Posted by 5Shelbie on September 7, 2009 at 10:20pm
Could two young boys the age of 12 and 13 really brutally kill their father? In 2001 in their Florida home Alex and Derek King beat their father to death with a baseball bat. They lit the house on fire after to cover it up. There still is spectulation to whether it really was them or, if it was Rick Chavis. Rick Chavis was a friend of the boys' father and he also had a romantic relationship with Alex. The boys' mother was a prostitute at this time but randomly abondoned them all. Derek was too much of a hassal for his father so, his father sent him to live with a foster family. While Derek was living with his foster family he started becoming violent so they sent him back to his father. But while Derek was gone with his foster family and it was just Alex and his father they moved around a lot and his father had lots of different jobs. Frequently Alex's father would send him to stay with Rick. Rick already had a record, in 1984 he was accused of sexually abusing two 13 year old boys. Alex was brain washed by Rick, at one point he said he was in love. He and Rick often wrote loveletters to each other.The two young boys openly admitted to the murder. Alex had thought up the whole thing but Derek was the one who swung the bat and did the killing. The boys were convicted with first degree murder while Rick Chavis was charged with being an accessory after the fact, tampering with evidence, and molesting Alex. Later Chavis was acquitted with the sex-offending charges involving Alex. Soon enough the boys changed their stories and now were saying it was all Rick and they were in the car. But their detailed description of the murder was too much, they had to have been there, even just watching Rick do it. After going to court agian the boys were convicted to third degree murder and arson. Alex got seven years in prison and Derek got eight. Rick was not found guilty on the murder and arson charges but got 35 years for being an accessory after the fact to third-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and false imprisonment involving Alex.
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