Court for girlfriend charged with conspiring to commit murder of Easton couple

Kyle Navin has been charged in the murder of his parents Jeffrey and Jeannette Navin, Connecticut State Police said.

Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Jennifer Valiante, who is also behind bars, will face a judge Monday for allegedly conspiring with him.

Alsoincriminating the son, was a text conversation Kyle Navin had with his father, Jeffrey Navin, in which the father texted his son on August 4 – the day he disappeared – saying he would not go home until his knew his wife was OK after being unable to locate his wife.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit for Mr Navin’s girlfriend, Jennifer Valiante, police say Jeanette Navin had been distraught over the situation with her son in the days before she and her husband disappeared.

“I go home and get framed for murder…”

Jeanette Navin told a longtime acquaintance her relationship with her son had been “very tempestuous” and that she suspected he was abusing drugs, according to the affidavit.

She confided to a friend that the couple planned to sell their trash-hauling business and cut their son out of their will. In one July exchange, he mentioned a plan to “solve every single problem and give us a wealthy awesome life”, The New York Times reported, citing an affidavit used to obtain the arrest warrant.

She replied: “I hear ya (sic)”. “Even if you didn’t know this, it’s been very taxing for the people in this town”.

“Wipe out the infection and get $ for life”, Kyle texted.

“Kerrigan told police he was doing a clean-up on the grounds that afternoon when he found “something” he thought might be human remains”, according to The Weston Forum.

In the days after they disappeared, their elder son’s account of when and where he last saw his parents, and what he discussed with them, changed over several days during interviews with the local and State Police, according to an affidavit written last month by Michael Zuk, an F.B.I. agent.

He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Bridgeport on Friday for a detention hearing. His lawyer declined to comment after the hearing.

On Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Dayton said there was evidence, including the discovery of the remains, that “very strongly suggests” that Mr Navin killed his parents.

Whatever Kyle Navin’s plans were, it wasn’t as though his parents – particularly his father – weren’t suspicious.

On August 9 the Navin’s pickup truck was found with a shattered window in a parking lot in Westport.

The text messages sent from Jeffrey Navin’s phone, led police on a months-long investigation into the disappearance of the couple, who owned a refuse collection company. 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”.

During a search of Kyle Navin’s residence, officers seized two firearms and rounds of ammunition as well as hypodermic needles, glassine bags with “what appeared to be heroin residue”, empty prescription bottles for Oxycodone and prescription bottles with controlled substances such as Xanax, the affidavit said. He pleaded not guilty to that charge and has not commented on the potential murder charges.

In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Connecticut State Police said tests showed the remains belonged to the Navins. The father also asked his son if he hurt his mother.

Valiante later told authorities she picked up Kyle Navin after he took his father’s truck home.