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Jeffrey Willis, Michigan inmate 436898, born 1970, incarceration intake at age 48, sentenced to life.

Spent 5 years in jail between arrest and sentencing.  

Murdered 2 women.

Jeffrey Willis has been sentenced to life in prison for abducting and killing convenience store clerk Jessica Heeringa in 2013.

In a 13-minute statement, Willis addressed the court: he maintained his innocence and made claims that police botched the investigation and manipulated the evidence against him.  He maintained that he was trying to help the teen MJN in April 2016, when he was arrested after trying to abduct her.

"Due to a lack of funding, a careless disregard for truth, the desire to reach a rash and attentive conclusion to an unproven crime, or just plain falsifying evidence, not only has this promise [of justice] been murdered, but also left to rot at the feet of lady justice," said Willis reading his statement.

Willis is still awaiting trial on that abduction, but the Muskegon County Prosecutor says he has to speak with people, including victims, about whether to continue to pursue or drop these pending charges.

After his arrest in 2016, investigators tied a gun found in Willis' van to the bullets used to kill Rebekah Bletsch while she was jogging in June 2014.  They also found other evidence that tied Willis to Heeringa's disappearance in April 2013.

The DA addressed the court and says he is very proud of the police work done in Muskegon County, thanked the Bletsch family for their help and support, then said he expects to sleep better knowing that Jeffrey Willis is behind bars for life.

"[Willis] just doesn’t see his culpability in all of this apparently," said the DA after sentencing.

"[Willis] would have continued to haunt and stalk women who were isolated or in isolated areas, and his killing would have continued; I have no doubt in my mind of that. The fact that this man will never see the light of day again, I’m pretty happy with that."

Despite Willis calling his trial rigged, his defense attorney, the Muskegon County Chief Public Defender told local media this trial was "remarkably fair."

"This was the man who was vilified from the very press conference before he even went to the preliminary examination," said the lawyer.

"So under those circumstances and given the complications, the County of Muskegon put on a terrific defense for this man. And we’re very proud of the effort we made for him."

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours before finding Willis guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the April 2013 kidnapping and death of Heeringa, a clerk at the former Exxon Mobil gas station in Norton Shores.  Her body has not been found.

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MURDERED: Jessica Heeringa

Jessica Heeringa was a young mom in her mid-20’s who was trying to provide for her family. She was smart, loving, a hard worker… and then, in 2013, she vanished from her job at a local gas station.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit https://crimejunkieapp.com/library/.  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list…

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Man found guilty of kidnapping young mom from her job, killing her in ‘torture sanctuary’

25-year-old Jessica Heeringa, a mother of a 3-year-old son, disappeared in 2013 while working late at a gas station.

from Top Stories http://www.kmbc.com/article/man-found-guilty-of-kidnapping-young-mom-from-her-job-killing-her-in-torture-sanctuary/20741061

from Kansas City Watch https://kansascitywatch.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/man-found-guilty-of-kidnapping-young-mom-from-her-job-killing-her-in-torture-sanctuary/

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Convicted murderer blows kiss at victim’s family during sentencing

MUSKEGON, Mich. — A Michigan man convicted of murder blew a kiss as he left the courtroom on Monday, the victim’s family told WXMI.

Jeffrey Willis was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2014 murder of Rebekah Bletsch, a mother who had been jogging near her home after work when she was fatally shot.

Willis requested not to be present during his sentencing, avoiding statements from the victim’s family who called him a coward as he left the courtroom.

Bletsch’s mother Debra Reamer told the court, “This coward should have been here to listen to us. We deserve our right to tell him exactly how we feel.”

“I think that was very cowardly to walk out like that, and then to turn around to my family and blow a kiss?” said Jessica Josephson, Bletsch’s younger sister, after the sentencing. “I think that’s his kiss of death. He’s going to get what he deserves in prison.”

Left standing before rows of family and community members, Josephson, Reamer and Bletsch’s sister Nicole Winberg addressed the court, also reading a letter from several of Bletsch’s friends.

“Becky was everything a big sister should be,” Josephson told the court. “I will never forget the time I was with my sister and I asked her, ‘Becky are you pregnant?’ She said ‘no.’ I told her I had a dream she was pregnant, a few days later Becky showed up at my door and said, ‘your dream came true.’ From that moment on that child became her world.”

