Break in the case: Police searching for missing couple Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife Jeanette, 55, on Thursday discovered human remains at a vacant home in Weston, Connecticut.
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The remains of a married couple missing since August were found in the back yard of a vacant Connecticut home — and cops issued an arrest warrant Friday charging their son with the murder.
The grisly discovery of Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin was made Thursday in upscale Weston, and cops later issued warrants for both their jailed son Kyle and his girlfriend Jennifer Valiante.
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Kyle, 27, has been locked up on gun charges since September. When cops searched his home, they found heroin vials, oxycodone and Xanax.
He appeared in court for a hearing Friday and was ordered to remain behind bars.
Dayton, accusing Kyle of lying, said the suspect gave “completely different” versions of what happened when his parents vanished.
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cellphones belonging to the victims had “magically” stopped working near Kyle’s home in Bridgeport.
Jeffrey, 56, was president of J&J Refuse in Westport. Jeannette, 55, was a school library aide.
They were last heard from on Aug. 4 and their pickup truck was found with a shattered window in a Westport parking lot on Aug. 9.
The day after his parents vanished, Kyle bought germicidal bleach, drain opener, stain remover and contractor-cleanup bags, police said.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/son-to-be-charged-with-murder-after-grisly-discovery/
Son to be charged with murder after grisly discovery
By Joe Tacopino
October 31, 2015 | 1:01am
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Kyle Navin, who is charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances, wrote chilling text messages to his girlfriend about his 'perfect plan'.
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Businessman Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife, Jeanette, 55, have been missing since early August. Their son, 27-year-old Kyle Navin, was named a person of interest in the disappearance last month but was arrested on an unrelated gun possession charge.
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The couple was officially reported missing the following day, on August 7, after failing to turn up to work at the waste disposal company Jeffrey and his brother William ran together and with relatives unable to contact them on their cell phones.
On September 10, Kyle Navin, of Bridgeport, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a drug user – a crime that can carry a sentence of 10 years.
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Navin was shown to have changed his account of his own and his parents' last known movements four times; his girlfriend lied about her whereabouts on the last day the Navins were seen alive; and chilling text messages reveal the bizarre last known communication between father and son in which Jeffrey Navin accuses his eldest son of trying to 'set him up' and 'frame him' for the murder of Jeanette.
To the outside world, the Navins seemed like a family who had it all. According to former neighbor Gail Berman, 60, who lived next to the family in Weston where both Kyle and brother Taylor, 23, attended Weston High School the family seemed 'exceptionally close.'
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And the discovery of Jeffery's Dodge pickup on August 9, two days after they were reported missing, cast a sinister light on what fate may have befallen the Navins.
The vehicle was abandoned in a commuter lot off the Merritt Parkway, detectives have said that the passenger window was smashed in and 'physiological fluid' believed to be blood along with a bullet hole was discovered inside.
Similarly Kyle's rapidly changing version of his own movements and the last time he had any contact with his parents is difficult to reconcile with the innocent explanation that the couple abandoned their Connecticut lives of their own volition.
Interviewed on August 7 he told investigators he had last seen his parents on the morning of August 4 when they visited him and asked him to dinner that evening.
He claimed to have declined the invitation because he was in pain from a back injury that, he said, rendered him unable to work.
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He claimed that the only communication between him and his father was work related – a claim subsequently blown out of the water by a series of chilling text messages revealed in the affidavit.
They chronicle a bizarre exchange between father and son in which, at one point, Jeffrey asks his son 'Did you hurt mom?' and states 'I'm not going home till I know mom is okay…I go home and get framed for murder.' In another he bluntly states, 'U R setting me up.'
Analysis of Jeanette and Jeffrey's cell phone activity places both in the vicinity of their son's Bridgeport home when their phones were last used before being switched off.
And security camera footage has revealed images of Kyle driving Jeffrey's truck to his parents' home in Easton, followed closely behind by his girlfriend, Jennifer Valiant. The couple then drove away in Valiant's car.
Valiant initially told investigators that she was at home until confronted with the video evidence.
Meanwhile searches of Kyle's home have revealed that the once star athlete was in the grips of drug addiction uncovering drug paraphernalia, baggies containing Oxycodone and Xanax and numerous hypodermic needles containing residues of heroin.
