20/20 - Bad Romance: Deadly Night (Revisited)

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

A couple’s ultimate nightmare: a masked gunman kills a pregnant mom while she sleeps in her own bed. (Originally broadcast 2/20/24) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Deborah Roberts. We're taking a few weeks off from new podcast programming on Wednesdays while we work on a new interesting series to share with you. So in the meantime, we're bringing back some of our installments from our classic series, Bad Romance. Here's this week's episode. Adobe Acrobat Studio, your new foundation. Use PDF spaces to generate a presentation.

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Welcome to Bad Romance, a limited edition 2020 series you can watch on ABC Monday nights right after The Bachelor. Have a listen. When a killer strikes in the night, everyone has a different version of what happened. Who is the man in the mask? Why would he target a woman who's a happy wife, a successful businesswoman, and a mother to be, and kill her in her sleep?

It's a deadly night. Mr. and Mrs. Yuri Jenkins. McKeva Jenkins fell madly in love. And now she has a beautiful family life she always dreamed of. I pronounce that they are husband and wife. She's married a man she met in church, has her own successful business, and three beautiful children. She referred to her husband as her king. Her children, she worshiped the ground that they walked on.

Yori is so quiet and Makiva so open. They're so different and at the same time they're very similar. He loved her. They love each other. It's a picture of a woman looking forward to her future. When everything changed one summer night, it had been a 90 degree humid day in that peaceful suburban neighborhood. McKeva is asleep. There's seven-year-olds in his room. The baby is asleep in a playpen downstairs. Her husband Yuri and younger brother Quay hang out with a friend in the makeshift barber's shop in their garage. It was late at night and Yuri asked McKeva's brother, Quay, if you want to get a haircut.

So I get in the seat. He turned the clippers on. And then, you know, out of Noah, a mass gunman just walked in the garage. A mask gunman came through the open garage door. All dressed in black. Then he's holding a revolver. I'm like, okay, you got to be joking.

So I laugh. I'm like, this is another home boy trying to scare us. It quickly becomes clear. This is no joke. Now, all of us. sudden he grabs me. He has me by my neck and the gun to the back of my head so I can't turn around and see or so I'll get shot. The gunman forces them upstairs, makes them lie on the ground. He said, what, you think this is a game? You think I'm playing with you? I was like,

I'm dead. I'm going to die. The gunman heads towards McKeva's bedroom. He opens the door, And Quay and McKeiva's husband Yuri hear it, a gunshot, and the man runs past them. Me and Yuri, we get up and we run into the bedroom. We see a big cloud of gun smoke. And I can see a hole under her ear about the size of a nickel. 911 emergency. Do you need the police or the paramedics? We need a paramedic.

The whole world just fell apart. My sister just got shot there. She's dead? How many people have been shot? There's a what? It was just hell. It was a real hell. Because I can't help her and I can't stop her from hurting.

I can't stop the pain. And she's just sitting there, you know, blood coming out. Please get here now. Oh, my God. Okay, we're sending help. A critically wounded McKeiva Jenkins has rushed to the hospital. She's barely alive. Quay and her husband Yuri follow the ambulance.

They can't save her. He was screaming about his kids, his kids, and he was like, oh, I just got to go. I want to go check on my kids, and he's stormed out. And I remember I just kept saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I called McKeever. She didn't answer. I text her saying, like, please tell her. me this isn't, this isn't real.

She didn't respond. I called my sister. Say, bring the Kiva. It's gone, and I screamed. I could not believe it. She's still supposed to be here. And it's like she's not here.

So, man, this can't be real. McKeiva was a faithful churchgoer. And to her younger brother, Quay, she was like a second mother. What was McKeiva like? McKeva was everything. You know, she was everything to me.

You know, she was like one of those people that just knew me the best. You know, one that I always had my back. I always try to encourage me. I always tried to tell me the right way to go. Yeah, she was your big sister, right? She was like, there's a special relationship there. Right. Between, I mean, I have a big sister.

