Cops Couldn’t Crack This Case for 5 YEARS… Then They Noticed a Tiny Clue

A woman was found dead inside her own home. And from the very beginning, detectives were faced with serious contradictions and details that didn’t add up, but they couldn’t find the evidence they needed. And eventually, the case went cold. That lasted for years until investigators noticed one tiny detail that had been sitting right in front of them all along, and it became the key to finally solving the case.

Janet Abereroa was born on June 19th, 1979 in an American town called Anandale, not far from Washington DC. Her parents were Mormons and Jennet grew up in a large family with 10 children. From an early age, she was drawn to sports and basically anything that kept her active. Janet loved going outside, spending time in nature, and later on, soccer became her biggest passion.

 In 1998, Janet enrolled at Southern Virginia University, where she joined the school’s first women’s soccer team. She showed remarkable talent on the field and helped her team win the national championship twice. At the same time, she was an excellent student and was deeply involved in university life, earning different awards and scholarships along the way.

 During her first year at university, she also met a young man named Raven. Like Janet, he came from a religious family, and he loved soccer, too. Their relationship moved quickly, and just 2 years later, they decided to get married. At the time, Janet was 20 and Raven was 19. They were both still studying at the university.

 And they also started working at the same sporting goods store. After they graduated, Raven was offered a manager position at a store in Durham, a city in North Carolina, about 3 hours from where their university was. He and Janet decided to move there, and Janet got a job at the same store as well.

 After the move, the couple settled in a quiet neighborhood on the edge of the city. In October 2004, they had a son, Kaden. Janet was 25 at the time and she was overjoyed. Having grown up in such a big family herself, she had always dreamed of having many children. And now that dream was beginning to come true.

 But just 6 months later, their lives took a sudden and tragic turn. Tuesday, April 26, 2005 began like any other day. Janet picked up her son from daycare. Then she and Raven took her car to a repair shop. Later in the evening, a mutual acquaintance from their church stopped by for a visit. And after 8:00 p.m.

, Raven left for a nearby town to play soccer with his friends. Closer to 11 p.m., police received a call. On the other end of the line was Raven crying and panicking, saying that someone had shot his wife. He told them he had come home and found the front door open. That immediately seemed strange because when he left a few hours earlier, Janet had already been settling in for the night and was lying in bed watching TV.

 Raven thought he might have forgotten to lock the door, so he went inside. When he got upstairs, he walked into the room they had turned into an office, and there he found his wife’s body. There was blood everywhere, and Raven quickly realized Janet was already dead. Police arrived at the house and confirmed that there was nothing anyone could do to save her.

Janet was lying on her back, her arms raised above her head with several wounds visible on her neck and torso. Her shirt had been pulled off and there was a bloody palm print on her chest. Right away, officers noticed that the wounds on Janet’s body looked more like stab wounds than gunshot wounds, even though Raven had told the 911 dispatcher she had been shot.

 There were blood splatters throughout the room, but in the rest of the house, there were no signs of a struggle. Crime scene investigators also found no signs of forced entry, though there was a bloody handprint on the door frame, and near Janet’s body, there was a bloody shoe print. The murder weapon was not found in the house, and a search of the nearby streets didn’t turn up anything either.

Later, Raven said that one of the knives from a collection he had been building for years was missing. He also said his laptop was gone, but everything else of value was still there. No cash or jewelry had been taken, including two of Jennet’s rings that were sitting out on the kitchen counter.

 As for Jennet’s son, he was in the next room unharmed. Before long, medical examiners confirmed that Jennet had died from three stab wounds, not gunshots, as Raven had first said. He explained that he had made the assumption in a panic, looking at the pools of blood and that gunshot wounds were simply the first thing that came to mind.

 Experts also found no evidence of sexual assault, even though Janet’s shirt had been pulled up and the killer had apparently touched her with his hand, judging by the bloody print on her chest. Another interesting detail the experts found was that Janet may have been in the very early stages of pregnancy. None of her relatives, including Raven, knew anything about it.

But there was one detail that made this difficult to confirm. If Janet had been pregnant, it was still extremely early, so experts couldn’t say for certain. Based on Raven’s account, someone must have entered the house while he was gone. But from the very first hours of the investigation, there were some obvious problems with that version.

