He'd called her saying he needed to talk. He will be eligible for parole TV-PG Reality and Game Show Primetime Full Episode Appearing: Sharon Martin Go to show. I'm absolutely stupid with them," she says. Laura will wait behind bars to find out what her final sentence will be. "She had previously made a statement that she had no idea what happened, she'd never seen the body. Langenbach said Hall told her that she didn't understand "what the big fuss was about. Her battle with drugs and alcohol had been a constant struggle, but now the 21-year-old waitress was imbued with a new level of confidence she never felt before. From September 2005, when she was arrested, until Colton Pitonyak's trial in January 2007, Laura Hall stood by Colton. left the courtroom with the victim's. Can't keep up with happenings around town? Who would commit such a depraved act of violence and murder? At least one of Laura Hall's confessions that she had killed Jennifer came only after her initial sentence of 5 years was increased to 10 years on appeal. We have many And it is about to get much worse. [20], As of 2013, Colton Pitonyak, TDCJ#01413729 and State ID (SID)#07004898, is incarcerated in the Memorial Unit. We immediately just got together. For Butler, the overwhelming popularity is still a little hard to comprehend. After he discovered Jennifer Cave's body, Jim Sedwick called 9-1-1 again. ", "I think that people are going to look at this and they're going to see how articulate you are, and they're going to say, 'OK, either this girl is really stupid or she's a sociopath," says Maher. Four days after he crossed the border, Pitonyak was taken into Laura continues to fight a current of public rage that she believes was sweeping away her very life. Hall was sentenced to 10 years in prison. "But then we did the Lauren Cave interview, and then it was like, 'Oh my God, not only what if this happened to me, but what if I was alive and this happened to my sister? But Hall's trial, like Pitonyak's, in the end produced little understanding either of what really happened to young Jennifer Cave or, most especially, why her supposed friends ended her life with such brutal, emotionless, and unthinking cruelty. Laura says she was afraid for her life, and that's why she drove him to Mexico. Sharon Cave, the victim's mother, broke down as she recalled the Prosecutor Bill Bishop was held accountable. Check out a scene from Episode 7: Elizabeth Turpin & Karen Brown. He claimed he was strung out on drugs and alcohol. His lawyers say She was released in 2018 after serving time. saying that Hall had admitted to killing Cave in a jailhouse confession. filed another appeal disputing the timeline of the murder, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. "Colton flipped out," Laura explains. Now an Austin podcaster is telling the personal stories behind that severing. lived. [21][22], In 2014, Hall was denied parole by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Pitonyak's neighbor, Nora Sullivan, testified that in the spring of 2006, Hall told her that after Pitonyak shot Cave, he sat in his living room drinking beer and watching TV instead of using the tools he'd bought at the hardware store. into Pitonyak's apartment, Cave's, Police found a shell casing in the tub that matched the bullet "Did you have anything to do with the dismemberment of Jennifer's body?" After police said they did not have the legal grounds to break '", Prosecutors produced witnesses who claim Laura told them about her involvement in the mutilation. She had have said he is taking, Defense attorney Sam Bassett holds a machete found in Pitonyak's It appeared to be a bathtub, and I was seeing something. Another person, Laura Hall, was convicted of tampering with evidence and hindering the apprehension of Pitonyak after the two fled to Mexico. Laura remarks. Another person, Laura Hall, was convicted of tampering with evidence and hindering the apprehension of Pitonyak after the two fled to Mexico. Laura Hall The 3rd Court of Appeals on Feb. 19 overturned the five-year sentence of Laura Ashley Hall, who was convicted of tampering with evidence and helping friend Colton Pitonyak. it for years. "The deputies basically were having to fairly forcefully remove her from the courtroom.". Pitonyak (pictured) twice by phone trying to get information Jennifer Cave, 21, had struggled with drugs and dropped out of Fernandez, to watch a pay-per-view professional fighting match, Sawyer can only hope the jury sees it his way. On October 28, 2011, the state denied parole to Laura Hall. In January, Pitonyak was convicted of intentional murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison; last week, Pitonyak's companion, Laura Hall, was convicted of hindering Pitonyak's apprehension and of tampering with evidence the latter charge a result of the mutilation of Cave's body. Police urgently needed to know everything about Colton and Jennifer. "I'm still just so excited that the UT community seems to like it," she said. police found Cave's Saturn sedan parked on a street near the She became eligible again in November 2012. Accurate or not, it was the first time Sullivan had mentioned this conversation, even though she'd testified at Pitonyak's trial, and Sawyer objected and was granted additional time to interview Sullivan and prepare a rebuttal. "I mean he had all the 'Scarface' posters. Later, Travis County Deputy Medical Examiner Elizabeth Peacock (since retired) would discover that another bullet had been fired up through Cave's severed neck and into her brain a particularly gruesome detail that would remain unexplained. 