So there's a way you look up to her in a way that's like... Special bond. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard people say, in order to know Makiva, You gotta know Belgrade. Right. You got to know Belgrade in order to know.

If anybody knows about Belgrade, it's very rough. It used to be considered the forgotten city of Palm Beach County. People give up on you when you live out there. There's no coming out, you know? And I get emotional about it because there's so many kids out there that just, they don't make it. Like Kiva did. She really pushed herself to get out of that and to not turn back.

She was that boss chick. Even when she was down, she still thrived. She just wanted to make it happen no matter what. McKeva and Quay each have a strained relationship with their mother quest. McKeva was actually raised by her grandmother. Quest is my mom, and, you know, she was doing some things that she shouldn't have been doing. Quest has been in trouble with the law in the past. She's got some unsavory connections.

The night he killed McKeva, the man in the mask kept yelling something strange. He was asking, oh, what quest at? What a money at? It appeared that the government came in specifically looking for Quest. When investigators learned that Quest may have been the target of the killer, it suggests a possible motive. But first, they have to find Quest in Belgrade. She said that if anyone wanted to find her, they knew were to find her. This didn't seem like your typical robbery. For the detective, for all of them, really, the truth would be almost too strange to believe.

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Oh, my God, man. McKeva Jenkins is dead. But could this all have been a case of mistaken identity? Detective Sean Oliver goes to McKevah's hometown to find out. The suspect kept mentioning McKevah Jenkins' biological mother, Quest. I had to see if the best subject who came in and killed McKeva was actually looking for her mother. I did think McKeever could have been shot by mistake. McKeve ain't had no beef with nobody.

I questioned it. I met with McKeva Jenkins's mother. She was very frank with me, very honest. She said that she lives in Belgrade. If anyone wanted to find her, they knew where to find her. She had a white car, and that white car was parked in front of her house in Belgrade when her daughter was shot and killed. I ruled out basically that anyone was trying to hunt her down. That isn't the reason why McKeeva was shot.

So if the gunman was targeting McKeeva, What was the reason? This didn't seem like your typical robbery. This didn't seem like a crime that was just random. McKeva had a habit of posting on social media to promote her businesses, but also to show off her success. I have helped countless entrepreneurs build their business from the ground up. When McKeva Jenkins was murdered, people assumed it was because it was right after she posted on social media that she had

multi-six figures in her income because she was so successful at business. Like, he was a hustler. Like, that girl was a hustler. She earned enough to buy all the markers of success. She wanted these Christian little baton, red bottom shoes, like nobody's business. And she worked and worked and got those shoes, and I don't think there's a picture on social media that didn't see the bottom of those shoes. She was like, my brain. doesn't sleep. I'm always thinking about what I can do next.

McKeva tries all kinds of businesses, a tax business, a boutique, a parting planning company. Some go bust, but some do well. Then she starts promoting a new venture online, helping other entrepreneurs. Do what you need to do to launch the business that you've always desired. McKeva did promote herself online. She was very fast to show the income she was making and the jewelry she was able to buy. But that led her family to believe that perhaps she was targeted by someone who wanted what she had. But the government kills McKeva and doesn't take anything. There's jewelry around there, there's money, leaves everything behind.

So none of this seemed to make any sense. McKeva has a drive to succeed in high school and then to college. And while she's a student, she learns that she's pregnant. She managed to keep her schooling and keep it going while she had the baby. She earns a master's degree, but her relationship doesn't last, and she's raising her daughter as a single mom. She wanted a family. She did not want to be a single parent. She finally finds more at church. I know that church was important to Makiva. I know this wasn't her church, but when you look around this place, does this remind you of some of the places that she worshipped?

It reminds me. It was, you know, she was real big on faith. She read her Bible. She prayed every night before she went to sleep. And, you know, she always just kept the faith. That had been drilled in church. You know, dating should lead to marriage. It's in church one night that she meets Yuri.

