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In the closet...

Amanda Buckley was in the news last year for pitching a no-hitter with 15 strikeouts against another softball team. An only child, Buckley seemed to be a star both on the field, and off the field. She'd been a four-year softball player helped her team win Class 6A state championships in both 2005 and 2006.

But, by Friday night, the 18 year old Palm Beach's body was discovered.

On Wednesday, Buckley joined up with a new friend and his family for a short trip. The new friend, 26 year old Jason Shenfeld began acting strangely days later. His parents suspected something was wrong when he started locking the door to his bedroom, and seemed nervous. His father made the awful discovery upon entering Shenfeld's room on Friday, when he found Amanda's body stuffed into a closet, with bruises on her body from what is believed to be sexual contact, and her hair stuck to duct tape.

Shenfeld's father, John, found her wedged between blankets, sheets and clothing in his son's bedroom closet.

Nervous and agitated, Shenfeld left the house earlier that day with another girl, whom investigators said he had dated. When his father confronted him about the dead body, the younger Shenfeld said Buckley had died from a drug overdose and said "I didn't know what to do," according to an arrest report.


His father called 911, reporting the finding of Amanda's body, but not until after he drove to the home of a lawyer who had previously represented Shenfeld in two other cases that were later dropped:

In the case from November, two women, then 18 and 20, accused Shenfeld of dragging them to his bedroom and forcing them to have sex.

Investigators saw tape residue on each woman's wrists. One had several scratches on her wrist and on the back of her hands. Detectives also saw she had a cut on her right foot, between her smallest toe and the adjoining toe. The other woman had scratches and marks around her neck.


Jason Shenfeld is charged with first-degree murder, sexual battery and false imprisonment.

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