Sentencing hearing for former detective charged with murder
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Source: Fmr Jacksonville police officer to plead guilty to murder
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Murder suspect interview released in 1999 cold case
Melissa Jo Schafer pleaded guilty to murder in the 1999 stabbing death of Saad Kawaf. A newly released interview shows Schafer in tears as detectives question her. Author: Anne Schindler, First Coast News Staff, Mindy Wadley Published: 1:05 PM EST February 5, 2021 Updated: 1:05 PM EST February 5, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla
(Note: The video above is from October 2020.)
The full interview of a woman who pleaded guilty in a decades-old murder investigation was released Friday, more than 20 years after the 1999 stabbing death of Jacksonville convenience store owner Saad Kawaf.
Melissa Jo Schafer was interrogated by police detectives in July 2020. She s accused, along with her ex-husband, in Kawaf s death.
Tearful guilty plea in 1999 cold case murder of convenience store owner
The ex-wife of a former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detective pleaded guilty to murder, will now testify against William Billy Baer. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 6:52 AM EST December 18, 2020 Updated: 10:02 AM EST February 5, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Speaking through tears, Melissa Jo Schafer pleaded guilty to five counts of murder and aggravated battery Friday morning.
She admitted she helped her ex-husband, a former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detective, kill a man in a decades-old cold case.
Schafer faces 31 years in prison, and although she has agreed to testify against her ex-husband, she said she was not promised a lesser sentence to do so.