She saw Yuri and she was like, you have to introduce us. I said, no, not me. She was like, I'm going to go over there and introduce her. to use myself. You know, I saw her at the corner of my eye like hug him a little bit tighter than she had hugged everybody else. She came up to me at Bible study and said, Pastor, I think I'm ready to have me a boyfriend. I found somebody I like it. He is so cute. Yuri is a barber and a pastor's son. And a short time after their relationship begins, McKeva discovers she's pregnant with his son. She's thrilled. Even though she finds out

that another woman Yuri is seeing is pregnant at the same time. time. As I say, McKeiva, I can't see any good coming from this situation if he's involved with someone else, because this is not going to be the life that you envision. I think McKeva really loved him, was really hoping that the relationship would blossom. He made it perfectly clear that McKeva was a person that he wanted to be with. In the wedding, you know, I was actually the one to walk her down the aisle. It was like one of the happiest moments for me. I took on the role as, you know, her father. What was she like on that day?

She was ecstatic. Where she had talked about all this time, you know, it was finally coming together. She was, like, madly in love with him, and he was like, I'm married. That was kind of it. So I think that was a maturity thing, and he got married very young. McKeva and Yuri make a great team with her first daughter and two more children completing the perfect family. And through it all, McKeva keeps advertising on social media and hustling to promote her businesses. Your business plan and your lifestyle must match like a puzzle. It must go together.

She was making good money, had a cart. She was in a really good spot. I was a little jealous of it because I couldn't even get that type of money. She hopes they can move out of the house they're renting and into a new house they'd owned. Her goal was that December to be in that house, to have this huge holiday celebration with, you know, all of her family, and to just feel accomplished like I arrived. The Bible even says no man knows the hour. But I just know for me, I just really felt like I was cheated.

Someone murdered her is devastating, you know, knowing that someone did it to her. And then later, finding out why. The answer would hinge on a tiny piece of surveillance video. Hours and hours of interrogation. You've lied to me so many f***ing. I'm tired of being lied to? I'm not lying to you. After the chaos of the home invasion, the armed man hurting three men upstairs,

then murdering McKeever Jenkins. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, starts trying to unravel the mystery. Why did this happen? Today's day is August 10th, 2017, time 9-02. Detective Sean Oliver with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is the lead investigator on the case. Kilda in her bed.

Mass gunmen came in. Kiva Jenkins was killed in a home invasion gone horribly wrong. But there are certain things about this case that just don't add up. Law enforcement had some questions. Like, why was nothing taken? This was a home invasion robbery. Why did they leave the jewelry in the cast? Why did they target McKeva?

There was a third man there that night, a close friend of Uri's named Dmitry Dale. You had Yuri, you had Dmitri Dale, and you had McKeva's brother, Kui. They were all there in the garage while Kui was getting a haircut. To investigators, Dmitri's behavior and the responses of the gunmen

raise some serious questions. When the gunman forces the three men upstairs, he makes McKeiva's brother and her husband lie on the floor. Dmitri's left standing. Dmitri asks if he can take McKeva's son downstairs where baby Zoe is already asleep. The man with the gun says yes. So Dmitri goes into seven-year-old Yuri Jr.'s bedroom,

grabs him, and heads to the first floor. Then he goes outside. What's interesting is that Dmitri Dale stays in the enclosed backyard throughout this incident. The whole time, Dmitri does not try to run away, does not try to call for help. And when the gunman demands his car keys? Dmitri quickly gives the mass gunman the keys to the car,

which raises a red flag. The gunman then escapes in Dmitri's white charger. You know how they always say follow the money? Detective Oliver decides to follow the car. So the suspect when he fled this murder scene took Dmitri's white charger. Now the white charger was left within a quarter mile of the murder scene by the suspect,

And we did a search through it. During the search, some receipts were found for fast food chains. The receipts are dated June 28th, just hours before McKeva is killed. Oliver pulls surveillance footage from two fast food restaurants and discovers something stunning. Happened to see some video surveillance from a Miami subbs where Dimitri Dale's white charter is in the drive-thru lane. But it stalled or it ran out of gas. And there's a second subject that gets out and helps push that car. So who is this mystery man in the video that night?

