See you later, Bailey tells Espree. Julie also had the stolen coins that she had found in their house, and she passed a polygraph. At the time of the rulings, more than 70 percent of juvenile lifers were people of color, and 60 percent were African American. His lawyers countered that he hadnt been given much of a chance: For his first three decades at Louisianas notorious Angola prison, lifers like him were prohibited from taking classes. He was a little redhead with freckles. I watched the latest episode of Snapped on Oxygen for this case, its season 28 episode 22. His killers had hoped to collect on a $500,000 life insurance policy. The blood spatter on the wall let him know it was no accident. According to court documents, Kevin Boyd Jr., who had found his fathers body, had spent the night at his girlfriends place after a fight with the adult about his behavior. In the early 1970s, Kevin met a woman named Lynn, whose quiet demeanor contrasted with his gregariousness. Kevin Boyd Jr., now 43, was released on parole in January 2020, reported at the time. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of 'Our True Crime Podcast' entitled Smotherly Love: Kevin Boyd. With the lotto ticket tucked away, he goes to see Black Panther for the second time, leaning back in the theaters cushy reclining seats. His mom, Lynn Boyd, agreed - she wanted what Kevin Sr. had, too. The on screen text a the end of the episode said Kevin said he is not a reflection of who he used to be.. But soon, with thorough investigations, a plot so brutal and twisted is uncovered that no one could have seen it coming. Kevins tool rental business was very successful, but their marriage wasnt. The case revolved around Henry Montgomery, a black man from Louisiana who was 17 when he killed a white sheriffs deputy in 1963. 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All music is by the immensely talented Nico @wetalkofdreams. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. I hope Lynn rots in prison forever, and I hope Kevin does prove that he can change. Racial tensions were so high during the trial that his death sentence was overturned in 1969 and replaced with mandatory life without parole, which his lawyers now argued was unconstitutional. WHEN Kevin was 16 years old, he helped plot the murder of his father at the hands of his mother. Shes like a baby all over again, Espree tells the caller. In the winters, he and his friends would play in the snow; during summers it was tackle football, or theyd build go-karts out of wood and race them down the streets. When Espree was 16, he fatally shot an innocent bystander during a drug turf war near Detroit. As the last item, an air compressor, was being removed, a knife wrapped in a T-shirt fell out from behind it. He felt entitled to the freedom, money, and control that his dad seemed to have. I struggle with that a lot.. This was just a few months before Kevin Sr., would be killed. The police did not charge Julie with giving false statements. Follow the links to read about more Diabolical murders profiled on the show. With the latter ruse, Harris hoped to gain access to his bank accounts. Kevin opened a tool rental company in Lake Orion, Michigan, a former resort town which had become a bedroom community. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. They separated in 1988. Espree thinks often of Emanuel Billups, the man he killed, and of his family members. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. His body is surrounded by blood. Kevin Boyd Jr. didn't kill his father, Kevin Boyd Sr., alone his mother was in on the plan, too. He was in disbelief, says Meagan Dreher, a paralegal who had come to meet him. Their time together, however,would be cut short. The blood spatter on the wall let him know it was no accident. He said Lynn was destroying the business that Kevin built, and was stealing money from the safe. The day before his birthday, he pulls them out. Or he'll spend hours listening to rock and roll while working in the greenhouse. The wallet belonged to Kevin Boyd Sr. On Aug. 6, 1994, a maintenance worker found 16-year-old Kevin Jr. distraught in the parking lot of the apartment complex where he lived, saying his father was dead. In August 1994, Boyd was 16 when, according to prosecutors, he and his mother, Lynn, hatched and carried out a plot to kill his father, Kevin Sr, who was stabbed more than 20 times and beaten with a baseball bat. It was a steady business. They were both found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole, according to court documents. This isnt a stolen credit card. Richmond, VA. Died: October 24, 2018 (aged 47) Born: August 27, 1971 . Studied at U.S. Coast Guard Academy. On May 15, 2019, Kevin was instead resentenced to a term of 25-60 years. Since then, 72 percent of them have been black. This helped investigators narrow down the time of the murder to between 11 p.m, when the musician arrived at his gig, and 3 a.m., when he left. Cousins Antonio Espree and Marlon Bailey grew up on the west side of Detroit. 