Winberg called on Willis, who is also facing charges in the 2013 disappearance of Jessica Heeringa, to confess in that case. Heeringa’s body has not been found.

“I ask that he find it in himself to give the Heeringa family their daughter back,” said Winberg. “They deserve a body to lay to rest. He claims that he’s not a monster, but his actions speak louder than words.”

Willis was arrested in the spring of 2016 after an abduction attempt in Muskegon County. Evidence was found in his home and his vehicle to tie him to the Bletsch murder, including the Walther P22 gun in his van that matched ballistics in Bletsch’s murder.

“[Willis] really is evil,” said Nick Winberg, Bletsch’s father with tears in his eyes. “We have to move forward. The bible says to keep conquering evil with good, and my family will. We are going to move forward and live good lives.”

Willis faces another trial in March for the murder of Jessica Heeringa.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/12/19/convicted-murderer-blows-kiss-at-victims-family-during-sentencing/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/convicted-murderer-blows-kiss-at-victims-family-during-sentencing/

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MUSKEGON, Mich | Michigan man sentenced in gas station clerk's slaying

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MUSKEGON, Mich | Michigan man sentenced in gas station clerk's slaying

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A 48-year-old man already serving life in prison for killing a jogger has been sentenced to another mandatory life term for the kidnapping and slaying of a 25-year-old western Michigan gas station clerk.

Jeffrey Willis shed tears and told a Muskegon County courtroom Monday that he is innocent and didn’t get a fair trial.

After Willis finished speaking, Prosecutor D.J. Hilson called him “probably one of the most dangerous men” he ever hoped to encounter.

Jessica Heeringa went missing in 2013 from a gas station in Norton Shores, northwest of Grand Rapids. Her body hasn’t been found.

Willis was convicted last year for fatally shooting Rebekah Bletsch in 2014. He is also expected to stand trial in the 2016 attempted kidnapping of a teenager.

By Associated Press

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Jessica Heeringa Disappeared From Late Night Shift at Gas Station, Police Asking For Public's Help - http://bit.ly/17t68n3

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Jessica Heeringa Disappeared From Late Night Shift at Gas Station, Police Asking For Public's Help

NORTON SHORES, MI – Police are asking for the public’s help in finding 25-year-old Jessica Heeringa, an Exxon Mobil gas station attendant believed to have been abducted from her job.

Heeringa made her last sale at 11 p.m. Friday night, but 15 minutes later a concerned customer called police to report there were no employee at the open gas station.

According to Heeringa’s mother, her daughter’s purse and keys were found in the store and their was evidence she had been preparing to close up the store.

“She was going to get out in 15 minutes,” Shelly Heeringa, Jessica’s mother, told ABC News. “In 15 minutes that store would’ve been closed and she would’ve been on her way home.”

Norton Shores Police Chief Daniel Shaw said it does not appear robbery was the motive, as the store’s cash drawer was left untouched.

There are no surveillance cameras at the gas station, which I bet won’t be the case for much longer, so police are asking for the public’s help.

Norton Shores Police Department have received one tip that has investigators searching for a silver minivan, possibly a Chrysler Town & Country, that was last seen in the area prior to Heeringa’s disappearance. The passerby stated they witnessed the minivan parked near the gas station and driving away.

Heeringa’s mother believes someone came to the gas station and lured her daughter to the back of the store and shoved her in the back of the van. “I’m sure she was abducted,” Shelly Heeringa said. “There was no struggle. She was cleaning a machine, she left her car keys, and no money was taken from the gas station.”

“She’s loved by everyone,” her mother added. “She has a 3-year-old boy who is missing his mom and wants her back.”

Jessica Heeringa is described as a white female, 5 feet 1 inch tall, about 110 pounds, with blond, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. She may be wearing a blue collared shirt with “Sternberg Exxon” on it.

Investigators are asking anyone with information regarding Heeringa’s disappearance, or anyone who may have witnessed any suspicious activity at the gas station on the night Herringa disappeared, to call Silent Observer at 231-72-CRIME (231-722-7463) or call 911.

I hope she is found safe, but these kind of stories never seem to end well.