Remember, this scene happens just before the gunman comes to McKeva's house. There was nothing to indicate that either Quay, Yuri, or Dmitri knew the shooter. The shooter was just described as a black male, tall, and his face was covered. Then McKeva's brother Quay mentions a chance meeting the day before. A subject had come with Dimitri Dale to play basketball and hang out, and that subject had the same body type as the shooter. We ended up playing basketball. That was the first time I had ever seen him.

Ain't known if I'm a can to paint. But Yuri and Dimitri knew him pretty good. So Detective Sean Oliver brings Demetri in to ask about that friend. Could he be the man in the mask? I'm not lying to you. I had no knowledge of this. I had no involvement in this. But Detective Oliver presses him, and Dimitri buckles.

Dmitri admits not only has he seen the shooter before, but he actually knows his name, Jovan Joseph. Now, through this whole time, you've known since that day, since the moment he walked in the garage store, when McKeever got killed, it was Javon. Is there any doubt in your mind it's not Javon? No, there's no doubt in my mind. That was Javon.

And Detective Oliver is now set on finding Javon Joseph. The one lead that police had was the car. I was going to have to find out who that person was in the video surveillance. That mystery man in the car, with Dimitri? That person at the time, we discovered was Javan Joseph. You have a friend of yours that was at an incident the other night.

Who's his friend? We were talking about Dale. During this interview, Javan Joseph stated, yes. He was with Dmitri Dale at a house on June 28th. He didn't indicate that he knew anything about the murder, and he denied any involvement. McKeva's killer would have been at her house in the early morning hours of June 29th.

Does Jovan have an hour? alibi for that time. All right. Do you know where you were at 2 in the morning? Two or three or three? I have a friend on my like side shakes or whatever. She's in the hospital. You know, people can't come to the hospital that late.

So what she did, she asked the nurse. The nurse said, yes, she had visitors. So I went over there around that time. I followed up on that alibi within the next day. The detective pulled surveillance footage from the hospital the night McKeever was killed. There were cameras that show that he was at the hospital that evening. What Javon Joseph didn't realize is there's something called a

timestamp. And we knew the exact minute, the exact second he was at the hospital. And he wasn't there when the murder occurred. I went to the video. You weren't there until three. At the hospital? Yeah. I said, where were you at two? Because I said the murder was at two. You weren't there at two. Couldn't been. Yeah, I guess I won't know I was there for me. Investigators are closing in. And for a third time, Jovon's at the sheriff's office. This is a very unfortunate time in your life. But you also don't. want to be the only one taking the phone.

Taking a part for what, bro? Like, I still don't understand. Like, what don't you understand? I didn't do this, bro. As a prosecutor, we're used to witnesses lying. But although people lie, recordings don't. I had a audio tape of him and Dmitry Dale talking. He offered me some money.

Offer me $1,500. I said never took this money for this man. I said never did none of that. Money? Money? Money for what? For a murder? I was lied to by Jabon Joseph. I would lie to by Demich.

but the two of them, things that they did say did add up. Javon Joseph, 19 years old, is not doing this on his own. If he were really a home invasion robber, he would have stolen something. This was a hit, a murder for hire. A murder for hire and a shocking local TV interview. It didn't add up. It was no emotion. I don't know what to do.

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Now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Investigators have a solid suspect from McKeever Jenkins' murder, but why would someone pay for her to die? To the outside, McKeva didn't show the turmoil that was going on inside. But there were times when she would confide in me and tell me we're not on the best of terms. Yuri and McKeever Jenkins' relationship isn't always perfect. Their marriage reaches a low point. Friends say when Yuri cheats on her.

