Most Notorious Murder Case In The State's History

Alex and Derek King were arrested in November of 2001 for the brutal murder of their father, Terry King. The sick story became even more twisted when it was revealed that the kids’ neighbor Rick Chavis had convinced them to commit the murder of their father so that he could continue a sexual relationship with the younger brother.

Rick Chavis was supposedly a friend of Terry's, but was later discovered to be having a sexual relationship with the younger King brother, Alex. Rick Chavis a known pedophile was accused of enticing the two boys into murdering their father based on his desire to have Alex in a long term relationship. His motive was to get the father out of the picture so he could indulge full fledged into the relationship.

Alex and Derek had been born into a family of major controversy. Terry king was living with Janet French. Janet French, the mother of Alex and Derek, also had twins by another man while living with Terry. Terry was taking care of the entire family including the twins. He and French parted ways in 1992. She and the children however, continued to live with and be supported by Terry.

"…people mistake children for objects of personal property. They are not objects, they are little people with feelings and emotions and those feelings and emotions are very fragile and should be protected and considered."
-- Terry King

Due to financial problems, Alex and Derek were sent to live with foster parents. Alex for only a
few months, and Derek for six years. Janet French with the twins moved out of the home at the same time. Terry's commitment was to get his financial situation improved and regain custody of his sons. Terry tried to maintain a strict disciplinary environment while his sons were with him. This may have been the reason for his murder. Seven weeks after Derek began to live with his father again, Terry was murdered.

The two boys soon confessed that they had killed their father. Alex claimed that he had thought
up the bizarre plan, and Derek said that he had been the one who had swung the bat. They were
worried, they said, that their father was going to punish them for having ran away from home 10
days earlier. It turned out that they had been staying at the home of their dad’s friend, Chavis,
a convicted sex-offender, for many of those ten days. It was later shown that Chavis had allowed them to hide in a back room of his trailer home when their father had come looking for them. Chavis had been convicted in 1984 of molesting three boys of varying ages. According to Alex’s testimony before a grand jury and to letters that he had written, he and Chavis had entered into a sexual relationship.

"I felt a little sad about it, a little bit sad, a little bit, um. . . a little relieved that we don't have to go through it, what he put us through again. . . the abuse."
-- Alex King, 13

“My ultimate goal in life now is (to be) what he is,” Alex wrote. “It is about sharing your life with someone else. Before I met Rick, I was straight, but now I am gay.”

"Alex suggested that I kill dad. I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat. I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom."
-- Derek King, 14

Assistant State Attorney David Rimmer, who prosecuted both trials, said he thought the panel in
the boys' case had ignored the allegation they wielded the bat and simply gave the boys a “jury
pardon” by convicting them of the lesser offense.

The jurors “know good and well he was killed with a weapon,” Rimmer said. “That's a jury pardon.

That's OK, I don't have a problem with that.”

The jury forewoman said that wasn't the case, that the panel believed neither boy swung the bat
but rather that Chavis carried out the slaying. The jurors did not know that Chavis already had
been acquitted in his separate trial.

Their decision to convict the boys of second-degree murder was based on their belief that Alex and Derek opened the door to let the killer into the house, forewoman Lynn Schwarz told the Pensacola News Journal.

"Transferring the boys [to a juvenile facility) would be an outrageous decision. The boys
committed the most serious of all crimes and to transfer them to a juvenile facility would be a
travesty of justice. If this request is granted, in my opinion, it will be the moral equivalent
of sending them to their room without letting them watch 'The Sopranos,' "Prosecutor David Rimmer.

Because the Public went to bat for these children, they narrowly escaped the insanity of adult
prison where Prosecutor Rimmer wanted them to live. Michael Myers and others were not so
fortunate.

It appeared that Derek had a problem with the discipline measures his father used on the two. In addition, they would discuss their concerns with the friend Chavis. Chavis expressed to the boys that they were being mentally abused. The father, Terry, would sometimes stare at the boys. This Chavis told the two was the mental abuse.

The boys, decided based on the continued discipline from the father and the mental abuse as stated by Chavis, to kill their father.

Although the boys had been charged with first-degree murder, the jury was allowed by law to find them guilty of a lesser charge—which they did. Alex and Derek were convicted of second-degree murder, for which they could have been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison. Following the boys’ verdict, the judge unsealed Chavis’s verdict—he had been found not guilty on the murder and arson charges. In another legal proceeding later, Chavis was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to third-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and false imprisonment involving Alex. He received the maximum sentence of 35 years, and is not scheduled for release until 2037.

In the meantime, Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Frank Bell granted a motion filed by the boys’ attorney to throw out their convictions. Bell ordered the prosecutors and the defense attorneys into mediation to straighten out the cases. He said that if the mediation talks failed, he would order a new trial for the boys. As a basis for his decision, Bell cited the state’s presentation—in the two separate trials—of conflicting evidence regarding who actually wielded the bat.

