Jennifer Medernach /// Part 2 /// 533 | Forensic Files

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[Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] yesterday Captain we were talking about
the initial investigation and how it started to stall out now that was 20 years ago almost to the day that
Jennifer meternak was found dead in the Long Branch Creek over the years there has been
several efforts to reinvigorate the investigation and kind of kick start this thing one more time in 2006 we have
playing cards that were released in 2006 a deck of playing cards featuring cold cases was released the two of diamonds
was Jennifer's card her photo General case information and where to report any information that you may have were all
on Jennifer's card tips did come in but sadly the tips generated from this tactic so far in the Jennifer meninck
case LED nowhere in 2013 the case got a little movement this was in May of 2013 when the Clay
County deputies and the FDLE the Florida Department of Law Enforcement searched a
home at 200 mcleland Road for possible evidence relating to Jennifer's murder it's not clear whether this was pursuant
to a tip did they received or what in fact led the investigators to this property but we do know that it was
searched the home was about two miles away from where Jennifer's Body was eventually found from my understanding
Captain the short version of the result of this search was that nothing was located in the home related to the case
well what's interesting in this case is when Jennifer went missing from her home
we have a lot of eyewitnesses around the park that saw her so we have this knife
handle that is a piece of evidence that the police can go around and say does anybody in this tight-knit community
they're all like really close together has anybody ever seen this knife before yeah because they have the handle for it
they are referring to it as a unique item it doesn't look to me to be particularly expensive but that doesn't
mean that it's particularly common so you're right this is a um like a gold color brass color metal looking handle
that they could at least go around with a picture of asking is this something that you've seen before this is not a
small item right this is not the kind of knife that you're putting in your pocket
and walking around with this is kind of picture Rambo right survival knife type situation where this is going to be I I
don't want to say a foot in length from from the butt to the the point but it's going to be a a rather decent sized item
here in December of 2013 the Clay County dive teams decided that they were going to combine a training
exercise with an additional search effort for more evidence in the Stream where Jennifer was found so they ended up
using sophisticated underwater metal detectors that could penetrate the two feet of silt that lay at the bottom of
the water they were looking for the knife blade of course in any other potential
evidence in Jennifer's case they did not find the knife blade they did recover some items these items were a padlock
and a pocket knife but law enforcement say that these items are not believed to be related in any way to their
investigation or the murder well that answers my question because initially when they find the handle under her body
my my question was maybe the blade broke off and I hate to be graphic but maybe the blade broke off inside of Jennifer
that's very possible and with no autopsy report we can't confirm that but but with this extra dive and what they're
looking for we can confirm it wasn't found inside Jennifer in case you haven't figured it out so far A little
spoiler alert here Jennifer's case is unsolved 20 years ago this week in Jacksonville
Florida someone killed this 14 year old girl and now as we approach this 20-year
marker we can only hope that this case does not continue to remain unsolved and unresolved yeah
maybe we can turn up the heat a little bit on someone yeah get hot in the hot tub because I hope that the person
responsible knows that there are plenty of people on this case that are not going to give up law enforcement has
told us that this case is solvable and will be solved so let's take a quick look-see at some suspects who are either
being considered or were considered at one time in this case now my thoughts are captain that basically we have
what I believe would be our two highest of probabilities here right basically two choices for who killed Jennifer or
where we're going to find this individual or individuals either someone in the trailer park attacked and killed
this still naive and vulnerable teen possibly even grooming her or after grooming her or someone outside of the
trailer park maybe even a stranger was responsible here so we have to consider the possibility however remote it may be
that Jennifer fell victim to an opportunistic killer if she left Woodland Estates and walked off on her
own yeah and we have the report of her being seen leaving Woodland Estates than anyone could have killed her
I mean perhaps she accepted a ride from a stranger wanting to head to Downtown Jacksonville or got talked into going
somewhere or getting into the vehicle well a piece of evidence that we have that I'd like to know more about and I
think is really kind of the Crux of this case is this possible engagement ring because to me if it is a possible
engagement ring or even a promise ring or just a gift in a romantic gesture or someone trying to woo her to me that
that leans more towards the idea that Jennifer knew her her murderer intimately yes knew her murderer and I
mean even if how brief we cannot say right but again it could be so simple that she found this on the ground or
that she when she was couch surfing that she maybe stole some items and that's something that law enforcement can
figure out pretty easy figure out who she was staying with but again we have that problem because some people aren't
