Kevins wallet still had cash and credit cards in it. The Goodpods app is a great way to follow the shows and even listen to a curated playlist of their most talked about episodes!Links: www.truecrimepodcastfestival.com Goodpods: https://t.co/u1bHrjRCKPOur listener discretion is by the smooth-talking Edward October of @octoberpodVHS. Yet, he maintained that he was not at the scene when it transpired. Die, My Daughter, Die: The Murder of Tina Isa. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of 'Our True Crime Podcast' entitled Smotherly Love: Kevin Boyd. He was in disbelief, says Meagan Dreher, a paralegal who had come to meet him. 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. In May 1995, Kevins tool rental business was being cleaned out to sell, when a knife was found. Kevin Boyd distracts himself these days by running 10Ks around the track. Kevin Sr.s wallet still contained cash and his credit cards, ruling out the possibility of a robbery. 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. 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. If I wonwhen I winIll be in a position to help folks, he says. But because of his previous actions and difficult upbringing, he was still considered a person of interest. Antonio Espree(R) shares a one bedroom apartment with his cousin, tenured Professor Marlon Bailey, (L) In Phoenix, Arizona. 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. It took another four years for the justices to retroactively apply that decision to people who had already been sentenced. With the number of wounds we saw there, it appeared it was definitely a crime of violence and passion, former Oakland County Sheriffs Detective Sergeant Patrick Miles told producers. . Espree lived with his two half-brothers, mom, and stepdad, who worked at a glass plant for Ford Motor Co. He struggled to pay attention in school and failed the seventh grade three times. Kevin was totally shocked, Heide told producers. Studied at Florida International University. The turf war escalated quicklyone of Esprees friends brought an Uzi submachine gun. Kevin Jr. ran from the apartment, desperate to get some help. The blood spatter on the wall let him know it was no accident. I couldnt defend myself at 16, but Im not 16 anymore. A ruling came this June, making it much easier for judges to hand out life-without-parole sentences to children in the state. An autopsy would reveal Kevin Sr. had been struck repeatedly in the head with a blunt object and stabbed over 20 times, according to the Detroit Free Press. Marion: Matthew, today was a good day for you as a parent. When Espree was 16, he fatally shot an innocent bystander during a drug turf war near Detroit. It appeared he had suffered blunt force trauma to the head and multiple stab wounds. The more educated I became, the more positive I became, Espree says. In February, the Louisiana parole board rejected his requestfor release, arguing that he had not finished enough classes in prison. His mom confessed and was sentenced to life without parole; so was Boyd. Detectives had always suspected that Lynn didnt act alone but Grain had already passed a polygraph test. 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. What Kevin didnt know is they had recovered one of the guns that Kevin took and had sold to someone in Flint, Michigan. Kevin met Lynn in the 1970s, they fell in love and got married in 1975. No matter what Kevins role in the death of his father, he was acting at the behest of his mother, his lawyer David OBrien argued last year after Cooper asked a court to resentence him to prison for life. Kevin Boyd Passed Away - Obituary: Kevin Boyd Death | Has Died, Funeral, Is Dead, Cause Of Death: On May 13, 2021, InsideEko Media learned about the death of.click to read and leave tributes. I think he could easily kill again. They both turned on each other at their trials, and they both blamed Julie as well. If you like us, give us a review wherever you listen and tell a friend or two. Lynn struggled with alcoholism and Kevin Jr. would later claim that indeed both his parents were alcoholics, the, Kevin Jr. told investigators that he had spent the previous night at his girlfriends after a fight with his dad, according to. The on screen text a the end of the episode said Kevin said he is not a reflection of who he used to be.. Hell have to wait a year to reapply. If it doesnt happen, he says, well, Im used to the world of prison. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. He couldn't help but think about his own future. Kevin Boyd, Jr. 2020/I Courtside . Facebook gives people the power to. OBrien also says Lynn Boyd, who is serving life without parole, testified at her sons trial that she committed the murder with her girlfriend, who was not charged. On August 6, 1994, a man was discovered on his apartment floor. Died: May 29, 2020 (aged 37) Born: January 9, 1983 . Both Tyler Hadley and Kevin Boyd Jr. were sentenced to Life without Parole for their parricide offenses. