Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Debra Roberts. We're taking a few weeks off from new podcast programming on Wednesdays while we work on a new interesting series to share with you. So in the meantime, we're bringing back some of our installments from our classic series, Bad Romance. Here's this week's episode. This is Debra Roberts, co-anchor of 2020.
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When a killer strikes in the night, everyone has a different version of what happened. Who is the man in the mask? Why would he target a woman who's a happy wife, a successful businesswoman, and a mother-to-be, and kill her in her sleep? It's a deadly night. Mr. and Mrs. Yuri Jenkins. Makiva Jenkins fell madly in love, and now she has a beautiful family, a life she always dreamed of.
I pronounce that they are husband and wife. She's married a man she met in church, has her own successful business, and three beautiful children.
She referred to her husband as her king. Her children, she worshiped the ground that they walked on.
Yori is so quiet. and Makiva so open. They're so different, and at the same time, they're very similar. He loved her. They loved each other. It's a picture of a woman looking forward to her future when everything changed one summer night. It had been a 90 degree humid day in that peaceful suburban neighborhood. Makeeva is asleep. There's seven year olds in his room.
The baby is asleep in a playpen downstairs. Her husband Yuri and younger brother Quay hang out with a friend in the makeshift barber shop in their garage. It was late at night and Yuri asked Makeeva's brother Quay if he wanted to get a haircut.
So I get in the seat. He turned the clippers on. And then, you know, out of nowhere, a masked gunman just walked in the garage.
A masked gunman came through the open garage door, all dressed in black, and he's holding a revolver.
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Chapter 2: What happened on the deadly night of the home invasion?
And Quay and McKeever's husband, Yuri, hear it. A gunshot. And the man runs past them.
Me and Yuri, we get up. We run into the bedroom.
And we see a big cloud of gun smoke.
And I can see a hole under her ear about the size of a nickel.
911 emergency. Do you need the police or the paramedics? We need a paramedic here. My whole world just fell apart.
Okay, how many people have been shot? It was just hell. It was real hell. Because I can't help her and I can't stop her from hurting. I can't stop the pain. She's just sitting there, you know, blood coming out. Okay, we're sending help.
A critically wounded Makiva Jenkins is rushed to the hospital. She's barely alive. Quay and her husband, Yuri, follow the ambulance. They can't save her.
Yuri was screaming about his kids, his kids, and he was like, oh, I just got to go. I want to go check on my kids, and he stormed out. And I remember I just kept saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I called Makeva. She didn't answer. I text her saying, like, please tell me this isn't real. She didn't respond. I called my sister. I said, bring Makeva. It's gone. And I screamed. I could not believe it.
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Chapter 3: What led to the tragic shooting of Makiva Jenkins?
And the person came in was actually looking for your mom by your name? Yes, he was looking for her.
He was looking for my mom, man. Oh, my God, man.
McKeever Jenkins is dead. But could this all have been a case of mistaken identity? Detective Sean Oliver goes to McKeever's hometown to find out. The suspect kept mentioning McKeiva Jenkins' biological mother, Quest. I had to see if the best subject who came in and killed McKeiva was actually looking for her mother.
I did think McKeiva could have been shot by mistake. McKeiva ain't had no beef with nobody.
I questioned it. I met with McKeiva Jenkins' mother. She was very frank with me, very honest. She said that she lives in Belle Glade. If anyone wanted to find her, they knew where to find her. She had a white car and that white car was parked in front of her house in Belle Glade when her daughter was shot and killed. I ruled out basically that anyone was trying to hunt her down.
That isn't the reason why McKeever was shot. So if the gunman was targeting Makeba, what was the reason? This didn't seem like your typical robbery. This didn't seem like a crime that was just random. Makeba had a habit of posting on social media to promote her businesses, but also to show off her success. I have helped countless entrepreneurs build their business from the ground up.
When McKeva Jenkins was murdered, people assumed it was because it was right after she posted on social media that she had multi-six figures in her income because she was so successful at business. McKeva was a hustler. Like, that girl was a hustler. She earned enough to buy all the markers of success. She wanted these Christian Louboutin red bottom shoes like nobody's business.
And she worked and worked and got those shoes, and I don't think there's a picture on social media that didn't see the bottom of those shoes.
She was like, my brain doesn't sleep. I'm always thinking about what I can do next. Makiva tries all kinds of businesses, a tax business, a boutique, a parting planning company. Some go bust, but some do well. Then she starts promoting a new venture online, helping other entrepreneurs. Do what you need to do to launch the business that you've always desired. Makeva did promote herself online.
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Chapter 4: Who were the key individuals involved in Makiva Jenkins' life?
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Investigators have a solid suspect for Makeva Jenkins' murder, but why would someone pay for her to die? To the outside, Makeva didn't show the turmoil that was going on inside. But there were times when she would confide in me and tell me we're not on the best of terms. Yuri and Makiva Jenkins' relationship isn't always perfect.
Their marriage reaches a low point, friends say, when Yuri cheats on her. Makiva expressed that she caught Yuri in affairs. She was jealous, and he was friendly with everybody. So she thought that he was always out with somebody, and he really wasn't. He's just friendly.
Makeva said she found out when she was pregnant that her husband had a baby on the way with someone else. She said she was devastated. She was hurt. Makeva was hurt about that.
She had broke the trust, and it was really hard for Makeva to trust him again after that. Plus, according to Makeva, the other woman wanted child support.
Makiva's stance was that has nothing to do with her. That is Yuri's issue. That is Yuri's problem.
She was asking me what should she do. And the only thing I could say was that you want to kick him out, kick him out. He can go. See you later.
Makeeva did speak about divorce. She was considering it. She was very heartbroken at one point in time.
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