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Beau Rothwell, also 28, is charged with Jennifer’s murder. He remains in police custody without bond, and is due before a judge for a hearing on January 27, 2020.
Jennifer’s body was found in mid-November, dumped along a highway in Lincoln County. Beau had reported her missing days earlier, and was arrested after police found blood- and bleach-soaked carpeting in the couple’s suburban home.
Beau, investigators allege, led them to Jennifer’s body after eventually cooperating with detectives.
However, authorities note in the documents, Rothwell allegedly told police he had spent that entire evening at “home with his wife.”
“Beau Rothwell told officers he last saw his wife at 6:20 a.m. at their home, when she reportedly left for work,” according to the search warrants. “Minutes later, he missed four phone calls from her.”
The warrants further detail what detectives called a “strong odor of bleach” emanating from the bed of Rothwell’s pickup truck.
Beau Rothwell.AP/Shutterstock/St. Louis County Police Department
The documents also reveal that police recovered blood and hair evidence from the basement of the couple’s residence.
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DNA samples from Jennifer’s parents matched with the blood found at the home, where Beau is alleged to have killed his wife.
The couple married in 2015.
Beau Rothwell has not appeared in court to enter a formal plea to the murder and evidence tampering charges against him.
Efforts to reach his attorney for comment were unsuccessful Friday.
source: people.com