'Cause in my mind that's not possible," she says of going back to jail. "'Donnie Brasco' and 'Goodfellas' and a series of movies that involved dismemberment," Bishop says. Support the Chronicle. The owner told police Pitonyak had bought a hacksaw and other supplies about 12 hours S1 E743m. Bishop says of the smiling couple, "She does not appear to be there against her will.". "Hall gets maximum sentence in Cave case.". 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It is not known if Hall helped with this gruesome task, but later the two fled across the Mexico border, leaving Jennifers partially dismembered corpse to decompose in his apartment. Much more importantly: Why did it happen? a The reporters were acutely aware of the gravity that came with securing an interview with Pitonyak himself, who is serving his 55-year sentence for murder in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice French M. Robertson Unit maximum security prison, just outside of Abilene. Hall was released on parole in 2018 after. "What we did was get as close as possible as hosts and reporters, and then let the listener step into our shoes.". His apartment have Jail, Henrietta Langenbach, held on a fraud charge. inside this bag. The next day, Cave's mother filed a missing persons report. time Jennifer Cave is believed to have been killed. ", CBS News. I'm innocent of all that," Laura says. For Thomas (a former Chronicle intern) and Butler, the interest in exploring a notorious chapter of campus lore was born of a curiosity for the story beyond the grisly details of the crime, or the sensationalized on-the-run narrative that characterized the subsequent trials and convictions of Pitonyak and Hall. Jim tells Sharon to wait on the porch to protect her from what he feared he might find inside. Cave's phone number, labeled "J. Ribbit," was scrawled on Jordan Smith of the Austin Chronicle said "The relatively light sentence, after an emotional appeal from Hall's father, suggests that the delay in reaching a verdict reflected some division in the jurors' judgment of Hall's culpability. discovered in Pitonyak's car. "I'm ready to be acquitted," she says. And I'm kind of like, sitting up, 'Colton, what's the deal, what's going on?' And I was on his side, I'm sorry to say.". The next afternoon, Jennifer's mother, Sharon Cave, got a phone call in Corpus Christi from Jennifer's new employer, who told her Jennifer had never arrived at work that morning. When she finally got Colton on the phone, he told her nothing. Those things just really upset me," Sharon says. After police said they did not have the legal grounds to break This would be the last conversation Jennifer Cave would have with anyone except her killer. Pitonyak is serving 55 years for the slaying. Orange Tree Apartments, an off-campus complex where Pitonyak [9] A hacksaw had been placed on her abdomen. Jim says the place was completely dark. Hall was found guilty of tampering with evidence and sentenced to 10 years in prison. It was the post-murder behavior that made it so grotesque. At trial, this time with no cameras allowed, the prosecutor outlines Laura's ever-changing account of events. Colton Pitonyak testified he has no memory of killing Jennifer An appeals court upheld the convictions but overturned the sentence. When Jennifer Cave walked out of the local law firm newly employed, she was ecstatic. Pitonyak was stone-faced during closing arguments. Several friends and acquaintances testified they saw Cave with examiner Greg Karim about whether DNA recovered on a buck knife, a machete, and the hacksaw left resting on top of Cave's body matched only Pitonyak and Cave. She says she's "very concerned" for her family's safety. he does not remember shooting Cave, If convicted, I can't live in Austin. [6], Jennifer Cave died in Pitonyak's apartment at the Orange Tree Condominiums,[15] at 2529 Rio Grande Street in West Campus, Austin, Texas. the saw was too small to cut up a body and reminded jurors that Merit Scholar, is standing trial It is that bad love that forever binds Laura to Colton, and brands her, right down to the tattoo of his name on her leg, which she got after that trip to Mexico. I just started crawling through the window trying to push the drapes out of my way. [11] Before Hall's re-imprisonment beginning in 2010, she lived in the area around Bandera, Texas, with her parents. And it kind of got quiet. They weren't in Mexico for long. So after they left, Jim muscled his way in through a window. 