October 7, 2009
The Kansas City Star
By JOE LAMBE
A day after murder charges were filed against three men in death of 18-year-old Keighley Ann Alyea of Overland Park, her family provided a grim detail.
Alyea’s attackers thought they killed the teen Sept. 30 in Johnson County, according to what police told the family, but she became conscious as they drove to dump her body in rural Cass County.
“They had a choice to do the right thing and they chose to kill her,” said her uncle, Eddie Frentrop. “They could have just dropped her off at the hospital on the steps.”
Johnson County prosecutors declined to provide details on the case, including the cause of her death. On Tuesday, they also filed first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges against Dustin B. Hilt, 18, of Shawnee, Gerald S. Calbeck, 18, of Merriam, and Joseph D. Mattox, 21, of Overland Park...
Margo Alyea, the teen’s grandmother, said...Hilt and the victim had dated in the past and each had a tattoo of the other’s name on their bodies. The family is having the Dustin tattoo taken off her body before burial, Alyea said. Her granddaughter had wanted it taken off before her death.
Derek Bohlken, father of 18-year-old Gerald Calbeck, said his son had never been in trouble and hardly knew Alyea. His son started hanging out with Hilt a few weeks ago, he said. “He’s into things like sports, and he goes running,” Bohlken said... And murder?
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Dustin B. Hilt, 18, of Shawnee, Gerald S. Calbeck, 18, of Merriam, and Joseph D. Mattox, 21, of Overland Park, charged in death of Overland Park teen
By JOE LAMBE and DAWN BORMANN
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star Video Three make first court appearance in Keighley Ann Alyea's death
Kansas City Star Video Friend of slain teenager speaks out
Keighley Ann Alyea was headed out to visit an old boyfriend who sent an urgent message about 1:30 a.m. the day she disappeared, according to several friends. “She’ll come right over if you tell her something is wrong,” said Alyea’s friend Chris Monslow.
Alyea’s longtime friend Jessika Beebe, who knew that the couple had a volatile history that included abuse, urged her not to go. But Alyea left anyway. Her friends said police told them that Alyea’s last text message was: “I’m here. I’m parked a block away.”
...Alyea had dated Hilt for about two years, but several friends said they broke up after a long history of abuse. “She thought he would change,” Beebe said.
Alyea lived with Beebe’s family for several years. Beebe and others said they watched Hilt display irrational behavior around Alyea. They also saw bruises, which Alyea told them Hilt had inflicted, said Beebe’s brother, 16-year-old Chris Monslow of Kansas City, Kan.
Monslow had been friends with Hilt and Alyea. He said that the couple had used drugs together, but the relationship and her drug use stopped. “They split up and she got clean,” Monslow said.
Although the steady relationship appeared to be over, several friends said Hilt and Alyea had an on-again, off-again romance...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them
By DENISE LAVOIE
AP Legal Affairs Writer
Associated Press
March 31, 2009
BOSTON (AP) -- Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton Massachutes home Saturday. Police shot the girls' brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery.
Ernst Guerrier, a Boston attorney and family friend, said he spent Monday morning with parents Regine and Vronze Revelus as they made plans to bury the three together.
"They are still dealing with the shock and disbelief of losing three of their children," said Guerrier. Guerrier said there was nothing to indicate Kerby Revelus "was capable of something like this or that this tragedy could have been prevented."
Kerby Revelus had been in trouble before, but his criminal record does not show anything close to the level of brutal violence he unleashed on his sisters on Saturday.
In September 2004, he was charged with assault and battery after another sister, Jessica Revelus, then 17, called police and said her brother, then 19, had punched her in the face during an argument over a phone bill. Kerby Revelus admitted he punched his sister, and told police he was upset with her because she owed him some money, according to a Milton police report.
Jessica Revelus declined medical attention and told police she did not want to get a restraining order against her brother. "Ms. Revelus told me that she was not in fear of her brother and had no wish to pursue the matter," the arresting officer wrote in the report.
Jessica Revelus told the Boston Herald that her brother had done two stints in jail. He was arrested for assault and battery in August 2004 after he was involved in a fight with several other teenagers.
Then in December 2005, he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license after he tried to buy alcohol at a liquor store in Randolph. A store clerk called police when he saw a pistol magazine in Revelus' pocket, and police later found the magazine and a handgun in Revelus' waist band. He was sentenced to serve six months in jail, and was released in September 2008.
Investigators believe Revelus had been agitated since Friday night, when he got in a fistfight with a neighbor in this tony suburb that is also home to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Revelus attacked his siblings with a kitchen knife on Saturday while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement, investigators said. The children's parents were not home.
Samantha Revelus called 911, but the dying girl quickly gave the phone to Saraphina, Milton police said. Nolan said police will not release the 911 call. "It's horrific. We'd be doing a tremendous disservice to the survivors if we released that. They don't need to listen to that," Nolan said.
Nolan said an officer patrolling the neighborhood arrived less than a minute after the 911 call and heard screaming inside the apartment. He kicked the door in and saw Revelus decapitate his 5-year-old sister.
As other officers arrived, Kerby ran into a bedroom and began to attack Saraphina. Two officers shot him, Nolan said.
The parents were still making final arrangements for Saturday's burials, Guerrier said.
"The reasons why it happened, what happened, how it happened is still just a blur to them," he said. "They can't even imagine it."
