On the night of November 11th, police discovered 18-year-old Kaylyn Fiengo dead in her car at Coastline Park, killed by a single gunshot to the head. She was three months pregnant. Her friend Simone told investigators that Kaylyn had planned to meet Donovan Faison, the father of her unborn child, despite fears. Donovan had urged her to get an abortion and had previously tried to cover up their affair by deleting messages, but Kaylyn had screenshots and had exposed the relationship to his girlfriend. Donovan denied any meeting, claiming he was babysitting at home that night, but his alibi unraveled. His mother saw his car but never him, and his house was less than half a mile from the park. Cell phone records showed his phone was off between 7:06 p.m. and 8:17 p.m., the time of the murder, and had pinged near the crime scene beforehand. He also made internet searches about clearing location history and tracking IP addresses. Police concluded Donovan lured Kaylyn to the park, shot her, and fled on foot. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and killing an unborn child. Despite pleading not guilty, a jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty, which a judge imposed. Kaylyn’s life was cut short, but her memory lives on through her son, and her family received justice.
It's Friday night, around 11-15 pm, Sanford Police respond to a call for backup at Coastline Park. "Where's the border?" "It's over there." Minutes ago, an officer on Routine Patrol spotted a vehicle idling in the parking lot. Inside the vehicle, she discovered an unresponsive female slumped back in the driver's seat. "Are you Fizzle Andrews?" "Uh, yeah, she's feeding me." "Do you have lockers in the window?" "Alright, yeah, push them." "Oh, shoot, that's a lot of blood." "All right." Paramedics arrive at the scene, but it's too late. "She's cold, right there." "Yeah." "He is calling." "Yeah, I'm going to call him. There's two of them." After the female victim is declared dead, officers secure the area, and assess the scene. "She's open on this side, and she's been dead for a while." "She had a massive injury, she was out of her flesh every day." "They found a showcase." "Uh, we're at, um, off the gas tank." "I think the parking spot over there." "I'm no gun." "No." Based on the evidence, police determined this shooting wasn't an accident, and it wasn't self-inflicted. This young woman was murdered. "Where's the car on lock when you guys are here?" Police remove the purse and check the wallet. Inside, they find a victim's driver's license. She is 18-year-old Kaylyn Fiengo. "What's on the monitor on the radio?" "It's on the radio's pictures." Near Kaylyn's body, police also find an ultrasound photo, and a cell phone. "Thanks. Brian." "Brian. What the f*ck?" "You think she was a little out here to see if they can download the f*ck?" "I'd rather be safe though, I'd maybe at least see if her picture or something on the background, if not, it might be safe. Just did it to a good point." "Just to make sure that it's her phone." As lead investigator Sharon Nettles surveys the crime scene, a woman approaches officers and identifies herself as a friend of the victim. "Hello, good afternoon. Um, can I talk to you on something I don't have a dog today, shall I?" "Uh, I'm the investigator." "Okay, I'm not sure anything about nothing that's going on." "Are you okay here?" "Are you sure to talk about your friend?" "Okay. So, so this has to do with her?" "Oh my god. The other phone keeps up." "I'm not running for it." "Okay." "Do you have your ID on you first off? "Because you like her, don't I?" "I don't have it on me because I just rushed out the house because I just felt something was off." "Okay, Simone, I'm in the studio with this. It's like a case kind of thing. And can you explain it? "Uh, you actually found it here?" "Uh, I need it asked. I need to ask you something before you keep out or anything, it's important that you focus." "What was it on the phone or text message?" "Okay, I'm going to say exactly. I'm going to show you this." "The last time I spoke to her was 7-08?" "Yes, today?" "Yes, today." "And what was the conversation about?" "Um, can I see it?" "Okay, um, she was okay, so she has a son." "Yes, so she has a son. She moved because there's a situation going on." "Oh, she got pregnant by somebody else, whatever." "And he had a different baby mama." "And then she was involved with somebody that had a child." "Okay." "Is she pregnant?" "She is." "Okay, how many months?" "She's. " "She's. " "She looks big." "13 years." "So she was going to meet up with that baby daddy." "She