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Shell Casings and Betrayal: The Murder of Kenisha Walker
Could a simple shell casing and traces of a potato uncover the dark mystery behind a gruesome murder? The chilling tale of Kenisha Walker, a young mother whose life was brutally cut short, unravels in this gripping episode. Found dead in her Arlington, Texas home, Kenisha's story takes a somber turn as her eight-year-old son becomes the unwitting witness to a crime scene that would haunt any family's worst nightmares. With no signs of forced entry, the case hinges on tantalizing clues that point towards a shocking betrayal.
Join us as we navigate the tangled web surrounding Keith Haynes, the man whose name echoed through whispers of suspicion and deceit. Keith's intricate relationships and alleged motives form the backbone of the investigation, casting a long shadow of doubt and intrigue. Despite his public proclamations of innocence, the evidence begins to weave a narrative that leaves little room for redemption. Keith's attempt to divert blame is met with mounting pressure as we explore the strained bonds and hidden truths of his past.
In the final act of this tragic saga, justice seeks its due course amidst the heart-wrenching loss of two lives. The courtroom becomes a battleground of conflicting stories and damning evidence, ultimately sealing Keith's fate with a conviction of capital murder. This episode serves as a stark reminder of the destructive power of jealousy and the irreversible toll it takes on the innocent. Prepare to be captivated, horrified, and deeply moved by a story that reveals the darkest corners of human nature.
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Welcome all of you wine and true crime lovers. I'm Brandi and this is Texas Wine and True Crime. Thank you for being here, friends, for this week's episode the Murder of Kenesha Walker. The wine for this week comes from our friends at Texas Wine Collective. We are sipping on a 2021 Mouverdre from our friends at Texas Wine Collective. They are in the heart of Fredericksburg. They are actually a combination of what they call the collective. The Texas Wine Collective is the home of renowned Texas wines Brennan Vineyards, lost Oak Winery and McPherson Cellars. Each of these wineries has a unique story to tell that is echoed by each of their beautiful wines. They have club membership. You can join their club. They do events, tasting experiences, private events, you name it. So please check out our friends at Texas Wine Collective, our January winery of the month, thank you. Thank you so much for trusting us with your delicious wine. Let me tell you what Chris paired with it. He can't us tonight, but he did make a delicious dinner to match the wine. He did a Cajun filet, mignon topped with crawfish cream sauce, twice baked potato and lemon bacon, roasted Brussels sprouts. Wait until you see these pictures. So thank you so much again, texas Wine Collective, and please go see our friends at Texas Wine Collective in the heart of Fredericksburg or check them out at texaswinecollectivecom. Okay, so this week it's time to sip some wine and talk some crime, and I'm going to be talking about the murder of Kenesha Walker.
Speaker 1:So it's Friday morning, april 14, 2017. We are in Arlington, texas. This is the beginning of Easter weekend busy weekend. Typically, people are either out that Friday sometimes they're out that Easter Monday. It's just a time for families to get together and have a very family-oriented weekend. Now, on that Friday morning particularly, we're going into the weekend. People are already off, they're making plans, but unfortunately the Arlington Police Department is not closed and off.
Speaker 1:Police officers are headed out to a 911 call that came in around 1030 am, arlington Dispatch. The call came from a woman in a townhouse in South Arlington saying that she was going about her usual morning when the eight-year-old son of her neighbor, kenesha Walker, knocked on her front door. Now the woman says that the little boy is scared, he's upset. He told her that his mother would not wake up, that she had blood on her, his mother would not wake up, that she had blood on her and he was afraid that she might be dead. Police are immediately dispatched to this location and when they arrive at the apartment they head inside to see what's going on. So you have a young boy who police don't know if he saw anything, if he heard anything. We know that he eventually sees his mother. She won't wake up and you know he's concerned. So thankfully he goes next door and tries to get help. So police don't know yet what they might be walking into. But she said it was just kind of unusual for Kenesha to not be with the son, and so you know she wasn't sure if she should believe him or what he could be seeing. So it scared her enough that she picks up the phone and she just calls police.
