Tech CEO Pava LaPere is believed to have been killed within just over half an hour of arriving home – as police reveal they found a brick, teeth and teeth next to her body on the roof of her luxury Baltimore apartment found buttons.
New court documents viewed by The Messenger show that Jason Billingsley, the suspect in her murder, was at her apartment building for less than 36 minutes.
The Baltimore Police Department report said surveillance footage showed LaPere, 26, arriving at 10:32 p.m.
LaPere was then seen sitting on a couch in the lobby while Billingsley, 32, arrived shortly after and waved at her through the glass door before letting him in.
After entering, the two entered an elevator together before Billingsley reemerged at 11:08 p.m., “looking for an exit,” according to the police report.
Pava Marie LaPere, 26, was killed by blunt force trauma in her luxury apartment in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, and her body was found by police on Monday
On Tuesday, police announced they had issued an arrest warrant for 32-year-old Jason Dean Billingsley of Baltimore
Police also said in their report that Billingsley was seen on camera wiping his right hand on his shorts before leaving the building.
After his escape, Billingsley was tracked by law enforcement to a train station about 30 miles from LaPere’s home.
The police report states that investigators, with the help of a witness, located Billingsley, who police say will be identified and brought before the court at a later date.
Police say LaPere was killed Friday evening, although her body was only discovered after someone reported her missing Monday morning.
Police sources confirmed to earlier this week that LaPere’s badly beaten body was found on the roof of her apartment building.
The police report also stated that she was found lying face up, semi-clothed, and had sustained blunt force injuries to her head, face and body.
The report states: “This crime scene consisted of a brick, blood, buttons, pants, three teeth, a broken hair clip and a pair of red shoes believed to belong to the victim.”
It remains unclear whether she was murdered before being thrown onto the roof or whether she was killed on the roof. Police remained tight-lipped about details of the crime.
LaPere, who founded the technology startup EcoMap Technologies from her dorm room at Johns Hopkins University, died as a result of strangulation and blunt force trauma.
Billingsley is not believed to have known LaPere, who lived on the seventh floor of the building.
He is charged with murder, assault and reckless endangerment in connection with the killing of 26-year-old LaPere, a rising technology star who made Forbes’ prestigious “30 Under 30” list.
LaPere lived in the building formerly occupied by the Congress Hotel, where one-bedroom apartments rent for $1,500 a month
The roof is not considered an amenity and is only accessible through a narrow shaft
Billingsley was described Tuesday as a “repeat violent offender” and a suspect in at least one other case.
“He will kill and rape,” Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Billingsley is “armed and dangerous” and locals should remain vigilant, Worley said.
“To Jason Billingsley: I hope you’re watching,” he added.
“Every single police officer in Baltimore and the state of Maryland is looking for you.” We will find you and prosecute you using every legal means possible. So please turn yourself in.’
Billingsley’s mother was among those who urged him to turn himself in after he came onto her property with a gun. Authorities also announced a $6,000 reward in the case.
Billingsley has a long criminal history dating back to 2009, when he was arrested on charges of robbery and second-degree assault.
He was arrested in 2011 and again in 2013 on multiple charges, including sex offenses, second-degree assault and robbery.
Billingsley has had a criminal record since 2009 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 – but was released after just nine years
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley announced the suspect’s name and promised to track him down and bring him to justice
The repeat offender was arrested Monday at the Marc Train Station in Bowie, Maryland
Mother-of-two Ann Marie Leeper, 35, bravely came forward to earlier this week and revealed that Billingsley had raped her a decade earlier.
Leeper was left fearing for her life earlier this week after his face appeared in news reports revealing he was the main suspect in Pava’s murder.
She spent 24 hours getting up to speed until Billingsley was surrounded by a SWAT team late Wednesday night and taken into custody.
Ann Marie told in an exclusive interview: “When I heard the words ‘blunt force trauma,’ it all came flooding back.”
“I can remember how hard those strokes felt, how his cock got harder and harder the more he violated me.”