was beating up with her second baby daddy." "She's pregnant, she's pregnant." "Correct. Okay." "Which is it?" "Donovan." Simone identifies 20-year-old Donovan Faezon as the father of Kalen's unborn child. "So she was coming to me, Donovan, for what reason?" "She wanted to talk." "Okay." "You know, he wanted to talk to her." "But they were supposed to meet up." "Yeah." "So, okay." "Yeah, they were supposed to talk." "Yeah?" "Yeah, so she told me that." "She was meeting him." "She told me that she was meeting him." "Is there a date in a relationship?" "No." "Or they just. " "No, they were supposed to meet up with him." "They were supposed to meet up with him." "She got pregnant." "Okay." "And is he like married?" "No, he's in a current relationship." "And he had a daughter." "She just was born." "Okay, so then they hooked up. She got pregnant." "Yeah, but she didn't know about the other girl." "Okay." "She didn't know. She was freaking up with him." Simone says when Kalen told Donovan she was pregnant with his child, he wasn't happy. In fact, he had been pressuring her to get an abortion. "Okay, so tell me what she said about your conversation that she was going to meet up with him." "Is she really important that you tell me everything you know?" "Because. That's your friend, right?" "Can you please tell me?" "If she died, she's not here." "But what can you just tell me?" "Okay, so yes, your friend. She's smiling there with us, okay?" "There's no way." "No, no, no." "And this is why it's so important for you to tell me all the details that you know so that we can figure out what happened tonight." "Okay." "Oh my god." "Oh my god." "Take a deep breath." "Like I said, everything that you're going to tell me right now is going to help in the investigation." "And she's a friend. I need you to tell me all the details." "Okay, I know she's coming to meet Donovan." "Okay, I don't know. I don't know if he could have set her up. I don't know. What do you mean set her up?" "I don't know what would give you that." "Because, okay, I'm not going to say he's crazy, but like. " "He, like, for the last time that he met up or whatever, his baby mama had no clue that she was pregnant." "So she met up with him. They were just sitting in the car. They didn't do anything. He got her phone and deleted. He deleted their messages. So basically, she would have proved to show." According to Simone, Donovan's attempt to cover up his cheating backfire because Kaelin had already screen-shotted their messages. Three days ago, on November 8th, she reached out to his girlfriend, Ciara, and exposed the truth. "She texted his baby mama, okay. And told him, told him, told her, told her that she was pregnant." Simone says Ciara's response was fairly civil, but Donovan was livid. "Okay, so she told, so she told her baby mama. He started going for a call." Kaelin ignored his calls and texts until yesterday. "She told me last night that he had texted her. He had texted her and said, I want to talk." "This is when she said yesterday, Thursday, November 10th. I don't know why you keep blocking me. I ain't going to argue with you. I just want to talk. It's cool though." Earlier today, Kaelin told Simone she agreed to meet up with Donovan at Coastline Park. "I said, recorded because she was like, I'm scared, I'm parked at the Dan Park right by his house. I said he needs help. He's mom. He's mom's appointment. Yeah, okay. Do we know his mom's name? Okay. Okay. And I said, record it because I knew something was off. She doesn't go long to run an hour without texting or calling me. And I had been blown up her phone for like three hours, like Kaelin, like, what's going on? I just felt it in my body that something was off and I needed to come over here and check for her." The next morning, the medical examiner performs Kaelin's autopsy. He concludes she died from a single gunshot wound to the head. And places her time of death between eight and eight thirty pm. He also confirms she was approximately three months pregnant at the time of her murder. As family and friends grapple with the crushing news, investigators learn more about Kaelin's tragically short life. Loved ones describe her as an old soul who persevered through a teen pregnancy and became a devoted single mother. After graduating high school, Kaelin enrolled in college to study nursing with dreams of a better future for herself and her son. Now, sadly, those dreams will never come true. With Donovan phase on at the top of their suspect list, police continue to piece together what happened. In Kaelin's cell phone, they find evidence that corroborates what her friend Simone told investigator nettles at the crime scene. In a text message to Simone, she described Donovan's reaction when she texted him and told him she was pregnant with his child. And in one of her very last texts to Simone, Kaelin revealed her plan to meet with Donovan on November 11th, but expressed reservations. When investigators ask