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. Boyd was born in 1951 and grew up in Berkeley, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The T-shirt belonged to KevinJr. and the knife matched the wounds on his fathers body,the Associated Pressreported at the time. I hope Lynn rots in prison forever, and I hope Kevin does prove that he can change. He had even attempted suicide after his parents divorced. He then tried to cover his tracks by staging a car crash to conceal how she died. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. They are both manipulative and I think they always will be. 16-year-old Kevin Boyd Jr. want it all. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he had a stormy relationship with both of them. Kevin and Lynn were tried separately in 1996. Imagine going from a setting like that and then back into society.. At the heart of those cases lies one central question: Who is and is not irredeemable? The justices agreed. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of 'Our True Crime Podcast' entitled Smotherly Love: Kevin Boyd. So far, the state has released more than 150 juvenile lifers, many under the jurisdiction of Philadelphias District Attorney Larry Krasner, who campaigned last year on a platform of reducing mass incarceration. I didnt want to do this, but, but she wanted to do it, Lynn is heard saying in recordings of her police interview obtained by Snapped. Then Julie stabbed him right in the stomach.. . We are headed north to Lake Orion, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. After all, on August 6, 1994, the father of one was found lying dead in a pool of his own blood on his apartments living room floor. When Clemmie Hooper, a midwife, unmasked herself as an online troll, many called for an official misconduct hearing. He earned his GED certificate and enrolled in college classes. Kevin Sr. is positioned on his stomach on the floor with a pillow over the back of his head. KEVIN Boyd was in his mid-20s when he first grasped what it meant to be serving life without parole. It's us but for your ears. Instead, they believed Lynns co-conspirator was Kevin Boyd Jr. KevinJr. was arrested the same day as his mother. The police did not charge Julie with giving false statements. Join us as we wend our way through the Supreme Court cases addressing sentencing reform for juvenile offenders. Hes still lying too right? https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/kevin-boyd-sr-murdered-by-his-own-son-and-wife-lynn-boyd, https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/true-crime/lynn-boyd-persuaded-her-16-year-old-son-kevin-boyd-jr-to-help-her-murder-his-father/, https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/should-a-man-in-prison-for-his-dads-murder-get-another-chance/news-story/42e171b15995fd75d53b40146cc76f29, https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/copscourts/a-killers-second-chance-oakland-county-whittling-away-at-cases-of-juveniles-sentenced-to-life/article_6439de54-20f5-11ea-a162-43b513aae931.html. KEVIN Boyd was in his mid-20s when he first grasped what it meant to be serving life without parole. For transcripts of this episode, please visit us at https://www.parricide.org and click on the Transcript Link under Parricide Podcast.#parentalpredator #parentalalienation #parricide #parricidepodcast #sentencingreform #TylerHadley #KevinBoydJr #KevinBoyd #familymurder #murder #sentencereform #LynnBoyd #murdermentor #youthfulparricide #criminaljusticereform #justice #instacriminaljustice Boyds lawyer, Dave OBrien, tells a different story: He says there was no physical evidence Boyd was at the murder scene. His lawyers countered that he hadn't been given much of a. Kevin Jr., on the other hand was struggling. Many people close to the family said Kevin Jr., was angry all the time, and would drink and do drugs. Now 40, Boyd is one of the juvenile lifers Michigan prosecutors say should never walk free again. He was granted it and was released on January 7, 2020. After the funeral, Lynn never came up there, little Kevin never came up there, to the burial site. Your notes? Espree asks as his cousin disappears out the door. A judge described him as a model inmate, but family members of the sheriffs deputy he killed testified against him at the parole hearing. 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. Lynn was charged and arrested for her ex-husbands slaying in December, but because the police believed that she did not act alone, they also took Kevin Jr. into custody, who eventually confessed. He was laying on the floor, there was blood everywhere and he had a pillow over his face. He was ruled out. It weighs in favor of irreparable corruption, said Paul Walton, an assistant Oakland County prosecutor. Kevins body was taken in for an autopsy. Andrea said she lied about Kevins alibi. We were outgrowing the location we were in, thats how busy we were, former employee Donald Lucarelli told producers. It was a steady business. It happened when a couple of longtime inmates who'd mentored him died of old age in prison . There was no point in time to where my hands were tied that I couldnt have picked up the phone and warned my dad what was coming his way or called the police, he says. The placement of the body indicated that Kevin Sr. had