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[Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] yesterday Captain we were talking about
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the initial investigation and how it started to stall out now that was 20 years ago almost to the day that
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Jennifer meternak was found dead in the Long Branch Creek over the years there has been
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several efforts to reinvigorate the investigation and kind of kick start this thing one more time in 2006 we have
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playing cards that were released in 2006 a deck of playing cards featuring cold cases was released the two of diamonds
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was Jennifer's card her photo General case information and where to report any information that you may have were all
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on Jennifer's card tips did come in but sadly the tips generated from this tactic so far in the Jennifer meninck
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case LED nowhere in 2013 the case got a little movement this was in May of 2013 when the Clay
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County deputies and the FDLE the Florida Department of Law Enforcement searched a
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home at 200 mcleland Road for possible evidence relating to Jennifer's murder it's not clear whether this was pursuant
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to a tip did they received or what in fact led the investigators to this property but we do know that it was
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searched the home was about two miles away from where Jennifer's Body was eventually found from my understanding
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Captain the short version of the result of this search was that nothing was located in the home related to the case
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well what's interesting in this case is when Jennifer went missing from her home
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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 gold color brass color metal 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 rather decent sized item
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here in December of 2013 the Clay County dive teams decided that they were going to combine a training
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exercise with an additional search effort for more evidence in the Stream where Jennifer was found so they ended up
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using sophisticated underwater metal detectors that could penetrate the two feet of silt that lay at the bottom of
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the water they were looking for the knife blade of course in any other potential
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evidence in Jennifer's case they did not find the knife blade they did recover some items these items were a padlock
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and a pocket knife 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 because initially when they find the handle under her body
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my my question was maybe the blade broke off and I hate to be graphic but maybe the blade broke off inside of Jennifer
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that's very possible and with no autopsy report we can't confirm that but but with this extra dive and what they're
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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
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Florida someone killed this 14 year old girl and now as we approach this 20-year
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marker we can only hope that this case does not continue to remain unsolved and unresolved yeah
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maybe we can turn up the heat a little bit on someone yeah get hot in the hot tub because I hope that the person
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responsible knows that there are plenty of people on this case that are not going to give up law enforcement has
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told us that this case is solvable and will be solved so let's take a quick look-see at some suspects who are either
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being considered or were considered at one time in this case now my thoughts are captain that basically we have
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what I believe would be our two highest of probabilities here right basically two choices for who killed Jennifer or
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where we're going to find this individual or individuals either someone in the trailer park attacked and killed
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this still naive and vulnerable teen possibly even grooming her or after grooming her or someone outside of the
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trailer park maybe even a stranger was responsible here so we have to consider the possibility however remote it may be
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that Jennifer fell victim to an opportunistic killer if she left Woodland Estates and walked off on her
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own yeah and we have the report of her being seen leaving Woodland Estates than anyone could have killed her
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I mean perhaps she accepted a ride from a stranger wanting to head to Downtown Jacksonville or got talked into going
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somewhere or 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 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 an 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
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and if anyone can find this out there and can confirm that it is from Jennifer's case
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this is a call to action for sending this to us or or posting a link of the picture on our
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blog at truecrime garage.com exactly what the captain just said we have a nice visual
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a picture of the knife handle that was found the murder weapon handle that was found we don't have a nice visual or
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picture of this quote-unquote engagement ring and you're exactly right Captain this is something that you could be
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taking around what we don't have you know we we talk about maybe she could have stolen it from someone or
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someone gave it to her for reasons that are not evil Deeds at all but we don't have anybody coming forward
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saying yes I gave that to her or oh I I did see her briefly and I was I'm missing some jewelry and that's a piece
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that I'm missing right and look it could it could also be just one of our friends
