For three decades, nobody knew for certain what happened to 12-year-old Jennifer Odom after she got off a school bus on a typical day in 1993. The girl was found dead in a Florida orange grove not long after.
Now, authorities in Hernando County say a DNA match has identified her killer as Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, who is already serving two life sentences for a. State Attorney Bill Gladson said Thursday prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the Odom case.
A grand jury indicted Crum on first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual battery charges, Gladson added. It wasn't immediately clear if Crum had a lawyer to speak for him about the case. Children who were on the bus told investigators they saw a faded blue pickup truck slowly following Jennifer as she walked home. Six days after she disappeared, her body was found in an orange grove in Hernando County after a massive search that the media closely followed.
“This is not someone who should be taken lightly,” Nienhuis said. “This is a bad guy who enjoyed violence.”
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