Pitonyak told Sedwick that Cave was not around and asked them to leave him alone. Sharon Sedwick, Cave's mother, and Jim Sedwick, her stepfather, discovered that she had been with Colton Pitonyak. On the morning of August 17, 2005, the law firm where Cave worked called Cave's family to say that she did not show up for work. Toxicology tests concluded that during her death, Cave had alcohol, marijuana, and methamphetamine in her system. After her death, she had been shot in the head once. A hacksaw had been placed on her abdomen. It was just playing with it, like it was a toy." Upon discovery, Cave's body had been partially dismembered and had many stab wounds. The mutilation was anger… it wasn't any effort to hide the body or get rid of the body. It was the post-murder behavior that made it so grotesque. He shot her through the arm, bullet traveled into the chest, through the heart pretty much killing her instantly. Bill Bishop, a prosecutor in the Travis County, Texas government, said "As far as murders go, this is a very clean murder. Jennifer Cave died in Pitonyak's apartment at the Orange Tree Condominiums, at 2529 Rio Grande Street in West Campus, Austin, Texas. Cave and Pitonyak went to dinner before Cave was murdered. On August 16, 2005, Cave and Pitonyak went to Sixth Street in Downtown Austin to celebrate Cave's new job. She had plans to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) so she could become a lawyer. Before Hall's re-imprisonment beginning in 2010, she lived in the area around Bandera, Texas, with her parents. Laura Ashley Hall was a University of Texas at Austin student who at one time had been Pitonyak's girlfriend. Authorities said that Cave and Pitonyak had no previous discord before the murder. Pitonyak had no previous record of violent crime. He was arrested for possession of illegal drugs. In 2004, police found cocaine, prescription sleeping pills that he had unlawfully obtained, and anxiety medication in his apartment. Pitonyak had also once entered a rehabilitation program for drugs. Pitonyak had high grades and earned a scholarship to attend UT Austin. He was a National Merit Scholar, and in 2000, Pitonyak was one of seven senior finalists at his high school and one of 166 senior finalists in the state. Before coming to Austin, Pitonyak attended Christ the King School and Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Perpetrator and accomplice Ĭolton Aaron Pitonyak was a finance major at the University of Texas at Austin, originating from Bryant, Arkansas, in Greater Little Rock. Before her murder, she began to work for a law firm as a legal assistant. She dropped out after one semester and worked at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, while briefly attending Austin Community College, Riverside Campus. In 2002, she graduated from Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi and in August of that year she traveled to San Marcos, Texas, to attend Texas State University as a finance major. She attended school in Bishop, Texas, before moving to Corpus Christi in 2000. Jennifer Rae Cave moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in high school. In 2009, Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman called it the "most infamous West Campus crime". On August 18, 2005, Cave's body was discovered. The murder of Jennifer Cave occurred in the West Campus area of Austin, Texas.
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