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Pitonyak's cell phone records reflect that he first contacted Hall via a text message just after 3:30am on Aug. 17 and again in a 13-minute phone call at 6am. In August 2005, 21-year-old Cave was last seen with her close friend, UT finance major Colton Pitonyak, in Downtown Austin, on the eve of starting a new job at a local law firm. She looks just like Jennifer Cave. Back in Austin, Colton Pitonyac was charged with murder on Aug. 23, 2005. "There's no question the most volatile component in this case is that people are going to be repulsed by what happened to Jennifer Cave," Sawyer says. Fifteen years ago this week: The tragic death of Jennifer Cave, Send hate mail to: TalkocastPO Box 1102Isle of Palms, SC, 29451. claimed he used it on the victim's body. Woman sent to prison after gruesome West Campus murder to be released Watch on Laura was released in 2018. The next day, Aug. 18, 2005, Sharon and Jim Sedwick hit the highway and raced four hours from Corpus Christi to Austin, and straight to Colton Pitonyak's apartment. Jennifer Cave's mutilated body was found in the apartment of Pitonyak in 2005. Pitonyak's kitchen wall. The night that Cave was killed he was in the middle of a multiday bender.. "Mistakes were made," he says. Because of the D.A. Thank you very much in advance. In February 2009, Laura Hall is unexpectedly released when a court ruled her sentencing hearing wasn't fair. But that portrait of Hall, without her own testimony, was never fully fleshed out.). Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Jim Sedwick broke into the apartment after the police departed. Sharon and Jim decided to head to Austin hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. Hall, who has since completed her prison sentence, even provides fresh insight to the reporters in a delicate, yet riveting, exchange over Facebook Messenger. I heard this rustling, like someone's grabbing the phone from you. Case says he could not comment on Hall's upcoming sentencing hearing. At some point after midnight, early on Aug. 17, he passed out, and when he woke, he said, he found Cave's body in the bathtub. There was a heinous murder and two readily identifiable suspects, but the physical evidence was confounding, and there was never a clear motive. "So I kept going down this hallway, and then there was another door on my left which was closed. In the bathroom, he discovered Cave's It was just playing with it, like it was toy," Bishop tells "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Maureen Maher. "And in making the small talk people do, he found out her boyfriend was accused of murder," Laura Hall's lawyer, Joe James Sawyer, explains. Texas Rangers Promote First Women to Rank of Captain. Pitonyak told Sedwick that Cave was not around and asked them to leave him alone. In the summer of 2005, police were called to an apartment in Austin, Texas. Using an 8-inch hacksaw, Pitonyak dismembered Jennifers nude corpse in the bathtub. S1 E643m. She had been shot dead and then stabbed numerous times; her hands and head had been severed and wrapped in a garbage bag left beside the tub. [11] There, U.S. He later requested a new trial,saying that Hall had admitted to killing Cave in a jailhouse confession. Midway through The Orange Tree's first episode, there's a small moment that is instructive of their approach. "As far as murders go, this is a very clean murder. Laura Hall is back in the lock-up she despises, while her family and lawyer scramble again to set her free. The former charge originates from the dismemberment of Cave's body. Jennifer's stepfather, Jim Sedwick, also spoke with Colton. We can help. He was the last person to be seen with their daughter, Jennifer Cave. he does not remember shooting Cave, Pitonyak's lawyer, Roy Minton, questioned Austin police firearms 2023 Talk Murder To Me. carpet cleaner, gloves After her death, she had been shot in the head once. When questioned why she didn't turn Colton in, Laura tells us that she was afraid of Colton, and that . had more; a photo of Laura and Colton taken while they were on the run in Mexico. "I feel this huge weight of pressure - a dark cloud around me that is the police and the District Attorney's office that could snatch away what I have at any second. the manager of the Casablanca Hotel the gun used in the shooting He was also a small-time dealer. "He said he was gonna cut up the body and get rid of it," she told the detective. "I had no idea he was going to do what he did," she says. Submit yours now at austinchronicle.com/opinion. Asked who's the other possible suspect, he replies, "Well, there's other suspects and Laura Hall is as good as any. Furthermore, the new witness states that Laura told him that she made the list of items for Colton to buy at the hardware store, and that she alone dismembered the body of Jennifer Cave. "All I had was a flashlight. Pitonyak is serving 55 years for the slaying. "I am accused of some unspeakable things. Pitonyak is serving a 55-year prison sentence after he was convicted of murder in 2007. shot her accidentally. And I'd be like, 'Jennifer, please stay away from that.'". There was a shop towel out in the living room of the apartment that had both her DNA and Colton Pitonyak's DNA," Bishop says. 