Fear expressed by the prosecutor that the boys might walk as a result of the judge’s decision never materialized. The case was mediated like the judge had wanted, and both sides reached an agreement—Alex and Derek would plead guilty to third-degree murder and arson in connection with their father’s slaying. Third-degree murder is defined as an unintentional killing that occurred while another felony crime was being committed, in this case battery.

According to the prosecutor, David Rimmer, “you only have to show that the defendant intended to commit the battery.”

The story made national headlines. The case became one of the most notorious killings in the state’s history. Six years later Alex, now 18, is a free man. He was released on Wednesday morning, April 9, 2008 at 9:45 a.m. after serving six years for his part in his father’s death.

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Silvio Berlusconi's Top 10 Controversial Women !!

Faced with the thorny problem of having no "First Lady" to look after the G8 leaders' spouses on their three day trip to Italy, Silvio Berlusconi has come up with a solution in keeping with his reputation.

1. Veronica Lario, 52, Berlusconi’s long suffering wife of 20 years and mother of his three children. They started an affair while he was still married to first wife and he saw her topless on stage.

2.Noemi Letitzia, 18, schoolgirl who calls Berlusconi ’Papi’ and who has been the subject of media spotlight after it emerged he had visited her coming of age party and gave her a 6000 euro gold and diamond necklace.

3. Barbara Matera, 28, science graduate and the only succesful one of the original four showgirl candidates to be put forward as MEP. But she is better known for her appearance in Miss Italia and her TV career where she has appeared as an announcer and in several soaps.

4. Camilla Ferranti, 30, actress named on the MEP list but failed to make the cut. She has posed semi-naked for a variety of calendars and magazines and has also appeared in several Italian soap operas. Camilla hit the headlines last year after it emerged that Berlusconi had rung the head of the state television company RAI and ’suggested’ she be given a role in a top TV series. The part went to another actress.

5. Angela Sozio, 31, Flame-haired Angela has appeared on Grande Fratello - Italy’s Big Brother - and was famously snapped sitting on Berlusconi’s knee two years ago at a weekend break with four other women at his luxury villa in Sardinia.

6. Eleonora Gaggioli, 29. She also has a glittering past as a TV star and a search on the internet for her throws up several photographs of her posing in her underwear on a leopard print sofa. Like Camilla, Eleonora was also named in the so-called Silvio tapes last summer.

7. Mara Carfagna, 33, former model, Miss Italy contestant and calendar girl but never "anything erotic" now Equal Opportunities Minister in Berlusconi’s cabinet. At an awards dinner two years ago year Berlusconi told Miss Carfagna, who is single, that if he wasn’t married he would “gladly marry” her. His wife Veronica sent a letter to a national newspaper demanding he apologise for embarrassing her - which he duly did.

8 and 9 Eleonora (student) and Imma De Vivo, (surgeon’s assistant) both 27, and twins who sprung to fame after appearing on L’Isola dei Famosi (I’m a Survivor Get Me Out of Here) The twins from Naples were eliminated from the show but were hugely popular and were then
given jobs as weathergirls.

10. Elena Russo, 35, again one of five women mentioned on he so called Silvio tapes where Berlusconi calls a TV produer friend asking him to find jobs for the women he later calls his ”little butterflies.” She is now the ’face’ of the cleaned up Naples TV advert which praises Berlusconi’s government for resolving the city’s rubbish crisis.

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Now it is time for Hayden Panettiere to goes cloth less for her upcoming movie. She is a whopping 20 years old, it's time for her to prove she's a big kid. That's why her Heroes character Claire will probably start kissing girls next season. And in her own words she says,"If I can't flaunt it at 20, come on!" the Heroes actress told People. "I mean I might as well show it now."

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Hayden wasn't particularly fazed by the shoot, however. She told People:

"It didn't bother me much. I think when the person who's doing it gets all uncomfortable and shy, then it's other people around who get more uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable. I mean I was fine - everyone was really professional."

It's unclear how much skin moviegoers will see, but Hayden told E! News that she was completely nude on the set - mostly:

"I was really naked. I had these little sticky petals on my boobs, but that was about it. My dad calls me such an exhibitionist. He always says, God, even when you were little, you were such an exhibitionist! Oh boy. That's not creepy or anything."



Talking about the nudity issue deeper, Panettiere states that she won't take all her clothes off in front of the camera for now. "I'm cool with my body, and I'm cool running around undressed and all that stuff, but there are just certain things that not everyone needs to know, that you need to keep somehow private and personal to you," she says. "But you never know, you never know. I could be 30 years old and just be like, 'Screw it - I want to take it all off. I better take a picture of this baby before it all goes.' "



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