Ex-con arrested in Vermont for 2019 murder of woman who told cops she ‘feared for her life’

Police in Vermont have arrested an ex-convict for the 2019 homicide of his former girlfriend, who had beforehand complained to the authorities that she “feared for her life.”

Deven Moffitt, 32, of Bennington, was taken into custody by the Vermont State Police on a second-degree homicide cost Wednesday within the loss of life of Jessica Hildenbrandt, 43, police stated in a information launch.

Moffitt’s arrest got here following the identification of Hildenbrandt’s jawbone and different stays present in a gravel pit.

Detectives decided that Hildenbrandt and Moffitt had been in a relationship whereas Moffitt was imprisoned in Vermont on a earlier conviction, police stated.

When police got here to arrest Moffitt Wednesday, he fled, main troopers on a chase, which ended with the suspect being tackled to the bottom, reported News10.

The 32-year-old was jailed with out bail and was scheduled to be arraigned on the homicide cost Thursday afternoon.

Police stated their investigation goes again to Sept. 17, 2019, when a person reported discovering what seemed to be a human jawbone at a gravel pit in Searsburg. Police finally discovered extra human stays on the website.

In July 2020, the Vermont Forensic Laboratory recognized the stays as these of Hildenbrandt by means of DNA evaluation. The Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Workplace dominated her loss of life a murder that September.

In March 2019, Hildenbrandt reported to the Windsor County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace and later to state police that she feared for her life if Moffitt had been to be launched from jail, police stated.

A detective interviewed Hildenbrandt, however she in the end stopped cooperating with the investigation, and legislation enforcement was unable to pursue the matter additional, police stated within the information launch.

“In the middle of the advanced, prolonged investigation, detectives spoke with quite a few witnesses and associates of Hildenbrandt and Moffitt; analyzed cellphone calling, text-message and site knowledge; executed digital search warrants; and reviewed name data from the Division of Corrections,” the information launch stated.

After the invention and identification of Hildenbrandt’s stays, the Vermont State Police discovered that Hildenbrandt had posted bail for Moffitt on July 8, 2019, in a newly filed prison case.

Proof within the Hildenbrandt case signifies she was killed in mid-July 2019, police stated.

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