stating that oh well yeah she slept on my couch because I'm an adult man and I don't even want to admit to that but
they could go around and say who did she stay with is there any items missing and
again this is just like the knife handle this is an item that you can now go around to the community and say have you
seen this before so two things I couldn't find a definitive statement of anyone saying anywhere that this ring is
something that appeared on her after she left her mom's house but I have to believe that it is with the way that
it's worded and stated in some of these reports but what is not also readily available
and if anyone can find this out there and can confirm that it is from Jennifer's case
this is a call to action for sending this to us or or posting a link of the picture on our
blog at truecrime garage.com exactly what the captain just said we have a nice visual
a picture of the knife handle that was found the murder weapon handle that was found we don't have a nice visual or
picture of this quote-unquote engagement ring and you're exactly right Captain this is something that you could be
taking around what we don't have you know we we talk about maybe she could have stolen it from someone or
someone gave it to her for reasons that are not evil Deeds at all but we don't have anybody coming forward
saying yes I gave that to her or oh I I did see her briefly and I was I'm missing some jewelry and that's a piece
that I'm missing right and look it could it could also be just one of our friends
going oh she ran away from home she's going through a hard time I'm gonna steal this from my parents and and maybe
they those people have nothing to do with her murder but you could see why they wouldn't want to come forward
uh especially I guess but I don't know why you wouldn't want to help in a situation where you're not guilty
of anything no I understand that behind a 14 year old was murdered no I understand that but I also think that if
maybe some time passed I could see an individual with maybe has a bad history just going I I don't want to
look we've seen a lot of cold cases where a couple years go by and nothing is moving and and the law enforcement
gets a little string and they keep pulling and pulling even if they're going in the wrong direction they just
keep because they feel on some level we have to blame this on somebody so I I could see somebody you know maybe
realizing a couple years after the fact all that that ring is somehow related to
us uh and I don't want to come forward because I don't want to be possibly thrown under the bus and where my mind
goes is when you have this ring that that's on her person found on her person mind you she's not clothed when found so
there's not a lot of items found with her or on her at the time when you find her murdered and this item on her and
this is something she didn't have in her possession to anyone's knowledge before
she quote went missing then this is important to her murder this item is part of the murder
investigation until you can explain it away and Rule it out as not being anything to do with the murder now what
we have here when we review the possibilities of a killer known to the victim or a killer unknown to the victim
we do have to consider the fact that she was 14 years old and could be called a runaway if you want to and sometimes you
know 14 year old runaways get ideas that are not founded in rational thinking and
there was one suspected serial killer who was looked at in Jennifer's case and so we do have to at least explore
the idea and we know that law enforcement explored the idea that there was a possibility that maybe she did
leave the mobile home park and got into somebody's vehicle so the suspect that I'm talking about has never been
entirely ruled out in this case so News 4 Jacksonville reported one year after Jennifer's murder the following that the
Clay County Sheriff's office has confirmed to channel 4 at that time that they were looking at Richard avonics
as a possible suspect in the murder of fourteen-year-old Jennifer metternack earlier this year so who is this Richard
ivonis he is an individual that abducted a 15 year old girl in South Carolina in June
of 2002. he raped her and physically abused her in other ways but she managed to escape and then she goes to police
so the way that I this works this this portion of what he's guilty of works is he pulls up he sees this 15 year old
girl in her front yard pulls up Street side says that he's selling magazines she approaches the vehicle and once
she's close enough to maybe view these magazines if they even existed at all he pulls a gun and at gunpoint he orders
her into his vehicle from there he takes her back to his apartment where she's restrained and assaulted
this is like the Twisted psychological torture stuff that some of these guys really get off
on right he made her or or sat with her and watched the that night's news to see
if there were if they were going to report her missing or if there was any reports of her missing she says that he
he goes into the other room she's handcuffed but at some point he falls asleep and she can hear him snoring so
she knows that he's asleep this is when she manages to get out of the handcuffs flee the apartment and go off and get
some help well she's able to tell the police the apartment where she was kept even though just briefly for you
know some hours so they know who this dude is and he must have got up discovered rather quickly that she's
gone he decides he takes off so police are out on the lookout for this dude they put in an APB out for
avonics he's then spotted sometime later in Sarasota Florida where police tracked him down there was
an armed standoff that ensued which ended when avonics shot himself in the head the Navy times wrote a great
piece about this incident one portion of it reads as follows quote trapped by a half dozen cops with guns
drawn on a dark Florida Highway as a police dog's teeth sank into his ankle Richard Mark avonitz