Speaker 1:So they come out, they, when they get into the apartment, they call out to her. They don't hear anything. They don't see anything on the ground floor of the apartment this is a two story apartment. There isn't upstairs and they there's just nothing. It looks pretty orderly, doesn't look like anything's out of place. But when they go upstairs to the master bedroom, that is where they find Kenesha lying in the bed with the covers pulled up, basically to her chin. So officers quickly determine that she's unresponsive. When they take a closer look, they realize that she's covered in blood. They finally, you know she's cold to the touch. And then they do see that she suffered a gunshot wound, just by observation, to the back of her head. All right, so they find the 25 year old single mom dead of a gunshot wound to the back of her head. Her eight year old, of course, is, I'm sure, at this point being asked a few questions and really police are trying to figure out what happened to this girl. Well, it really wasn't until they pull those covers back that they realize they're not just dealing with Kenesha's death. She's pregnant. She's actually seven months pregnant with her second child.
Speaker 1:So after police realize that this woman is carrying another child, they start to block off the scene. They're doing some examination of the house. Now the first thing they notice is that everything looks fine, everything's put together, it's clean, it's tidy, it doesn't look like there's been any kind of struggle in the residence or that anything has been ransacked or looked for. They don't observe any signs of forced entry. Everything is locked. So they think that possibly Kenesha probably let this person in just by first glances at what they're observing at the apartment, to the bedroom and confirmed that she is deceased. There were no other signs of trauma or struggle on the body. It doesn't look like she put up any kind of fight against what was happening to her and since she's found actually in the bed they are feeling very certain that this might have just been an ambushed attack, that she probably did not see what was actually coming at her.
Speaker 1:A couple of feet from that bed police do locate a single 40 caliber shell casing, which they do find. They send it. They collect it and send it to ballistics. They also notice that there's like chunks of what looks like potato and then they find out it is potato. So there is chunks of potato that have been splattered across the victim's body in the bed and it's all over the room. They surmise that most likely the killer was using the potato as a makeshift silencer, basically trying to drown out the noise. Her son is clearly sleeping in the next bedroom over, and so they quickly just put two and two together and realized that this was probably used as a silencer. So once police kind of go through the apartment looking for things, they confirm that they don't think anything has been stolen. Nothing, any kind of bigger pieces of property are all still there. Everything seems to be in place except one thing that they can't find and that's her phone. So police immediately start to process a search warrant and try to figure out and to get these phone records and figure out who she might have been talking to before the night of her death. So after realizing that the apartment looks fine, the doors are secure, there doesn't seem to be anything taken or any sort of windows broken, they quickly realized that Kenesha most likely knew her killer and probably just welcomed him or her right on inside.
Speaker 1:Now they're going to talk to the boy. He's eight years old. We know it's very difficult to interview children. You have to be very sensitive because of trauma, because you don't want them to get their facts confused. So it's a very sensitive thing when you are interviewing young kids. But they want to ask him some questions. You know, do you know who was with your mom last night? You know who was with your mom last night. And they start to speak to him and he tells them that him and his mom were actually by themselves until they went to bed. And when he asked you know what time did you go to bed? He said well, my mom and I usually go to bed around nine o'clock. So he had this number in his head. Now the same goes for when they both woke up and the mother is now deceased. There was no one else in the apartment. So he tells police we were alone when we went to sleep. We're alone, you know they're alone.
Speaker 1:The next day they asked if he had ever heard the gunshot. He says no. However, he tells police that he woke up around 2 am not feeling well. So he goes into his mother's room and he tells her that he wasn't feeling very good. And that's when he realizes that there's actually someone in the bed with her. Kenesha's son tells, like they ask him did you recognize him? He says I didn't look at him. It was dark, I didn't. He didn't say anything. But when he asked his mom who it was which he did she said it was Moosey.
Speaker 1:Now the child says he doesn't know Moosey's real name. But he says, you know, and he's only met him a few times, but he would come over to the apartment late at night to see his mother. So they've got a name, or at least a nickname, right. So the name Moosey is what the son, what the eight-year-old child, is telling him. So they decide that police are going to have to break the news to Kenesha Walker's family. Her family is living in Mississippi at the time of this.
