GUILTY VT - Melissa Jenkins, 33, St Johnsbury, 25 March 2012

[elmomom]

I remember reading about evergreen branches that were freshly cut and in another place about freshly disturbed dirt. It could be that the Troopers saw this and looked further. It could also be if they tracked cell pho e pings off the Tracphone that was used... Or some other way that they prefer to keep under wraps for now.

What I wonder is why the Troopers didn't immediately go to the Prue's upon finding the car and hearing the story that the friend gave about the phone call.

 

[CharlestonGal]

I agree with you pipinnh that it is interesting how quickly they discovered her. I recall one article that said something like they were checking out all the remote pull offs but I still wonder how they found her so quickly. (I am wondering if they had another vehicle sighting of their saturn in that area that was not in the affidavit? As they pretty much knew from the first hour who Melissa had been meeting with)...

BBM. I cannot express the satisfaction I feel when I think about how these two <unusual> people must have felt when they realized that all their planning and all their cover-up activities were for naught - I bet they pissed their pants when they learned Melissa had already told on them and they were screwed from the beginning. They may have taken her life, but Melissa took theirs as well, that very same evening.

Well done, Melissa. I'm going to throw the biggest party for you when I join you up there.

 

[TexasLil]

The last sentence of the affidavit reads:

27. Based on the aforementioned facts and circumstance Allen Prue was lodged for
Second Degree Murder and Unauthorized Barial.

Does this mean there is an additional affidavit for PP's arrest?

 

[hopingicanhelp]

[quoteMother and sister said Allen Prue did not even know Melissa Jenkins’s full name because she paid them in cash when the couple handled snowplowing duties.[/quote]

Sounds like he may not have known her name, but he was obviously left with a lasting impression. Years? Remembers the house? The same resident? That he was paid in cash?

 

[nursebeeme]

State's Attorney Lisa Warren said Allen Prue's alleged plan appeared to have been "sexually motivated." Citing the ongoing investigation, Warren declined to say whether she suspected the Prues of targeting anyone besides Jenkins. She said she did not know whether Jenkins had been sexually assaulted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_...erge-in-murder-of-vt-teacher-melissa-jenkins/


memorial service on friday at St. Johnsbury academy

 

[stillwatersc]

[quoteMother and sister said Allen Prue did not even know Melissa Jenkins’s full name because she paid them in cash when the couple handled snowplowing duties.

Sounds like he may not have known her name, but he was obviously left with a lasting impression. Years? Remembers the house? The same resident? That he was paid in cash?[/QUOTE]

He knew her last name. He used it to look up her landline #.

 

[nursebeeme]

For two days rumors swirled through Danville that police were closing in on the couple suspected of abducting and killing Melissa Jenkins, the victim's former boss said Wednesday.

Marion Cairns said the arrests of Allen and Patricia Prue came as no surprise. She said Allen Prue, 30, had repeatedly asked Jenkins on dates, and Jenkins had repeatedly shot him down.

"I'm just sick about it," she said.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/31...nger-after-arrest-of-Jenkins-slaying-suspects


anyone know how long the Prues have been married?

 

[SurfieTX]

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/31...nger-after-arrest-of-Jenkins-slaying-suspects


anyone know how long the Prues have been married?

Robert Ailes, owner of Bob Ailes Roofing in St. Johnsbury, was Allen Prue's employer for the last seven years. On Wednesday morning, Ailes commented, "Hopefully, we'll get some answers, because it's very concerning."

For the first six and a half years or so, Prue was a good employee who was never a problem, said Ailes. He said Prue never demonstrated violent or aggressive behavior toward Ailes, but things changed recently. According to Ailes, after Prue married Patricia in the summer of 2011, Allen changed.

~~~~~~

Ailes said he didn't know very much about who Patricia was. He said he and his employees simply knew her as Pat and that she and Allen had been together for two or three years before they married in the summer of 2011.

In January 2012, Prue left Ailes' employ, reporting on job applications that he left "because of unstable hours." Ailes said the work environment was not unstable, "[Prue] just didn't want to be here anymore."

~~~~~

According to an employee of the Vermont Department of Health, the Prue's marriage license indicates that Allen Prue and Patricia were married in North Concord on Sept. 9, 2011. Patricia's name at the time of her marriage to Allen was Witkoff. Court records state she was born Patricia L. Osborne in Rome, N.Y.

Prues' pasts documented here at this link: http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=32&ArticleID=22045

 

[nursebeeme]

thank you surfie!

 

[SurfieTX]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_...erge-in-murder-of-vt-teacher-melissa-jenkins/

State's Attorney Lisa Warren said Allen Prue's alleged plan appeared to have been "sexually motivated." Citing the ongoing investigation, Warren declined to say whether she suspected the Prues of targeting anyone besides Jenkins. She said she did not know whether Jenkins had been sexually assaulted.

Yowzers!

 

[MsFacetious]

Security video footage shows Allen Prue coming into the newspaper to gather his papers for delivery Monday about 3:30 a.m., roughly a full hour later than normal.

