Kaytlynn Cargill’s mother, Trisha West, spoke at Roache’s sentencing this week. Cargill was reported missing from her Forest Ridge Drive apartment complex on June 19, 2017, according to officials. When Roache was caught, he was 16 years old, and witnesses who saw him with her when she vanished first identified him as a likely suspect. Roache was captured after numerous pieces of evidence were uncovered, including Cargill’s blood and DNA in his girlfriend’s apartment, where he was staying at the time, according to the press release. The apartment’s walls, kitchen curtains, and patio were all covered with blood. Blood was also recovered on the head of a hammer, which DNA evidence later confirmed was Cargill’s.
Cargill went to the dog park the day she vanished to participate in a marijuana exchange with a 16-year-old suspect and his brother, according to a witness referenced in the arrest warrant. According to the witness, Cargill was told to come to the Oak Creek Apartments alone, without the witness or her dog, according to the arrest warrant. Cargill rushed from the dog park when the suspect caught him watching them, according to the witness. Cargill was murdered between 6 and 7:30 p.m. that evening. Cargill’s parents reported her missing around 8:15 p.m. The case was postponed several times throughout the years owing to numerous factors, including the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the statement.
Jordin Roache, aged 21 years old, has been in detention since his arrest in 2017, and he and the 372nd District Court reached an agreement on a plea deal. In 2017, he received a ten-year term for the murder of Kaytlynn Cargill, a 14-year-old girl. Kaytlynn Cargill, the victim, was found dead in an Arlington dump two days after she went missing.
