Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-TIPS.
Our detectives received positive ID on the bones discovered last week. Sadly, the remains discovered were of Jenna Jacobsen. The medical examiner has advised detectives that Jenna died of undetermined means, however, detectives are investigating her death as a homicide. pic.twitter.com/XehSOqDQk2
— PBSO (@PBCountySheriff) June 2, 2019
Homicide Investigation
Detectives have launched a murder probe that seems linked to the situation involving the treatment facilities.
“She was trying to get to a good place and she ended up in a bad neighborhood,” Jacobsen’s aunt, Jean Jacobsen, told Newsday.
Jenna Jacobsen, who graduated high school in 2017, was being treated for opioid addiction off-and-on in facilities, Jean Jacobsen said.
She and Jenna’s father said that the girl wanted to be a veterinarian.
According to a man who traveled with the 20-year-old to Florida, a “patient broker” paid for their plane tickets. The brokers are paid by facilities to get patients to travel to the institutions.
“She was a sweet young girl trying to get help and these patient or body brokers thrive on these people that are the weakest,” Jean Jacobsen said.
Dave Zaiff is the CEO of Healing Properties, a rehab center in Delray Beach, told CBS 12 that the story saddened him.
“When I hear stories like this, it not only causes me to feel some level of sadness,” he said. “It always causes me to ask the question. What aren’t we doing that we can be doing to prevent these sorts of things from happening?”
