Frederick P. Hammer requested that he be granted certain conditions before disclosing the location of the body of missing Crumpler resident Jimmy Blevins, his nephew by marriage.

Ashe County Sheriff James Williams explained Wednesday morning that Hammer would not tell authorities where he had hidden Blevins’ body until they had reached an agreement on some stipulations.

“There were certain things he wanted,” Williams said. “He wanted to be closer to his family at a prison closer to home and he also wanted a face-to-face interview with his wife.”

Williams said that the interview with Hammer’s wife was arranged before he disclosed Blevins’ whereabouts.

Authorities also removed the possibility of the death penalty for Hammer as a result of his disclosure of information.

Another condition that Hammer placed on the table for law enforcement officials was that he requested that the reward money offered by Blevins’ family for information regarding Jimmy’s disappearance to be placed in a trust fund for Hammer’s step granddaughter.

The family had increased the award money that was being offered to $15,000 recently.

Blevins’ family agreed to do so after consulting with District Attorney Tom Horner, Williams explained.

“That was something they (Blevins’ family) agreed to do and we still don’t know how that is going to work out,” Williams said.

It is unclear if the Blevins family will in fact be forced to deposit the award money into a trust account for Hammer’s step granddaughter. Attempts to reach Blevins’ mother, Janet, were unsuccessful Wednesday afternoon.

The sheriff also stated the Hammer’s wife, Brenda, did not want the reward money to go to an account for her granddaughter.

“Brenda is terribly upset about that and it was a despicable thing,” Williams said in reference to Hammer’s request.

Brenda Hammer is Jimmy’s aunt. In an earlier interview with The Jefferson Post, Janet Blevins, said that the family rarely communicated with Brenda as they were suspicious of Freddie’s involvement with Jimmy’s disappearance.

“Just an occasional hello from time to time,” Blevins said in June.

Hammer reportedly owed Jimmy Blevins a little over $1,600 for work he had done for Hammer’s firewood and landscape business. Janet didn’t see Hammer’s lapse in repaying Jimmy as a contributing factor for his disappearance.

“It wasn’t because of the money that Fred owed him,” Janet Blevins said, “cause Fred owed everybody.”

During that same June interview, Blevins also said: “I just think Jimmy knew something on him, and he probably told him if he didn’t pay what he owed him he was going to tell, I just don’t know,” she said.

Although Hammer admitted to the murder of Timothy Shatley during last week’s interview with Ashe County authorities, Sheriff Williams is not convinced that he is in fact the responsible party.

Jimmy Blevins lived a few hundred yards from where Shatley was murdered on Hwy 16 near Old Field Creek Road on Nov. 19, 2005. Williams said that investigation is ongoing.

Please continue to follow The Jefferson Post and www.jeffersonpost.com as authorities await the possible identification of the body that is believed to be Jimmy Blevins.