Crime & Safety

Accused Double Murderer Won't Have to Submit to New Fingerprints: Report

Kyle Navin is accused of killing his parents with help from his girlfriend, a Westport resident, Jennifer Valiante.

EASTON, CT — A former Easton man who is accused of shooting his parents and burying their bodies in Weston won't have to submit to new fingerprinting, according to The Hour, until prosecutors provide evidence that they have items taken from the crime scenes that have currently unknown fingerprints on them.

Kyle Navin, 28, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of murder under special circumstances and is being held on a quarter-million dollars bond since his arrest. Judge Robert Delvin has continued the case until Nov. 1 to allow time for psychiatric evaluation.

Navin's girlfriend and former Staples High School classmate, Jennifer Valiante, 31, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and hindering prosecution for helping him plan and cover-up the death of his parents. Valiante has a $2 million bond and is scheduled to be in court Wednesday.

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Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife Jeanette Navin, 55, mysteriously disappeared on Aug. 4, 2015. Police investigators said their son Kyle is the last known person to have seen them. After a months-long investigation and search, their bodies were discovered on a vacant Weston property, under a tarp, on Oct. 29, 2015.

Texts between Kyle Navin and his girlfriend reveal that money was on his mind, the warrant states.

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“We need to figure out what the best way to take them down whether it is get some money out of them somehow (expletive) him at the business the house something we got to figure out I’m got to be real smart and do it quick," Kyle Navin texted to his girlfriend, according to the arrest warrant.

Jeffrey Navin owned Westport-based J&J Refuse Company. Kyle was the operations manager, according to their website. Jeanette Navin was a paraprofessional at Weston Intermediate School. Court documents state that Kyle killed his parents after learning they planned to sell the family business and cut him out of their will.

The State’s Medical Examiner James Gill said the cause of death was gunshot wounds and that both of their deaths were homicides.

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