Simone what Kaelin meant by Donovan's failed plan. She tells them that in a previous meetup, Kaelin told her Donovan grabbed her cell phone and messaged himself from Kaelin's Instagram account so it would appear to his girlfriend Ciara that Kaelin had confirmed her child wasn't his. Investigators also look into Kaelin's relationship with the father of her first child, but they don't detect any red flags. By all accounts, they were on good terms. But when police questioned him, he mentions a cryptic remark Kaelin made yesterday, just hours before her death. As she was dropping their son off at his house, in a rush, she said, "I hope I don't get punched in the stomach." He says he wasn't sure what she meant by that, but given the information they've collected so far, investigators are confident there's only one thing Kaelin could have been referring to. Her scheduled meeting with Donovan Faison. Five days after Kaelin was killed, police swarmed Donovan's department. I'm going to go talk to my parents and see if they can. I don't know. Maybe in early October? Okay. Yeah, about early October? What happened that ended you guys as I guess a little sexual relationship? We stopped because she. That's my girlfriend. Oh, that's my girlfriend. Yeah. Okay. And so they. Well, I'd just say, well, I'd just stop messing with her because she started texting my girl and she was like, oh, you know, yeah, we was linking up. So me and my girl got into it. She ended up moving out and then that was really what stopped it. Who ended up moving her? Yeah, she ended up moving her. So she got mad at you? Yeah. Why did she move out? Because she found out that me and her had a sexual relationship. So she was mad. She was like, I'm leaving. Yeah, but then she came back like the next day. She just wanted to clear her. When did she find out? Was it like in August? And then you said that Sierra found out because she messaged her, right? And then. You had Taylor messaged her. Taylor messaged her. And then what did. Did Taylor ask you for anything? When she got pregnant, did she say anything? Like, oh, you know, I need this. I need that. Is there anything like that? Like, did you guys ever talk to her? I don't remember. So you guys ever argue about her being pregnant or anything like that? We had like disagreements, but it was nothing like a major. Like we stopped talking and she then probably texted me maybe a couple days later or something. And we backed right on the turn. Uh-huh. So you haven't seen her in like a month or a little bit over a month. All you had was a sexual relationship with her. She was pregnant. You knew she was pregnant, but you don't think it was your child. But it's not like 100% out of the possibility that it could be a child too. Yeah, yeah. Because you had sex with her. Investigator Nettles challenges Donovan's story. You know her friend Simone. Did you know about Simone? That's one of her friends? Yeah, that's one of her friends. Simone, I guess those are close friends. So I guess she had like most of her friends were under the impression that you were supposed to be hanging out with her on Friday. No, I was hanging out with her. I didn't even meet up with her. Oh, okay. Were you supposed to meet up with her? No, I wasn't supposed to meet up with her. I was supposed to do nothing with her. I didn't even, we didn't have no conversation of meeting up with nothing. Mm-hmm. And is, um, where were you on Friday then? Here, babysitting. Oh. My girl went, my girl, she went out to Orlando. Mm-hmm. So you were here with the baby? Yeah, I was here with the baby. On Friday. On Friday night. Okay. Friday night, like all night? Yes. Donovan also volunteers that earlier that day after he got off work around 5 p.m. He stopped by his mother's house. I went to my mom's house for like, like, an hour or two. Where did your mom live? Um, in that area over there. Like in Goesborough community. Oh, okay. You don't know her address? I do. What's her address? Is that something that I have to give to you? No, I'm just asking. I just want to give. I don't want to give. I'm not going to go talk to your mom. I just want to make sure, you know, everything's lining up. I was at my mom's house. They can clarify that. Have you been to Coastline