TX TX - Harvey Huber, 50, Georgetown, 25 Feb 2020 *ARREST* *Guilty*

[NervousNellie]

@PommyMommy - just wow!


and he is not the only one...

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 6, 2020
Arrest made in connection with missing Georgetown business owner

 

[chimpface]

I wonder if he was a co-worker?

The comments about staying behind after work at the shop and drinking with co-workers is playing on my mind...

 

[PommyMommy]

I wonder if he was a co-worker?

The comments about staying behind after work at the shop and drinking with co-workers is playing on my mind...

That was my first thought as well. I haven't seen a next court date for JT, have you? We might learn something then. MOO

 

[mynoyb]

Suspect was apparently having affair with the victims wife.

Suspect in case of missing Georgetown man was having affair with his wife, police say

 

[kspoon45]

This is just the saddest news possible. It's a small town, a small-town feeling. People will likely be reeling from this for a long time to come.

Thanks for posting that link, mynoyb. I had come here to do the same. May Harry RIP.

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 6, 2020
Suspect accused of hiding body of Texas businessman, having affair with his wife
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According to the arrest affidavit released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, on the day he disappeared, Huber was hanging out with some people at his shop, one of whom was Tschoerner. Witnesses say Huber and another man got into a heated argument about religion, at which point Tschoerner left.

Surveillance footage from nearby businesses showed a white flatbed truck back up to the auto repair shop. When it left, it had “an object on the back portion of the flatbed wrecker, which is consistent in size with being a human corpse.” A witness later told investigators a brown and silver tarp that was previously covering a Honda at Huber Auto Repair was missing.

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The flatbed Tschoerner was allegedly driving was identified with the help of his employer, T.I.P Tow Wrecker. According to the affidavit, the flatbed was inspected by a Williamson County Crime Scene Technician, who said he found bloodstains on the said of the truck.

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Investigators say they found a stain at the entrance to the tunnel that was preemptively confirmed as human blood. Texas Rangers processed the area around the tunnel and found several bloodstains. They also collected fragments of what they believed to be human bone. Additionally, they found brown and silver tarp fragments, according to the affidavit. Investigators say the evidence found indicated that a large object was unloaded onto the private driveway, then dragged over a metal guard rail, down an embankment and into the tunnel.

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The recovered bone fragments were brought to the Forensic Anthropology Department of Texas State University for analysis. The bones were discovered to be “consistent in thickness and morphology with a human skull.” The analysis also indicated trauma, the affidavit said.

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During the investigation, officers discovered Tschoerner and Huber’s wife were having an affair. According to the affidavit, both Tschoerner and Huber’s wife admitted to being in a sexual relationship with one another and multiple text messages between the two confirmed a close relationship. In one of the texts from Tschoerner to Huber’s wife on Feb. 14, he wrote “I’m headed to the tunnel now.”

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[PommyMommy]

MAR 6, 2020
Police: Blood, bone fragments found in case of missing Georgetown man
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Huber’s body has not been found but the man linked to his disappearance, Jimmy Tschoerner, was having an affair with Huber’s wife since May 2019, according to the affidavit.

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... video surveillance taken from nearby Georgetown High School showed the driver of a white flatbed wrecker, later identified as Tschoerner, pull up to Huber's auto repair shop and then turned off the truck lights at 9:47 p.m. on Feb 25.

Tschoerner turned on the truck's lights at 10:04 p.m. Feb. 25, backed into Huber's business and then left at 10:45 p.m., the affidavit said.

Video surveillance from a business showed a white flatbed wrecker at 10:54 p.m. traveling southwest on Industrial Park Circle with a tarp in the back covering "what appears to be an object that is consistent in size with a human corpse," the affidavit said.

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[LeeAnnB]

Horrible. Bone fragments? Affair?

 

[NervousNellie]

Kudos to LE for solving this quickly. I don’t often see that in the cases I follow. Granted, a lot of those cases have smarter criminals that this guy.

Hopefully they will be able to add a murder charge and Tschoerner should not get out of prison this time.

I have to wonder if Mr Huber’s widow was aware of the suspect’s history?

 

[Luckyzmom]

Godspeed Harvey

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 9, 2020
Family of missing Georgetown man shocked by court document details as search continues
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The daughter-in-law of Harvey Huber told CBS Austin that Huber would take the shirt off his back for anyone. “We want the memory to be all the good in his life, not the bad that has happened in the last week or so,” said SH. “Every time he walked into a room my kids lit up.”