been asleep in a recliner chair when he was attacked. Detectives later visited Espree in the hospital, where he had been brought in critical condition with his own gunshot wounds. It was Kevin Jr., and he said he found his dad dead inside. The police asked Lynn where she was from 11pm-3am, and Lynn said she was at home with her girlfriend, and said they were watching movies. And he worked hard to develop a reputation for being tough. The state sent him to die in prison. Ive demonstrated no violent behaviour, he says. Kevin Boyd Jr. didn't kill his father, Kevin Boyd Sr., alone his mother was in on the plan, too. Lynn told the police that she and Julie had killed Kevin, and that Julie was the mastermind. She also said that while she doubted someone in his shoes could transition well on their own after so many decades in prison, living with his cousin would give him every chance of succeeding., Espree was lucky, says Cuauhtemoc Mexica, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State who spent more than seven years in juvenile detention himself for violent crimes committed as a teen. The two of them walked inside, and sure enough Kevin was dead. The police looked through Kevins wallet, and there was no piece of paper in it. He was a little redhead with freckles. HeclaimedLynn struck his father several times with the bat. Cousins Antonio Espree and Marlon Bailey grew up on the west side of Detroit. Don was brought in for questioning and to take a polygraph, he passed with flying colors. Lynn Boyd is now 69 years old and currently incarcerated at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. Adolescents who experience the highest rates of trauma are 100 times more likely to commit murder than the general population. I created my own bed. The next person the police wanted to interview was Kevins ex-wife, Lynn. Bailey, a tenured professor, helped him enroll at Arizona State University and let him share his bedroom and even some of his clothes. As a result, Kevin Boyd Jr. was resentenced in 2019 to 25 years in prison, making him immediately eligible for parole. OBrien also challenges the prosecutors characterisation of Boyd. . A local musician then contacted police to say that he had found Kevin Sr.s walletin the back of his pickup truck after a gig at a local bar. While he was initially defiant, he finally confessed after being presented with the gun he had stolen from his father at the time of the murder. Improbably, Kevin Sr. got to his feet, so she hit him again and again until he stayed down. Grain said Lynn had been with her son on the night of the murder and asked her to lie to police. In what turned into a very bizarre case, Harris then stole Giless identity. Tyler Hadley murdered both of his parents and Kevin . Read More: How Did Breanna Schneller Die? After Kevin saw the gun, he started crying. According to Detroit Free Press, after his parents divorce, Kevin Jr. began drinking and smoking, attempted suicide, and attended a total of ten different schools before deciding to drop out entirely. Left: Espree in his Northwest Drill Team uniform, 1982; Right: Espree with his family, 1983. According to Boyds lawyer, the jury never determined whether he participated in the stabbings. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. He felt entitled to the freedom, money, and control that his dad seemed to have. A lot had changed since the 1980s: He had never used a cellphone. Kevin opened a tool rental company in Lake Orion, Michigan, a former resort town which had become a bedroom community. Will you sit down and listen so we can fix it? If I get natural life again, its because they wouldnt listen. Nurses wouldnt let the detectives talk to their patient, a minor, without his parents there, so Espree says he didnt find out that his bullet killed a man until a later court hearing. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! All music is by the immensely talented Nico @wetalkofdreams.If you like us, give us a review wherever you listen and tell a friend or two. This week on Reasonable Doubt, the team takes on the Raul and Cathy Sarinana were sentenced to death for abusing Would love your thoughts, please comment. Join Jen and Cam on this episode of 'Our True Crime Podcast' entitled Smotherly Love: Kevin Boyd.We are going to the True Crime Podcast Festival in Dallas this year. Instead of gratitude, his ex-wife and son rewarded him with betrayal and bloodshed. The blood spatter on the wall let him know it was no accident. I try to rest my mind, like I close my eyes, but theres so much going on, he says. Listen to "Our True Crime Podcast" on Spreaker. But in April 2017, he was paroled thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions arguing that because their brains were not fully developed at the time of their crimes, kids should face more lenient sentences than adult perpetrators. So Espree feels pressure to prove that people like him can make the most of a second chance. Professional Science Masters Environmental Policy & Management. He also said his father owned several guns which were missing from the apartment. 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