Post by Scumhunter on Mar 12, 2015 1:50:01 GMT -5
It has been over 12 years since Abilene, Texas news reporter Jennifer Servo was brutally murdered inside her apartment. Her case was aired four times on AMW. Below is the archive description of the case:
A Big Ball Of Energy
All through college, Jennifer Servo hung a picture of her role model Katie Couric on her refrigerator. Jennifer may have grown up outside Kalispel, Montana but she had big dreams of being a national television reporter and living in a skyscraper apartment in Manhattan.
As soon as she turned 17, Jennifer joined the Army Reserve to help pay for college and graduated four years later at the University of Montana with a degree in journalism. During that time, Jennifer also had a weekend reporting job for KECI-TV in Missoula. One of the stories she covered was an unsolved triple homicide at a local beauty salon that was featured on America's Most Wanted.
After graduation, Jennifer landed her first television job at KRBC-TV in Abilene, Texas. Always ready for an adventure, Jennifer packed up and moved into a tiny apartment in South Abilene a mile or so from her new job.
Headline News
The last time Sherry Abel spoke to her daughter Jennifer was on Friday, September 13th. Jennifer said she was in a rush and would check in on Monday, her day off. But there was no call from Jennifer Monday or Tuesday. When she failed to show for work on Wednesday, worried co-workers called Jennifer's apartment complex.
The landlord discovered Jennifer had been murdered. It was September 18th, five days before Jennifer's 23rd birthday. Abilene police were faced with a perplexing murder scene.
Another Killer?
Jennifer died as a result of trauma to the head and strangulation. She was found fully clothed, yet an autopsy revealed she had been sexually assaulted. It appeared she had been murdered in the living room, but for some unknown reason, the killer had moved her body to the bathroom.
Her purse, her cellphone and several DVD's were missing from the apartment, but there were no signs of forced entry into the apartment and no signs of a struggle, which made the police wonder - did Jennifer know her killer?
Neither her credit cards nor her phone have been used since her death. Jennifer's murder was only the second homicide in Abilene that year, but in a bizarre coincidence the first homicide took place in the same apartment complex, a short time before Jennifer arrived in Texas. That killer had surrendered to police and was in jail at the time of Jennifer's murder.
Thoughts? It seems there has always been two main persons of interest in this case- Servo’s ex-boyfriend, Ralph Sepulveda, and former KRBC weatherman, Brian Travers, whom she had just started dating before she was killed.
Sepulveda seems to be the one most believed to have killed her, he is said to be the less cooperative of the two persons of interest and even Servo's mother thinks he's responsible.
The problem though is both Sepulveda and Travers have been inside Servo's apartment before, and both had dated her, so if there was any DNA evidence linking them it can easily be explained.
At the same time though- it does seem whoever killed Servo knew her. The items missing- it screams staged robbery. Any time a suspect wants to throw police off their trail in a murder they'll take items and try to make them look for a stranger.
The problem is police need someone to come forward with the final piece to this puzzle since it seems right now there is not enough evidence to prosecute anybody. If you ask me, this would be a PERFECT case for Cold Justice.
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web.archive.org/web/20120308102826/http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=25573
www.ktxs.com/news/11-years-later-former-abilene-tv-reporter-jennifer-servos-murder-remains-unsolved/22004778
www.chattanoogan.com/2007/9/12/113195/Local-Weatherman-Interviewed-On-ABC.aspx
