Feds: Remains are 2 humans; Kyle Navin suspect in murders

State Police search the area around a home at 89 Norfield Rd. in Weston, Conn. on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. It has been reported that the home belongs to a friend of Kyle Navin. Possible human remains have been found and may be linked to the disappearence of missing Easton couple, Jeanette and Jeffery Navin. less State Police search the area around a home at 89 Norfield Rd. in Weston, Conn. on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. It has been reported that the home belongs to a friend of Kyle Navin. Possible human remains have been ... more Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Hearst Connecticut Media Buy photo Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1 of / 32 Caption Close Feds: Remains are 2 humans; Kyle Navin suspect in murders 1 / 32 Back to Gallery

WESTON — Even as State Police were hauling the gory remains of what sources said are missing Easton couple Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin from a vacant home, other cops were huddled with prosecutors preparing a warrant for the arrest of the Navins’ son.

“Last night, human remains of two people were found in Weston,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Dayton told federal magistrate William Garfinkel during Kyle Navin’s detention hearing Friday afternoon on a federal gun charge.

Dayton said this discovery, along with other evidence, “very strongly suggests he killed his parents.”

After an exhuastive, futile searches through state landfills and the Bridgeport garbage-to-energy plant, state police were prepared to draft a murder arrest warrant affidavit for Kyle Navin without having his parents’ bodies. But on Friday they were taking a concerted breath of relief.

The 27-year-old Kyle Navin, who according to police has a history of drug use and a lot of guns, is expected to soon face murder charges in Superior Court in Bridgeport. His lawyer, Eugene Riccio, declined comment.

And while it now appears that the Navins’ bodies were disposed of at the vacant home of a friend at 89 Norfield Road in Weston, there is evidence that they were killed at Kyle Navin’s home on Aldine Avenue in Bridgeport.

When Riccio urged Garfinkel to allow Kyle Navin’s home to be put up for his bond in the federal case, Dayton retorted: “He should not be permitted to use that house for bond. His parents paid for part of it and it is a crime scene.”

Jeffrey Navin, 56, is the president of J & J Refuse. Jeanette Navin, 55, is a Weston Intermediate School library paraprofessional. They have not been seen since Aug. 4.

Last month, the FBI charged Kyle Navin, the operations manager of his father’s refuse company with possession of a firearm by a drug addicted person — a charge that has rarely been used before and is believed to have been made in this case to keep Navin, as a suspect in his parent’s death, in custody while the murder investigation proceeds.

Navin was being held at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island.

Trooper First Class Kelly Grant said state police detectives arrived Thursday at the vacant home in Weston and recovered the remains, that have been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

“If the remains prove to be human, the OCME will also determine identity,” Grant said.

The home’s owner, Thomas F. Kerrigan, had called police to report something found behind his house.

The location where the remains were found is a several miles from where the Navins’ empty pickup was found in a commuter lot next to the Exit 42 off ramp to the Merritt Parkway in Westport. The passenger-side window had been busted out and there were shards of glass on the ground, but no sign of the Navins.

Previous searches

In August, state police followed leads by searching the the Putnam Ash Residue Landfill for the Navins. The landfill’s connection to southwest Connecticut is that it is where ash from Wheelabrator’s trash to energy plant in Bridgeport is taken, and Kyle Navin worked at his father’s garbage-removal company.

Also in August, State Police Western District Major Crime Squad detectives were combing through Kyle Navin’s home in Bridgeport.

State police also searched fields at the end of Sunset Road in Easton, which abuts a farm. And earlier this month, cadaver dogs searched woods behind an Easton house where the Navins had lived.

Son arrested, held on gun charge

On Sept. 8, the FBI charged Kyle Navin with possession of a firearm by a drug-addicted person. A federal court affidavit released following his arraignment showed that the FBI, state and Easton police were building a case linking him with the possible killing of his parents.

Among the evidence the FBI has, according to the affidavit, are texts between the father and son on the day the parents went missing.

“I’m not going home till I know mom is okay,” Jeffrey Navin texted Kyle Navin at 12:39 p.m. on Aug. 4.

Then three minutes later: “Did you hurt mom?” Jeffrey texted Kyle.

“No absolutely not. Why would you think?” Kyle Navin replied.

“I go home and get framed for murder,” the father continued.

“Oh stop,” Kyle Navin replied.

“I’m going to the police first,” Jeffrey Navin texted.

Evidence found

The affidavit states that during a search of Navin’s Aldine Avenue house, Bridgeport police found a Smith & Wesson .380 handgun with a laser sight and a .40-cailber Sig Sauer handgun along with several boxes of ammunition. The document states that state police later found 15 hypodermic needles, dozens of glassine bags that appeared to contain heroin residue and two dozen empty oxycodone prescription bottles at the house.

The affidavit also states that texts between Kyle Navin and his girlfriend discuss Navin’s use of heroin, Oxycodone and Xanax.

On Aug. 5, Kyle Navin purchased a germicidal bleach, hair/grease-dissolving drain opener and contractor cleanup bags from Home Depot, the affidavit states. His parents had disappeared the day before.

Staff reporters Daniel Tepfer Giovanny Fausto Pinto, Frank Juliano and Digital News Editor Jim Shay contributed to this report.