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going oh she ran away from home she's going through a hard time I'm gonna steal this from my parents and and maybe
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they those people have nothing to do with her murder but you could see why they wouldn't want to come forward
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uh especially I guess but I don't know why you wouldn't want to help in a situation where you're not guilty
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of anything no I understand that behind a 14 year old was murdered no I understand that but I also think that if
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maybe some time passed I could see an individual with maybe has a bad history just going I I don't want to
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look we've seen a lot of cold cases where a couple years go by and nothing is moving and and the law enforcement
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gets a little string and they keep pulling and pulling even if they're going in the wrong direction they just
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keep because they feel on some level we have to blame this on somebody so I I could see somebody you know maybe
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realizing a couple years after the fact all that that ring is somehow related to
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us uh and I don't want to come forward because I don't want to be possibly thrown under the bus and where my mind
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goes is when you have this ring that that's on her person found on her person mind you she's not clothed when found so
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there's not a lot of items found with her or on her at the time when you find her murdered and this item on her and
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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 runaway 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
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the idea and we know that law enforcement explored the idea that there was a possibility that maybe she did
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leave the mobile home park and got into somebody's vehicle so the suspect that I'm talking about has never been
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entirely ruled out in this case so News 4 Jacksonville reported one year after Jennifer's murder the following that the
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Clay County Sheriff's office has confirmed to channel 4 at that time that they were looking at Richard avonics
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as a possible suspect in the murder of fourteen-year-old Jennifer metternack earlier this year so who is this Richard
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ivonis he is an individual that abducted a 15 year old girl in South Carolina in June
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of 2002. he raped her and physically abused her in other ways but she managed to escape and then she goes to police
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so the way that I this works this this portion of what he's guilty of works is he pulls up he sees this 15 year old
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girl in her front yard pulls up Street side says that he's selling magazines she approaches the vehicle and once
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she's close enough to maybe view these magazines if they even existed at all he pulls a gun and at gunpoint he orders
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her into his vehicle from there he takes her back to his apartment where she's restrained and assaulted
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this is like the Twisted psychological torture stuff that some of these guys really get off
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on right he made her or or sat with her and watched the that night's news to see
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if there were if they were going to report her missing or if there was any reports of her missing she says that he
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he goes into the other room she's handcuffed but at some point he falls asleep and she can hear him snoring so
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she knows that he's asleep this is when she manages to get out of the handcuffs flee the apartment and go off and get
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some help well she's able to tell the police the apartment where she was kept even though just briefly for you
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know some hours so they know who this dude is and he must have got up discovered rather quickly that she's
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gone he decides he takes off so police are out on the lookout for this dude they put in an APB out for
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avonics he's then spotted sometime later in Sarasota Florida where police tracked him down there was
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an armed standoff that ensued which ended when avonics shot himself in the head the Navy times wrote a great
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piece about this incident one portion of it reads as follows quote trapped by a half dozen cops with guns
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drawn on a dark Florida Highway as a police dog's teeth sank into his ankle Richard Mark avonitz
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put the muzzle of a 45 caliber handgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger end quote well this guy was a giant piece of
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[ __ ] but if you look up Richard he looks like the dad next door we see this from time to time where we bring up
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a serial killer and you Google search them and you go that guy looks like a monster that guy is nothing behind those
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eyes now what's interesting about a lot of Richard's pictures remember when we talked about uh we
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talked to that one private investigator and she talked about this 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
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him personally right since now it was evident that he was a predator and a child rapist the Navy times goes on to
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say the single gunshot brought a quick death to the 38-year-old Navy veteran but only started the questions of what
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he did in his life so the FBI requested that anyone who knew avonics 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 in Duval counties
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were two of they were just two of 20 police agencies that were examining unsolved
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crimes from the times that avonics was in or known to be in their areas in the 80s and early 1990s avonics was a Navy
