Nevaeh Buchanan

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Already Gone explores the May 2009 disappearance and murder of five year old Nevaeh Buchanan. Buchanan, who lived in Monroe, Michigan with her mother and grandmother disappeared Memorial Day weekend, only to be found days later in a shallow grave.

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0:00.0	If I asked you about Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004, you would likely tell me that you don't
0:24.9	remember anything specific from that far back, but I'm guessing you might. This was two days after the Super Bowl
0:31.9	game in Houston, Texas, where Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed during a controversial
0:37.4	halftime show, and a now infamous wardrobe malfunction led to days of discussion about the
0:43.0	appropriateness of what happened and what people saw. It was a headline-grabbing scandal.
0:49.6	And I can't tell you if a heavily pregnant Jennifer Buchanan watched the game,
0:54.0	or if Shane, her former boyfriend, the father of her child, was watching either. What we do know
1:00.1	is that on February 3rd, Jennifer went to the hospital where she gave birth to her daughter,
1:04.9	Naveya Buchanan. Jennifer loved her tiny daughter and chose her name, Naveya, which is heaven spelled
1:12.8	backwards, because she said Naveya was a little slice of heaven. Having this tiny baby in her life,
1:20.1	being a mother? Well, it wasn't enough to keep Jennifer on the straight and narrow. She was in
1:26.1	an out of trouble. It's alleged that Jennifer struggled with drug use and turned to crime to support
1:31.8	her habit. In August 2006, when Naveya was just a toddler, Jennifer is arrested and charged with
1:38.4	first degree home invasion. On December 7th, she has sentenced to a year in prison.
1:44.5	Sherry Buchanan, Jennifer's mother and Naveya's grandmother, she applies for custody of the child
1:49.9	in Naveya's stays with her grandmother while Jennifer's serves her sentence.
1:54.5	When Jennifer was released, she wanted to do better. She hoped to improve her own life and
1:59.8	improve the relationship she had with her child. Naveya's father, Shane, well, he wasn't much better.
2:06.4	He rarely saw Naveya. In fact, Shane moved out of state before Naveya was born. It appears that he
2:13.4	had little interest or engagement in the life of his oldest child. Little Naveya Buchanan considered
2:20.1	Sherry Buchanan, her maternal grandmother, her parent. She called Sherry Mommy, not Grandma.
2:26.8	Jennifer was someone she knew, but her presence in Naveya's life was at best inconsistent.
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