A Connecticut man who killed his parents when he discovered their plan to write him out of their wills has been sentenced to 55 years jail with no parole.
Kyle Navin, 29, pleaded guilty to the August 2015 murders of Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin in April – just one day before his case was set to go to trial, The Hartford Courant reported.
The couple owned a local refuse company, and had bought Navin a home. But, upset by his drug use and inability to make mortgage or rate payments on the home, they agreed to cut him off.
Jeanette told a friend she and Jeffrey would be selling the business and writing Navin out of their wills, something the prosecution argued motivated him to kill them.
Kyle Navin (pictured) was sentenced to 55 years jail after pleading guilty to murdering his parents
The bodies of Jeanette (right) and Jeffrey (left) Navin were found in a vacant yard in October 2015, three months after Navin had fatally shot them
The couple were last seen on August 4, 2015, and were reported missing three days later.
After their remains were discovered behind a vacant home in October that year, both suffering bullet wounds, Navin was charged over their murders.
Prosecutors said Navin fatally shot his mother in the cab of a truck owned by the business, just after she had helped him on a collection route .
They alleged he murdered his father in the basement of the home his parents had bought for him in Bridgeport.
The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office revealed Jeanette Navin was shot in her ‘torso and extremities’ and Jeffrey Navin was shot in his ‘trunk’.
Jeanette’s body was found first, by workers clearing the vacant land. Her bones fell out of a pile of sticks, while Jeffrey’s badly decomposed corpse was found soon after, wrapped up in garbage bags sealed with tape.
In sentencing on Friday, Judge Robert J Devlin Jr told Navin his was a ‘black hearted crime’.
‘This is a horrific crime, there’s no other way to describe it,’ he said.
Judge Robert J Devlin Jr told Navin his was a ‘black hearted crime’ as he sentenced him to 55 years with no chance of parole
Devlin pointed out since 1986 there had been only 113 cases in the United States of someone accused of killing their mother.
‘This idea of a killing by a child of his parents is exceedingly rare, it cuts against the fundamentals of our human condition, you don’t kill the people who gave life to you,’ the judge said.
‘One can only imagine the horror of Jeannette Navin when her son pulled a gun on her and shot her as she sat next to him.’
Devlin asked Navin if he had anything to say before being sentenced. The defendant replied, ‘Not publicly your honor.’
In the nearly three years Navin has had to think about his actions, he appeared to have become remorseful.
‘It’s disgraceful and disgusting, everything from the beginning, on my account,’ he told the judge.
Navin’s girlfriend, Jennifer Valiante, has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to hindering the prosecution.
Had the case gone to trial, text messages between the two showing Navin explain his plan to ‘wipe out the virus [his parents] and get the money for life’.
Jennifer Valiante (pictured) was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to hindering prosecution. She was initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and pleaded not guilty