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sonar technician he was stationed aboard the SS kolsh from 1985 to 1989 out of Naval Station
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Mayport and Jacksonville Florida so he's familiar with this area in 1987 in what
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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 murders
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so in this 1987 offense he drove up to a young girl and started this man this is disgusting he drove up
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to a young girl and started masturbating near her she ran off crying and a neighbor wrote down the license plate
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number before avonics drove away after he was caught he pled no contest to a felony of lewd and lascivious conduct in
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front of a minor per the Navy times according to a police report from the 1987 arrest evonitz told investigators
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that he hadn't he had a habit of driving around spotting a young girl preferably a brunette catching her
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attention and then masturbating for this incredibly disgusting hobby avonics got
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three years probation at this same time he was separately undergoing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
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now none of this was apparently enough to get him kicked out of the Navy which Navy officials later admitted it should
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have in fact he went on to receive some Good Conduct medals for before leaving the Navy in 1992. you whip it out we
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lock you up you know what they say click it or ticket right zip it or take it I don't care what
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anybody says you know how disturbing it would be for these females to come up walking wherever and you see a guy just
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you know beating it as if it owes them money that person there should be no probation there shouldn't be at least
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some minimal minimum jail time after his time in the Navy avonics worked a series
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of jobs in Virginia and South Carolina including a job at a machine shop where he was an employee in Virginia from 1995
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to 1999. then his home was foreclosed and he moved to South Carolina where he was originally from and here's where it
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gets I guess in I guess interesting is what we're going to say when the police raided Yvonne's home after that 2002
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rape of the South Carolina girl and then his suicide when they cornered him they found some interesting stuff it was
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evidence possibly linking him to the kidnapping and murder of three girls and Virginia
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where he was living at the time of their murders so this would be the 1996-1997 time frame
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these were sisters Kristen and Katie lask and a girl named Sophia Silva the clues found included newspaper articles
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about the murders and handwritten notes mapping out the areas where the victims lived
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we're not going to get into the Weeds on these murders here because we're talking
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about Jennifer's case but these murders of course were unsolved at the time at 2002 when they found these items in his
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apartment but the FBI called avonics a strong suspect in the Lisk and Silva cases
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and boy were they right because after his death analysis showed that hair from Richard avonics matched hairs found on
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the bodies of all three girls and blue acrylic fibers from a pair of furry handcuffs right he owned were gathered
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from the three victims perhaps the most damning evidence was a palm print and fingerprints matching Kristen Lisk found
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from the inside of the trunk of avonet's car these were found five years after the
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Abduction the local sheriff Ronald Knight cried as he announced the incredible break in the case and the end
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of the exhaustive search for the man who committed these horrible crimes [Music]
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] all right we are back cheers everybody make sure you're
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crispiest of the kernels extra crispy Colonel here cheers to you captain and you know what
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else we like a little five star review with a nice little write-up makes my day I was going
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to say drugs and old Richard evonitz I'd love to break his legs off shove him up his ass
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and then [ __ ] down his throat well good news you won't have to do any of that because as said the police surrounded
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him the dogs are fighting into his legs and he's he decided to end it for us now that can
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be good that can be bad it's bad for some of these investigations it seems to me pretty cut and dried right that this
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guy is guilty of these three murders but what else is he guilty oh he's also guilty of the Abduction of Cara Robinson
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but she got free and then once it's brought to light what this creep was up to you know neighbors were called
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avonics as someone who had an unhealthy interest in young girls and believe you me this seems like an understatement so
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what is it that connects Richard avonics to Jennifer menternack not a whole heck
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of a lot but there is enough to be intriguing first avonics lived in Clay County where Jennifer's Body was
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eventually found he lived there in the late 80s and then after his death in 2002 from the Jacksonville Sheriff's
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Office Lieutenant Rick Graham said quote we do have a connection of him being in
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this city in the late 80s we will be going back to that time period and looking to see if there's possibilities
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that Mr evonics could be connected to any unsolved murders back in that era now it's worth noting that they do not