 Not only were there no signs of forced entry, but the killer also hadn’t touched the valuables and didn’t appear to have even looked for them. Raven said his laptop and one of the knives were missing, but that was a strange choice of things to steal. They weren’t especially valuable, unlike Jennet’s rings, which had been left in plain sight.

 Jennet’s own laptop was still in the house, even though it had been lying near Ravens. That raised an obvious question. Why would a burglar take one laptop and leave the other? Another strange moment was the way Raven told Janet’s parents about her death. He called them at 5:00 a.m. while police were still processing the crime scene and before medical examiners had even begun examining the body.

 Raven told them Janet had been found dead with a gunshot wound and that she had done it to herself. Janet’s parents absolutely refused to believe she could have done anything like that. So Raven’s words sounded absurd to them. Later, when police told them the real cause of death, they were even more confused about why Raven had misled them in the first place.

 Janet’s friends also found her husband’s initial version extremely strange. They said Janet simply would have never done that to the people who loved her and most importantly to her son. One of her friends also said she learned about Janet’s death from the news. The town where Janet lived was considered fairly safe, so the murder of a young woman quickly drew local media attention.

 Her friend saw a live broadcast outside Janet’s house and immediately drove there, hoping to somehow understand whether what she was seeing was really happening. When police started speaking with Janet’s friends and relatives, many of them immediately shared their suspicions about Raven, and they had a long list of reasons for it.

Detectives learned that the couple’s relationship had not been as happy as it may have looked from the outside. At first, everything between them seemed great, and Janet was genuinely happy. But shortly after the wedding, Raven told her that he had cheated on her with other women throughout their entire relationship.

Then he said he no longer wanted to be with her and was planning to file for divorce. All of this happened right around the time Janet found out she was pregnant with their first child before she even had a chance to tell anyone. Sometime after Raven moved out, she finally told him the news and suggested they try to save their marriage for the baby’s sake.

 At first, he didn’t seem very interested, but eventually he agreed to try. They started living together again, and Raven promised he would stop cheating, but even then, his behavior began putting more and more pressure on Janet. He had always been fairly jealous and controlling, but over time, it started reaching an almost absurd level.

 He didn’t want her spending time alone with her own relatives, and he expected her to account for every move she made. On top of that, Raven’s mood swings became more and more intense. One moment he could be cheerful and kind, and the next he would be yelling at Janet and insulting her. Janet even told friends she suspected her husband might have bipolar disorder.

But Raven refused to see a doctor. The situation got to the point where Janet began seriously worrying not only about her own safety, but also about her sons. She was afraid to leave him alone with his father, worried that Raven might have another outburst of anger. In the final months before her death, Raven’s behavior had gotten so bad that Janet called a friend from a pay phone several times, asking whether she and the baby could spend the night at her place.

 And on top of all that, the couple was also struggling financially, largely because of Raven. As we remember, he had been working as a manager at a sporting goods store, but shortly before Janet’s death, he had been fired. It turned out he had been using his position to run an openly fraudulent scheme.

 Raven ordered products as an employee without paying a scent for them, then sold them online. Management calculated the loss at around $15,000, which at the time was almost half of a yearly income. In the end, Raven was not only fired, but also charged with fraud. After that, he found another job, one that paid less, and Janet had to leave the same store as well.

 So, the family’s income dropped sharply, but their expenses did not. They still had to pay rent along with loans on four vehicles, including a motorcycle. Raven was also pretty careless with money and kept making purchases he clearly couldn’t afford. At the same time, 5 months before Janet’s death, he suddenly decided to take out life insurance policies on both of them.

 At first, he planned to insure Janet for $1 million, but because of her health issues, he was only able to get a $500,000 policy. And over the following months, despite their serious financial problems, he did not miss a single payment. There was another curious story connected to insurance as well, one that happened soon after Raven and Janet moved into their new home.

Their neighbor said Raven had bought a new expensive car. But before long, it suddenly burned. Later, when the neighbor talked to him about it, he noticed something strange about Raven’s reaction. He didn’t seem upset about losing the car. Instead, he was angry that the insurance company had refused to cover its value.

 At the time, the neighbor even wondered whether Raven had burned the car himself, hoping to collect the insurance money and make some easy cash. So, police were starting to see a very disturbing picture. And on top of everything, they had learned from the people closest to Janet, there was one more detail that stood out to them right from the beginning.

