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Convicted steroids dealer who supplied names found dead in home
Associated Press

PLANO, Texas -- A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him was found shot to death in his home on Thursday, police said.

Early Thursday morning, Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and 30-year-old Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell dead. Police said both had been shot to death.

Police spokesman Rick McDonald said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts.

Plano detectives aren't releasing information about whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, whether a weapon was found near the bodies, or any other details, McDonald said.

Jacobs was sentenced to three years probation and fined $25,000 on May 1 after pleading guilty last year in federal court in Dallas to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.

Hank Hockeimer, Jacobs' attorney, has told The Dallas Morning News that Jacobs later met with NFL security officials in the Dallas area on May 21 and provided names of players he said bought steroids from him. Hockeimer didn't immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press on Thursday.

Hockeimer has declined to publicly disclose which players bought steroids from Jacobs. But Jacobs had publicly said he sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of performance-enhancing drugs to former Dallas Cowboys player Matt Lehr in 2006 and 2007. Lehr, currently on the New Orleans Saints, has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons.

Lehr's attorney, Paul Coggins, has said the player hasn't used banned substances since he was suspended for four games during the 2006 season while playing for Atlanta, and has since passed NFL drug tests. The attorney has also said Jacobs' allegations were retaliation because Lehr wouldn't pay Jacobs' legal fees.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello offered condolences to the families of Jacobs and Earhart-Savell and said the league was reviewing information provided by Jacobs in two interviews with security officials.

"It is premature to comment on any specific player at this time," Aiello said in a statement. "Anyone found to have violated our policies will be subject to discipline, including suspension."

Neighbors who were still gathered at the scene about 12 hours after officers arrived said they became aware of Jacobs through television news reports, but didn't know him well. They said they didn't see any suspicious activity or hear any gunshots.

One neighbor who reached out to Jacobs after his guilty plea by asking him to warn children about the dangers of drugs said she didn't believe police when they told her he was dead.

"Knowing somebody died this way, it's hard to take," Yeharerwerk Gashaw said. "I was shocked."

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

Dang...couldn't he have waiting until he at least got to Cleveland to give Hafner, Martinez, Betancourt and JoBo a new supply?

Dead men tell no tales.

Sounds to me like someone just made their problem go away....

M.E. says Jacobs shot himself twice; no ruling on other victim
ESPN.com news services

Updated: June 6, 2008, 2:57 PM ET
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DALLAS -- The Dallas County medical examiner said Friday a convicted steroids dealer who claimed to have sold drugs to pro football players killed himself.

Plano police found David Jacobs, 35, and Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, 30, dead of gunshot wounds on Thursday in Jacobs' Plano home. A Glock 40 semi-automatic handgun was found beside Jacobs' body; no other firearms were found in the home, Plano police officer Andrae Smith said.

The medical examiner said Friday that Jacobs suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen and another to the head. The final report is expected in the next 48 hours.

It may take several days before police know exactly what happened to Earhart-Savell but Smith said they cannot assume that it was a homicide. Earhart-Savell suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Smith said, adding about a dozen investigators are working the case.

"The investigation will look at the nature of the relationship [between Jacobs and Earhart-Savell] and tie things together," Smith said.

Jacobs met recently with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him.

Information from ESPN The Magazine senior writer Shaun Assael and The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Drugs are bad.

mmmmmmK

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this story doesn't make any sense. why would this guy commit suicide by shooting himself in the head AND the stomach? why would he have shot himself in the stomach at all? also, the timing just seems odd considering he had just gone to the NFL to tell them what he knows about steroids.

But isn't it too late? it says he already gave the names to NFL...

Mayb cuz he had yet to testify officially in court or something...but i'm sure the info he provided was video taped or has some sort of record that can still be used?

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It may take several days before police know exactly what happened to Earhart-Savell but Smith said they cannot assume that it was a homicide. Earhart-Savell suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Smith said, adding about a dozen investigators are working the case.

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Crack investigators, no doubt.

this dosnt suprise me one bit!!!!


as sad as that sounds im sure it was a planned hit!

This sounds just too odd. Who would shoot themselves in the gut, then the head if they were committing suicide? One shot to the head, that's all it takes. If you have a flat rear right tire you don't change the rear left first, then change the rear right.

Anyone ever been shot? I doubt you could shoot yourself in the gut, then be "with it" enough to put it to your head.

I still think this is a homicide.

A self inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen?? I call b.s.

No, I think this guy 'got suicided' like that lady that ran the prostitution in ring a month or so ago.

And no, it isn't too late... you're assuming that it isn't the multi-billion dollar a year NFL that would want to keep this sort of information quiet.