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The booking sheet states both Prues were arrested at 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning, March 28. The booking sheet states the crime took place at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday.

http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=32&ArticleID=22045

So after the phone call about 8:30pm to them showing up on camera at 3:30am is the time frame.
6 hours or more. That is a lot of time. :waitasec:

 

[cherryblossoms]

Hi everyone. I've been a longtime reader of WS, but this is my first post. I was inclined to join after this case happened. It hits close to home - Melissa was a fellow alumni of my college, and while our years there overlapped, I did not know her.

It's a tight-knit community up there where not many bad things happen. I know a bunch of folks who are from Lyndon/St. J, as well as college friends who decided to live up there after graduation. It's needless to say that in addition to the grief, everyone is just plain angry. How dare these sickos do something like this to an innocent, beloved person.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this, but current and former members of the LSC and St. J Academy schools, as well as locals to the area are planning on wearing pink tomorrow, Friday, in memory of Melissa. I wanted to pass it along to all of you as well. It won't bring her back, but it's a small gesture to make sure she's in our thoughts. There's also a memorial fund that's been started, undoubtedly for her son. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post that information, either, but let me know and I will.

It seems like everyone I know from college and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont has had this horrible case on their minds since it happened. I am so sad that Melissa was so nice of a person that she didn't fully listen to her gut on this one. I hate that these awful people took advantage of that.

I'll tell you something about the area though - those back roads are dark. Even the main highway in Vermont, I-91, isn't lit very well. I can't tell you how many times my bad sense of direction got me off an exit and lost. Once, I was trying to meet my mom at the local hotel in St. J, and got off the wrong exit. It would have been the same exit to get to Melissa's house. I tried calling my mom crying because it was late, and let's not beat around the bush here, I'm pretty afraid of the dark. Cell phone reception, at least in the early 2000's when I was up there, sucked. Half the time it was nonexistent. Even when I did know where I was going, usually on late night drives with my roommate, I would get nervous about possibly breaking down on a pitch dark road with no cell service. It's easy to see, sadly, how people can "get away" with bad things and having no one else around to witness it.

 

[nursebeeme]

welcome to websleuths cherryblossoms :cheer:

it is great to have you here with us! Thank you for posting that information about the pink, etc. So sorry that this hits so close to home for you :-(

 

[crazyladi]

What is wrong with people....GAWD

 

[TexasLil]

:welcome4::welcome::wagon:

CherryBlossom

 

[TexasLil]

Prues' pasts documented here at this link: http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=32&ArticleID=22045

Now that's what I call reporting!

 

[lauracurtisspalmer]

Hi everyone. I've been a longtime reader of WS, but this is my first post. I was inclined to join after this case happened. It hits close to home - Melissa was a fellow alumni of my college, and while our years there overlapped, I did not know her.

It's a tight-knit community up there where not many bad things happen. I know a bunch of folks who are from Lyndon/St. J, as well as college friends who decided to live up there after graduation. It's needless to say that in addition to the grief, everyone is just plain angry. How dare these sickos do something like this to an innocent, beloved person.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this, but current and former members of the LSC and St. J Academy schools, as well as locals to the area are planning on wearing pink tomorrow, Friday, in memory of Melissa. I wanted to pass it along to all of you as well. It won't bring her back, but it's a small gesture to make sure she's in our thoughts. There's also a memorial fund that's been started, undoubtedly for her son. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post that information, either, but let me know and I will.

It seems like everyone I know from college and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont has had this horrible case on their minds since it happened. I am so sad that Melissa was so nice of a person that she didn't fully listen to her gut on this one. I hate that these awful people took advantage of that.

I'll tell you something about the area though - those back roads are dark. Even the main highway in Vermont, I-91, isn't lit very well. I can't tell you how many times my bad sense of direction got me off an exit and lost. Once, I was trying to meet my mom at the local hotel in St. J, and got off the wrong exit. It would have been the same exit to get to Melissa's house. I tried calling my mom crying because it was late, and let's not beat around the bush here, I'm pretty afraid of the dark. Cell phone reception, at least in the early 2000's when I was up there, sucked. Half the time it was nonexistent. Even when I did know where I was going, usually on late night drives with my roommate, I would get nervous about possibly breaking down on a pitch dark road with no cell service. It's easy to see, sadly, how people can "get away" with bad things and having no one else around to witness it.

Hi Cherryblossoms. We too live in Vermont and being home sick from the office today (bed rest allowed only so living off the laptop) I find myself not being able to wrap my mind around this. The rest of our family and friends I am finding are feeling the same numbness and shock. Too much like the feeling of the horrendous Brooke Bennett case we still live with in our minds and hearts here in Vermont. What creates monsters like this????

 

[nursebeeme]

welcome to websleuths lauracurtisspalmer :cheer:

 

[nursebeeme]

At the Creamery in Danville, Wednesday's menu holds special significance.

"Melissa had the incredible penmanship, she always wrote my menus, so the menu I had to write, but it was done in pink in Melissa's memory," said Marion Beattie Cairns, creamery owner and Jenkins' relative.

http://WCAX.images.worldnow.com/images/17281438_BG4.jpg
http://www.wcax.com/story/17281438/family-neighbors-react-to-jenkins-death-and-arrests


eta: picture of the creamery (what a cute place!)
http://WCAX.images.worldnow.com/images/17281438_BG3.jpg

 

[lauracurtisspalmer]

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but it's the Prue Affidavit: http://blackpearl.wcax.com/documents/PrueAffidavit.pdf