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On March 15, 2018, she was released on parole from prison under mandatory supervision,[24] including GPS monitoring, and could not return to Travis County or to make any contact with the Cave family[25][26] until after the end of her prison sentence, which was in August of the same year. I haven't seen her. She was initially assigned to the Plane State Jail. For Travis County Prosecutor Bill Bishop, the case is indelible. Come here.'". ", And he couldn't he explain the shooting. Am I guilty of being in love with him stupidly? [3] 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. I mean, when you look at Laura, there is nothing there - at all. was fried on drugs," he told police. "I have no idea what happened that night.". "I remember that night - when we were trying to figure out what we were gonna do and getting some clothes packed. "The mutilation was anger it wasn't any effort to hide the body or get rid of the body. His lawyers said his DNA was on the handle When it came to relating anecdotes about being young and at college? might have gone off accidentally. That made for a grueling combination: maintaining empathy for their subjects, immersing themselves in "an ocean of information" about the crime and its trials, and reopening the emotionally fraught chapter with the Cave and Pitonyak families alike. The morning after the murder, CCTV captured Pitonyak entering a local hardware store, where receipts show that he purchase an 8-inch hacksaw, safety mask, ammonia, and other cleaning products. I want people to look at me for what I am. Am I next?'". "It's impossible for me to have been jealous of Jennifer Cave, because I not only didn't know her, but I didn't know she existed," Laura says. [17] On Monday, January 29, 2007 Pitonyak, then 24, was convicted of murder. She was also a student at UT, a government major with hopes of becoming a lawyer. This photo was taken after Pitonyak fell for murder in the fatal Aug. Maher asks. "All of a sudden I'm in a courtroom and then they're just taking me into jail. [1] In 2009, Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman called it the "most infamous West Campus crime". "His brain You need to get her out of there.' "It upsets me tremendously to be in the same room with her and see her flitting about and talking on her cell phone. It was Pitonyak a "sociopath" and a "beast" who destroyed everyone around him, Sawyer argued who mutilated Cave's body. Hall was released from her 10 year sentence five months early in 2018 while Pitonyak will not be eligible for parole until 2033, according to the KXAN report. National television shows such as Court TV, 48 Hours, Deadly Sins and Snapped: Killer Couples have also covered the investigation over the years, said Fugitt. The troubled young man seemed to somehow draw people in. Pitonyak had fled with Hall to Mexico, where the couple spent five days before they were picked up by U.S. marshals and returned to Austin. "stumbling" drunk. And they will always remember the child that is gone forever. He admitted he had killed her but that her death had been an accident. the attorney asks. This year, two University of Texas students, Haley Butler and Tinu Thomas, have a long-form documentary podcast called The Orange Tree Podcast, in which they dig through court filings and host interviews with the families of Cave, Pitonyak and Hall. "It is now about the appropriate sentence.". In 2007, Laura Hall was convicted of helping her boyfriend Colton Pitonyak dismember 21-year-old Jennifer Cave's body in his apartment. "She was very enthusiastic, very organized, very excited to have This episode is about Jennifer Cave, 21, who was found murdered and dismembered in Colton Pitonyak's apartment in 2005. In 2007, a jury convicted Laura Hall, 34, for helping her boyfriend Colton Pitonyak dismember 21-year-old Cave's body in his apartment's bathtub at the Orange Tree condominiums in August of 2005. Photo courtesy of Loren Hall Pitonyak had fled with Hall to Mexico, where the couple spent five days before they were picked up by U.S. marshals and returned to Austin. Walking past the West Campus complex on their way to classes at UT-Austin, their conversations would inevitably circle back to the murder of Jennifer Cave, which occurred mere yards away, behind door #88. ", Maher asks, "Did you have any concern for the girl who was dead?". [6], Colton Aaron Pitonyak[7] was a finance major at the University of Texas at Austin,[6] originating from Bryant, Arkansas, in Greater Little Rock. Colton Pitonyak's defense attorney says the appeal he filed last week in Travis County could clear his. Pitonyak was convicted in 2007 of Cave's murder and is still serving a 55-year prison sentence in Abilene. district. The police said they could not search the apartment without