put the muzzle of a 45 caliber handgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger end quote well this guy was a giant piece of
[ __ ] but if you look up Richard he looks like the dad next door we see this from time to time where we bring up
a serial killer and you Google search them and you go that guy looks like a monster that guy is nothing behind those
eyes now what's interesting about a lot of Richard's pictures remember when we talked about uh we
talked to that one private investigator and she talked about this the black eyes
it's like everything about him looks normal but it's almost like he has these really like dark dead nothing eyes
people often say when they encounter one of these individuals that there seems to
be nothing behind the eyes yeah isn't that kind of a trait of like a psychopath where you feel like they're
constantly looking through you and not at you well his death did not conclude the investigation into
him personally right since now it was evident that he was a predator and a child rapist the Navy times goes on to
say the single gunshot brought a quick death to the 38-year-old Navy veteran but only started the questions of what
he did in his life so the FBI requested that anyone who knew avonics during his time in the Navy to
please contact the FBI a per the Jacksonville 4 news station that we quoted earlier clay in Duval counties
were two of they were just two of 20 police agencies that were examining unsolved
crimes from the times that avonics was in or known to be in their areas in the 80s and early 1990s avonics was a Navy
sonar technician he was stationed aboard the SS kolsh from 1985 to 1989 out of Naval Station
Mayport and Jacksonville Florida so he's familiar with this area in 1987 in what
is now known to be his first offense let's right underline that first known offense
right it's believed that we do not know the full extent of this man's crimes or possibly even his murders
so in this 1987 offense he drove up to a young girl and started this man this is disgusting he drove up
to a young girl and started masturbating near her she ran off crying and a neighbor wrote down the license plate
number before avonics drove away after he was caught he pled no contest to a felony of lewd and lascivious conduct in
front of a minor per the Navy times according to a police report from the 1987 arrest evonitz told investigators
that he hadn't he had a habit of driving around spotting a young girl preferably a brunette catching her
attention and then masturbating for this incredibly disgusting hobby avonics got
three years probation at this same time he was separately undergoing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
now none of this was apparently enough to get him kicked out of the Navy which Navy officials later admitted it should
have in fact he went on to receive some Good Conduct medals for before leaving the Navy in 1992. you whip it out we
lock you up you know what they say click it or ticket right zip it or take it I don't care what
anybody says you know how disturbing it would be for these females to come up walking wherever and you see a guy just
you know beating it as if it owes them money that person there should be no probation there shouldn't be at least
some minimal minimum jail time after his time in the Navy avonics worked a series
of jobs in Virginia and South Carolina including a job at a machine shop where he was an employee in Virginia from 1995
to 1999. then his home was foreclosed and he moved to South Carolina where he was originally from and here's where it
gets I guess in I guess interesting is what we're going to say when the police raided Yvonne's home after that 2002
rape of the South Carolina girl and then his suicide when they cornered him they found some interesting stuff it was
evidence possibly linking him to the kidnapping and murder of three girls and Virginia
where he was living at the time of their murders so this would be the 1996-1997 time frame
these were sisters Kristen and Katie lask and a girl named Sophia Silva the clues found included newspaper articles
about the murders and handwritten notes mapping out the areas where the victims lived
we're not going to get into the Weeds on these murders here because we're talking
about Jennifer's case but these murders of course were unsolved at the time at 2002 when they found these items in his
apartment but the FBI called avonics a strong suspect in the Lisk and Silva cases
and boy were they right because after his death analysis showed that hair from Richard avonics matched hairs found on
the bodies of all three girls and blue acrylic fibers from a pair of furry handcuffs right he owned were gathered
from the three victims perhaps the most damning evidence was a palm print and fingerprints matching Kristen Lisk found
from the inside of the trunk of avonet's car these were found five years after the
Abduction the local sheriff Ronald Knight cried as he announced the incredible break in the case and the end
of the exhaustive search for the man who committed these horrible crimes [Music]
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else we like a little five star review with a nice little write-up makes my day I was going
to say drugs and old Richard evonitz I'd love to break his legs off shove him up his ass
and then [ __ ] down his throat well good news you won't have to do any of that because as said the police surrounded
him the dogs are fighting into his legs and he's he decided to end it for us now that can
be good that can be bad it's bad for some of these investigations it seems to me pretty cut and dried right that this
guy is guilty of these three murders but what else is he guilty oh he's also guilty of the Abduction of Cara Robinson
but she got free and then once it's brought to light what this creep was up to you know neighbors were called
avonics as someone who had an unhealthy interest in young girls and believe you me this seems like an understatement so