“All I could think about was him sitting in prison for years thinking, ‘I should have killed her.'” I don’t know why he let me go. “I just feel so sorry for Pava’s family.”
Billingsley was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 for assault and attempted rape, but accepted a deal that placed him on probation for 16 years.
Using good time credits, he reduced his sentence by a further five, while serving just nine years and three months behind bars from the day of his arrest in 2013 until his release in October last year.
Ann Marie Leeper, 35, bravely agreed to speak to about her horrific attack by murder suspect Jason Billingsley a decade ago
Billingsley was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 for assault and attempted rape, but accepted a deal that placed him on probation for 16 years.
Using good time credits, he reduced his sentence by a further five, while serving just nine years and three months behind bars from the day of his arrest in 2013 until his release in October last year.
Ten years ago, when Billingsley posed as a good Samaritan to lure Ann Marie to an empty house and rape her, she was in the midst of drug addiction.
Ann Marie immediately reported the rape and investigators recovered Billingsley’s DNA from her face and a piece of chewing gum.
When Billingsley applied for parole in 2020 and 2022, he was denied both times.
But under Maryland law, he had earned enough credit for his good behavior behind bars that he was released last October.
He already had several outstanding warrants for his arrest on Sept. 19 for failing To as a sex offender, stealing a gun and forcibly entering a couple’s home to commit rape, robbery and arson.
LaPere is believed to have lived and worked in the building where she was found dead Monday
Billingsley strangled his 26-year-old female victim, slashed her legs and neck, and then set fire to her basement bedroom.
She managed to climb through a window to safety with her boyfriend Jonte Gilmore, 26, who was beaten, handcuffed and forced to watch as his partner was raped multiple times.
Gilmore described the gruesome attack in an interview with from his hospital bed in a Baltimore burn unit on Thursday.
Jonte had been with the resident and was sleeping in her bed when Billingsley began banging on the door of her basement apartment on the morning of September 19, shouting “Maintenance – there was a flood in the kitchen.”
When the 26-year-old opened up, Billinglsey grabbed her by the hair, pistol-whipped her and forced her into a bathroom, where he demanded money and handcuffed her.
Jonte awoke to find the intruder had a gun pressed to his head. He wore a black ski mask and was equipped with a sinister “rape kit” consisting of gloves, handcuffs, duct tape and a pocket knife.
“He put the gun to my temple and said, ‘If you carry on or try anything stupid, I will rape your girlfriend.’ She’s upstairs and I’m going to kill you. “So I had him put the handcuffs on,” Jonte said.
“He started putting tape around my head, eyes, mouth and ankles, then put me on the floor, went upstairs and got my girlfriend.”
“He forced himself into her. He raped her, tortured her. He kept taunting her, saying things like, “Is this the kind of man you’re dealing with? He doesn’t even have no protection.”
Jonte Gilmore, 26, spoke to from his hospital bed in a Baltimore burn unit after he and his girlfriend were bound and tortured in a gruesome arson attack by murder suspect Jason Billingsley
The underground bedroom is littered with burned clothing, charred furniture and broken electronics. In the middle is a bed covered in ash and rubble
Jonte was bundled into a closet but was able to watch with one eye through a small gap in the tape as Billingsley continued to rape his partner.
He pulled out his knife and began carving deep cuts into her leg and ankles.
He put on gloves and choked her, but when he couldn’t finish her off, he slit her throat twice.
“She lay on her stomach and pretended to be dead. But the whole time she was really fighting to stay conscious and stay alive,” Jonte remembers.
Jonte said Billingsley began dousing them both in a clear, colorless liquid. He noticed that there was a smell of gas and realized that his tormentor was about to set the room on fire.
Jonte stormed out of the closet and, after several attempts, managed to bunny hop to safety, climbing out onto the street in just his underwear, his hands still tied behind his back.
He was covered in burns but had to wait for police to arrive to free him from the handcuffs.
Jonte was taken to hospital where he underwent surgery on Tuesday to perform a skin graft from his right thigh to his arms.