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Name: Raymond Lee Jennings
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age Now: 33
Height: 6'2\"
Weight: 190
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown\rShaved head.
Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
Wanted for: Murder , Palmdale, CA; Feb 22, 2000

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Case Story

Southern California Cheerleader Found Murdered

It was February 22, 2000 and 18-year-old cheerleader Michelle O'Keefe had just returned from working as an extra in a music video in Los Angeles, California.  A friend had just left Michelle at the Palmdale, California park-and-ride where the friend watched as Michelle entered and started her Ford Mustang.  That was the last time anyone saw Michelle O'Keefe alive. Cops say that sometime after 9pm, Michelle O'Keefe was shot four times in the driver's seat of her car.  Police note that she had not been robbed or sexually assaulted.  The only person on the scene was a security guard hired by the city to patrol the lot. The security guard on duty, Raymond Lee Jennings, initially told cops that he discovered O'Keefe's body during a routine patrol.  Detectives were suspicious of the story because Jennings told them that the teenager was still alive when he found her but didn't want to contaminate the crime scene by administering CPR. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department conducted hundreds of interviews and chased scores of leads that included claims by 10 men that they had killed her.  Ultimately, investigators had no physical evidence tying the murder to a specific killer.  Cops say that the case would eventually come together over years of reexamining the evidence and eliminating possible scenarios and suspects. Detectives say that they became particularly interested in Jennings because in various interviews with deputies and depositions for the civil trial, he appeared to change his story about how he had found Michelle O'Keefe.