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A woman found dead Thursday in Plano along with a convicted steroids dealer was a former Texas Tech athlete, and word of her death sent shock through the Tech tennis program.
Ex-Tech tennis player found dead
By Don Williams | Avalanche-Journal
Friday, June 06, 2008
Story last updated at 6/6/2008 - 1:50 am
A woman found dead Thursday in Plano along with a convicted steroids dealer was a former Texas Tech athlete, and word of her death sent shock through the Tech tennis program.
Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, 30, played her entire college career at Tech, ending with her senior season in the spring of 2000.
"I'm just in shock," Tech tennis coach Tim Siegel said. "I remember speaking to her a couple of years ago, and I knew she had gotten very involved with bodybuilding just a few years ago."
Early Thursday morning, Plano police made a welfare check and found 35-year-old David Jacobs and Earhart-Savell dead in Jacobs' home. Police said both had been shot to death.
Jacobs was a convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him.
Police spokesman Rick McDonald said the officers were making a welfare check after relatives of Earhart-Savell expressed concern about her whereabouts.
Plano detectives Thursday weren'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.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Jacobs and Earhart-Savell had been engaged in the past and had an on-again, off-again relationship.
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