Speaker 1:So detectives contact the mother, explain. You know what has happened to their daughter. They, you know she's she's visibly upset, but they want to know. You know, do you know a Moosey? Do you know this is the? This is the name the child has given us. Do you know this person?
Speaker 1:And the mom is is shocked. I mean she's shocked. And she also said my daughter wouldn't have opened the door for anyone and she is just completely beside herself that somebody would have come in and done this to her. However, when she hears the name Moosey, she's just kind of taken back because she's like, oh my gosh, I know exactly who that is. That person's name is Keith Haynes, and the only reason I know that is because he used to date my daughter in high school. But she tells police I haven't heard about him in a really long time. My daughter has not said anything to me about him. I don't know why he would be there or what kind of contact he had with my daughter, but that's exactly who this is. So now police have a name.
Speaker 1:By the way, this is an investigation, you know, props to the Arlington police because this was an open investigation and an arrest within about eight or nine days after this happened. So you know, they really did their due diligence in finding out who this person was and start to find him, locate him and figure, you know, figure out what's going on. So after Kenesha's mom tells them you know that she knows exactly who this is she tells police that they used to date right, they dated back in high school, but it's been a long time since she's ever heard that name. So that's exactly what they're going on. They're going on the fact that now they have the, now they have Moosey's real name, which is Keith Haynes. So because of this, law enforcement starts, starts really really starting to look into this guy. But let me go back just a bit.
Speaker 1:When police arrived on the scene, after the 9-1-1 call is made, um, within you know, half hour, hour, hour and a half half into the actual on-site investigation, there's a woman that actually shows up at the crime scene and she tells police that she is a friend of Kenesha's and that she's there because she's supposed to be picking up Kenesha's son today and giving him a ride to Mississippi to visit his relatives for Easter. So she's there to pick him up and now this could be good for police. You know, they kind of want to start talking to her and when investigators inform her that Kenesha is deceased, I mean she can't believe it. She agrees to go to the station, she's providing a statement and this is what she tells them. She tells them that she spoke to Kenesha a lot like a lot and she actually had seen her the day of her murder and she didn't say anything about having any plans of anybody coming over. So she thought that was strange that Kenesha didn't say anything and she wasn't sure or she wasn't certain if somebody was actually going to be there. Now, even though she tells police, I don't know who would want to hurt her, know who would want to hurt her and just like Kenesha's mother, she does recognize the name Moosey and again confirms it is Keith Haynes, now Kenesha's again old boyfriend from high school. But she's got some actually recent information to share about Keith that the mother did not know and she reveals that Keith is actually the father of Kenesha's unborn child. So Kenesha was pregnant with Keith Sainz's child. But she also tells police that Keith is actually in another relationship with another woman and that woman is also pregnant and she is due around the same time that Kenesha is due. So you have this guy who has two women pregnant at the same time.
Speaker 1:I'm going to assume that was probably very that could probably put a big burden on someone. That could probably put a big burden on someone, especially when we start talking about what Kenesha felt and said about Keith Haynes and what their actual dynamic was as a couple, or really I mean because they weren't a couple. I mean she was carrying his child but they weren't actually dating or together. I mean she was carrying his child but they weren't actually dating or together. Now this friend of Kenesha's she doesn't know much about the other woman that Keith was seeing. But this is again. Police are thinking. Motive Is this? This is kind of a volatile situation. Is this a potential for murder? Could Keith have killed Kenesha to protect the other woman and protect her from knowing about this relationship and God forbid knowing about this other child that was supposed to be born?
Speaker 1:So they, police, need to track down Keith Haynes and so they ask her friend. They're at the station, you know, and she's still being questioned and they're talking and she says oh yeah, I can actually try to get Keith's phone number for you. So she reaches out to a friend who actually gives her Keith's phone number. So then she calls. She calls him from the interview room, he answers and this is what he actually says to her. He says you know what I actually heard about Kenesha's death? Yep, I did, and I actually already heard that I'm probably going to be a suspect. So I'm on my way to the police station right now to clear my name. So this is what he tells Kenesha's friend, who's at the police station because she showed up at the crime scene to pick up the child. Police tell her what happened. They bring her back to the station. They're asking her some questions. She's able to find Keith Haines' phone number.
