Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin's son told a friend they were 'missing' a day BEFORE they could not be found

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Jeffrey Navin, 56, and wife Jeanette, 55, have been missing for more than a month from Connecticut home
Son Kyle, 27, told a friend about their disappearance the day before they were allegedly discovered to be missing, legal documents reveal
Kyle told friend 'he was dealing with a lot of family issues and that it looked like his parents were missing,' FBI special agent testified
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By Laura Collins In Easton, Connecticut, For Dailymail.com

Published: 09:51 EST, 12 September 2015 | Updated: 12:31 EST, 12 September 2015

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The son of a missing Connecticut couple told a friend that he was dealing with 'a lot of family issues' and that his parents were 'missing' one day before he allegedly first learned from his uncle that his father had failed to turn up for work.

Businessman Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife Jeanette, 55, have been missing for more than a month in a case that continues to baffle investigators.

Now Daily Mail Online can reveal that their son, Kyle, 27, told a friend about their disappearance the day before they were allegedly discovered to be missing.

In legal documents seen by Daily Mail Online, FBI Special Agent Mike Zuk has testified that, according to one long term acquaintance he interviewed, Navin said, 'he was dealing with a lot of family issues and that it looked like his parents were missing,' on August 5.

That was the day before his uncle William called to inform him that his father had failed to turn up for work on August 6.

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Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife Jeanette, 55, have been officially missing since August 7, but legal documents show their son Kyle, 27, spoke to a friend about his parents disappearing on August 5

The couple was officially reported missing the following day, on August 7, after failing to turn up to work at the waste disposal company Jeffrey and his brother William ran together and with relatives unable to contact them on their cell phones.

It is the latest twist in a mystery that began more than a month ago when relatives first reported the Easton, Connecticut couple missing.

On Thursday Kyle Navin, of Bridgeport, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a drug user – a crime that can carry a sentence of 10 years.

He has not been charged in connection with his parents' disappearance but the detailed affidavit, seen by Daily Mail Online, reveals a troubling picture.

In it Navin is shown to have changed his account of his own and his parents' last known movements four times; his girlfriend lied about her whereabouts on the last day the Navins were seen alive; and chilling text messages reveal the bizarre last known communication between father and son in which Jeffrey Navin accuses his eldest son of trying to 'set him up' and 'frame him' for the murder of Jeanette.

To the outside world the Navins seemed like a family who had it all. According to former neighbor Gail Berman, 60, who lived next to the family in Weston where both Kyle and brother Taylor, 23, attended Weston High School the family seemed 'exceptionally close.'

Kyle Navin has not been charged over his parents' disappearance, but documents show he changed his story over his last movements four times, while mysterous final text messages from his father accuse Kyle of trying to frame him for the murder of his mother

She said: 'The boys were into their extreme sports and Jeanette and Jeffrey were always friendly and smiling.'

Before moving to Easton, she recalled, Jeanette had shared with her that she and Jeffrey planned to retire and go travelling.

Jeffrey is president of trash-hauling company J & J Refuse and for the past 18 years Jeanette has worked as a paraprofessional at the Weston Intermediary School Library.

Son Kyle is listed as the general manager of his father's company.

The Weston home in which the family lived until June is the image of affluent comfort. Valued at $940,000 it is set on a quiet rural street where houses sit back from the road at the end of long driveways amid substantial gardens.

But since their disappearance a very different picture of the family's situation has emerged with the revelation that the Navins were in debt to the tune of $2.23million on a foreclosed million-dollar home Jeffrey owned at 7 Hart Road in Guilford.

Navin had been fighting the HSBC bank since 2007 when the bank filed the foreclosure claiming that he had failed to pay $1.3million in mortgage arrears. Eight years later the case is still pending in New Haven Court.

Navin was also the subject of a second foreclosure involving a different property, which was sold in 2012 to resolve the case.

The utility company Eversource sued Navin last year claiming he owed close to $140,600 in unpaid electrical bills for the Guilford home.