 When officers arrived at the scene, there were traces of blood on Raven’s sweatshirt. When police brought him to the station to give a statement about that night, Raven said he had rushed over to Janet and tried to lift her up. And when he realized she was already dead, he held her body in his arms. According to him, that explained why there was blood on his clothes.

 Raven also denied that he and his wife had been having any serious problems in their marriage. He said they argued sometimes, but that it never turned into anything more than that. Police checked his alibi and confirmed that Raven really had gone to a nearby town and played soccer with his friends. Plenty of people had seen him there, and they said he had spent the whole evening with them.

 On top of that, Raven said he had stopped at a gas station on the way home to get something to drink, and surveillance cameras did capture him there. He looked completely normal and nothing in his behavior suggested he had just committed a brutal murder. So in theory, he had an alibi for the evening Janet was killed. But there was one important detail.

 Medical examiners had not been able to establish her exact time of death. That meant Raven could have killed her before even leaving the house. In that case, he would have had to attack Janet around 8:00 p.m., then leave their son alone in the house for several hours with his mother’s body in the next room.

 Still, detectives were not ready to accuse Raven of murder because they didn’t have strong evidence against him. In fact, forensic experts examined the bloody shoe print found near Janet’s body and concluded that it could not have belonged to her husband. His shoe size was different, and none of his shoes matched the tread pattern in the bloody footprint.

 On top of that, police knew the neighborhood had recently seen a string of break-ins. Homes had been targeted, cars had been broken into, and one of those incidents had happened on the very night Janet was killed, not far from her house. Before long, forensic experts found something else. In the room where Janet had been killed, on the door of one of the cabinets, they found a fingerprint, and it did not match either Janet or Raven.

So, despite the suspicions coming from Janet’s family and friends, police started to question whether Raven really was the person behind the murder. The fingerprint and the shoe print at the scene suggested that someone else may have been inside the house, but detectives had no way to identify that person.

 Finally, crime scene investigators thoroughly searched Raven’s car, the one he had driven to the nearby town that night, and they didn’t find a single drop of blood. If Raven really had stabbed his wife to death, his clothes should have been covered in blood, and at least some of it almost certainly would have ended up in the car.

 In the end, they had to let him go. But Janet’s loved ones still looked at him with suspicion. Based on everything investigators had learned, they couldn’t be 100% sure Raven was responsible either. But to them, he still seemed like the most likely person to have killed her. Even so, detectives couldn’t prove his involvement.

 And over the next few weeks, they failed to make any real progress in the investigation. Jennet’s relatives were frustrated that the case had essentially stalled almost from the very beginning, and some of them even tried to do their own investigating. At some point, Janet’s sister invited Raven to her home, making it seem like she simply wanted to talk about what had happened and ask how he was coping.

 But when Raven stepped out of the room, she immediately went over to his backpack and started looking through it. To her surprise, she found two CDs labeled backup with a date written on them the day before Janet’s murder. Of course, Janet’s sister had to put the disc back, and she wasn’t able to look at what was on them, but she and the rest of the family believed they may have contained a copy of the files from Raven’s laptop, the same laptop he claimed had been stolen.

 And if that was true, it would have been extremely strange. Why would he back up the files from that computer one day before it was suddenly stolen? It was almost as if he knew in advance that it was going to disappear. That only made Janet’s family more suspicious of him. But police still couldn’t do anything about it.

 No judge would have signed off on a warrant to seize those discs, and detectives themselves were far from convinced that they would have found any real evidence against Raven on them. Before long, Raven found out that Janet’s entire family suspected him of murder. After that, he completely stopped communicating with him and moved with his son to the other side of the country to Salt Lake City.

 From then on, he barely stayed in touch with him, and he didn’t really contact detectives either. He never called to ask how the investigation was going, whether they were looking for his wife’s killer or anything like that. Instead, he began building a new life in a new place. A few months later, he was sentenced to probation in the fraud case involving the sporting goods store, and he was also ordered to pay around $10,000 in fines and restitution.

 After that, there was essentially no progress in Janet’s case. It simply sat there with no new evidence and no new suspects. In October 2007, 2 and 1/2 years after Janet’s death, Raven gave an interview to a local TV station and addressed the suspicions against him. He denied having anything to do with Janet’s murder and accused police of trying to pin the case on him instead of looking for the real killer.

 In late 2007, Raven met a woman named Vanessa. Her daughter went to the same daycare as his son, so the two of them kept seeing each other there. One day, Raven asked her out, but at first Vanessa wasn’t especially interested in starting a relationship with him. Still, over time, she began falling for him, and eventually the couple started talking about getting married.