what is it that connects Richard avonics to Jennifer menternack not a whole heck
of a lot but there is enough to be intriguing first avonics lived in Clay County where Jennifer's Body was
eventually found he lived there in the late 80s and then after his death in 2002 from the Jacksonville Sheriff's
Office Lieutenant Rick Graham said quote we do have a connection of him being in
this city in the late 80s we will be going back to that time period and looking to see if there's possibilities
that Mr evonics could be connected to any unsolved murders back in that era now it's worth noting that they do not
have specific information or did not at that time that ivonis was in the Jacksonville area in the year of 2001
when Jennifer was killed the last time he was known to be in that city was more than a decade beforehand
but evonics traveled around a lot as we've already pointed out neighbors reported that he had an unhealthy
interest in prepubescent girls and by his own admission avonics was into young brunette girls further the murders of
Sophia Silva and sisters Katie and Kristen Lisk bear a similarity to Jennifer's case here's some information
from the Navy times see if you can discern why we've included these cases and why these cases would be of interest
to Jennifer menternack's investigators Silva 16 years old disappeared from her front porch on September 16 1997. her
body was found Days Later wrapped in a blanket near an area Creek Katie 12 and Kristen 15 were abducted
from the front yard of their home on May 1st 1997. their bodies were found in a nearby River just days later so
pretty obvious right here Captain where we have our victim Jennifer matanek that
was known to be or believed to be still in the area in her General neighborhood and then later found in a creek
similar situation with all three of these girls it ranged in age from 12 to 16 and of course Jennifer fits right in
the middle of those ages avonics who was intimately familiar with the area where Jennifer was found liked to
murder brunette teen girls and then dump them in or near waterways now that's not
enough of course to connect him to Jennifer's case right and at least two of his other victims
were strangled not stabbed but we do know from the abduction that he was also known to use a gun so
he's he's not wedded to the use of just one type of weapon right and because he also these could be crimes of
opportunity so it could just be whatever he has on him at the time both of these
crimes the three murders together they do appear to me to be crimes of opportunity and we have his own
admission to police saying that he would drive around looking for girls well let
me throw out one thing that might just seem very obvious but in this case like we know when she leaves her
mother's house we have multiple eyewitnesses to say Where She Went afterwards or that
they saw her and we believe them because the story checks out so to me the idea that she
left the park because we have eyewitness accounts of this to me this is information that we should
believe because the other eyewitness accounts were correct she was seen leaving the park the interesting thing
to me here Captain is we don't know the the details of this but we do have the statement from police that she was at a
party right and so several of these eyewitnesses could have been at the same party
and I want to know exactly when this party took place right because is she there at this party talking to her peers
and kind of filling them in on her whereabouts or what she's been up to since she's left mommy's house
right so these would be statements that they're later able to pass along to the sheriff's department and as you pointed
out they're probably backed up by other Witnesses statements right if avonics did Kill Jennifer long story short he
took that secret with him to his grave but I think what we should do here is circle back to our other idea there's
someone closer to home someone that likely knew Jennifer even no matter how brief and the killer could have been
someone that she possibly trusted so let's look at what evidence we have that the killer was someone who resided
or spent time in Woodland Estates the original investigator on the case remember this is a 20 year old case here
was Lieutenant Jim Redman who was a seasoned dedicated law enforcement officer he said publicly after the
murder that he believed that Jennifer's killer was quote from the area he told the Times Union and went on to say quote
the fact of the matter is she didn't run away from her community it was more of an issue of frequent
curfew violations we believe she was still right in the community where she lived this case will get solved right in
that area where she lived end quote so clearly police were looking at someone close to home but like you said almost
to the day this is a 20 year old case and when you have a case that's gone on that long you have Peaks and valleys
when you get new information maybe you then reach out to the public try to get people talking and then you have LOLs or
just nothing new information is not coming in you're not getting any tips it's hard to work the case in those
scenarios but through the whole time we believe law enforcement had some suspects they were always working on
yeah and it looks to me Captain like Clay County has about five unsolved homicides in
this time span so they have a good success rate when it comes to solving similar types of crimes
and similar types of cases and what you're going to see here is even though they're not announcing
everything publicly there seems to have been a lot that was going on behind the scenes in this particular case and we
catch a little wind of that from a statement from 2015 this was Lieutenant Wayne McKinney of Clay County Sheriff's
Office who supervised its robbery slash homicide slash Special Victims division he said we actually had some suspects
over the years that we have talked to we've had some Persons of Interest that we've definitely been interested in
