Gary C. King - Angels of death
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The Accused: 13-year-old Derek King and his 12-year-old brother, Alex, Sunday school students with choirboy looks.After midnight on November 26, 2001, someone bludgeoned Terry King to death while he slept, and set his Florida home afire. By the time the firefighters extinguished the blaze, Kings sons, Alex, 12, and Derek, 13, were at the home of their forty-year-old friend, Ricky Chavis, a convicted child-molester. By the next afternoon, following confessions, both boys were charged as adults in their fathers slaying. Chavis was tried separately for the same crime-incredibly by the same attorney who would prosecute Alex and Derek, and argue two contradictory theories.The Victim: Their own father.When Alex divulged his sexual relationship with Chavis, the trial took a sensational turn. So did Alex and Derek, who recanted their confession and blamed Chavis to no avail. A jury convicted the boys of second-degree murder, but the judge threw the verdict out. Chavis was acquitted. But the case wasnt over. As more disturbing revelations came to light, as criminal motives became more complex, and as the line between guilt and innocence was crossed, a stunned nation watched in disbelief to learn the ultimate fate of the...Angels of Death.
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A special thanks to Charles E. Spicer, Jr., executive editor at St. Martins True Crime Library, for his enthusiasm in wanting to do this book and wanting to do this book with me. I am also indebted to his assistant editor, Joe Cleemann, who was very much as enthusiastic about the project and without whose skills this book would not have made it off the presses. I am especially grateful not only to Charles and Joe but to everyone at St. Martins Paperbacks for their patience in seeing this project through to completion and for their caring and understanding through some very difficult times.
I am also grateful to Peter Miller, my agent, who, hopefully, hasnt given up on me yet! I couldnt do it without you in my corner, Peter. Thanks.
Also, much gratitude goes to Jorge Jaramillo at AP/Wide World for his assistance with the photos.
As always, Im also grateful to Kirsten and Sarah for cheering me on when things get tough, but mostly for their undying love.
Special thanks to Brian Meehan, a good man Im proud to call friend.
And finally, I am eternally grateful to my wonderful wife, Teresita, for sticking with me through thick and thin. Thanks for always being by my side, darlin.
Shortly before 1:30 A.M. on Monday, November 26, 2001, Cantonment, Florida, resident Ed Harris awoke from a sound sleep to a popping noise that was coming from a nearby house. After rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Harris looked out his window and saw his neighbors house on fire. He immediately called the fire department and reported what he was seeing, and informed the dispatcher that he believed that the occupant of the house, Terry Lee King, was at home. He knew, he said, because he could see Kings car, a blue 1999 Dodge Shadow, parked in the driveway.
It was a typically sticky night at 66 degrees and nearly triple digit humidity in this small panhandle community, 18 miles northwest of Pensacola, as the Escambia County firefighters arrived at the King residence, located at 1104 Muscogee Road. They discovered that the home was secured, with the doors locked from the inside. Wasting no time, fireman Marcus Williamson entered the house after kicking in the front door, while another door on the east side of the house was kicked in by fireman David Jordan.Several other firefighters followed Williamson and Jordan, trampling everything underfoot as they dragged their water hoses and equipment along with them.
While the fire was being extinguished, other firefighters went room-to-room searching for the houses inhabitants. Although it was only a few days after Thanksgiving, the fire investigators found a box of Christmas decorations as they entered another room that had been painted green. With Christmas less than a month away, it was obvious that the occupants were getting ready to decorate their home.
It wasnt until they closely examined the room, however, located at the east end of the house, that they found anyone. There was a man sitting in a chair with his legs propped up on a sofa. The man was wearing shoes, pants and a camouflage jacket, and he had a coffee cup sitting beside his right leg between his leg and the chair. There was a Lion King pillow on the couch next to the man, indicating that a child or children might reside in the home with him, and there was a blanket on the couch as well. There was a plate of food on the other side of the room, placed next to a chair. Many at the scene wondered why it had not been eaten.
When they first saw the man, firefighters thought that he had been overcome by smoke and flames. However, upon closer examination the firefighters observed that he had obvious injuries to his head, and they saw that there was considerable blood spatter on the walls around him.
After an examination at the scene that included a check for vital signs, the man tentatively identified as Terry King was pronounced dead at 2:02 A.M. bySusie Whitfield of the Escambia County Emergency Medical Services, a group of specially trained medical professionals who respond to high-risk incidents such as the one being investigated. ECEMS provides tactical medical support to the sheriffs office and other agencies. Sadly, in this case all they could do was to establish that the victim was indeed dead and that no life-saving efforts were needed. It was a near certainty that he had not died as a result of the fire. It had suddenly become obvious that a homicide had been committed there, and that a fire likely had been started to conceal the crime. The firefighters cleared the house and notified the Escambia County Sheriffs Office and the Florida State Fire Marshals Office.
After making a cursory examination of the homes interior, the firemen could see that the blaze had begun towards the rear of the house, on the dwellings west side, inside what appeared to be the master bedroom. Williamson and Jordan, accompanied by other fire department investigators and sheriffs deputies, noted that a can of accelerant of an unknown type was in the doorway of the master bedroom. The can had been crushed, apparently by the rush of firefighters as they attempted to extinguish the flames.
Jim Sanders, battalion chief for the Escambia County Fire Rescue, told a group of reporters that had shown up outside the home that it had taken firefighters about thirty minutes to get the blaze under control. Much of the house, however, had been gutted by the fire, with estimated damage at approximately $40,000. It was a total loss, according to Sanders. He told the news media that it had not taken long for the firefighters to realize that the dead man, identified asTerry Lee King, 40, had not succumbed to death because of the fire.
The way he was found and the condition he was in led us to believe that there was some extenuating circumstances, Sanders said. He was clear on the other side of the house [from where the blaze had started].
Among the Escambia County investigations and crime-scene personnel to arrive were investigators Carol Turner and Glenn Gowitzke, who took control of the scene. Identification officers Ricky Barefield and Jan Johnson were also present. While Turner, Gowitzke, Barefield and Johnson busied themselves with the preliminary details, Detective John Sanderson was called at home shortly after 3 A.M. and informed that a probable homicide had been committed in his jurisdiction and that he had caught the assignment. In the meantime, Gowitzke, along with Kevin Fiedor of the State Fire Marshals Office, determined that they were dealing with a case of homicide and arson.
It was foggy when Sanderson arrived at the Muscogee Road residence at 5:20 A.M., an hour before sunrise. Sanderson, a lanky middle-aged man of 46 with reddish-gray hair, was a seasoned professional. He began taking notes, both written and mental, immediately upon his arrival. He saw the blue Dodge Shadow, Florida license plate identification DP2-RF, in the driveway, and confirmed that it was registered to Terry King.
The fire investigators explained to Sanderson how they had initially thought that King had been overcome by smoke and flames, but that upon closer examination they had found the head wounds and theblood spatter on the walls. When Sanderson looked closely at the scene himself he thought that he detected traces of brain tissue mixed in with the blood spatter. One look at Kings obviously battered skull served to back up the detectives opinion about brain matter, but the official determination would be made after the scene had been gone over by evidence technicians and analyzed at the crime lab. All that Sanderson knew at this point was that someone had certainly worked this poor bastard over in a most violent manner. Based on the obvious lack of a struggle, King likely never even saw the attack coming. Even the coffee cup was still sitting by his leg, where he might have placed it himself.
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