Thirty years ago, 12-year-old Jennifer Odom was abducted after getting off her school bus and found dead six days later, law enforcement officials say. On Thursday, authorities in Florida announced the arrest of a suspect in the homicide cold case.
July 27, 2023, 7:24 PMHernando County Sheriff's Office
Crum is already serving two life sentences after he was convicted in 2019 of attempted murder and sexual battery of a teenage girl who was "horribly attacked" after she got off a school bus in Pasco County in 1992, according to Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis.Hernando County Sheriff's Office Crum was identified as a suspect in the earlier case in 2015, when a DNA profile created from biological evidence recovered from the attack matched a family member in a DNA database, according to Nienhuis.At that time, Crum quickly became a suspect in the Jennifer Odom case, too, the sheriff said. It took several years to conduct the investigation. The case was also slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the appeals process in Crum's 2019 conviction, Hernando County Sherrif's Office Det.
Grand jury proceedings are secret, so authorities were not able to discuss the details of the investigation. Though Gladson noted that he is confident in their case.
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