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have specific information or did not at that time that ivonis was in the Jacksonville area in the year of 2001
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when Jennifer was killed the last time he was known to be in that city was more than a decade beforehand
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but evonics traveled around a lot as we've already pointed out neighbors reported that he had an unhealthy
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interest in prepubescent girls and by his own admission avonics was into young brunette girls further the murders of
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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 menternack's investigators Silva 16 years old disappeared from her front porch on September 16 1997. her
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body was found Days Later wrapped in a blanket near an area Creek Katie 12 and Kristen 15 were abducted
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from the front yard of their home on May 1st 1997. their bodies were found in a nearby River just days later so
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pretty obvious right here Captain where we have our victim Jennifer matanek that
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was known to be or believed to be still in the area in her General neighborhood and then later found in a creek
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similar situation with all three of these girls it ranged in age from 12 to 16 and of course Jennifer fits right in
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the middle of those ages avonics who was intimately familiar with the area where Jennifer was found liked to
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murder brunette teen girls and then dump them in or near waterways now that's not
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enough of course to connect him to Jennifer's case right and at least two of his other victims
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were strangled not stabbed but we do know from the abduction that he was also known to use a gun so
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he's he's not wedded to the use of just one type of weapon right and because he also these could be crimes of
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opportunity so it could just be whatever he has on him at the time both of these
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crimes the three murders together they do appear to me to be crimes of opportunity and we have his own
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admission to police saying that he would drive around looking for girls well let
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me throw out one thing that might just seem very obvious but in this case like we know when she leaves her
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mother's house we have multiple eyewitnesses to say Where She Went afterwards or that
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they saw her and we believe them because the story checks out so to me the idea that she
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left the park because we have eyewitness accounts of this to me this is information that we should
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believe because the other eyewitness accounts were correct she was seen leaving the park the interesting thing
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to me here Captain is we don't know the the details of this but we do have the statement from police that she was at a
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party right and so several of these eyewitnesses could have been at the same party
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and I want to know exactly when this party took place right because is she there at this party talking to her peers
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and kind of filling them in on her whereabouts or what she's been up to since she's left mommy's house
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right so these would be statements that they're later able to pass along to the sheriff's department and as you pointed
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out they're probably backed up by other Witnesses statements right if avonics did Kill Jennifer long story short he
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took that secret with him to his grave but I think what we should do here is circle back to our other idea there's
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someone closer to home someone that likely knew Jennifer even no matter how brief and the killer could have been
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someone that she possibly trusted so let's look at what evidence we have that the killer was someone who resided
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or spent time in Woodland Estates the original investigator on the case remember this is a 20 year old case here
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was Lieutenant Jim Redman who was a seasoned dedicated law enforcement officer he said publicly after the
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murder that he believed that Jennifer's killer was quote from the area he told the Times Union and went on to say quote
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the fact of the matter is she didn't run away from her community it was more of an issue of frequent
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curfew violations we believe she was still right in the community where she lived this case will get solved right in
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that area where she lived end quote so clearly police were looking at someone close to home but like you said almost
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to the day this is a 20 year old case and when you have a case that's gone on that long you have Peaks and valleys
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when you get new information maybe you then reach out to the public try to get people talking and then you have LOLs or
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just nothing new information is not coming in you're not getting any tips it's hard to work the case in those
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scenarios but through the whole time we believe law enforcement had some suspects they were always working on
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yeah and it looks to me Captain like Clay County has about five unsolved homicides in
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this time span so they have a good success rate when it comes to solving similar types of crimes
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and similar types of cases and what you're going to see here is even though they're not announcing
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everything publicly there seems to have been a lot that was going on behind the scenes in this particular case and we
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catch a little wind of that from a statement from 2015 this was Lieutenant Wayne McKinney of Clay County Sheriff's