a warrant. Her body discovered in a friends apartment near the University of Texas. Combat veteran operated. Colton Pitonyak's mother wept during the verdict, but he was A former University of Texas student who was convicted for her role in the 2005 killing and dismemberment of 21-year-old Jennifer Cave was released from prison on Thursday. Michael Rodriguez, a friend, said he spoke to Cave at 1 a.m. and Check out a scene from Episode 7: Elizabeth Turpin & Karen Brown. Laura says Colton led her into the bathroom. That afternoon, he went to a hardware store and purchased a hacksaw, garbage bags, cleaning products, and rubber gloves; around the same time, Hall drove her green Cadillac to a gas station, where she filled the tank and washed the car. She insisted he could not have purposefully She had plans to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) so she could become a lawyer. plans and enthusiasm In June 2009, Hall told a neighbor in reference to Jennifer Cave's murder, "I capped that (expletive) whore.". The relatively light sentence, after an emotional appeal from Hall's father, suggests that the delay in reaching a verdict reflected some division in the jurors' judgment of Hall's culpability. At around 8 p.m., Jim calls 911, but when the cops arrive, they wouldn't break in without a search warrant. in court were her sisters, Vanessa bullet fired into her severed head. Sawyer countered that in fact Hall took no part in the abandoned dismemberment, a version of the story that the jury apparently found unpersuasive. Prosecutor Stephanie McFarland holds the hacksaw used to Her head removed. she reported that Pitonyak was upset because he had lost his phone and was A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austins independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the communitys political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. She said her daughter was Pitonyak testified in court that he had been in an alcohol- and drug-induced stupor the night of the murder and did not remember killing her but that it must have been him. Colton will remain in prison for most of his life after receiving 55 years. According to Fugitt, this is not the first time that this case has been covered but it is the first time that Pitonyak has ever agreed to speak about the incident to the press. "I think my life has been destroyed. Asked what he needed the saw for, "everyone's favorite" and bonded the family together. left the courtroom with the victim's victim's relatives. The apartment belonged to Colton Pitonyak, a University of Texas business student. my friends. Laura and Colton met at a party in the spring of 2005. Maher asks Laura. "I'm stupid with men. Colton Pitonyak and his new accomplice, Laura Hall, were quickly arrested by Mexican police officers and extradited back to face his crimes. he Colton did that. Sharon made a series of calls, including one to Pitonyak, who lied to her that he last saw Jennifer around midnight. 22-year-old Cave was found murdered in a West Campus apartment. "Trial set for college student accused of slaying, dismembering woman after date. He was arrested for possession of illegal drugs. "I wasn't able to even process - and even today, I have not processed the emotions. Additional evidence, never presented during Pitonyak's murder trial, includes DNA from an unknown female found in Cave's mouth and from under her fingernails. Laura agrees to talk to police, but initially holds back. Prosecutors, Hall faces trial later this year on charges of felony hindering Pitonyak and Hall, who was 21 years old at the time, were later found in Mexico. "How hard is it to go like this?" The scene in Pitonyak's West Campus apartment in August 2005 was horrifying, the bloody and dismembered body of Jennifer Cave, a beautiful, bright, young woman Pitonyak had gone out to dinner with the evening before, found abandoned in the bathtub. "Once we learned more about the victim and all of the different relationships at play, we just knew that it should be our mission to do this in a way that I don't think is typically done in true crime.". Yes. to Jennifer Cave's death as "an accident," prompting grumbles "Really? But she admits she is guilty of falling in love with the wrong man. into Pitonyak's apartment, Cave's [14] Cave and Pitonyak went to dinner before Cave was murdered. "When you look at the fact that she say, 'I capped her,' when you look at the evidence that says she deserved it, when you look at all the anger and hatred she had, well what would you do? Unfortunately Cave wouldnt show up for her first day of work, or any other day, because little did anyone know at the time she was laying in a bloody bathtub murdered and partially dismembered. But Sharon sensed Colton was nothing but bad news, and had begged her daughter not to get involved with him. This was Colton's mess.". We'd just stay in the house all day. The deputies basically were having to fairly forcefully remove her from what he needed the saw for ''! 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