who was he talking about well detectives believe and still believe that Jennifer
was killed by someone from Woodland Estates Cold Case detective Rob schoonover kind of backs up a lot of
this thought here who he told us as intriguing as the Richard ivonits lead seems we got to go back to the very
beginning and the investigators were convinced very early on that Jennifer was killed by someone from her
neighborhood and he said that they were able to gather credible information regarding specific individuals at the
mobile home park so here's what I was able to piece together here captain in in this regard we know that Jennifer was
hanging around the Woodland Estates well she was very unwisely hanging around with the wrong crowd and this is per her
mother's statements per law enforcement statements as well now we figured out that there was a
large party scene in Woodland Estates and as we stated earlier it was pretty shady there was one home in particular
where impressionable young people this is both boys and girls teenagers this includes underage kids who were
Jennifer's peers where they went to hang out and this was to drink possibly do drugs and maybe
even have all sorts of sexual Liaisons the home was toward the front of the park and was occupied by two guys in
their early twenties either they had a liking for young girls or couldn't manage to pick up women of
their own age and they're housing these underage parties frequently in their trailer a little birdie has told us that
Jennifer was involved with one of them and the relationship did involve drugs and sex it's possible that she was
groomed by these guys or one of the guys in particular giving her drugs or tempting her with drugs
maybe one of these guys gave her that ring that was found later maybe even promised
that he loved her in some way through police interviews with people in the trailer park they learned that several
other guys may have had some type of romantic exchange with Jennifer now mind you
we shouldn't have to point this out but this is a 14 year old girl so these guys
are all essentially pedophiles anyway investigators gathered that Jennifer had been hanging out at this
sketchy party home in the time that she was quote missing now through second-hand statements we learned that
Witnesses said that they saw Jennifer and she was last seen getting into a pickup truck
owned by one of these guys this on Wednesday remember her body was found on Thursday right so Witnesses seen
Jennifer getting into a pickup truck owned by one of these guys on Wednesday and leaving Woodland Estates
in the company of the two party guys from the mobile home on Thursday her body was found these two Predators the
last people known to have been seen with Jennifer are victim are Gregory Alan Giffin and David
Michael Getz these names have never been released publicly before that we know of
now even though investigators knew that Getz and Giffin were their guys when they brought them in for questioning
they ran into some trouble here what we have is that Giffin gives a sworn statement that he was present when
Jennifer was murdered by his friend David Michael Getz but then he retracted this statement and then kept
flip-flopping on his story and the state's attorney decided that given the unreliability of this
discredited statement against gets even though authorities believe Giffin and gets are in fact responsible for
Jennifer's murder there was not enough to proceed with charges at that time so one piece of [ __ ] says hey this other
piece of [ __ ] he's responsible and then when they come back he says oh no no no
no no I changed my mind the old waffling the old flip-flopping yes but we've also seen people be
interrogated and throw somebody under the bus that is innocent well investigators talking with people at the
Woodland Estates in the days after Jennifer's murder found out that Getz was seen cleaning out his truck the day
after Jennifer was killed he washed it down and cleaned out the inside potentially eradicating possible
evidence and Jennifer's clothes her clothing was never found and neither was the knife blade so other
than the witness statements that Jennifer was involved with one of the guys or one of these guys that she had
been hanging out in their trailer when her mom was looking for her and that she had been seen and gets his truck
with the both of them and then it turned up dead the next day there was nothing concrete beyond that
to go on apparently our boy Giffin is in prison in Oklahoma and has been visited
by the investigating agency trying to persuade him to talk but the inmate would not
cooperate Giffin and Getz have never been charged with Jennifer's murder well maybe somebody from this park knows that
one of these turd bags own the knife or possibly own this ring that they gave to
Jennifer Jennifer's mom died of a heart attack in 2011 but luckily clay County's
Cold Case Investigator David schoonover is still Seeking Justice in her case there has been some good news in the
case the State's Attorney's office has decided to take another look at Jennifer's case representatives from
that office collected all of the files from Clay County homicide and are reviewing the file detective schoonover
tells us that they believe giffen and gets are guilty and he is hopeful that they will decide to press charges for
Jennifer's murder old Giffin and gets sounds like a record company from the 20s one of them confessed before maybe
one of them would confess again but it's been 20 years and let me remind you of this statement this statement by law
enforcement this was a 14 year old girl who was brutally murdered and dumped into the creek like a piece of trash and
she was murdered by pieces of trash and people saw her walking around talking with people hanging out with people
and possibly be being at a party somebody has seen more or heard more or maybe one of these scumbags giffener
gets has told somebody something and somebody out there has information and they've been holding on to this