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Office who supervised its robbery slash homicide slash Special Victims division he said we actually had some suspects
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over the years that we have talked to we've had some Persons of Interest that we've definitely been interested in
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who was he talking about well detectives believe and still believe that Jennifer
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was killed by someone from Woodland Estates Cold Case detective Rob schoonover kind of backs up a lot of
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this thought here who he told us as intriguing as the Richard ivonits lead seems we got to go back to the very
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beginning and the investigators were convinced very early on that Jennifer was killed by someone from her
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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
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hanging around the Woodland Estates well she was very unwisely hanging around with the wrong crowd and this is per her
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mother's statements per law enforcement statements as well now we figured out that there was a
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large party scene in Woodland Estates and as we stated earlier it was pretty shady there was one home in particular
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where impressionable young people this is both boys and girls teenagers this includes underage kids who were
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Jennifer's peers where they went to hang out and this was to drink possibly do drugs and maybe
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even have all sorts of sexual Liaisons the home was toward the front of the park and was occupied by two guys in
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their early twenties either they had a liking for young girls or couldn't manage to pick up women of
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their own age and they're housing these underage parties frequently in their trailer a little birdie has told us that
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Jennifer was involved with one of them and the relationship did involve drugs and sex it's possible that she was
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groomed by these guys or one of the guys in particular giving her drugs or tempting her with drugs
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maybe one of these guys gave her that ring that was found later maybe even promised
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that he loved her in some way through police interviews with people in the trailer park they learned that several
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other guys may have had some type of romantic exchange with Jennifer now mind you
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we shouldn't have to point this out but this is a 14 year old girl so these guys
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are all essentially pedophiles anyway investigators gathered that Jennifer had been hanging out at this
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sketchy party home in the time that she was quote missing now through second-hand statements we learned that
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Witnesses said that they saw Jennifer and she was last seen getting into a pickup truck
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owned by one of these guys this on Wednesday remember her body was found on Thursday right so Witnesses seen
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Jennifer getting into a pickup truck owned by one of these guys on Wednesday and leaving Woodland Estates
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in the company of the two party guys from the mobile home on Thursday her body was found these two Predators the
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last people known to have been seen with Jennifer are victim are Gregory Alan Giffin and David
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Michael Getz these names have never been released publicly before that we know of
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now even though investigators knew that Getz and Giffin were their guys when they brought them in for questioning
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they ran into some trouble here what we have is that Giffin gives a sworn statement that he was present when
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Jennifer was murdered by his friend David Michael Getz but then he retracted this statement and then kept
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flip-flopping on his story and the state's attorney decided that given the unreliability of this
00:37:31
discredited statement against gets even though authorities believe Giffin and gets are in fact responsible for
00:37:38
Jennifer's murder there was not enough to proceed with charges at that time so one piece of [ __ ] says hey this other
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piece of [ __ ] he's responsible and then when they come back he says oh no no no
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no no I changed my mind the old waffling the old flip-flopping yes but we've also seen people be
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interrogated and throw somebody under the bus that is innocent well investigators talking with people at the
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Woodland Estates in the days after Jennifer's murder found out that Getz was seen cleaning out his truck the day
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after Jennifer was killed he washed it down and cleaned out the inside potentially eradicating possible
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evidence and Jennifer's clothes her clothing was never found and neither was the knife blade so other
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than the witness statements that Jennifer was involved with one of the guys or one of these guys that she had
00:38:35
been hanging out in their trailer when her mom was looking for her and that she had been seen and gets his truck
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with the both of them and then it turned up dead the next day there was nothing concrete beyond that
00:38:50
to go on apparently our boy Giffin is in prison in Oklahoma and has been visited
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by the investigating agency trying to persuade him to talk but the inmate would not
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cooperate Giffin and Getz have never been charged with Jennifer's murder well maybe somebody from this park knows that
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one of these turd bags own the knife or possibly own this ring that they gave to
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Jennifer Jennifer's mom died of a heart attack in 2011 but luckily clay County's
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Cold Case Investigator David schoonover is still Seeking Justice in her case there has been some good news in the