MacIva expressed that she caught Yuri in affairs. She was jealous and he was friendly with everybody so she thought that he was always out with somebody and he really wasn't. It's just friendly. McKeever said she found out when she was pregnant that her husband had a baby on the way with someone else. She said she was devastated.

She was hurt. MacGeeva was heard about that. She had broke the trust, and it was really hard for McKeva to trust him again after that. Plus, according to McKeva, the other woman wanted child support. McKeva's stance was that has nothing to do with her. That is Erie's issue. That is Yuri's problem. She was asking me what should she do. And, you know, the only thing I could say was that you want to kick him out, kick him out.

He can go. See you later. McKeva did speak about divorce. She was considering it. She was very heartbroken at one point in time. She wanted to just give up. But she managed to put it back together again and just keep on going. McKeva Jenkins has a substantial life insurance policy.

Half a million dollars. Yuri, quickly after McKeva's death, called the insurance company to collect on the policy. He even said that there's no money to pay for the fee. funeral. We don't have the funds to pay for her the funeral. They need to know that I'm in the beneficiary. The beneficiary that you are not listed as the beneficiary. The beneficiary

was McKeiva's biological grandmother. I'm sure that there had to be something or some indication that her grandmother would be better suited to receive that money in the event of her passing than her spouse. I think Makiva wasn't a fool. People lie, recordings don't. Yuri was greatly disappointed when he learned that he was not the beneficiary. And when he was told he was not, he made an incriminating comment.

She hadn't changed the policy in time. In time for what? McKeva's murder dominates the new cycle in Palm Beach County. A mother of three, 33-year-old McKeever Jenkins was shot and killed. Detectives tell me this is an ongoing murder investigation. As of right now, no suspects are in custody. And Yuri talks to a local TV station. It hit me on here. Oh, my God.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. He didn't cry. He didn't say I love her. He just kept saying she was an entrepreneur, a mother and a wife. She was excellent. Excellent. How God intended for a wife to be. It didn't add up.

It was no emotion. I don't know what to do. It's gonna be tough. Once he did that interview, everything went like gasoline and wildfire. All the attention began to go to him. There were strong allegations all over the social media. There were people all saying he did it. The majority of the people didn't even know Yuri,

but they formed opinions by what the news said. He did not kill his wife. He didn't do it. He loved her. He really did. But Yuri's own friend starts pointing a finger in his direction. Dmitri Dail was cooperative from the get-go.

Now, I won't say he was honest from the gicko. You've lied to me so many f***. Yes, no worries. I'm tired of being lied to. I'm not lying to you. Dmitri Dail was nervous throughout this whole thing. Whether he has a conscience or whether he just saw the rest of the...

of his life in an orange jumpsuit, he decided to be the first one to come clean. In a nutshell, Yuri tells you he's going to kill his wife. Two, you bring Javon to meet him. Three, Javon is in the back. You get delivered, you deliver Javon by your own words. Yeah. To the scene within nine minutes of the murder, you admit to me that it's Javon that commits the murder in a nutshell without going in all detail.

Without going in all detail. And there it is. Yuri Jenkins was in on it. He paid Dimitri and Jovan to kill his wife. I couldn't believe, well, I didn't want to believe that he was involved because I had that much love for him. It doesn't even make sense because he just wasn't that type of person. It's just not in his character.

Two months after McKeva's murder, Jovan Joseph is arrested. That's Jovan Joseph facing first-degree murder charges, accused of shooting McKeiva Jenkins pictured here in June, Joseph pleaded not guilty. After Javan was arrested, his defense team approached the prosecutor and said that Javon Joseph was willing to proffer. Proffer means he was going to give information for some type of reduction in his future sentence if he is convicted. This is when Javon Joseph admitted that he was hired by Yuri Jenkins to kill McKeever.

