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Police in multiple states were looking 27-year-old Nate Summerfield, after he and his ex-girlfriend, 33-year-old Lynn Jackenheimer, took a trip with their two children to Nags Head, North Carolina.

 

According to police, Summerfield returned to Ashland, Ohio, and dropped Jackeheimer's two children off with his family. Summerfield's brother called 911 and told the dispatcher Nate told him he strangled Lynn.

 

Listen to the call here

 

Jackenheimer's body was found July 14 about 30 minutes from where the family was vacationing. Summerfield was caught at a hotel in Wadsworth in August.

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    Ashland honored for help in murder

    United States Marshals from the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force said it was the efforts of the Ashland County community that put Nathan Summerfield, the man accused of killing Lynn Jackenheimer last July, behind bars.

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