 Raven told her that his ex-wife had been killed by an unknown intruder who had never been caught. Vanessa, whose father was a police officer, immediately started looking into the case and quickly learned about the suspicions surrounding him. She even watched the interview where he talked about his innocence, but she still couldn’t shake the feeling that he may have been connected to the crime somehow.

 She talked to him about it, but Raven convinced her he had not killed Janet. He told her the police department had been fixated on him from the very beginning and had failed to properly look at other suspects, which was why the real killer had never been caught. Vanessa found his explanation convincing and they continued dating.

 Just a few months later, Raven proposed. Vanessa’s parents were suspicious of him, too, especially her father, the police officer. At one point, he even asked Raven directly whether he had killed his wife. But Raven didn’t answer with a simple yes or no. Instead, he just said, “I loved my wife.” Still, Vanessa’s parents had doubts of their own.

 They weren’t 100% sure Raven was responsible, so they didn’t try to stop the wedding. But shortly before they were supposed to get married, Vanessa herself began questioning whether she could go through with it. One day, they got into an argument, and it was as if something in Raven snapped.

 He shoved her head into a wall, screaming in her face, and even raised his fist, stopping just inches from his future wife’s head. He said things like, “I don’t care whether you live or die, and I want to hit you, but I can’t get into trouble again.” Then he walked out of the room laughing loudly. While Vanessa stood there in shock.

 In all the months they had been together, she had never seen Raven like that before, and it deeply frightened her. Soon, Vanessa was confronted with something else. Janet’s relatives still believed Raven had been involved in her death. And when they learned he was planning to marry again, they tracked down Vanessa’s phone number and reached out to warn her about the man she was about to marry.

 Even so, Vanessa did not call off the wedding, and the two got married. Afterward, they went to Las Vegas for their honeymoon. And while they were there, another strange incident happened. Raven had quite a lot to drink and started talking about his first wife. But he wasn’t talking about how sad or devastating he had been after her death.

 Instead, he went on at length about how angry he had been, which Vanessa found strange. Then Raven put his arms around her and told her that he would never hurt her, and that frightened her badly. After that, Raven had repeated outbursts of rage over the smallest things. He screamed at Vanessa, insulted her, threatened her, and on one occasion even slammed her head into a wall.

 Vanessa could hardly believe this was the same man she had been dating just a few months earlier, because he had changed beyond recognition. And with every one of those outbursts, she became more and more convinced that Raven really could have killed his first wife. Eventually, Vanessa began fearing for her own life. as well as for her daughter’s safety.

 At the same time, she was afraid to leave him and wanted Raven to be the one to make the decision himself. In late 2008, only a few months after the wedding, they had another argument. Raven flew into a rage, took his son, and left. And from that point on, their marriage was essentially over. Vanessa was relieved that she had managed to get out of that relationship alive because by then she had almost no doubt that Raven had killed Janet and the thought would not leave her alone.

Around the same time, Janet’s relatives gave an interview once again speaking openly about their suspicions of Raven and addressing him directly. If he truly insisted he was innocent, they said, then he should contact police and help clear his own name. By that point, the investigation had essentially stalled, and Raven had not spoken with detectives in a long time.

 Investigators themselves still couldn’t find any new evidence. But before long, that began to change. For several months after the breakup, Vanessa kept thinking about what she could do to help Janet’s family get justice. Eventually, she decided to speak with investigators on the case. And in the spring of 2009, she and her father, a police officer, traveled across the country to meet with them in person.

 Vanessa told detectives about Raven’s behavior, his violent outbursts, and the physical abuse, and said she believed he was responsible for killing his first wife. Still, Vanessa’s statement didn’t give police any physical evidence. It mostly reinforced what Janet’s loved ones had already told them, that Raven had behaved in a similar way toward Janet, too.

 Even so, Vanessa’s account, along with the continued pressure from Janet’s family, pushed the police department to take another look at the case, and a new detective named Charles Soul was assigned to it. He began reviewing everything they had, including Raven’s recorded interviews and his media appearances.

 After that, Detective Soul decided to speak with him directly, and Raven agreed to talk by phone. During that conversation, Soul noticed that Raven seemed to get tangled up in his own story and changed certain details as he went. For example, he had previously said the lights were off inside the house when he came home. But now, his version was different.

