Insurance Company Seeks Ruling On Payout To Accused Parents-Killer Kyle Navin

Jan. 30--An insurance company is asking a federal court to advise it on what it should do with half of a $300,000 life insurance policy belonging to Jeffrey Navin, the Easton man who authorities say was killed by his son Kyle.

The General American Life Insurance company recently filed documents in U.S. District Court in New Haven seeking a ruling. The company already has paid Jeffrey Navin's other son, Taylor Navin his share of the policy -- $151,561 including interest, according to court records.

Jeffrey Navin took out the insurance policy in November of 2003. His wife Jeannette was listed as the primary beneficiary with their two sons as the secondary beneficiary.

Jeannette Navin was also killed. Kyle Navin, 28, has been charged with murder. He is currently being held on a $2 million bond. His girlfriend Jennifer Valiante, 31, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and also is awaiting trial.

In its court filing, the insurance company says that it will not pay Kyle's portion while the murder case is pending and that Kyle "wasn't entitled to his share of the policy proceeds until and unless he is acquitted of the murder charges."

The insurance company is seeking to have the court determine if Kyle Navin should be disqualified from receiving the funds and if the rest of the money should be paid to Taylor Navin. It also is the judge to issue a restraining order barring Kyle and Taylor Navin from suing it for the money.

"General American is ready, willing and able to pay the remaining policy proceeds, in accordance with the terms of the policy, in such amounts and to whichever defendant the court shall designate," the court filing said.

Police allege that Kyle Navin, 28, shot his mother at least once in the chest Aug. 4, 2015 while she sat in his truck and that later the same day shot his father, possibly in the basement of his Bridgeport home.

The arrest warrant affidavit states that Kyle Navin disposed of the bodies at the vacant Weston home of a former friend, using silver duct tape to wrap his mother in a blue tarp and putting his father in contractor bags after binding his legs with 3-inch painter's tape.

Police also have released messages between Navin and Valiante, in which they texted about what they could do with money from the parents' trash hauling company, J&J Refuse of Westport, if Jeffrey and Jeannette Navin were no longer around.

In one text, Kyle Navin told Valiante that they could have "hundreds of thousands to buy my [truck] and you a new car and enjoy life taking vacations, having fun with friends no stress no contact ever again with bad people."

About a week before she disappeared, Jeanette Navin confided in a friend that she and Jeffrey planned to cut Kyle Navin out of their will because he had a drug problem, according to the arrest affidavit.

But the Navins never changed their wills, which were signed in August 1987. They both call for leaving all of their estate to their children.

Kyle Navin's last court appearance was two weeks go. He is due in court again on Feb. 16.

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