The couple sold their Weston home – which had been in Jeanette's sole name since 1994 – on 1 June for $900,000 and moved to a rental home less than a half its size in Easton.

Two weeks before their disappearance, on July 22, an appeals court ruled that Navin did not have the right to reargue the HSBC and Eversource cases. But relatives have been swift to issue a statement insisting that the couples' disappearance is nothing to do with debt issues.

And the discovery of Jeffery's Dodge pickup on August 9, two days after they were reported missing, cast a sinister light on what fate may have befallen the Navins.

The vehicle was abandoned in a commuter lot off the Merritt Parkway, detectives have said that the passenger window was smashed in and 'physiological fluid' believed to be blood along with a bullet hole was discovered inside.

In June Jeanette Navin sold this 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Weston for $900,000, which she had owned in her name since 1994, after a series of financial disasters that left the couple $2.23million in debt

Similarly Kyle's rapidly changing version of his own movements and the last time he had any contact with his parents is difficult to reconcile with the innocent explanation that the couple abandoned their Connecticut lives of their own volition.

Interviewed on August 7 he told investigators he had last seen his parents on the morning of August 4 when they visited him and asked him to dinner that evening.

He claimed to have declined the invitation because he was in pain from a back injury that, he said, rendered him unable to work.

His mother told former neighbor Ms Berman that Kyle needed a surgery and was in almost constant pain.

But two days later, on August 9, Kyle amended his account to claim that he also spoke to his father 'sometime around noon' when he called to ask about a new customer.

On August 11 law enforcement officers met with Kyle again at Easton Police Department and the 27-year-old this time gave an elaborate account of meeting his mother at the park and ride near Exit 42 on the Merritt Parkway in Wesport claiming that they had started his garbage collection route together in his truck before back pain made it impossible for him to continue.

Kyle claimed that he called his father who met them to pick up his mother and that he then went home where he remained until around 12. 30 when he drove to his parents' house to pick up his paycheck that his father had left taped to the door.

Finally on August 13 in a recorded interview he told officers that he met both Jeffery and Jeanette at the nursery in Westport at around 6.30am.

There, Jeanette got into his truck and the two began his regular pick-up route until his back made it too painful for him to continue.

He claimed that he and his mother drove back to his home in Bridgeport to pick up paperwork detailing his route so that Jeanette could complete it for him.

He said they then both drove to meet Jeffrey, that Jeanette got into Jeffery's truck and that Kyle went home before being called by his father and reminded to pick up his pay check, taped to the door of the family's Easton home.

Lights out: A local utility comapny sued Navin last year claiming he owed close to $140,600 in unpaid electrical bills for this Guilford home

He claimed that the only communication between him and his father was work related – a claim subsequently blown out of the water by a series of chilling text messages revealed in the affidavit.

They chronicle a bizarre exchange between father and son in which, at one point, Jeffrey asks his son 'Did you hurt mom?' and states 'I'm not going home till I know mom is okay…I go home and get framed for murder.' In another he bluntly states, 'U R setting me up.'

Analysis of Jeanette and Jeffrey's cell phone activity places both in the vicinity of their son's Bridgeport home when their phones were last used before being switched off.

And security camera footage has revealed images of Kyle driving Jeffrey's truck to his parents' home in Easton, followed closely behind by his girlfriend, Jennifer Valiant. The couple then drove away in Valiant's car.

Valiant initially told investigators that she was at home until confronted with the video evidence.

Meanwhile searches of Kyle's home have revealed that the once star athlete was in the grips of drug addiction uncovering drug paraphernalia, baggies containing Oxycodone and Xanax and numerous hypodermic needles containing residues of heroin.

They also found Kyle's gun without which, according to one unnamed friend, he was rarely seen (according to girlfriend Valiant, Kyle 'really likes his gun') as well as a Home Depot receipt for germicidal bleach, hair and grease drain opener, Goo Gone stain remover and contractor cleanup bags.

Neither the police nor members of the Navin family commented when approached by Daily Mail Online.