 He also said the baby had not been crying, even though during the 911 call, Raven had said the opposite. Detective Soul also took note of the fact that sometime after Janet’s murder, Raven had suddenly found the same knife he had originally claimed was missing. Raven insisted he had found it among his belongings in a box after moving to Salt Lake City and blamed police for supposedly missing it during their search of the house.

 Another inconsistency involved Raven’s clothing. He said he had gone to play soccer that evening wearing a sweatshirt and that he was still wearing it when he came home. But Detective Soul looked at the surveillance footage from the gas station Raven had stopped at after the game to buy a drink. And in that video, he was wearing only a t-shirt.

Considering there was a blood stain on the sweatshirt, the detective had an obvious question. Did that stain really get there after Raven came home, found Janet’s body, and held her in his arms? Or had he killed Janet before leaving the house while wearing that sweatshirt, then taken it off, gone to the game, and put it back on when he returned so he would have an explanation for the blood on his clothes.

 Detective Soul turned to a blood splatter expert for help, and the expert concluded that Raven’s version made no sense. Jennet’s body was covered in blood and there were pools of it around her. But on Raven’s sweatshirt, there was only a small blood stain. In the expert’s opinion, if Raven had truly held Janet’s body in his arms, there should have been far more blood on him.

 Finally, Detective Soul noticed several strange details in the crime scene photos. From the beginning, Raven had said that before leaving the house, he had washed the dishes while Janet was already in bed and getting ready to sleep. But, as we remember, Janet’s rings were found on the kitchen counter near the sink. That raised an obvious question.

 Would Janet really have taken off her rings, left them in the kitchen, and then gone to bed? Or was it actually Janet, not Raven, who had been washing the dishes? If so, that would mean she had not been getting ready for bed when Raven left the house, which was a major contradiction in the story. Then the detective noticed something else, and that observation became a turning point in the case.

 On a shelf in the bathroom, Janet’s contact lenses case was sitting open. Based on that, Detective Soul believed the lenses were not inside, which meant Janet clearly could not have been in bed getting ready for sleep while still wearing your contacts. Anyone who wears contact lenses knows they have to be taken out before bed, otherwise your eyes will be badly irritated by morning.

 So, police now had fairly strong reasons to believe Raven had given them false information. And Detective Soul decided to look for proof that would be impossible to argue with. He contacted an opthalmology expert and asked whether after all those years it would still be possible to detect contact lenses on Janet’s eyes. The expert confirmed that it was.

 Police then obtained a warrant to exume Janet’s body, and all they could do was wait for the results. The examination was expected to take about 6 months because the process was extremely complex. Since there was almost nothing left of the lenses or the eyes themselves, the expert had to run an entire experiment. He needed to place contact lenses on a pig’s eyes and bury them in the ground for at least 6 months so he would know what to look for.

 While Detective Soul was waiting for those results, he noticed another strange detail. The couple had two dogs that lived inside the house with them, but at the time of the murder, for some reason, they were in the backyard with the door closed behind them. If Raven was telling the truth, and Janet really had been going to bed when he left, why would she have left the dogs outside? And why had Raven himself not noticed it? All of these details clearly did not help Raven, but police still had several serious obstacles. As we remember, a

fingerprint, DNA on the doorframe, and a shoe print had all been found at the crime scene. Over the years, investigators had never been able to match them to anyone, and that created a real problem. Detective Soul understood that the fingerprint and DNA sample may not have been connected to the murder at all.

 The genetic material on the doorframe could have been left there by anyone long before Janet was killed, and nothing tied that evidence specifically to her death. The same was true of the fingerprint on the cabinet door. But the shoe print near Janet’s body was much harder to explain because it had been made in blood, which meant there was a strong chance it had been left by the killer.

 Still, Detective Soul decided to check it. He started looking into everyone that had entered that room after the body was found. And before long, he made a fairly unexpected discovery. The print matched the shoe of one of the paramedics who had arrived at the scene before police. Apparently, the man had accidentally stepped in a pool of blood, and police had recorded the shoe print as evidence.

 Based on all of this new information, Detective Soul decided to arrest Raven and try to bring the case to justice. He knew they didn’t have a single piece of direct evidence against him, but the long list of circumstantial evidence gave prosecutors hope that they could still hold him accountable. Raven was taken into custody on February 1st, 2010, almost 5 years after Janet’s death.

