Crime & Safety
Navin Pleads Not Guilty To Murdering His Easton Parents
Kyle Navin is accused of murdering his parents, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin of Easton, with the help of his girlfriend Jennifer Valiante.
Kyle Navin, 27, of Bridgeport, pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder Wednesday, according to NBC Connecticut.
Jennifer Valiante, 31, of Westport plead not guilty in court in November to conspiracy charges in relation to the deaths of her boyfriend’s parents, according to the Hartford Courant. She has denied having any involvement in the murders.
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, Oct. 29.
Kyle Navin is charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances.
Two weeks before Jeanette Navin disappeared she told a friend she was fed up with her son over his drug addiction and failure to pay them back, the warrant states. Jeanette Navin said they planned to remove their son from the will and cut him off financially.
Texts between Kyle Navin and his girlfriend reveal that money was on his mind, the warrant states.
“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, according to the arrest warrant.
Another text between the two states, “It would solve every single problem and give us a wealthy amazing life.”
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 their the cause of death was gunshot wounds and that both of their deaths were homicides.
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