Park? No. Not recently. Probably last time I've been probably like a year ago. Okay. Do you know where the park is at? Yeah. I'm pretty sure I know where it's at. Okay. Is it close to any of your family members? Do they live around there? Any of them? Yeah, my mom. Okay. Oh, so your mom lives close to there? Somewhere close, yeah. Do you have any weapons at home? I don't have no weapons. Okay. Have you ever carried any weapons? Have a concealed weapons license or anything? No. No. No. Farthest was a BB gun. Oh, okay, a BB gun. Does she ever have any weapons? She don't have no weapons. Okay. I'm just asking. Um, and then like I said, thank you again for talking to me. All right. No problem. Is there anything else you think I should know? I don't really want to talk anymore. Okay. You've done talking. Investigator Nettles turns her attention to Donovan's girlfriend, Sierra. You know, we're investing on homicide of a female. So, um, this one we're here today. So, I'm going to go ahead and extend it. It's the opposite of you. You want to speak to me and tell me anything that you have to say about things. Yeah. So, your name is Sierra. Right? Um, tell me what you love. Like, how did this caring person come into your love? Well, from cheer, I mean. Okay. I don't know. She talked to me last week. Last week with Jackson. Yeah. Um, she talked to me and saying that it was all here. I got her pregnant. This was all her stations. No. She talked to each other around. Oh, we could go. She talked to me. She talked to me. So, we could go to her. She talked to me. Very cordial. She talked to me. She talked to me. Is that it? How did she talk to you? Like, how can she have your number? Or was it through? To her. She talked to me. Oh, yes. Okay. And then, when was the last time you talked to her? That's it. Huh? That was it. And, um, what have you done with it? That's it. She talked to me. She talked to me. What about it? She talked to her. She talked to me. What about it? She talked to me. She talked to me. I was going to. I had my thoracic round. And did you confirm him about the baby? How sorry he was? Oh, yeah. The way he said that it wasn't his. He was very sure about who he was. Investigator nettles quizzes Sierra about Donovan's alibi. I don't want to. As her interview with Sierra ends, a canine officer handler flags down investigator nettles. Investigator nettles informs Donovan that police are seizing his cell phone and his car. This is just want to clean it up. Would you like to start? Yes, but because it's dark outside and all that. We're actually going to tell the park and then search it and then we're trying to and we'll do it in this way. I'm now just I will leave your inventory of the things we're taking from your residence. We'll give that to you. Are you telling me when you're taking from our residence? Yes, there's an inventory sheet or a left on the floor. We'll be able to get my phone back, right? Yeah, you can get your phone back. Actually, we I prefer not to say as they wait for cell phone data to come in. Investigators contact Donovan's mother to see if she can verify her son's timeline. She says that on the evening of November 11th, she did see Donovan's car parked in her driveway around the time he says he was there, but she says she never actually saw or spoke to her son and he never came inside the house. When police map the distance between her house and the crime scene, it's less than half a mile. That puts Donovan in close proximity to the crime scene on the evening of the murder. And even though their search of Donovan's apartment and his car doesn't yield a murder weapon, Donovan's cell phone data turns out to be their smoking gun. Police recover multiple deleted text messages, including an exchange between Donovan and his friend Woody. On November 8th, Donovan texted Woody and told him Kaelin had sent him a photo of her ultrasound. And his messages take on a menacing tone. Then data shows that on November 11th, the day of Kaelin's murder, Donovan's cell phone registered no activity between 706 p.m. and 817 p.m. indicating to police it had been turned off. But prior to that period of inactivity, Donovan's cell phone pinged to a tower right across the street from the crime scene. Police theorized that Donovan used his mother's house as a decoy, parking his car there so it wouldn't be spotted at the park. Then he walked to the park, turned off his phone and waited for Kaelin to arrive. Based on her cell phone records, Kaelin arrived at the park close to 8 p.m. That's when Donovan got into her car, shot her in the head and fled back to his mother's