 He continued to insist he was innocent and prosecutors began preparing the case for trial. At the same time, they were still waiting for the opthalmology results. And in July 2010, the expert finally announced that Janet had indeed been wearing contact lenses when she died. Police now had reliable confirmation that Janet could not have gone to bed with her contacts still in, which meant Raven had lied to them.

 The trial did not begin until 3 years later, and Raven spent all that time behind bars. He was charged with first-degree murder, but the prosecutor chose not to seek the death penalty, and that decision was made at Janet’s family’s request. They explained that they didn’t want Janet’s son to end up with two dead parents.

During the trial, the prosecution argued that Raven had killed his wife because he wanted out of the marriage without taking a financial hit. If they divorced, he would not only have to split assets with her, but also pay child support. Prosecutors also pointed to the life insurance policy as another possible motive.

 As we remember, just 5 months before Jenna’s death, Raven had pushed for her to take out a $500,000 policy on her own life. That money could have solved all of his financial problems and allowed him to live comfortably for years. On top of that, Jennet may have discovered she was pregnant and told Raven about it. For him, that could have meant yet another financial obligation, including child support, and that may have only strengthened his motive to kill her.

According to the prosecution, everything happened before Raven left to play soccer. Based on the evidence, Jennet may have been downstairs washing dishes when Raven called her up to the office on the second floor. When she was there, he immediately stabbed her three times, catching her completely offguard, which would explain why there were no signs of a struggle.

 After that, he went to the game, stopped at a gas station to buy a drink, and create an extra layer of alibi, then returned home, and staged the 911 call. The defense pointed to the lack of direct evidence and argued that police had done a very poor job investigating the case. They emphasized that after all those years, investigators still had not identified the person who left the DNA and fingerprint found at the crime scene.

Raven’s attorneys insisted those traces could have belonged to the real killer and that Raven had nothing to do with what happened. Vanessa, the defendant’s second wife, also testified at the trial. She told the court about the problems in their relationship, his aggression, and the time he had physically abused her.

 The trial lasted 5 weeks, but in the end, everyone involved was met with an unpleasant turn. 11 jurors voted to find Raven guilty, while only one believed there was still reasonable doubt about his guilt. Since the verdict had to be unanimous, the judge was forced to declare a mistrial and both sides began preparing for a new trial.

 But that second trial never happened because the prosecutor decided to offer Raven a deal. Under the terms, Raven would plead guilty and in exchange receive a much shorter sentence on a charge of secondderee murder. The deal also involved a special type of plea where the defendant technically continues to maintain his innocence but admits that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict him.

 Under that deal, Raven was looking at about 24 years in prison, but he refused it. The prosecution understood that in a second trial, their chances of securing a conviction might be even lower. So, a year later, they offered him another deal. this time on a manslaughter charge. Raven accepted the deal, but explained that he was only doing it because he didn’t believe he could get a fair trial and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he said he had not committed.

 Before the sentence was handed down, he once again insisted that he had not killed his wife, and the judge sentenced him to a prison term of 95 to 123 months. By that point, Raven had already spent several years behind bars, and that time was credited towards his sentence. As a result, he was released in late 2017, about 3 and 1/2 years after reaching the plea agreement.

He was 38 at the time of his release, and soon after getting out, he returned to Utah. there. He changed his last name and continued raising his son, who had been in the custody of Raven’s mother while he was incarcerated. Jennet’s relatives had tried to have custody transferred to them, but those efforts went nowhere.

 So, as of now, Raven remains a free man. He continues to live in Utah and keeps himself away from media attention, even though journalists still try to interview him from time to time. In 2025, he did agree to answer reporters questions and said he still insists he is innocent. He also agreed for the first time to take a polygraph test.

 And the examiner found no signs of deception. His son, who is now an adult, said he has never considered the possibility that his father was involved in his mother’s murder and believes the accusations against him are unfair. In total, Raven spent 8 years behind bars, and that fact was deeply painful for Jenna’s relatives. Still, they had agreed to the deal themselves when the prosecutor presented it as an option because they were exhausted after the first trial and did not want to go through a second one, especially knowing that Raven had a real chance of being

acquitted and walking away without any punishment at all. So, in the end, this case did reach a conclusion, even though some people still believe Raven may truly have been innocent. Share your thoughts on this story in the comments section, and don’t forget to press the like button if you enjoyed my video. Thank you for watching.