It's the break that investigators need, and Uri is also arrested. Yuri, did you kill your wife? No, I didn't. But he maintains his innocence. God vindicate me. You say your innocent? I'm innocent. Yes, I am.

But a jury is about to have it say. You know, maybe he just might get off and get away with it. And to witness McKeiva's little brother, Quay, go off in court. I kind of just went blank and I lost it. The long-awaited murder trial underway for a Palm Beach County man accused of ordering a hit on his wife, 33-year-old McKeever Jenkins. Yuri Jenkins made the decision to hire someone to kill his wife. To get out of the marriage, he was unhappy in, and to get a payday he thought was coming to him.

Prosecutors tell the jury that Yuri's motive for killing McKeva was money for $500,000 life insurance policy. The prosecution's case is that Yuri hired these two men to kill his wife, two men who took plea deals rather than go on trial. People who agree to murder an innocent woman are not choir boys. They are criminals. They are liars.

But sometimes you have to hold hands with the devil to do justice. Uri's defense hinges on questioning whether or not Dmitri and Jovan can be trusted. The two key state witnesses were admitted liars. They had admitted that they had perjured themselves on numerous occasions while under oath. I told me the lies, so I can't really, it's harder to remember a lot if it is true. To understand what you just said, you told so many lies that you can't remember what lies you told that one moment to the next.

In part, in part, I told some of the truth and I told some lies. The prosecution says he's done lying now for a reason. Why should this jury believe that you are going to tell him? I think at the very least, you know, the family of McKeever Jenkins deserves justice. Dmitri and Yuri were longtime friends. It was Dimitri who introduced Javon Joseph to Yuri as a person who could kill McGiva. The other jesus is the one that initiated all of it because no one would ever thought to kill Machiva if he didn't come from his mouth.

The third person in the garage that night is Quay Greer, McKeve's little brother. I was on edge the whole time because, you know, maybe he just might get off and get away with it. I kind of just went blank and I lost it. Quay is coming in from the back of the courtroom, and he takes off coming at us, screaming at Yuri. You know, I wanted to go up to him and choke him out and not let go until he wasn't breathing. The judge sends the jury out of the courtroom. When a disturbance like this happens in front of a jury, the defense can ask for a mistrial. Mr. Lerman, had you made a decision what you'd like to do?

If I made any mistake in this case, it would have been when we had the opportunity for a mistrial and we didn't take it. The judge delivers a stinging warning to Quay. He may testify, but from then on, will be barred from the courtroom. Quay talks about that night lying in the hallway. I said that we need to do something. We need to either get up or try to stop this man or get him. What did the defendant say back to you? He told me that he didn't want to do that because he was scared of getting shot.

Thank you, Mr. Brewer. You can step down. The state of Florida has now arrested their case. Mr. Lerman, does the defense wish to present a case? On day five of the trial, the defense rests their case without calling a single witness. Often that means that they're going to argue that the case is so weak that the jury cannot trust the evidence. This case is about lies and liars. The prosecutor's parting words to the jury.

We ask that you render the only verdict that the evidence and your common sense would support, and that is to find him guilty of first-degree murder. Before the verdict, and I just prayed, it was just saying, so much, it's like you're waiting on, you know, someone to just save you and grab you out of that hair hole. Ladies and gentlemen, I have been advised that the jury has reached a verdict. I felt confident that this jury would be back with a not guilty verdict. We, the jury, find the defendant.

I didn't think for a second that he was walking out of that courtroom. Guilty, a first-degree verdict. The emotional roller coaster we have been on. to now finally hear it, to know it's over. I was so happy, but, you know, it wasn't no type of verdict that could have brought Kiva back. Uri's mother is devastated. He was railroaded because he's innocent. He's innocent.

