Rapist And Convicted Killer, Shawn Jarrett, Is At It Again - Charged With Killing Mom Of 4

[bowling68]

February 19, 2015

WALKER, MI -- A man convicted Thursday of raping an elderly woman is now charged with homicide in the April killing of a co-worker in Walker.

Prosecutors on Thursday issued a warrant for homicide/open murder against Shawn Jarrett, who is a convicted murderer out of Pennsylvania. He is charged as a habitual offender and has not yet been arraigned.

Police for months have said Jarrett is the suspect in the killing of Berta Yolanda Reyes, a 40-year-old co-worker of Jarrett at Neal Mast & Son Greenhouses. She was killed April 24, and her body was discovered at a nearby construction site on May 16. Reyes was a mother of four who lived in Grand Rapids.

A death certificate said Reyes died of "homicide by unspecified means."

A Kent County Circuit Court jury on Thursday took less than an hour to convict Jarrett, 51, of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of home invasion for the attack of an 85-year-old woman in her Grandville home in June. Testimony began Tuesday.

Court documents show Jarrett was on authorities' radarprior to the June 19 sexual assault, but there was not enough evidence then to arrest him for Reyes' death, Walker Deputy Police Chief Greg Long said in September.

Three days before the rape, police sought a flurry of search warrants to look at his apartment, car and a storage unit rented by his girlfriend.

By late May, police were aware of Jarrett's crimes in 1982 out of Pennsylvania, search warrant records indicate.

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Jarrett rode his bicycle to the Grandville woman's home on Prairie Street SW and asked about the neighborhood, then asked to use her phone. The woman, who lived alone, testified Jarrett forced his way inside. She was beaten, robbed and sodomized.

Jarrett was paroled in December 2012 from the Pennsylvania prison system. He was convicted of killing a 64-year-old woman and also breaking into a 58-year-old woman's home and trying to choke her. The attack on the 58-year-old was interrupted by a relative.

He spent 30 years in prison, 20 of which for felony murder.

Before he was released from the Pennsylvania prison system, a psychiatrist described Jarrett as a sociopath and said it wasn't a matter of if he would kill again, but when, according to search warrant documents in 59th District Court.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/02/rapist_convicted_murderer_char.html


March 27, 2015

After hearing testimony from Michigan State Police DNA experts, Walker District Court Judge Peter Versluis determined Friday, March 27, there was enough evidence to send Jarrett to trial for the April 24 slaying of Berta Yolanda Reyes.

Reyes was last seen April 24 when she went missing from her job at Neal Mast & Son Greenhouses, 1780 Four Mile Road NW.

Her body was discovered buried on a construction site near the greenhouse by a bulldozer operator on May 16.

Kent County Forensic Pathologist David Start testified that natural and accidental death had been ruled out as a cause for Reyes death which he determined to be a homicide by unknown means.
Numerous employees were interviewed by Walker Police detectives including Jarrett, who claimed he did not know Reyes and that she had never been in her car, according to court testimony.

But State Police DNA experts from the Grand Rapids lab testified that Reyes DNA was discovered in the car Jarrett was using at the time and that Jarrett's DNA was identified on a cell phone case belonging to Reyes.

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arrett will be at that same court on Wednesday, April 1, where he faces as much as life in prison after he was convicted for the rape of an 85-year-old Grandville woman in her home in June.

Jarrett was released in December 2012 after spending 30 years in prison in Pennsylvania for killing a 64-year-old woman.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/03/murderer_rapist_faces_trial_on.html

 

[Macabre]

Before he was released from the Pennsylvania prison system, a psychiatrist described Jarrett as a sociopath and said it wasn't a matter of if he would kill again, but when, according to search warrant documents in 59th District Court.

Damn, and there he went right out into the world to do it again.

Plus, he had a girlfriend!

Three days before the rape, police sought a flurry of search warrants to look at his apartment, car and a storage unit rented by his girlfriend.

