Jeremy Stevens

**Jeremy Stevens** is a man who hired Dex to find his birth parents.

## History

### Finding His Family

Jeremy received a DNA testing kit from a friend as a joke. However, when he did the test, he learned he was 48% Native American, despite both his parents being white. He went to his parents with this information and learned that he'd been adopted as an infant. He then hired Dex Parios to find his birth parents, as he wanted to learn more about where he came from. Dex was able to find his birth father, but learned that his birth mother had died three months prior. She introduced him to his birth father, Tim Scott. They got along at their first meeting, but Tim cancelled their subsequent plans through Dex, saying he couldn't maintain a good relationship with Jeremy. Dex was able to find out Jeremy had been forcibly removed from his mother's home by a woman named Betty Welles, who got a kickback from families who adopted the children she removed from their homes with Native parents and then had adopted through her church's adoption agency. Jeremy was left disappointed and angry with his parents. However, he was surprised when he learned Dex had found, with the help of Sue Lynn, some of his other relatives. Sue Lynn introduced them and they showed Jeremy his name and his mother's on their family tree. *("The Past and the Furious")*

### Helping Aimee

Jeremy came to Dex with his cousin, Aimee, who had been arrested and charged with assaulting and robbing Mr. Schumaker. She said she didn't do it, but she looked good for it because she had some priors. Dex agreed to take the case, though she was plagued with flashbacks from a case Aimee reminded her of. She found out that a woman who was in AA with Aimee, Paloma Wagner, had actually assaulted him and had directed the police toward Aimee, because they had similar appearances. Dex convinced Paloma to confess and the charges against Aimee were dropped. *("All Quiet on the Dextern Front")*

### Helping Dex Find the Truth

After hearing about Dex's struggles to accept what happened to Benny and feeling like she played a part in his death, Jeremy talked to his friend in military intelligence and learned there was a lot more to the story than Dex knew. *("All Quiet on the Dextern Front")*

He introduced Dex to Major Elders, who told Dex that the bomb that killed Benny didn't come from the Taliban, but the Haqqanis, meaning it wasn't Dex's fault at all. Dex didn't believe it as the Haqqanis had no business in Kabul. She asked to see the file, but he refused, saying he'd already told her more than he should have. Dex became angry with them and left. Later, Dex found Jeremy at a bar and said he wanted to apologize to him and to Elders and asked for Elders' number. She then used the number to track Elders to his hotel room, where she placed a bug and made him think his computer was hacked to get information. Jeremy came to her house to confront her about breaking into the hotel room. He told her he couldn't help her anymore. *("The Dex Files")*

## Relationships

### Familial

He was adopted when he was six months old after being wrongly removed from his birth mother's home. As an adult, he learned that his mother had died, but he met his birth father and members of his mother's family. *("The Past and the Furious")*

### Friendships

A friend of his gave him the DNA test kit that revealed that he was 48% Native American.

## Career

He is a Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force.

## Gallery

### Episodic

* The Past and the Furious
* All Quiet on the Dextern Front
* The Dex Files
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