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As of Monday, Huber’s body hasn’t been found. Georgetown Police could only say the investigation is “very active and on going.”

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“As far as the man (police) have arrested, my brother was kind enough to give this evil person a chance knowing he was fresh out of the penitentiary. That was my brother, helping someone out and giving him the benefit of the doubt, and look at what this evil person has done!” Naomi said.

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[NervousNellie]

Thanks for the update @PommyMommy. What a lovely thing his DIL said. <3

 

[Luckyzmom]

Thanks @PommyMommy , what a terrible end for this good man, Prayers for comfort and peace for family and friends.

 

[PommyMommy]

SEP 11, 2020
Suspect charged with murder in case of missing Georgetown auto shop owner | kvue.com
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... On Friday, an arrest warrant for murder was issued for suspect Jimmy Allen Tschoerner, 48, in connection with Huber's death.

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A previously unidentified witness also told investigators Tschoerner had told them, “Harvey is not a problem anymore. I killed him.”

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Tschoerner was previously charged with tampering with physical evidence, a second-degree felony.

 

[Unsolved]

Older case. Court records on murder charge to follow the (slow) proceedings. This is coming up on 6/9/2021:

06/09/2021 Pre-Indictment Docket Call 3

https://judicialrecords.wilco.org/PublicAccess/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=2113664

 

[PommyMommy]

https://judicialrecords.wilco.org/PublicAccess/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=2113664
Case No. 20-1401-K277
MURDER
08/25/2021 Announcement Docket - 2nd (9:00 AM)

https://judicialrecords.wilco.org/PublicAccess/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=2090785
Case No. 20-0454-K277
TAMPER/FABRICATE PHYS EVID W/INTENT TO IMPAIR HUM CORPSE
08/25/2021 Announcement Docket - 2nd (9:00 AM)

 

[GuyfromCanada]

A man charged with murder in connection with the disappearance of a Georgetown auto shop owner took a plea deal on Thursday.

KVUE's Bryce Newberry was in the courtroom when a plea agreement was reached for Jimmy Allen Tschoerner. Tschoerner agreed to a 60-year prison sentence for the February 2020 murder of Harvey Huber, the husband of a woman who investigators say Tschoerner had an ongoing sexual relationship with.

Man charged with murder in case of missing Georgetown auto shop owner takes plea deal | kvue.com

 

[PommyMommy]

MAY 20, 2022

How investigators solved the gruesome murder of Georgetown business owner Harvey Huber

New surveillance video and pictures show the scenes Georgetown police investigated to track down Harvey Huber’s killer.

www.kvue.com

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The KVUE Defenders obtained never-before-seen pictures and videos of the scenes investigated by local and state law enforcement to track down Huber’s killer, who last month confessed to killing Huber, accepting a 60-year prison sentence and confessing in a Williamson County courtroom.

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“Everybody knew Harvey. He … took care of the poor. He took care of the rich. He took care of whoever needed help. In fact, he … took care of Jimmy, the guy that killed him,” Jowers said.

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In an audio clip never shared publicly but obtained by the KVUE Defenders, Tschoerner spoke to his boss in the days after Huber’s disappearance but before his arrest.

“I’m rolling on,” Tschoerner said. “I’m starting a new life.”

He asked his boss to keep the conversation between them, but it was recorded and provided to investigators.

“I’ll still be in the United States. I’ll be out there, but everything, my social security card and everything will be cleared. I’ll be able to start a new identity. Every now and then, you know from an anonymous phone, from a different area … I might call you to say hi for about five minutes,” he said.

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During the hearing, Tschoerner’s defense attorney, Marc Chavez, handed a letter to prosecutors from his client. The KVUE Defenders obtained the letter, which detailed Tschoerner’s account of what happened. He wrote, “I hit him in the back of the head three times with a(n) ax. He was dead.”

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But even with the guilty plea, some family members still don’t have closure. Without Huber’s body, they still haven’t held a funeral.

“I need something of Harvey's,” Jowers said. “It's not a day goes by that I don't think about it ... It's not a day goes by that she don't cry, my wife doesn't cry, about it.”

In the letter, Tschoerner wrote that he put Huber’s body in trash bags and spread the bags between dumpsters at various fast food restaurants in Georgetown and Round Rock.

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