said almost to the day
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this is a 20-year-old case mhm and when you have a case that's gone on that long
00:35:04
you have Peaks and valleys when you get new information maybe you then reach out
00:35:09
to the public try to get people talking and then you have LS we just nothing new
00:35:15
information's not coming in you're not getting any tips it's hard to work the case in those scenarios but through the
00:35:21
whole time we believe law enforcement had some suspects that they were always working on yeah and it looks to me
00:35:28
Captain like Klay county has about five unsolved homicides in this time span so they have a good
00:35:40
success rate when it comes to solving similar types of crimes and similar types of cases and what you're going to
00:35:47
see here is even though they're not announcing everything publicly there seems to have been a lot that was going
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on behind the scenes in this particular case and we catch a little wind of that from a statement from 2015 this was
00:36:02
Lieutenant Wayne mckenny of Clay County Sheriff's Office who supervised its robbery/homicide Special Victims
00:36:11
division he said we actually had some suspects over the years that we have talked to we've had some Persons of
00:36:18
Interest that we've definitely been interested in who was he talking about well detectives believe and still
00:36:24
believe that Jennifer was killed by someone from Woodland Estates Cold Case detective Rob shover kind of backs up a
00:36:32
lot of this thought here who he told us as intriguing as the Richard vonet lead seems we got to go back to the very
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beginning and that investigators were convinced very early on that Jennifer was killed by someone from her
00:36:48
neighborhood and he said that they were able to gather credible information regarding specific individuals at the
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mobile home park so here's what I was able to piece together here captain in in this regard we know that Jennifer was
00:37:05
hanging around the Woodland Estates well she was very unwisely hanging around with the wrong crowd and this is per her
00:37:14
mother's statements per law enforcement's statements as well now we figured out that there was a large party
00:37:21
scene in Woodland Estates and as we stated earlier it was pretty sh there was one home in particular where
00:37:29
impressionable young people this is both boys and girls teenagers this includes underage kids
00:37:37
who were Jennifer's peers where they went to hang out and this was to drink possibly do drugs and maybe even have
00:37:48
all sorts of sexual Liaisons the home was toward the front of the park and was occupied by two guys in their early
00:37:57
20s either they had a liking for young girls or couldn't manage to pick up women of their own age and they're
00:38:05
housing these underage parties frequently in their trailer a little birdie has told us that Jennifer was
00:38:12
involved with one of them and the relationship did involve drugs and sex it's possible that she was groomed by
00:38:22
these guys or one of the guys in particular giving her drugs or tempting her with drugs maybe one of these guys
00:38:32
gave her that ring that was found later maybe even promised that he loved her in some way
00:38:40
through police interviews with people in the trailer park they learned that several other guys may have had some
00:38:46
type of romantic exchange with Jennifer now mind you we shouldn't have to point this out but this is a 14-year-old girl
00:38:54
so these guys are all essentially pedophiles anyway investigators gathered that Jennifer had been hanging out at
00:39:03
this sketchy party home in the time that she was quote missing now through secondhand statements we learned that
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Witnesses said that they saw Jennifer and she was last seen getting into a pickup truck owned by one of these guys
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this on Wednesday remember her body was found on Thursday right so Witnesses seen Jennifer getting into a pickup
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truck owned by one of these guys on Wednesday and leaving Woodland Estates in the company of the two party guys
00:39:35
from the mobile home on Thursday her body was found these two Predators the last people known to have been seen with
00:39:43
Jennifer our victim are Gregory Allen gfin and David Michael getts these names have never been released publicly before
00:39:52
that we know of now even though investigators knew that gets and GIF and were their guys when they brought them
00:39:59
in for questioning they ran into some trouble here what we have is that gfin gives a sworn statement that he was
00:40:08
present when Jennifer was murdered by his friend David Michael gets but then he retracted this statement and then
00:40:17
kept flip-flopping on his story and the state's attorney decided that given the unreliability of this discredited
00:40:27
statement against gets even though authorities believe gfin and gets are in fact responsible for Jennifer's murder
00:40:35
there was not enough to proceed with charges at that time so one piece of [ __ ] says hey this other piece of [ __ ]
00:40:43
he's responsible and then when they come back he says oh no no no no no I changed
00:40:48
my mind the old waffling the old flip-flopping yes but we've also seen people be interrogated and throw some
00:40:56
somebody under the bus that is innocent well investigators talking with people at the Woodland Estates in the days
00:41:03
after Jennifer's murder found out that gats was seen cleaning out his truck the day after Jennifer was killed he washed
00:41:12
it down and cleaned out the inside potentially eradicating possible evidence and Jennifer's clothes her
00:41:18
clothing was never found and neither was the knife blade so other than the witness statements that Jennifer was
00:41:26
involved with one of the guys or one of these guys that she had been hanging out
00:41:32
in their trailer when her mom was looking for her and that she had been seen in get's truck with the both of
00:41:40
them and then had turned up dead the next day there was nothing concrete beyond that to go on apparently our boy
00:41:48
gfin is in prison in Oklahoma and has been visited by the investigating agency trying to persuade him to talk but the
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inmate would not cooperate gfin and GS have never been charged with Jennifer's murder well maybe somebody from this
00:42:08
park knows that one of these turd bags own the knife or possibly own this ring that they gave to Jennifer Jennifer's
00:42:18
mom died of a heart attack in 2011 but luckily clay County's Cold Case Investigator David shover is still