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case the State's Attorney's office has decided to take another look at Jennifer's case representatives from
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that office collected all of the files from Clay County homicide and are reviewing the file detective schoonover
00:39:51
tells us that they believe giffen and gets are guilty and he is hopeful that they will decide to press charges for
00:39:59
Jennifer's murder old Giffin and gets sounds like a record company from the 20s one of them confessed before maybe
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one of them would confess again but it's been 20 years and let me remind you of this statement this statement by law
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enforcement this was a 14 year old girl who was brutally murdered and dumped into the creek like a piece of trash and
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she was murdered by pieces of trash and people saw her walking around talking with people hanging out with people
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and possibly be being at a party somebody has seen more or heard more or maybe one of these scumbags giffener
00:40:45
gets has told somebody something and somebody out there has information and they've been holding on to this
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information for quite a long time Justice needs to be served and you if you know something you need to say
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something and you need to contact law enforcement well and maybe you're an eyewitness or an ear witness to
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something during that time period when she was away from home leading up to her death
00:41:13
or maybe you've heard something or been told something since then in the last 20 years
00:41:19
and it was something that was a little confusing to you but now hearing the names knowing the names Gregory Alan
00:41:26
Giffin and David Michael Getz maybe that picture becomes a little clearer to you
00:41:33
and maybe you now have a better understanding of what it was that you heard or something that you may have
00:41:39
seen all those years ago it's not too late to inform law enforcement about what you know they still
00:41:48
if you don't have direct information regarding the murder itself or the moving of the body or the disposal of
00:41:55
her body they still want to fill in the blanks on that timeline from the time that she left her mother Angie's home to
00:42:04
the time that she ended up in Long Branch Creek and one of the more recent articles about Jennifer's homicide and
00:42:12
the ongoing investigation this was titled unsolved the murder of Jennifer metternack by Catherine Jeffries
00:42:21
in the article detective schoonover says I know some people are out there with knowledge and for whatever reason are
00:42:28
not coming forward but you have to look at this 14 year old girl she didn't deserve to die like this the wounds that
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you could see during the autopsy it was very gruesome but the way she died it was a horrible
00:42:41
and tragic death for her to have to go through again Jennifer metternick's life was brutally ended in November of 2001
00:42:50
her body was found dumped under a small bridge in a desolate area along County Road to 17. the evidence that the scene
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indicates the body was probably dumped off of the bridge this is just one of a handful of
00:43:06
unsolved murder cases in Clay County detective Ron schoonover with the Clay County Sheriff's Office primarily focus
00:43:13
is bringing closure to these cold cases so he is reopening This Cold Case again if you have any information whether you
00:43:24
think it's big or small it could be a very little detail that could help law enforcement if you know something say
00:43:32
something on November 5th 2001 Jennifer's mother reported her missing reported her daughter missing we need to
00:43:40
fill in the blanks on that timeline because three days later her body was found in that Creek 11 miles away from
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home detectives believed that she bled to death after receiving multiple stab wounds underneath her body investigators
00:43:54
found the handle of a knife with strands of Jennifer's Hair of course they believe this is the murder weapon so any
00:44:02
information about the knife itself is crucial and important also remember her clothing the items that she was last
00:44:10
seen wearing brown sandals green and black shorts and a white T-shirt with red lips on it have never been found
00:44:17
either and the knife handle was just one of several pieces of evidence collected
00:44:23
from the scene evidence the Clay County Sheriff's Office says they are resubmitting for DNA testing and as we
00:44:31
know there are people who law enforcement is looking at looking at are looking very closely in fact detective
00:44:38
schoonover says to this day there are a couple of individuals that are Persons of Interest and high on the list and he
00:44:46
firmly believes there are people who who know more than what they told detectives
00:44:50
in 2001 quote I know some people are out there with knowledge and for whatever reason are not coming forward a special
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Thanks goes out to Clay County Sheriff's Office for their hard work and continued
00:45:01
efforts on this now 20-year-old case and kudos to Katie Jeffries for her great reporting keeping Jennifer's case and
00:45:10
others in the spotlight in efforts to spread awareness of these cases and reminding the public that law
00:45:17
enforcement needs your help if you know something say something if anyone listening knows anything at all about
00:45:24
the murder of Jennifer metternneck in 2001 even if you think it's something of no importance or significance please
00:45:32
contact the Clay County Sheriff's Office and let them decide if your tip could help anyone with information should call
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the Clay County Sheriff's Office at 904-264-6512 [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] thank you so much for joining us here in the garage and keeping this little
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garage show afloat we would be nothing if it weren't for you Colonel do we have any recommended
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reading for this week this week we are recommending Amy my search for her Killer by a long time friend of the show
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James Renner last week 32 years ago was the day that Amy mihalovic was abducted from Bay Village Ohio I want to give a
00:46:27
shout out and High Praise to everybody that participated in the walk for Amy last week check out James renner's book
00:46:35
Amy my search for her killer you can also find our case coverage for the Amy mihalovic case on episodes 22 308 309
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345 346 and episode 463. so we've been covering this case for the past five years check out that
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recommendation and many others on truecrime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't let her
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