house on foot. He got in his car, turned his cell phone back on and responded to several mistext from Sierra at 821 p.m. Then in the days after Kaelin's murder, Donovan made several incriminating internet searches, including how to clear your location history on settings, and if your phone is turned off, can your IP address be tracked. To investigators, all the evidence adds up to one chilling conclusion. Donovan phase on, lured Kaelin Fyango to coastline park where he murdered her and their unborn child because she refused to terminate her pregnancy. Donovan phase on is arrested and charged on multiple counts, including first-degree murder, killing an unborn child and burglary of a vehicle with an assault or battery. In a statement announcing his arrest, Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith says, quote, "This beautiful young woman and mother was taken from this world far too soon and in a horrific way. We hope that today's arrest brings the slightest amount of peace for Kaelin's family and the young son she left behind. It doesn't bring her back, but at least she will have the justice she deserves." Donovan pleads not guilty, but a jury doesn't buy it. In October of 2025, Donovan is found guilty on all charges, including first-degree murder. And in an 11-to-1 vote, they recommend the death penalty. Two months later, a judge agrees and sentences Donovan phase on to death. Though she was robbed of her life, Kaelin Fyango lives on in the hearts of her son and all the people who loved her. [Music]
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Kaylyn Fiengo, an 18-year-old nursing student and mother, was found dead in her car at Coastline Park on November 11th, with a single gunshot wound to the head; she was three months pregnant.
Her friend Simone told police Kaylyn was meeting Donovan Faison, the father of her unborn child, who had pressured her to get an abortion and previously deleted their messages to hide the affair.
Donovan denied meeting Kaylyn, claiming he was babysitting at home, but cell phone data showed his phone was off during the murder timeframe and pinged near the crime scene, with incriminating searches about clearing location history.
His alibi was weak
Donovan was arrested, charged with first-degree murder and killing an unborn child, found guilty by a jury, and sentenced to death in late 2025.
Summary:
On the night of November 11th, police discovered 18-year-old Kaylyn Fiengo dead in her car at Coastline Park, killed by a single gunshot to the head. She was three months pregnant. Her friend Simone told investigators that Kaylyn had planned to meet Donovan Faison, the father of her unborn child, despite fears.
Donovan had urged her to get an abortion and had previously tried to cover up their affair by deleting messages, but Kaylyn had screenshots and had exposed the relationship to his girlfriend. Donovan denied any meeting, claiming he was babysitting at home that night, but his alibi unraveled. His mother saw his car but never him, and his house was less than half a mile from the park.
m. , the time of the murder, and had pinged near the crime scene beforehand. He also made internet searches about clearing location history and tracking IP addresses.
Police concluded Donovan lured Kaylyn to the park, shot her, and fled on foot. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and killing an unborn child. Despite pleading not guilty, a jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty, which a judge imposed.
Kaylyn’s life was cut short, but her memory lives on through her son, and her family received justice.
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Kaylyn Fiengo, an 18-year-old woman, was found unresponsive in her car at Coastline Park and was declared dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Donovan Faison, the 20-year-old father of Kaylyn's unborn child, was identified as the primary suspect and later arrested.
The motive was that Kaylyn refused to terminate her pregnancy, and Donovan allegedly lured her to the park to kill her and their unborn child.
Police used cell phone data showing his phone pinged near the crime scene, was turned off during the murder, and recovered deleted incriminating messages and internet searches.
Donovan claimed he was babysitting at home and visited his mother's house, but his mother never saw him, and the house was less than half a mile from the crime scene.
He was convicted of first-degree murder, killing an unborn child, and burglary of a vehicle with assault or battery, and was sentenced to death.
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