A woman who told police almost 30 years ago a Black man killed her boyfriend has been arrested for his murder. An anonymous tip prompted law enforcement to re-open the case and use new technology to determine she fabricated “the intruder” alibi in an effort to not be blamed.
New forensic evidence has indicated Jade Benning stabbed her boyfriend Christopher Hervey to death in 1996 in Los Angeles, police say. Now a resident of Austin, Texas, she is in the process of being extradited to California.
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Benning was taken into custody near her home on Tuesday, May 3. Video showed a cuffed Benning being escorted by Santa Ana detectives and the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force Benning to the Travis County Jail, where she was booked, NBC 4 states.
The Santa Ana Police Department has not revealed what evidence has been discovered, leading the agency to charge her with murder in Hervey’s slaying.
However, his demise is no longer filed under “cold case” and the man’s family will finally have a true rendering of his death.
The story they have had up until January 2020, when police received an unsigned letter identifying the murderer, was created by Benning 27 years ago.
The now 48-year-old told authorities a Black man broke into their Santa Ana home and stabbed Hervey on Jan. 4, 1996, ABC 7 reports.
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