IN IN - Janna Rivera, 3 mos, Indianapolis, 29 May 2015 *J. Fairbanks guilty*

[MamaJoJo]

where did you hear the sister saw? post a link if you can so i can see.

It's in the probable cause affidavit. Post #171 has a link.

 

[cvaldez1975]

i hope he rots.

 

[MsMarple]

Jeff Fairbanks' ex-wife speaks out:

"He hit me so many times but the last one, the last one that scared me so much was the gun," said Guevarra.
...
Guevarra decided to leave Fairbanks after he pointed a gun at her and threatened her life in 2013. He faced domestic battery charges in connection with that incident.

"He pulled my hair and then banged my head in the wall like 3 or 4 times and then put his hand in my mouth, trying to open it and then put the gun in my mouth and then after that he hit me in my forehead and then in my cheek with the gun and then I was just crying I was so scared," said Guevarra.

http://fox59.com/2015/08/31/ex-wife-speaks-out-after-jeff-fairbanks-arrested-for-babys-murder/

His current wife (Janna's mom) also has a protective order against him. What a piece of human refuse.

 

[cvaldez1975]

he even looks like a . idk why they gave him the time of day.

 

[cvaldez1975]

bump. I googled and couldn't find anything on this in MSM. is he still facing charges? anyone closer to the area hear anything?

 

[lauriej]

bump. I googled and couldn't find anything on this in MSM. is he still facing charges? anyone closer to the area hear anything?

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...ested-presumed-death-month-old-girl/71285080/
Jeffrey D. Fairbanks, 45, faces charges of murder and neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

Fairbanks is being held without bond in the Marion County Jail. Judge Sheila Carlisle entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. A public defender has been assigned to his case.

http://fox59.com/2015/08/31/ex-wife-speaks-out-after-jeff-fairbanks-arrested-for-babys-murder/
Fairbanks' next court date is set for late October.

--although I don't see anything current about him being back in court in october.

 

[cvaldez1975]

yea I saw this, but it was months ago. I wish they'd update. I hope he didn't get pleaded out to some puny county time.

another case that they never update is Robert honsch.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...ested-presumed-death-month-old-girl/71285080/
Jeffrey D. Fairbanks, 45, faces charges of murder and neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

Fairbanks is being held without bond in the Marion County Jail. Judge Sheila Carlisle entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. A public defender has been assigned to his case.

http://fox59.com/2015/08/31/ex-wife-speaks-out-after-jeff-fairbanks-arrested-for-babys-murder/
Fairbanks' next court date is set for late October.

--although I don't see anything current about him being back in court in october.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Police never found Baby Janna. Now, her father is standing trial for murder.

For weeks, police searched through fields and landfills in at least three counties for 3-month-old Janna Rivera after she disappeared from her northeast side home in May 2015.

Baby Janna was never found.

But three months after the disappearance, Marion County prosecutors charged her father, Jeffrey Fairbanks, with murder and neglect of a dependent, pointing in an affidavit to the various stories Fairbanks told during the investigation.

Now, Fairbanks is standing trial in his daughter's death. Testimony began on Monday afternoon after the attorneys selected a jury in the morning.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Jury rules Jeffrey Fairbanks not guilty of Baby Janna's murder, guilty of neglect of a dependent

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/crime/jury-rules-jeffrey-fairbanks-not-guilty-of-baby-jannas-murder-guilty-of-neglect-of-a-dependent

A Marion County jury ruled that Jeffrey Fairbanks is not guilty of the murder of his daughter, 3-month-old Janna Rivera, but is guilty of neglect of a dependent causing death.

The verdict came after a three-day trial in which Marion County prosecutors presented their case for why Fairbanks should be found guilty of the murder of Baby Janna – whose body was never found.

Prosecutors ultimately failed to convince members of the jury that sufficient evidence existed to find Fairbanks guilty of Baby Janna's murder. Jurors did, however, find him guilty of neglect leading to her death.

Fairbanks faces a potential sentence of 20-40 years in prison. His attorney told RTV6 he was "very disappointed" in the verdict and plans to appeal.

Fairbanks' sentencing is scheduled for May 25 at 9 a.m.

