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Apr 24, 2024 · Credit: St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. He is accused of fatally shooting 20-year-old Calvin Kelly on Oct. 24 on the 4200 block of Shreve Avenue. According to a probable cause...
He was identified as Calvin Kelly, of the 4800 block of Shreve Avenue. The Homicide Division is investigating. Anyone with information is urged to call the Homicide Division directly at...
- Falsely Accused Or Serial Rapist?
- A Fight in The Dark
- 'I Ran from Here'
- 'Let Me Start Here'
- 'A Good Spirit'
- Vulnerability
- The Trial
- The Verdict
- ‘He Took My Life’
- The Ending
What Povilaitis knew and couldn’t tell the Kalamazoo County jury was that it wasn’t just three women in three states in three years. It was 11 women in four states over the course of three decades who told police that they’d been raped with the ensuing investigations leading to Kelly. So Kelly is either a man who has repeatedly been falsely accused...
Seventeen years later, in March 2007, Marie stood in the rain on a St. Louis street. She’d missed her bus and was facing a 45-minute wait for the next one when she turned to see Kelly getting out of a tractor trailer parked at a gas station. He’d called out to her, and she walked over. She was 36 and had been fighting drug addiction for 19 years. S...
About a year later, in April 2008, Shawana was celebrating her 31st birthday. She had a few drinks with her aunt and sister, then walked to a friend’s house in Kalamazoo, had a few more drinks and got high. Shawana had been around drugs, in one way or another, most of her adult life, but she didn’t try crack until 2007. Shawana had talked with her ...
In 2012, Special Agent Karen Fairley started her first case for the Michigan Attorney General’s Office looking for the wrong person. Not only was this her first case in the AG’s Office cold case sexual assault unit, this was her first sexual assault case. She’d retired from the Detroit Police Department after a career investigating fraud cases, int...
Two months after she met with Shawana, Fairley went to meet with Marie, who was skeptical of the Michigan detective. Before he dropped her off in 2007, Marie says Kelly told her that he had inside connections. She took this as a warning should she ever decide to report him to police. That’s why she didn’t trust the St. Louis detective who came to s...
Fairley returned to Michigan with Marie’s agreement to testify against Kelly if the AG’s Office charged him. As Fairley’s investigation continued, so did the evidence to suggest that Kelly might be a serial rapist. Fairley and Povilaitis not only had the cases from 1985 to 1990, they had Shawana's case, Marie’s case and two investigations after, in...
Kelly kept his word and exactly three years later, jury selection began in a Kalamazoo County courthouse. It was 2017 and Kelly, who police identified as a suspect in multiple rapes going back to 1985, was going on trial for the first time. Years had passed between Kelly’s arrest and trial because the prosecution and defense fought over what the ju...
Povilaitis and Jones gave their closing arguments on the seventh day, once again framing Kelly, the women and the incidents in opposing narratives. Povilaitis wanted the jury to see Kelly’s pattern. The way he approached the three women and isolated them. The way he forced them to comply, the way his personality changed back after the rape. And she...
To understand what happened to Shawana requires understanding what trauma does to a person. There are nightmares and flashbacks, difficulty sleeping or concentrating, trust issues and suicidal thoughts. These are usually worst in the first weeks, when a person might withdraw from family or friends, but can return years later if something — like a p...
Ten weeks after the acquittal, Povilaitis’ prosecution of disgraced former doctor Larry Nassar ended when he pleaded guilty to 10 sexual assault charges. The investigation and prosecution had been grounded in the same approach as the Kelly case. Povilaitis found herself in the national spotlight during Nassar’s sentencing hearings and the year that...
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The victim in the homicide was identified in police incident reports as Calvin Kelly, 20, of the 4800 block of Shreve. Court officials say staff are investigating to determine how the juvenile...
Oct 13, 2022 · Pina pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in connection to the 2019 killing of Calvin Kelly. Family of Taos shooting victims speak out, ask for justice....
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Juvenile murder suspect on the run after escaping St. Louis detention facility. Story by Pilar Arias • 3d. Sponsored Content. Police in the St. Louis area continue searching for a 17-year-old boy...
Jan 9, 2019 · NEWS. How we reported the story of Calvin Kelly. Matt Mencarini. Lansing State Journal. 0:02. 0:37. This story is largely based on Calvin Kelly’s September 2017 trial in Kalamazoo County...
