Blayne Alexander
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He was just very vivacious but also had this โ
desire to give back to communities.
I mean, I think one of the details that really struck me was that on the day that he disappeared, he was set to hold a baby formula drive.
It was something that he had organized, and then he went missing.
And that was one of the big clues that let his friends know, okay, something's going on because he would never miss this.
It was his mom's birthday.
And he didn't call her.
And so immediately his mom knew, okay, something's wrong.
They reach out to Ole Miss police and police go look at his apartment.
They come across security video that shows that he left his apartment, came back, and then left again early in the morning.
And they noticed that he's holding his cell phone like this, right?
The same way that we would all hold our cell phone if we're talking to someone on speaker.
And they come to find out that he's going to have a sexual encounter with another man.
And through Snapchat, through kind of tracking things down, they come to find out that it's a young man named Tim Harrington who โ there was no indication that he was gay at all โ
And police put together this case that Tim Harrington ultimately killed Jay Lee, strangled him to death in his apartment, wrapped his body in moving blankets and duct tape and dumped him about an hour and a half outside of Ole Miss because he was concerned that he was going to out him as being gay.
And in the first trial, the first trial ended in a mistrial because one juror just couldn't get over the fact that there was no body.
Investigators still hadn't found Jaylee's body.
Not too long after that, though, Andrea, they found Jaylee's body and they were headed for a second trial and he took a plea deal.