information for quite a long time Justice needs to be served and you if you know something you need to say
something and you need to contact law enforcement well and maybe you're an eyewitness or an ear witness to
something during that time period when she was away from home leading up to her death
or maybe you've heard something or been told something since then in the last 20 years
and it was something that was a little confusing to you but now hearing the names knowing the names Gregory Alan
Giffin and David Michael Getz maybe that picture becomes a little clearer to you
and maybe you now have a better understanding of what it was that you heard or something that you may have
seen all those years ago it's not too late to inform law enforcement about what you know they still
if you don't have direct information regarding the murder itself or the moving of the body or the disposal of
her body they still want to fill in the blanks on that timeline from the time that she left her mother Angie's home to
the time that she ended up in Long Branch Creek and one of the more recent articles about Jennifer's homicide and
the ongoing investigation this was titled unsolved the murder of Jennifer metternack by Catherine Jeffries
in the article detective schoonover says I know some people are out there with knowledge and for whatever reason are
not coming forward but you have to look at this 14 year old girl she didn't deserve to die like this the wounds that
you could see during the autopsy it was very gruesome but the way she died it was a horrible
and tragic death for her to have to go through again Jennifer metternick's life was brutally ended in November of 2001
her body was found dumped under a small bridge in a desolate area along County Road to 17. the evidence that the scene
indicates the body was probably dumped off of the bridge this is just one of a handful of
unsolved murder cases in Clay County detective Ron schoonover with the Clay County Sheriff's Office primarily focus
is bringing closure to these cold cases so he is reopening This Cold Case again if you have any information whether you
think it's big or small it could be a very little detail that could help law enforcement if you know something say
something on November 5th 2001 Jennifer's mother reported her missing reported her daughter missing we need to
fill in the blanks on that timeline because three days later her body was found in that Creek 11 miles away from
home detectives believed that she bled to death after receiving multiple stab wounds underneath her body investigators
found the handle of a knife with strands of Jennifer's Hair of course they believe this is the murder weapon so any
information about the knife itself is crucial and important also remember her clothing the items that she was last
seen wearing brown sandals green and black shorts and a white T-shirt with red lips on it have never been found
either and the knife handle was just one of several pieces of evidence collected
from the scene evidence the Clay County Sheriff's Office says they are resubmitting for DNA testing and as we
know there are people who law enforcement is looking at looking at are looking very closely in fact detective
schoonover says to this day there are a couple of individuals that are Persons of Interest and high on the list and he
firmly believes there are people who who know more than what they told detectives
in 2001 quote I know some people are out there with knowledge and for whatever reason are not coming forward a special
Thanks goes out to Clay County Sheriff's Office for their hard work and continued
efforts on this now 20-year-old case and kudos to Katie Jeffries for her great reporting keeping Jennifer's case and
others in the spotlight in efforts to spread awareness of these cases and reminding the public that law
enforcement needs your help if you know something say something if anyone listening knows anything at all about
the murder of Jennifer metternneck in 2001 even if you think it's something of no importance or significance please
contact the Clay County Sheriff's Office and let them decide if your tip could help anyone with information should call
the Clay County Sheriff's Office at 904-264-6512 [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]
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Jennifer Medernach /// Part 2 /// 533

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This week in the Garage we review the still unsolved homicide of Jennifer Medernach. It has now been twenty years since the day that Jennifer’s mother reported her missing. 14 year old Jennifer Medernach left after an argument with her mother. She was spotted several times over the course of the next few days, still in the families’ neighborhood. But the story turned to tragedy when her body was found in a creek several days after being reported missing. This case is still very active and getting some justice for Jennifer is still very likely. Anyone with information should reach out to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office @ 904-264-6512.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses Jennifer Metternack's unsolved murder, investigation history, and potential suspects, urging listeners to provide any information.

Key points

The Unsolved Case of Jennifer Metternach. 20 years later, Jennifer's murder remains unsolved, raising questions about the investigation.
Richard Avonics: A Suspect Emerges. Richard Avonics, a known predator, becomes a person of interest in Jennifer's case.
Eyewitness Accounts. Witnesses saw Jennifer getting into a pickup truck before she went missing.
The Unsolved Murder of Jennifer Metternack. Jennifer's tragic case remains unsolved 20 years later, with new leads emerging.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Jennifer's case is unsolved.

Discussion about the ongoing investigation into Jennifer's murder.

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