Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell's parents grieve daughter's death:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2008/06/06/2008-06-06_amanda_jo_earhartsavells_parents_grieve_.htmlBY CHRISTIAN RED
New York DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER ,Saturday, June 7th 2008, 12:20 AM
Gary and Kathy Earhart gathered with friends and family at their Plano, Tex. home Friday night, devastated parents trying to come to grips with the brutal, high-profile murder of their daughter, Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell.
With hushed voices, they recalled how Amanda, 30, was a gifted athlete and tennis star from an early age, who graduated from Texas Tech on a full tennis scholarship and who had built a successful career as a fitness industry athlete.
"Just a good person," Kathy Earhart said Friday night.
On Thursday morning, police found their daughter shot to death in the Plano home of convicted steroid dealer David Jacobs, who the Dallas County medical examiner said Friday committed suicide by firing bullets from a 40-caliber pistol into his abdomen and head. He is believed to have first turned the gun on Amanda, although authorities had not yet officially ruled on the cause of Earhart-Savell's death Friday night. Dallas television station WFAA reported, however, that the Plano police recovered 146 vials of steroids, 10 syringes, scales, bags with steroids and marijuana, several computers, a .22-caliber semiautomatic gun and ammunition from Jacobs’s home. The police also reportedly found 10 expended .40-caliber bullet casings, 6 expended bullet slugs and a bullet fragment. Jacobs had told authorities and reporters that he hadn't used steroids since April of 2007.
Her parents said they were certain about what happened, telling the Daily News that their daughter was the victim of a "murder-suicide."
"He killed our daughter," Kathy Earhart said, adding that the Earhart family is moving forward with a wrongful death lawsuit against David Jacobs' family. "In other words, ‘If I can't have you, nobody's gonna have you.' That's pretty much what it was, what he said, what he did. She was trying to get away then. And he wouldn't allow it."
Gary and Kathy Earhart had warned their daughter many times in the last few months: Stay away from David Jacobs.
"I had talked to her and told her (Jacobs) was a dead-end street and that the guy was no good and not to be with him," Gary Earhart told The News. "She said, ‘Well, Dad, everybody else has turned their back on him. I just can't do that.'"
Kathy Earhart added, "This was just a situation, (Jacobs) was a bad person. He just absolutely was bad to the bone."
Jacobs, 35, met with NFL security officials two weeks ago and reportedly provided names of people to whom he had supplied steroids.
Both Kathy and Gary Earhart said their daughter had been involved with Jacobs for the last six months or so, but that the couple had been "on again, off again" during that stretch. Contrary to reports, the couple had not been engaged, they said.
