Deadly Obsession: The Murder Of Jayden Glomb.

Jayden Renee Glomb

“Jayden Renee was dancing to the rhythm of life since she was a toddler.”

13-year-old Jayden was sassy, opinionated, unique and fearless nature. She always had to make someone smile.

She was gorgeous, funny and kind. She valued her friends and family. She loved to run races for a school club. 

Jayden was always dancing or making funny faces.

She loved to dance as evident by her Instagram account. She also was a member of Dance Force-1 where she was a class leader in remembering cinematography. Jayden dreamed of someday visiting and dancing in Spain. She was a 7th grade grader at Old Vail Middle School in the Tucson suburb of Vail, Arizona. 

She was excited for an upcoming sleepover with her best friend. Sadly, that sleepover would never happen because Jayden disappeared on the morning of May 11th, 2017. 

At first it was thought that she ran off with one of her friends, but it turned out that she was the object of a terrible obsession that ended up to be deadly. Jayden's body was found at 10 a.m., just hours after she disappeared in a desert area less than 2 miles from her home.

She was found face-down in some bushes off of Mary Ann Cleveland Way and Steve Street, which is between Empire and Cienega High Schools, east of Houghton Road. She was barefoot, wearing torn pajamas and had been strangled to death.

Investigators broke the news to Jayden's pregnant, distraught mother, Jessica Oliver, that her daughter's death was a homicide. When they asked the grieving mother what she thought happened. 

Jessica answered by saying, "i feel like your'e saying he did this." She was referring to the father of the baby growing inside her tummy and Jayden's step father, Josh Lelevier.

Lelevier had told police he woke up at 1:30 a.m. to find Jayden missing from the house, with the sliding glass door left partially ajar and no signs of forced entry. He claimed to have driven through the surrounding neighborhoods searching for Jayden before waking her mother up to tell her the girl was gone.

In the days following the discovery of Jayden’s body, Lelevier made several calls to police, first reporting that he found a spare key to the family car hidden in the front yard of their home and then to say he’d been assaulted by an unseen assailant in the middle of the night.

Weeks before she disappeared, Jayden told one of her friends that she was "super scared" of her stepfather and that she had caught Lelevier slipping his phone under her bathroom door and trying to photograph her while she was partially dressed and drying her hair. Her friend urged her to tell her mom, and Jayden said she would, but she never did. After Jayden went missing, her friend told this to investigators and they brought Lelevier in another room, handcuffed him to a table and then searched him while they talked with Jessica.

Investigators showed Jessica photos of a vehicle seen in the neighborhood where Jayden was found. She identified them as possibly being Lelevier's Charger. They then tell her that they found a large blood smear in her Chevy Traverse, that look like it had been cleaned up and that the DNA matched Jayden's. 

With search warrants, cops found what appeared to be a peephole from the den into the bathroom at the family’s home. Detectives also seized an endoscopic camera, a spy camera and a thumb drive from the home that had captured Jayden in several compromising positions while she was in her bathroom. It was also discovered that Lelevier began researching causes of death and had drafted a fake suicide note on Jayden’s computer. Tire tracks and shoe prints collected from where her body was found matched items belonging to Lelevier, and forensic examination of the vehicle found traces of Jayden’s blood on the tailgate.

Lelevier was charged with first degree murder and abandonment and concealment of a dead body as well as 6 other counts. He plead not guilty

Jadyden's mother divorced Lelevier following his arrested and gave birth to their baby boy who would never get to know his big sister.

On November 29th, 2018, Lelevier was convicted by a Pima County Superior Court jury of first-degree murder, abandonment of a dead body and two counts each of sexual exploitation of a minor, domestic-violence-related surreptitious recording and voyeurism.  He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release, plus an additional 34 years.

"Tell me, what does it look like in heaven?

Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?

Does the sun shine bright forever?

Have your fears and your pain gone away?

'Cause here on earth it feels like

Everything good is missing since you left

And here on earth everything's different

There's an emptiness

Oh, oh, I

I hope you're dancing in the sky

And I hope you're singing in the angel's choir

And I hope the angels know what they have

I'll bet it's so nice up in heaven since you arrived

So tell me, what do you do up in heaven?

Are your days filled with love and light?

Is there music? Is there art and adventure?

Tell me are you happy? Are you more alive?

'Cause here on earth it feels like

Everything good is missing since you left

And here on earth everything's different

There's an emptiness

Oh, oh, I

I hope you're dancing in the sky

And I hope you're singing in the angel's choir

And I hope the angels know what they have

I'll bet it's so nice up in heaven since you arrived

Since you arrived

Oh, oh

(What does it look like in heaven?) Yeah, yeah

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, I

I hope you're dancing in the sky

And I hope you're singing in the angel's choir

And I hope the angels know what they have

I'll bet it's so nice up in heaven since you arrived

Since you arrived"

Dani and Lizzy - Dancing in the Sky