They also found Kyle's gun without which, according to one unnamed friend, he was rarely seen (according to girlfriend Valiant, Kyle 'really likes his gun') as well as a Home Depot receipt for germicidal bleach, hair and grease drain opener, Goo Gone stain remover and contractor cleanup bags.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297030/Police-digging-vacant-property-discover-suspected-human-remains-search-missing-Connecticut-couple.html
Son and girlfriend are charged over double murder after the bodies of his parents who vanished without a trace three months ago are discovered at his friend's home in Connecticut
Kyle Navin, 27, and his girlfriend, 31-year-old Jennifer Valiante were arrested Friday night, state police said
Navin, who already was in federal custody on a weapon charge, was charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances
Valiante was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and hindering prosecution
Navin's parents Jeffrey, 56, and Jeanette, 55, have been missing since August from their Connecticut home
Police found two bags of remains at a vacant home in Weston Thursday
The owner, Thomas Kerrigan, is reportedly a friend of the Navins' son, Kyle, who is a person of interest in the case
Medical examiner determined by Friday afternoon the remains were human
The Navins had financial troubles but neighbors say they were close and appeared loving
By Snejana Farberov and Laura Collins In Easton, Connecticut, For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:51 EST, 30 October 2015 | Updated: 01:39 EST, 31 October 2015
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Jennifer Valiante of Westport made her first court appearance Monday, four days after Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin's remains were found outside a vacant home in Weston.
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A Connecticut woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to kill his 'piece of crap' parents because they were considering leaving him out of their will says she had nothing to do with the slayings.
Jennifer Valiante, 31, of Westport made her first court appearance Monday, four days after the remains of Kyle Navin's parents, Jeanette and Jeffrey, were found in the yard of a vacant home almost two months after they vanished.
A Bridgeport Superior Court judge held Valiante on a $2 million bail and continued the case to November 24.
Police say Valiante conspired with Navin to kill his parents as they considered cutting him out of their will, but her lawyer insists she was not part of the plot and even led the search for them when they were reported missing.
He also says text messages between the pair supposedly indicating their plans to kill the parents, who Navin described as an 'infection', have been taken out of context.
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In the build-up to the death of his parents, Navin reportedly wrote a chilling text message to Valiante saying he had the 'perfect plan' to get '$ for life'.
It was part of a string of sinister correspondences where Navin said he had an idea that would 'give us a wealthy amazing life'.
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In one conversation in July, he said he had a plan to 'solve every single problem and give us a wealthy amazing life'.
She replied: 'I hear ya. It sounds very good I just don't know.'
He later wrote: 'Wipe out the infection and get $ for life. It's perfect plan.'
However Warren insists these messages are just a sampling of the hundreds the pair sent between each other on a daily basis and have been taken out of context.
Navin allegedly shot his mother at least once in the chest while she sat in her son's blue truck.
He also supposedly gunned down his father, Jeffrey Navin, possibly in the basement of his Bridgeport home his parents had helped him buy.
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According to an arrest warrant affidavit for Valiante, Jeanette Navin was said to be distraught about the situation with her son in the days before she and her husband vanished.
She told a friend that her relationship with her son was 'very tempestuous' and that she thought he was taking drugs, the document said.
The parents had bought a home for their son but he was failing to pay the mortgage and taxes.
Mrs Navin is said to have the friend that they planned to cut their son out if their will, sell their trash-hauling business and leave him without any financial support from the family.
In the warrant obtained by state police charging Valiante, investigators described DNA evidence allegedly found in both Navin's truck and in the basement of his home.
Blood was found along with a bullet hole on the front passenger seat of Navin's truck which tested positive for Jeanette Navin's blood, according to the warrant obtained by The Hartford Courant.
Police also allegedly found blood stains that tested positive for both his blood and his father's blood in the basement of Kyle Navin's Bridgeport home.
They also found prescription pills and heroin inside the property.
Navin, who was already in federal custody on a weapon charge, was charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300301/Woman-charged-slayings-Connecticut-couple-court.html
Woman accused of helping boyfriend plan to murder his 'piece of crap' parents for cutting his inheritance denies plot and claims she was leading the search for them
Jennifer Valiante, 31, of Westport, Connecticut, denied involvement in plot
Comes four days after Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin's remains were found
Their son, Kyle Navin, 27, is behind bars facing murder charges
Allegedly killed them because they considered cutting him out of their will
He text Valiante saying he had the 'perfect plan' to get '$ for life'
Prosecutors say the pair both planned to kill the parents
Valiante was held on a $2million bail and will return to court in November
By Wills Robinson and Laura Collins In Easton, Connecticut, For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 13:17 EST, 2 November 2015 | Updated: 17:31 EST, 2 November 2015
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