Unsolved Mysteries’ Jennifer Odom Case: Man Charged With Kidnapping and Homicide 30 Years Later – E! On-line

Warning: This story discusses sexual assault.

An arrest has been made in Jennifer Odom‘s long-unsolved murder case.

Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, was charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual battery in connection to the 12-year-old’s demise three many years after her physique was present in a discipline in Hernando County, Fla., in response to the County Sheriff Al Nienhuis.

Odom vanished on Feb. 12, 1993 after getting off her faculty bus simply 200 yards from her dwelling in Pasco County, Fla. She was discovered lifeless with indicators trauma in a neighboring county six days later.

In a July 27 press conference, the sheriff mentioned investigators spent years searching for the suspect—who they believed drove a blue pickup truck based mostly on suggestions from college students on the college bus the day of Odom’s disappearance—however lots of their leads went chilly. That they had a breakthrough within the case when investigators observed how Odom’s assault was “nearly similar” to a separate assault on one other younger woman made 13 months previous to her demise, in response to Nienhuis.