As well documented, heavyweight steroid dealer/user David Jacobs, bodybuilder/fitness model Amanda Savell, and NFL lineman/juicer Matt Lehr appeared to be linked in the past. Jacobs supplied the juice to Lehr and other unnamed football players. Jacobs hung with Savell, as the dealers/female bodybuilders are apt to do. Apparently behind the scenes Savell and Lehr were playing their own field position game...with deadly results.
The Dallas Morning News carried a story on the Plano Plight.
In the months before convicted steroids trafficker David Jacobs killed himself and his girlfriend, the embittered dealer alleged that NFL players used his drugs. But he publicly named only one: Matt Lehr.
Mr. Jacobs, who repeatedly said he wouldn't go public with former customers' names because he did not want to disrupt their lives, made an exception with Mr. Lehr, a former Dallas Cowboys lineman now with the New Orleans Saints.
He said he felt Mr. Lehr and his attorney weren't honest about the NFL player's role in Mr. Jacobs' distribution network.
Jacobs was also jealous of the man he described as his former best friend because he thought Mr. Lehr was interested in his girlfriend.
It was true.
This sounds like a deal going bad, or as they say in 'No Country for Old Men" there 'were a few glitches'. Steroid dealer to cops, NFL players, and bodybuilders...fem fatale bodybuilder...federal agents...NFL players with millions to lose...quite an explosive cocktail. And so it went:
"She was in love with me, and I loved her," Mr. Lehr, 29, said in a recent interview, acknowledging for the first time his relationship with Amanda Earhart-Savell, a 30-year-old professional figure competitor and fitness magazine cover girl who also had dated Mr. Jacobs on and off since last year.
Mr. Jacobs, 35, killed Ms. Earhart-Savell in a murder-suicide last month, shattering her body with seven bullet wounds from a .40-caliber semiautomatic Glock 22 that Mr. Jacobs also turned on himself.
Ms. Earhart-Savell's family and friends say a likely scenario is that Mr. Jacobs found evidence of a relationship between her and Mr. Lehr. Mr. Jacobs had told The Dallas
Morning News that he had suspected the two were interested in each other for months.
Lehr placed images of Sevall on his MySpace page upon her deminse. Dude, why does a million-dollar NFL player author a MySpace page anyway? Read Barrons or something else in your spare time. Plenty of other unsavory things going down too:
Last year, federal agents seized evidence of widespread steroid use by numerous clients from Mr. Jacobs during a raid on his Plano home, including e-mails, text messages and other phone and bank records. He later cooperated, helping investigators connect the dots. He received probation.
Mr. Jacobs also met several times with the NFL about his dealings with Mr. Lehr and several other players, one of whom – another former Cowboy – has been put on notice that he could face a suspension.
It's unclear whether more criminal charges, or league sanctions, will result from Mr. Jacobs' information.
(more on this after the jump)
The long Morning News story tells of the love-steroid triangle, and the jealous sort of relationship Jacobs and Savell maintained. A love triangle, federal and NFL investigations, failing businesses, some 'roids, narcotics, benzos, and X can lead to weird things.
The weekend before the shootings, Mr. Jacobs flew to Boston for his sister's wedding. While he was gone, Ms. Earhart-Savell, who had a key, went to his house to check on his dogs, Cutler and Sasha.
Mr. Jacobs returned to Plano on Monday, June 2. That night was the last Mr. Lehr heard from Ms. Earhart-Savell. "Sweet dreams," he says he texted her.
For two days, no one heard from her.
On Wednesday, Mr. Lehr made a worried call to Ms. Cooke. She, too, hadn't heard from her sister, so she called the police.
Everyone feared she might be at Mr. Jacobs' Honey Creek Lane home. When family arrived there before dawn the next morning, they saw police cars. "They told us it was two bodies," Ms. Cooke said. "We knew."
They awoke Mr. Lehr in New Orleans.
"I had to go to practice that morning," he said. "I was in shock. I started breaking down in the weight room."
Shock was quickly followed by guilt, he said.
"Right when it happened, I was like, 'Why didn't I have her just move in with me if I felt so deeply about her?' " he said. "Then, you start hearing rumors like, 'I hear he found out about you and her and couldn't handle it.' How do you take that?"
After the deaths, Mr. Lehr posted a picture of himself and Ms. Earhart-Savell together on his MySpace page – the first public sign of their affection he allowed himself.
"When you lose someone close to you, it's a battle every day," he said. "There hasn't been a day yet that I haven't broken down. She was an angel. This is someone who had her life taken trying to help someone else.
"God bless her for trying to help somebody who couldn't be helped."
Interesting that the murder-suicide might have ended things there. Where are the ramifications of NFL players using PEDs from Jacobs? Where are other charges indicting distributors in this steroid ring? Where is the report from the NFL on steroid use in the league? One more example of the shadowy ring of steroids and PEDs developed in the country that lead to little good. A murder-suicide involving a NFL player in the love triangle...and not a peep from the league. Interesting.
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