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View the profiles of people named Kevin Boyd Jr. Join Facebook to connect with Kevin Boyd Jr. and others you may know. She said Lynn left at 11pm on the night of the murder, and met Kevin Jr., at a Burger King. He also said his father owned several guns which were missing from the apartment. And while Miller v. Alabama outlawed mandatory life-without-parole terms for kids, it didnt do much for people like Cyntoia Brown, who killed a middle-aged man when she was 16 after he brought her to his Tennessee home for sex. It weighs in favour of irreparable corruption, says Paul Walton, an assistant Oakland County prosecutor. Deck Watch Officer B.S. Of the 2,800 or so juvenile lifers in 2016, about 1,700 have been resentenced. Kevin Sr.s wallet still contained cash and his credit cards, ruling out the possibility of a robbery. His apartment showed no signs of a break-in, but it did look like someone had gone through the apartment. A ruling came this June, making it much easier for judges to hand out life-without-parole sentences to children in the state. Boyd says that four years later, when he and his mother discussed the murder plot and she told him his life would improve after his fathers death, I have to say that I think that was appealing to me.. Lynn then told Kevin she was leaving him for another woman around Christmas 1988. The man was Kevin Boyd, and his body was discovered by his son, Kevin, Jr. What the 16-year-old would encounter would be the absolute worst scenario. He had the personality to match, sister Lynette Heide told Snapped, airing Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen. Snapped Kevin Boyd, Jr. . Kevin Jr. said he and his mother had plotted the murder together and waited outside his fathers apartment building until they thought he had fallen asleep. Lynns girlfriend subsequently passed a polygraph test, leading officers to zero in on Lynn. Soon after Lynn and Kevins alibis fell apart, the police received a call from Lynn. In the early 1970s, Kevin met a woman named Lynn, whose quiet demeanor contrasted with his gregariousness. He was released in January 2020 at age 4o, which was close to the age of his dad when they killed him. According to police records, he had been sleeping in a chair when he was attacked beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed over 20 times. I find out the next day the reason they didnt go to the burial siteis theyre too busy at the courthouse getting paper rights to take over Lake Orion Rental, Lucarelli told producers. Your support means the world to us! However, in November 1994, Lynns girlfriend provided the authorities with a much-needed breakthrough by confessing that she had lied to them about her girlfriends whereabouts at her behest and was now afraid that she had something to do with Kevins murder. Columbia Pictures's first Netflix exclusive film. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and I really wanted to learn to think for myself, he says. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. They waited until he was asleep, went to the apartment and started beating him. When Espree walked out of the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility on April 6, 2017, he looked up at the sky and took deep breaths of the fresh air. Don was brought in for questioning and to take a polygraph, he passed with flying colors. He also prepared dogs for adoption at the prison. spoke to Kevin Jrs girlfriend, who admitted that on the night of the murder she had driven with him to a Burger King where he had met with his mother, according to court documents. Kevin had also attended four or fives schools, because he was getting expelled for fighting. During this time, the family moved to Lake Orion, a former resort town, where Kevin opened up a tool rental company. Now sentencing judges have discretion, and that discretion is used to disproportionately penalize kids of color, says Heather Renwick, the legal director at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, which wants the Supreme Court to ban life sentences without parole for teens altogether. That led us to believe that whoever did this knew the victim.. In Louisiana, more than half of juveniles convicted of murder since 2012 have received such sentences, most of them African American. He and Lynn were tried separately in 1996, where prosecutors said their motive was the $500,000 payout from Kevin Sr.s life insurance policy. His killers were his ex-wife Lynn Boyd and his teenage son Kevin Boyd Jr. In 2012, the justices took the next leap: Even if a teen was convicted of homicide, they ruled in Miller v. Alabama, a judge had to consider factors such as the kids maturity level and home environment when handing down a punishment. He was granted it and was released on January 7, 2020. