Kyle Navin is accused of killing his parents Jeffrey, Jeanette Navin.
By Raif Karerat
A woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to kill his parents in Connecticut, is being held and is scheduled to make her first court appearance on Nov. 2.
Jennifer Valiante of Westport, Connecticut, also faces a charge of hindering prosecution, according to CNN.
Her boyfriend, 27-year-old Kyle Navin, was charged Friday with two counts of murder and two counts of murder with special circumstances, Connecticut State Police said.
Navin’s parents, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, were last seen August 4 at the trash removal and recycling company they owned in Easton, Connecticut, days after losing an appeal in a multimillion-dollar foreclosure case.
While leads have been scarce since then, human remains found Friday at a vacant home less than 10 miles away, in Weston, CT, were identified as the missing couple, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said.
Meanwhile, a lengthy affidavit in support of Valiante’s arrest warrant describes Kyle Navin’s long-troubled relationship with his parents.
The parents had expressed to friends concern about their son’s alleged heroin use, according to the affidavit. The couple planned to sell their trash removal company and cut their son out of their will, leaving him on his own financially, said the affidavit from a state police major crime investigator
The police obtained cell phone records that show a suspicious exchange between father and son.
“I’m not going home till I know mom is okay… did you hurt mom?” said a text message Jeffrey Navin sent to his son, according to the affidavit.
“No Absolutely not. Why would you think,” Kyle replied.
A half hour before Jeffrey Navin’s phone is last registered as being used — at 12:57 p.m. — there was another text message to his son: “U R setting me up.”
Two hours later, a security camera video also captured Jeffrey Navin’s garbage truck being driven toward the couple’s home with the car of Kyle’s girlfriend following behind.
Furthermore, when authorities interviewed Kyle Navin three more times during a 10-day period following his parents’ disappearance, he gave police inconsistent accounts of the interactions he had with his parents the last time that they were seen, the affidavit stated.