 

[MRClayton69]

This is ridiculous. They are legalizing injecting late term pregnancies by shooting poison into a baby's heart, but they can't kill this SOB?

 

[Kathy]

Some POS are always going to be a POS no matter what so why even allow him to live. He apparently didn't think these two women deserved to live so why not just kill him?

 

[rod2pop]

Yet another reason these fuckers should never be let out of jail. They just wait, and bide their time, until they are free to fulfill their heinous desires yet again. Fucker did 30 years, and that wasn't enough to deter him.

Granted, the prison system apparently doesn't do much to genuinely rehabilitate people - perhaps, if that changed, criminals could possibly be helped. I don't know.

 

[lithiumgirl]

Sometimes the demon does excellent stories about the police showing up after the ROS is dead.

 

[Heatheness]

His getaway car was a bike?

 

[JackBurton]

Jarrett was paroled in December 2012 from the Pennsylvania prison system. He was convicted of killing a 64-year-old woman and also breaking into a 58-year-old woman's home and trying to choke her. The attack on the 58-year-old was interrupted by a relative.
He spent 30 years in prison, 20 of which for felony murder.
Before he was released from the Pennsylvania prison system, a psychiatrist described Jarrett as a sociopath and said it wasn't a matter of if he would kill again, but when, according to search warrant documents in 59th District Court.

They letting Europeans staff our nations parole boards or something? The fuck is going on? Good job state, you got some people killed and raped, your fault just as much as his.

No surprise such a fuck up and such crimes occurred in Penn

 

[KaOnA]

Who the fuck let him out of his hole?

I say dig that hole deeper, throw him in along with poisonous bitey things(I seem to like this scenario...) None that will kill him too fast....Make him hallucinate horrible things...make him bleed out of every pore in his body.....

He thinks he can get away with the shit....Come on Government! Get your heads in the right place!

Fuck this guy

 

[DamagedGoods]

Before he was released from the Pennsylvania prison system, a psychiatrist described Jarrett as a sociopath and said it wasn't a matter of if he would kill again, but when, according to search warrant documents in 59th District Court.

I really wish when officials decide that a guy like this deserves his freedom, that they face consequences should he do what they were told he would be. They are accessories to murder.

I'd also like to force them to take these guys(or women, should that be the case) home with them if they feel that society is safe from them. But that wouldn't be fair to their housemates or neighbourhoods. Of course, it isn't fair to any neighbourhoods.

 

[McDanel]

The way I understood the article, he was released because he had served his sentence.

 

[McDanel]

On the basis of the psychological report, he probably should have been transferred to a secure mental health facility, but given our system, he has to reoffend before facing civil commitment. Prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill in this country, they're cheaper than treatment. Of course, you have to overlook the human cost.

 

[Alf]

On the basis of the psychological report, he probably should have been transferred to a secure mental health facility, but given our system, he has to reoffend before facing civil commitment.

Why?

Mental illness can be treated. Psychopathy (or sociopathy) can't; it is a personality disorder. The difference is that between pneumonia and preferring coffee over tea.

--Al

 

[McDanel]

Why?

Mental illness can be treated. Psychopathy (or sociopathy) can't; it is a personality disorder. The difference is that between pneumonia and preferring coffee over tea.

--Al

Why? A two-fold issue, having on one hand the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" effect of excessive civil commitment, and the mid '70's trend for states, and then the Federal government, to economize by mainstreaming the mentally ill back into communities. Supposedly, halfway houses would sprout up to house them, but no neighborhood wanted them. You may thank Uncle Ronnie for this cost saving idea. The homeless are not just a reflection of economic issues, but in large part a walking army of the mentally ill.

 

[Alf]

There is still the problem of putting somebody who isn't ill, but instead is evil, into an environment designed to cure the ailing. No amount of therapy, no amount of treatment, no amount of medication, no amount of counseling, can remove psychopathy from somebody's makeup. All therapy does is make a better psychopath.

