A DNA match from another case helped police identify Jeffrey Norman Crum as the alleged culprit in Jennifer Odom's death, Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said during a press conference.

“So (Crum) quickly, quickly, almost instantaneously, became our number one suspect in the Jennifer Odom case,” Nienhuis said. After identifying Crum as a suspect in Odom’s killing ...

In 2015, detectives were able to connect DNA found at the crime scene to Crum's son using a "relatively new" research method. The teenage victim, like Jennifer, was abducted after getting off a ...

On February 19, 1993, Jennifer Renee Odom stepped off her school ... Nienhuis said at a press conference Thursday. Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, was identified as the suspect after biological evidence ...

Here's a timeline of what we know about the death of Jennifer Odom and the eventual arrest of Jeffrey Crum: January 1992: A young Pasco County girl is "horribly attacked and sexually assaulted ...

Now convicted and serving life in prison for the attack on the girl, Crum last summer was indicted in Jennifer’s murder in Hernando County. This month marks 31 years since Jennifer’s case ...

Nienhuis said DNA collected from Crum’s past sexual battery case gave them the evidence they needed to charge him in Jennifer’s killing. “All of us, especially those of us in law enforcement ...

Jennifer Odom, 12, was abducted on February ... Hernando County Sheriff Sheriff Al Nienhuis identified Odom's killer. Jeffrey Norman Crum was arrested and charged with the Odom's murder, according ...

Jeffrey Norman Crum has been charged with kidnapping, sexual battery and murder three decades after the 12-year-old girl was found dead. Jennifer Odom is pictured in a family photo. Hernando ...

Jennifer Odom went missing in 1993 after she got off a school bus. She was found dead in a Florida orange grove not long after. Now a DNA match has identified her killer as Jeffrey Norman Crum.