MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — The trial date is set for the man charged with murdering Jessica Heeringa.
Jeffrey Willis is scheduled to stand trial for Heeringa’s kidnapping and murder on March 6 — nearly five years after the 25-year-old disappeared from the Norton Shores gas station where she worked.
Heeringa was last seen the night of April 26, 2013. Willis was charged with murdering and kidnapping her on Sept. 20, 2016, about four months after he was named a person of interest in the case.
Authorities connected Willis to Heeringa’s disappearance based on a battery cover found outside the gas station’s back door. The cover matched a laser sight for a Carl Walther PPK pistol, the same type of gun found inside Willis’ minivan after he was arrested for allegedly trying to abduct a teen girl in the spring of 2016.
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