--Al

 

[gatekeeper]

Why? A two-fold issue, having on one hand the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" effect of excessive civil commitment, and the mid '70's trend for states, and then the Federal government, to economize by mainstreaming the mentally ill back into communities. Supposedly, halfway houses would sprout up to house them, but no neighborhood wanted them. You may thank Uncle Ronnie for this cost saving idea. The homeless are not just a reflection of economic issues, but in large part a walking army of the mentally ill.

OMG!! Somebody else finally said it out loud. PREACH!! I have an article published in '92 on this very issue and the hoards of homeless, unmedicated schizophrenics who were supposed to be in those "group homes" living in the streets and filling up the jails in this country to capacity just get a meal, get out of the rain/snow and get on meds for a few days. THANK YOU. That little Presidential stunt was the beginning of all these gd Soc. Services and MH budget cuts I rail on and on about. I've been screaming it for so long with nobody listening I thought I was the only one who even noticed anymore. <3 /rant.

 

[gatekeeper]

There is still the problem of putting somebody who isn't ill, but instead is evil, into an environment designed to cure the ailing. No amount of therapy, no amount of treatment, no amount of medication, no amount of counseling, can remove psychopathy from somebody's makeup. All therapy does is make a better psychopath.

--Al

*wild applause* <3

 

[Jake88]

I thought only Canada let murderers/rapists out to rape and pillage some more? Shame on you America! Don't follow Canadian protocol. NEVER follow Canadian protocol unless you want the inmates running the asylum and a single tank to defend your country(let us not forget our two air crafts purchased from the set of "Top Gun" including the one Goose went down in.) But HEY! We got healthcare

 

[thatsmallgrl]

January 06, 2017

A man sentenced to life in prison for the June 2014 rape of an elderly Grandville woman has lost a bid to have his conviction overturned after the Michigan Supreme Court declined to step in.

A Kent County jury convicted Shawn Jarrett of home invasion and two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for the assault of an 85-year-old woman inside the victim’s home.

The Michigan Court of Appeals last summer upheld his conviction, prompting Jarrett to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in. That request was denied in a one-page order released Thursday.

Police and prosecutors say Jarrett should never get out of prison. He has murder convictions in two states, including the April 2014 murder of a greenhouse worker north of Grand Rapids.

Jarrett was identified as a suspect in the April 2014 murder of Berta Yolanda Reyes shortly after he was arrested in connection with the June 19, 2014, rape on Prairie Street SW in Grandville. The victim said Jarrett knocked on her door and when she opened it, he forced his way inside. Jarrett beat and raped the woman, stole cash and fled on a bike.

The case went to trial in February 2015. Jurors deliberated about an hour before convicting Jarrett of home invasion and rape. When he appeared for sentencing about six weeks later, it was disclosed that a crime scene technician falsified daily logs and did not follow proper procedures when obtaining drug test results in other cases, court records show.

In his appeal, Jarrett said a mistrial or evidentiary hearing was necessary to determine if the crime scene technician had access to key DNA evidence used in the Grandville rape case.

The crime scene technician was not in the victim’s home where DNA evidence was collected, nor did he have access to the evidence, the Court of Appeals determined. “An evidentiary hearing is not warranted where it would merely be a fishing expedition,’’ justices wrote in a two-page decision released in July.

In denying Jarrett's application to have his case reviewed, the Supreme Court wrote "we are not persuaded that the question presented should be reviewed by this court.’’

Jarrett, now 53, is locked up at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia.

He is also serving a 60- to 90-year sentence for the April 24, 2014, disappearance and murder of Reyes. He and Reyes worked together at Neal Mast & Sons Greenhouses in Walker. Her partially clothed body was found May 20, 2014, at a construction site a half-mile from where the two worked. A Kent County jury convicted Jarrett of second-degree murder.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...d-overturn-conviction-rape-woman-85/96266348/