Next question. In exchange for testifying against, Yuri, Jovan Joseph, who pulled the trigger and pled guilty to second-degree murder, is sentenced to 15 years. Dmitri Dale, the middleman, manslaughter with a weapon, and 45 days. But the person who is the most guilty is Yuri, and Yuri is the one who, understandly and justifiably, got the toughest sentence. McKeva's husband, Yuri Jenkins, gets the maximum. Life in prison. More than a year after his conviction, I went to a...

prison near Pensacola, Florida, to sit down with Yuri Jenkins. Why did you want to speak to 2020 today? To get my story out. It's so many words. And that story is? I'm innocent. A jury clearly disagreed, believing the two men who were also convicted in McKeever's murder.

Dmitri said at trial, none of this would have been put in motion had you not approached him saying, I want to kill my wife. Yeah, that's a lie. because I would have never, I would have never come to you and do, no. But what motive would they have to do this in the first place? Dale knew that me and my wife were, we were making money. He sent his friend in her to get some money to see if we had cash on us or some type of money. But the shooter left and didn't take anything.

If Dimitri was jealous of McKeva and Yuri and wanted the money, why didn't anyone steal any money? There was nothing taken. This was not a robbery. This was a hit, a murder for hire. He's in prison for murder. It's not surprising that Uri disputes Dmitri and Jovon's version. Without those statements, I wouldn't be in here.

If they didn't give those two idiots, those deals, I wouldn't be in here today. Not at all. Yeah, they got pretty good deals in exchange for their testimony, and some of their testimony on the less important parts were inconsistent. But on the important parts, the parts about the murder, it was not only consistent, it was corroborated by the evidence. The prosecution claimed that she had asked you for a divorce? She did it.

She didn't. She didn't. She didn't. Did you guys ever talk about divorce? No, not at all. So you guys were happily married? Happily. Happily. McKeiva's own words dispute that. A text she sent to friends.

I told him I want a divorce. I don't believe anything he's saying. McKeva's family, her friends thought it was over. Yuri would be locked up for life. And then came the news. Yuri was appealing his verdict. Could his conviction be overturned? Please poll the jury.

Jury number one. Was the verdict is ready to your verdict? Jury number two. Was the verdict? It's read. After the verdict is read, McKeiva's family thinks the justice system is through with Yuri Jenkins,

that he'll live the rest of his life in prison. But Yuri files an appeal, based on Dimitri Dale and Jovan Joseph's history of lying to investigators. Just before we spoke with his trial lawyer, news. As we were preparing for this interview, I received a copy of the 4th District Court of Appeals' opinion, affirming Yuri Jury Jenkins. Jenkins conviction in this case.

Appeal denied, says the higher court, because the witness's credibility are questions solely for the jury. Yuri's life sentence stands. At Yuri's sentencing, McKeva's grandmother shares a victim impact statement. All I wanted was justice for my job. They came to the verdict I wanted them to have, but. on neither side was a winner. My heart definitely ached because I knew there were two children now.

I have lost a parent to death and now one to the Florida prison system. So to me, although he's in prison, there would never really be any real healing. And her little brother, he doesn't think it was all about the life insurance money. Why do you think Yuri did it? I mean, McKeever, she wanted a divorce, but who was actually going to lose in a divorce? You know, Yuri was, and he knew that. So he, in your opinion, he thought he would be on the way out. He had the mentality like, oh, if I can't love you, no one can love you.

That's how I took it. She would have got a divorce. She just didn't have time to. Hi, everyone. Happy Tuesday. I just wanted to share this quick little video to motivate you to move forward with starting your business. I go back to her videos. I look at her videos often just to hear her voice. I want to ensure that I get an opportunity to give everyone my undivided attention. McKeva had such an infectious laugh. She had such an infectious spirit.

She was such a light. I don't think you're aware. ever know what he took away from. From us. Everybody needs a MacGiva in their life. Everybody. You can watch fresh episodes of bad romance from 2020 on Monday nights at 10 p.m. Right after The Bachelor. And of course, tune in on Fridays at 9 for all new episodes of 2020.

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