New twist in case of vanishing Connecticut couple Jeffrey and Jeanette as son Kyle goes missing too

WHEN a flamboyant, middle-aged couple vanished earlier this month, leaving more than $2 million in unpaid mortgage repayments, police suspected they’d staged their own disappearance.

Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin were last seen by employees at their Connecticut family business, J & J Refuse, on Tuesday, August 4. Relatives reported them missing three days later.

According to court documents obtained by the Hartford Courant, the Navins owed $2.2 million on a Guilford home which the HSBC bank has since foreclosed on. They had also run up close to $146,000 in overdue electricity bills.

The Navins were known to be keen travellers and it was not unusual for them to take overseas trips several times a year. However, it soon became apparent that they hadn’t simply taken some time out without telling anyone.

Family members told reporters they did not believe the couple’s financial woes would have caused them to disappear and confirmed their bank accounts had remained untouched.

“They’re hardworking people. That’s what we’ve leaed. They’re hardworking people, who like to travel,” Chief Tim Shaw of the Easton Police Department said.

What he didn’t say was that police now suspected the Navins had met with foul play.

The Navin’s Connecticut home is now considered a crime scene. Picture: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Officers from the State Police Major Crimes Division search the home of Kyle Navin this week. The 27-year-old vanished this week after police named him a person of interest in his parents’ disappearance. Source: Supplied

On Sunday, August 9, police attached to the affluent suburb of Easton where the couple lived, and found their car abandoned in a carpark. It had reportedly been vandalised. Officers searched the surrounding area, including several rubbish trucks associated with the couple’s company.

Sources close to the investigation told the Courant “evidence” was found in at least one of those vehicles, the nature of which has not been disclosed. Whatever they found was important enough for authorities to double the resources assigned to the case.

On Wednesday, the State Police Major Crimes Division took over the investigation and dropped a bombshell: the Navin’s son Kyle had been identified as a person of interest.

Since then, reporters and television crews have camped outside the Bridgeport home of the 27-year-old, who is listed as the operations manager at J & J Refuse, as detectives and forensics officers continue to comb the property for clues.

This moing there was another twist — Kyle himself appeared to be missing.

Neighbour Lorraine Eckes told reporters detectives had arrived to speak to Kyle shortly after his parents disappeared but nobody had seen him, his wife or their two dogs in about a week.

The garbage truck, usually parked at the house, now sealed off with crime scene tape, was also gone, she said.

The Hartford Courant also reported detectives questioned Navin two weeks ago but had not spoken to him since.