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. Facebook gives people the power to. If I wonwhen I winIll be in a position to help folks, he says. Esprees cousin Bailey, a 49-year-old gender studies professor at Arizona State University, comes out of the bedroom and heats up some coffee on his way to work. A popular small town business man is brutally killed in his apartment. Kevin Boyd, Jr. 2020/I Courtside . Marion: Matthew, today was a good day for you as a parent. I couldnt defend myself at 16, but Im not 16 anymore. A lot of people, when they go down young and theyve been down for more than a decade or two decades, they tend to lose touch with most family members, Mexica says. He felt entitled to the freedom, money, and control that his dad seemed to have. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Then, they snuck in and attacked him. When the courses opened up, he was deemed ineligible to complete his GED. The culprits were his ex-wife Lynn Boyd and his sixteen-year-old son Kevin Boyd Jr. Kevin Boyd Sr. was stabbed over 20 times and beaten to death with a baseball bat. It appeared he had suffered blunt force trauma to the head and multiple stab wounds. Bailey says Espree was the only family member who didnt seem to judge him: Thats part of the reason he always felt like a brother to me.. Even supermarkets were overwhelming; the first time he went shopping, he asked whether he could pick up a tomato to inspect it before buying it. The next morning he came home and discovered the body. In February, the Louisiana parole board rejected his requestfor release, arguing that he had not finished enough classes in prison. He told her when his father would be sleeping in a chair and gave her the keys to the apartment. But things changed once officers tried to re-interview Lynn, only to discover that she had hired a lawyer for both herself and her teenage son. Civil Engineering. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. The prosecution in both cases said that they were both motivated by greed and their hatred of Kevin Sr. An Unholy Death: The Murder or Margaret Ann Pahl, 156. Most experts would tell you its an undefinable concept but for the sociopath, like Charles Manson. When asked who he thought might have murdered Kevin Sr., he implicated Lynn Boyd. Parental Predators are the worst!If you like our shows and have some loose pennies in your pocket, please consider making a tax deductible donation to our show. Hes one of the lucky ones. He is a deeply contemplative person, reflected Micol Seigel, a professor at Indiana University who corresponded with Espree through letters about the books he was reading, books with titles like The Power of Intention and Mans Search for Meaning, as well as works by Martin Luther King Jr. and Kahlil Gibran. He was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder. On August 6, 1994, a man was disco It's us but for your ears. Their bedroom has little space for anything but their mattresses, so Espree slips quietly out and heads up to the roof to watch the sunrise. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? . Andrea said she lied about Kevins alibi. The on-campus center helps incarcerated women take college classes. This murder was planned, it was brutal and they both went to great lengths to cover it up AND blame other people. The police said that the evidence showed that Kevin was asleep on the recliner chair and fell when he was hit. Chronic trauma during childhood, Garbarino writes, can lead to changes in the brain, including an overdeveloped amygdala, which processes fear, and an underdeveloped cortex, which is crucial for reasoning. Hell buy his cousin a new car, launch a nonprofit for at-risk youths, pay rent for Finleyso she can get her own placeand send his attorney on a trip around the world. Bailey, a tenured professor, helped him enroll at Arizona State University and let him share his bedroom and even some of his clothes. Prison was made up of predator and prey, he says. His mom, Lynn Boyd, agreed - she wan. If you want to look at culpability, it was his mother who recruited him, OBrien says. The police asked Kevin if he knew of anyone whod want to hurt his dad. After his first semester, he had a 3.29 GPA. What was the motive you ask? Since the murder, their relationship had deteriorated and Grain now worried she would be implicated in Kevin Sr.s murder. Will you sit down and listen so we can fix it? 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