Through four days of testimony Jeff Quintana remained stoic, but on Friday afternoon he burst into tears when the jury foreman read the verdict. Not guilty...
Cavanaugh was found brutally killed on Frye Road in the Neapolis community on April 16, 2010. She was stabbed 16 times and suffered 10 blows to her head, Dr. Thomas Deering, a medical examiner on the case, testified Friday. Deering said it was impossible to determine which wound caused her death, as a number of the blows including those to her head, lungs and neck were potentially fatal...
In January 2010, only a month before Cavanaugh moved from Pontiac, Mich., to Spring Hill, and only three months before her death, she had filed a petition for a personal protection order against a man named Avi Benyuri in Oakland County Circuit Court. She wrote that Benyuri stalked and harassed her and specifically threatened to take my life away from my three small children. The defense said this behavior made Benyuri a more probable suspect than Quintana... He said the sheriffs department barely considered Benyuri or any other suspect in the case.