00:42:27
Seeking Justice in her case there has been some good news in the case the State's Attorney's office has decided to
00:42:36
take another look at Jennifer's case representatives from that office collected all of the files from Clay
00:42:42
County homicide and are reviewing the file detective shover tells us that they believe gfin and gets are guilty and he
00:42:52
is hopeful that they will decide to press charges for Jennifer murder old gfin and gets sounds like a
00:43:00
record company from the 20s one of them confessed before maybe one of them would
00:43:06
confess again but it's been 20 years and let me remind you of this statement this
00:43:13
statement by law enforcement this was a 14-year-old girl who was brutally murdered and dumped into the creek like
00:43:21
a piece of trash and she was murdered by pieces of trash and people saw her walking around talking with people
00:43:29
hanging out with people and possibly being at a party somebody has seen more or heard more or maybe one of these
00:43:39
scumbags gifing or gets has told somebody something and somebody out there has information and they've been
00:43:46
holding on to this information for quite a long time Justice needs to be served and you if you know something you need
00:43:54
to say something and you need to contact law enforcement well and maybe you're an
00:43:59
eyewitness or an ear witness to something during that time period when she was away from home leading up to her
00:44:08
death or maybe you've heard something or been told something since then in the last 20 years and it was something that
00:44:17
was a little confusing to you but now hearing the names knowing the names Gregory Allen gfin and David Michael
00:44:24
gets maybe that picture becomes a little clearer to you and maybe you now have a
00:44:30
better understanding of what it was that you heard or something that you may have
00:44:34
seen all those years ago it's not too late to inform law enforcement about what you know they
00:44:43
still if you don't have direct information regarding the murder itself or the moving of the body or the
00:44:50
disposal of her body they still want to fill in the blanks on that timeline from
00:44:57
the time that she left her mother Angie's home to the time that she ended up in Long Branch Creek in one of the
00:45:05
more recent articles about Jennifer's homicide and the ongoing investigation this was titled unsolved the murder of
00:45:12
Jennifer metac by Katherine jeffri in the article detective shover says I know some people are out there
00:45:21
with knowledge and for whatever reason are not coming forward but you have to look at this 14-year-old girl she didn't
00:45:28
deserve to die like this the wounds that you could see during the autopsy it was
00:45:33
very gruesome but the way she died it was a horrible and tragic death for her to
00:45:39
have to go through again Jennifer meck's life was brutally ended in November of 2001 her body was found dumped under a
00:45:48
small bridge in a desolate area along County Road to 17 the evidence at the scene indicates the body was probably
00:45:57
dumped off of the bridge this is just one of a handful of unsolved murder cases in Clay County detective Ron
00:46:05
shover with the Clay County Sheriff's Office primarily focus is bringing closure to these cold cases so he is
00:46:14
reopening This Cold Case again if you have any information whether you think it's big or small it could be a very
00:46:23
little detail that could help law enforce ment if you know something say something on November 5th 2001
00:46:31
Jennifer's mother reported her missing reported her daughter missing we need to fill in the blanks on that timeline
00:46:37
because 3 days later her body was found in that Creek 11 miles away from home detectives believed that she bled to
00:46:45
death after receiving multiple stab wounds underneath her body investigators found the handle of a knife with strands
00:46:53
of Jennifer's Hair of of course they believe this is the murder weapon so any information about the knife itself is
00:47:00
crucial and important also remember her clothing the items that she was last seen wearing brown sandals green and
00:47:08
black shorts and a white T-shirt with red lips on it have never been found either and the knife handle was just one
00:47:17
of several pieces of evidence collected from the scene evidence the Clay County Sheriff's Office says they are
00:47:23
resubmitting for DNA testing and as we know there are people who law enforcement is looking at looking at are
00:47:31
looking at very closely in fact detective shover says to this day there are a couple of individuals that are
00:47:38
Persons of Interest and high on the list and he firmly believes there are people
00:47:43
who know more than what they told detectives in 2001 quote I know some people are out there with knowledge and
00:47:50
for whatever reason are not coming forward a special Thanks goes out to Klay County Sheriff office for their
00:47:56
hard work and continued efforts on this now 20 yearold case and kudos to Katie Jeff for her great reporting keeping
00:48:05
Jennifer's case and others in the spotlight and efforts to spread awareness of these cases and reminding
00:48:12
the public that law enforcement needs your help if you know something say something if anyone listening knows
00:48:19
anything at all about the murder of Jennifer Meck in 2001 even if you think it's something of no importance or
00:48:26
significance please contact the Clay County Sheriff's Office and let them decide if your tip could help anyone
00:48:34
with information should call the Clay County Sheriff's Office at 90426 [Music] [Applause]
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46512 thank you so much for joining us here in the garage and keeping this little garage show afloat we would be
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nothing if it weren't for you colel do we have any recommended reading for this week this week we are recommending Amy
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my search for her Killer by longtime friend of the show James rener last week 32 years ago was the day that Amy
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mahalic was abducted from Bay Village Ohio I want to give a shout out and High Praise to everybody that participated in
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the walk for Amy last week check out James renner's book Amy my search for her killer you can also find our case
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coverage for the Amy mahalic case on episodes 22 308 309 345 346 and episode 463 so we've been covering this case for
00:49:49
the past 5 years check out that recommendation and many others on True Crime garage
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