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Post by Joanna on Jul 19, 2016 22:44:30 GMT -5
 Charlene Voight and Jeff Beier
The “always happy” blonde moved to Littleton, Colorado, from her family’s home in Southern California a month ago, after graduating from Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in Landscape Architecture. The move was, in part, to be with her longtime, on-again, off-again boyfriend, Jeff Beier. The couple can be seen posing in dozens of snapshots on Facebook at the Super Bowl earlier this year, skiing the Colorado slopes and, most recently, at Charlene’s graduation in June. Beier’s LinkedIn profile indicates he is a consultant for Growth Strategy, Inc., and Executive Vice President at Specialty Commercial Finance.
According to Charlene’s sister Marilyn, Charlene has always had a knack for creativity. “She’s an amazing artist,” she says. “And she was just so excited to start a new career path. She was excited to be in Colorado where it’s just so beautiful, and for the opportunities she’d have there.”
But now, Charlene is missing and authorities and her family are locked in an anxious search to bring her home. Authorities announced Friday they are looking into Charlene’s disappearance as a criminal investigation.
In a strange twist, Beier, her boyfriend, was arrested July 12 on charges of sexual assault in a case involving another woman. He is being held in the Arapahoe County jail on a $75,000 bond, according to police. He has not been named a person of interest or suspect in his girlfriend’s disappearance, however, the woman who accused Beier of assault is believed to be the last person who saw Charlene.
Crime scene investigators have reportedly processed the apartment the couple shared along with Charlene’s vehicle. The car was found abandoned near the complex.
Through all this, Charlene’s family is trying to remain positive. It’s difficult, her sister Marilyn advises, to be so far away from the investigation, but they have full faith in authorities and their investigation. “We think it’s best to not give up hope and to stay positive and patient. Someone once told me patience is keeping a positive outlook on the situation. So that’s what we’re going to do.”
Police searched Charlene and Beier’s apartment and discovered the mattress was missing from the bed and there was what appeared to be blood spatter on the headboard. Also, a piece had been cut out of the carpet and replaced by a piece that did not fit properly.
Charlene Voight is described as 5' tall, weighing 105 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information regarding the case is urged to call the Littleton Police Department at (303) 794-1551. Sources: Tony Kovaleski, Andy Miller and Brittany Freeman, KMGH News, and Rachael Trost, NBC News, July 18, 2016. |
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Post by Kate on Jul 20, 2016 13:37:40 GMT -5
I say the boyfriend did it. They had an on again, off again relationship, which means that they shouldn't have been together at all.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 21, 2016 10:34:07 GMT -5
Missing Woman Previously Had Protective Order Against BoyfriendRecords obtained by Denver7 reveal that Charlene Voight, who went missing in Littleton, Colorado, previously had a protective order against her boyfriend, Jeffrey Scott Beier. In a 2015 case narrative by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, investigators responding to a call of a couple fighting at a Parker bar found there was a 2012 protective order against Beier in California preventing any contact with Voight. The document indicates Beier told investigators “he had taken classes” as part of a plea agreement and the pair was back together. Beier was taken into custody, but a charge of violating a protective order was later dismissed.
Records also indicate that Beier served time in California in 2009, after pleading guilty to a domestic violence charge involving his ex-wife. “When he was getting divorced [we] just started to notice more unstable kind of erratic behavior and mood swings,” said Michelle Kinkel, who said she and her family lived next door to Beier for about a decade. “That was when we saw a lot more cop cars in our neighborhood. We figured it was because of the rocky relationship.”
Beier appeared in court Wednesday on a sexual assault charge involving another woman. Police said they discovered the case while investigating Voight’s disappearance. Beier’s public defenders requested a gag order to prevent the discussion of the case by Littleton police and others.
Source: Jaclyn Allen, KMGH, July 20, 2016.
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Post by natalie on Jul 28, 2016 9:25:08 GMT -5
Wow. A history of violence, sexually assaulting another woman, the blood splatter, missing carpet chunk...yup, sounds like her "boyfriend" killed her, all right.
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Post by JoannaL on Nov 25, 2020 23:16:17 GMT -5
Boyfriend Indicted for Murder of Charlene Voight and ArrestedIn June, it was announced that an Arapahoe County grand jury had indicted Jeffery Scott Beier for the murder of Charlene Voight in August 2019, and he had been arrested in Moscow, Russia.
Ms. Voight, 36, went missing shortly after relocating from Southern California to Colorado to live with Beier, her on-again, off-again boyfriend. She was last seen on June 30, 2016, approximately four weeks after arriving in Colorado.
Her case was one of those featured on Dateline’s “Missing in America.” During the show, the missing woman’s family described her as “always happy” and her sister Marilyn said, “She was excited to be in Colorado, where it’s just so beautiful and for the opportunities she’d have there.”
Following Charlene Voight’s disappearance, Beier discarded numerous items at Tower Landfill in Commerce City, Colorado, a city approximately 20 miles north of Littleton. According to the authorities, many of the items belonged to Charlene, including the headless body of her yap dog wrapped in a red sweater.
As the state gathered evidence, Beier himself went missing and law enforcement finally traced him to Moscow, where he was working for a company called BNI. It is believed he crossed the border into Canada, flew to Europe and made his way to the Russian capital by train.
On February 14, 2017, he married a Russian woman and she gave birth to a daughter in July 2018. Following Beier’s arrest, his Russian wife revealed to authorities that her American husband had started abusing her when their child was around 5- or 6-months old. On one occasion, they started arguing in a bar and when they got home, she said Beier began strangling her while she was holding her daughter. Another time, he brought another woman home, introduced her as his girlfriend, and announced she would be living with them. When his wife protested, he again strangled her and after she left, he moved the other woman into their apartment.
Beier has a history of violence toward women. In 2007, he pled guilty to threatening to kill his ex-wife, and he had assaulted and strangled Voight, threatened to kill her, broke her cell, etc. on more than one occasion. When she attempted to get away from he, he would find out where she was staying and continue his abusive and threatening behavior. In 2012, Voight was granted a temporary restraining order, but the two got back together.
“I am proud to be able to tell the family of Miss Voight that the men and women of my department worked for four years to see this day,” Littleton Police Chief Doug Stephens said in a statement following Beier’s arrest. “My heart goes out to them, knowing that they are mourning the loss of their sister and daughter. I hope this arrest is a step that will help them move toward healing.”
“Nobody should be able to walk away from murder,” District Attorney George Brauchler added. “I will do everything in my power to bring a perpetrator to justice. I am pleased that in the death of Charlene Voight, there is now a process in place to accomplish that.”
If convicted of Charlene Voight’s murder, Beier faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.Sources: Harriet Sokmensuer, People, June 3, 2020; Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, June 1, 2020; and The People of the State of Colorado v. Jeffrey Scott Beier, Case No. 19CR2.
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Post by Kate on Nov 26, 2020 10:07:25 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I was just thinking about this case and when I checked the site today, there was an update! I'd think he would have been able to hide out and assume a new identity better in South America than Russia.
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Post by asixxdionysia on Sept 11, 2021 18:16:55 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I was just thinking about this case and when I checked the site today, there was an update! I'd think he would have been able to hide out and assume a new identity better in South America than Russia. Not only that, he lived in Colorado, South America would have been A lot closer. |
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