AP Legal Affairs Writer
Associated Press
March 31, 2009
BOSTON (AP) -- Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton Massachutes home Saturday. Police shot the girls' brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery.
Ernst Guerrier, a Boston attorney and family friend, said he spent Monday morning with parents Regine and Vronze Revelus as they made plans to bury the three together.
"They are still dealing with the shock and disbelief of losing three of their children," said Guerrier. Guerrier said there was nothing to indicate Kerby Revelus "was capable of something like this or that this tragedy could have been prevented."
Kerby Revelus had been in trouble before, but his criminal record does not show anything close to the level of brutal violence he unleashed on his sisters on Saturday.
In September 2004, he was charged with assault and battery after another sister, Jessica Revelus, then 17, called police and said her brother, then 19, had punched her in the face during an argument over a phone bill. Kerby Revelus admitted he punched his sister, and told police he was upset with her because she owed him some money, according to a Milton police report.
Jessica Revelus declined medical attention and told police she did not want to get a restraining order against her brother. "Ms. Revelus told me that she was not in fear of her brother and had no wish to pursue the matter," the arresting officer wrote in the report.
Jessica Revelus told the Boston Herald that her brother had done two stints in jail. He was arrested for assault and battery in August 2004 after he was involved in a fight with several other teenagers.
Then in December 2005, he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license after he tried to buy alcohol at a liquor store in Randolph. A store clerk called police when he saw a pistol magazine in Revelus' pocket, and police later found the magazine and a handgun in Revelus' waist band. He was sentenced to serve six months in jail, and was released in September 2008.
Investigators believe Revelus had been agitated since Friday night, when he got in a fistfight with a neighbor in this tony suburb that is also home to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Revelus attacked his siblings with a kitchen knife on Saturday while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement, investigators said. The children's parents were not home.
Samantha Revelus called 911, but the dying girl quickly gave the phone to Saraphina, Milton police said. Nolan said police will not release the 911 call. "It's horrific. We'd be doing a tremendous disservice to the survivors if we released that. They don't need to listen to that," Nolan said.
Nolan said an officer patrolling the neighborhood arrived less than a minute after the 911 call and heard screaming inside the apartment. He kicked the door in and saw Revelus decapitate his 5-year-old sister.
As other officers arrived, Kerby ran into a bedroom and began to attack Saraphina. Two officers shot him, Nolan said.
The parents were still making final arrangements for Saturday's burials, Guerrier said.
"The reasons why it happened, what happened, how it happened is still just a blur to them," he said. "They can't even imagine it."
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Massachutes man Kerby Revelus, kills 2 sisters, but police save the 3rd
Associated Press
March 29, 2009
MILTON, Mass. (AP) - Police say they don't know why a Milton, Mass., man fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister and decapitated his 5-year-old sister just a day after her birthday.
Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. says 23-year-old Kerby Revelus had turned toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot him dead. The girl is hospitalized with stab wounds. The children's parents were away at the time of the attack.
Wells says Revelus had gotten into a fistfight with a man living next door about 24 hours earlier and had been agitated in the hours that followed that.
According to Wells, Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge. And he says officers had been called to the family's house in 2004 after a domestic violence report.
A neighbor calls the family "solid." He says it "completely makes no sense."
March 29, 2009
MILTON, Mass. (AP) - Police say they don't know why a Milton, Mass., man fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister and decapitated his 5-year-old sister just a day after her birthday.
Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. says 23-year-old Kerby Revelus had turned toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot him dead. The girl is hospitalized with stab wounds. The children's parents were away at the time of the attack.
Wells says Revelus had gotten into a fistfight with a man living next door about 24 hours earlier and had been agitated in the hours that followed that.
According to Wells, Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge. And he says officers had been called to the family's house in 2004 after a domestic violence report.
A neighbor calls the family "solid." He says it "completely makes no sense."
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Man Sent to Jail for Grandmother's Beating Death
for full background, here is the Americas Most Wanted Site:UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - After a testy exchange with a judge, a 35 year-old man was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in state prison for beating his grandmother to death during an argument.
Scott Herman repeatedly denied that he intended to kill his 82-year-old grandmother, Louise Herman, last November in Rome, N.Y., and lashed out at the judge and prosecutor as he spoke on his own behalf.
"No one is this courtroom knows what happened in that house," said Herman. An Oneida County Court jury needed less than a half hour to find Herman guilty of murdering his grandmother, even though Judge Barry Donalty had allowed jurors to also consider the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Herman, who defended himself, argued during his trial that there was no evidence he intended to kill his grandmother and that he only meant to cause her serious injury when he slammed her head several times against a basement support pole.
He told jurors that he was defending himself after his grandmother came at him swinging a hammer and threatened to kill him during an argument at the home they shared. After the killing, Herman fled the state. He was captured in January in New Mexico after two months on the run.
Assistant District Attorney Dawn Catera Lupi described Herman's actions as a "rage killing" and noted Herman's lack of remorse and empathy about his grandmothers death. "The defendant took his frustrations at his life out on his grandmother," Lupi said. "She was there when he needed her and this was her reward."
Herman said he felt being sentenced to prison would be wrong. He said he planned to appeal the verdict because of media bias tainting the jury.
When Donalty spoke, he said he was "flabbergasted" by Herman's words. Herman constantly interrupted as the judge tried to impose sentence.
Donalty then imposed the maximum sent of 25 years to life, but he said he regretted not being able to give him more because of the violent nature of the crime.
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