 

[cvaldez1975]

noooooooo well if he still faces 20-40 years that is something. it would be hard to prove murder with no body :*( poor baby girl

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Sentencing for father of Baby Janna rescheduled

http://www.wthr.com/article/sentencing-for-father-of-baby-janna-rescheduled

Fairbanks was initially scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, but his attorneys requested the sentencing be rescheduled. He is now set to be sentenced June 30.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Baby Janna's father sentenced to 30 years

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/06/29/baby-jannas-father-sentenced-30-years/439055001/

Jeffrey D. Fairbanks, 47, has been sentenced on one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in death, authorities said Thursday. A jury found Fairbanks guilty of neglect after a three-day trial in April but found him not guilty of murder.

“Although Janna’s body has never been recovered, we commend the many hours devoted by investigators in the extensive search for Janna and the perseverance of our deputy prosecutors in obtaining a conviction in this exceedingly difficult case,” Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said in a statement. “With this conviction, Jeffrey Fairbanks has been held responsible for her tragic death and disappearance.”

 

[YaYa_521]

Janna Rivera – The Charley Project

Details of Disappearance​

Janna was last seen in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 28, 2015. She lived with her parents and two older sisters in the 4100 block of Candy Apple Boulevard, in the Orchard Valley Farms subdivision; they had moved there just a few weeks earlier.

Just before 9:00 a.m. on May 29, Janna's mother, Yolanda Rivera-Gonzalez, called 911 and said Janna was dead. She later called back and recanted this statement, saying instead that her boyfriend had taken Janna the night before while she was at work and she didn't know where they were. Police later said Yolanda had trouble making herself understood due to a language barrier.

Police questioned Janna's father, Jeffrey D. Fairbanks, who was Yolanda's boyfriend, after finding him lying in bed upstairs. He was drunk at the time and he said he couldn't remember much, but that he had picked Janna up and she wasn't moving. He added that he was "so scared" and didn't want to go to jail, but wanted to get on with his life.

The day after Janna's disappearance was reported, Fairbanks said he would take police to her body. He led them to a dumpster at Maison Garden Apartments on the northeast side of the city. By then, however, the dumpster had been emptied.

A few days after Janna's disappearance, Yolanda filed for an order of protection from Fairbanks. In the order, she said Fairbanks had beaten her regularly, once a month or so, over the past two years and that he would choke her, push her and strike her. On one occasion, during an argument, he sprayed her with a fire extinguisher. Yolanda said she had never gone to the police to report the assaults because she was afraid of Fairbanks. He was, however, found guilty of domestic battery in connection with a 2013 case involving his then-wife.

Fairbanks told several stories about what happened to Janna. At one point he said he woke up at 5:30 a.m. to the sound of Janna crying. He gave her a bottle and she drank it, and he stayed up for a few hours. He said when he changed Janna's diaper he put a pillow over her face to muffle her cries, though he denied having put any pressure on the pillow.

In a letter to the local news media, Fairbanks said he woke up at 1:30 p.m. and realized Janna had died in her sleep, apparently of natural causes. He wrote that in panic he wrapped the baby's body in a blanket and took it out to the car, because he did not want the other children to see it. It didn't occur to him to call 911, he said. He drove around Indianapolis for eight hours, eventually left the body in the dumpster, then lied to Yolanda and his family and said he'd buried it.

One of Janna's sisters remembered hearing Janna crying at around noon on the day of her disappearance. She said Fairbanks came downstairs with the baby at 1:00 p.m. and the other child in the home asked where he was going and why he was carrying Janna like that. The sister caught a glimpse of Janna's face, and her eyes were closed. Fairbanks then took Janna out to the car, left and did not return for eight hours. When he came back he was drunk and crying and said she was dead and he couldn't save her.

Janna's sisters stated Fairbanks was careful with Janna when he was sober, but he drank a lot and when drunk he would yell at Janna and hit her when she cried and fussed. He also sometimes covered her face with a pillow to get her to stop crying.

In August 2015, Fairbanks was charged with murder and neglect of a dependent causing death. A photo of him is posted with this case summary. In April 2017, after less than two hours of deliberation, a jury found him not guilty of murder, but guilty of neglect of a dependent causing death. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison.

An extensive search of Indianapolis, and fields, ponds and landfills in Shelby, Hancock and Marion Counties, turned up no sign of Janna's remains, although police did find a bloodstained blanket and Yolanda identified it as her daughter's. Foul play is suspected in Janna's case due to the circumstances involved.