Speaker 1:Keith Haines, again, is headed to the police station to clear his name. But here's what's interesting he went ahead and posted a video on social media basically saying I'm innocent, I'm innocent, I didn't have anything to do with this, but I'm going in to that police station to clear my name. So police are starting to interview Keith Haynes shows up at the police station. They want to know. You know. He says I'm here to clear my name. I know people are already throwing my name around as a potential suspect. I didn't have anything to do with this. He says you know we were friendly, but he had no, but there was no reason to want to hurt her.
Speaker 1:So Keith confirms that he is Mucey, that he does go by that nickname, and he also tells police that Kenesha and him have actually been on an off-again, on-again relationship since high school. He says that they had recently reconnected, starting seeing each other again, and he confirms that he could possibly be the father of Kenesha's unborn child, although he's not positive. Now why isn't he positive? Because he tells police that Kenesha had a white boyfriend, she had a white boyfriend who was married, and that you know that. Keith tells police that he would encourage her to tell this man about what was going on right and to put a little bit more pressure on him to be, you know, to be there for the child and you know to come clean and and so they're thinking, wow, you know, this guy's offering a lot of good information that we might need and he's telling us about a guy that, well, we don't know anything about and, because of how forthcoming he is, police believe, okay, maybe this guy is helping us out and maybe he's not really trying to hide anything. Now he tells police he saw her two days before the murder, so April 12th, which was more than 24 hours before she was killed. That is the last time Keith Haynes says that he sees Kenesha Walker and he says he goes over there to talk about, like, the future plans of the daycare for their child. So that's the conversation he says that they are having.
Speaker 1:Now, at this point, police are thinking you know, is the son mistaken? Did the boy maybe hear that name? I mean, you know they always think about that, right, like, was the child asleep and then maybe dreamed about something that had Moosey in it, and so his mind is bringing back something that maybe actually didn't occur, which was him asking his mother who was in there. You know, they don't know. So they just start to kind of wonder. You know, are we headed in the right direction? And did he maybe get the days mixed up? Was Moosey over there? You know, the night or two nights before this happens? But then he thinks it's this night. So they're trying to be. You know he's eight right, so they're trying to be mindful of all of this.
Speaker 1:So when detectives ask Keith if it's true that he's in a relationship with another woman that he'd gotten pregnant, he does confirm that it is. He admits also that his other girlfriend doesn't know anything about his relationship with Kenesha or her pregnancy where he could possibly be the father. So now they have Keith. He's being forthcoming. He even offers up his DNA, his phone. They do look at text messages. We'll talk about what they eventually find once they really put in the search warrant for his phone records. However, they have this other guy to think about now. Keith has given them not a name but a description and just multiple conversations that he says he had with Kenesha. He doesn't, you know, that's the thing. He doesn't know the guy's name, which police thought was a little strange considering how close. He made it seem like him and Kenesha were in him, encouraging her to go and tell him. But he doesn't have a name for them.
Speaker 1:Keith also says that he encouraged Kenesha to not only tell this guy about the pregnancy even though he was married right but that she should report the abuse that she was telling Keith Haynes that this guy was inflicting on her. So Keith goes to tell police and says yeah, not only was Kenesha sleeping with this white guy who was married. But he also beat her up. And he beat her up and I encouraged her to report the abuse. She wouldn't do it. She was scared to tell the other guy about this pregnancy because he was married and she didn't know how he would react.
Speaker 1:And so, you know, you kind of have this separation right Going and telling someone else he's created this guy in his head because that's what he is, this guy in his head that doesn't exist. And so they, you know they really don't have anything to hold him on at this point. It really is just. You know, you have two men that could be possibly the fathers of this child, according to Keith Haynes, and then you have, you know, a woman no longer here to talk about that. But you now have a friend who they've, you know one friend that they've talked to and given a little bit of light about what was happening, going on.
Speaker 1:But they want to try to clear Keith, at least clear him to move forward and try to figure out who this other person is. So you know, he comes in, he it sounds like Kenesha has another boyfriend that would want her out of the picture. If he's telling the truth, then, you know, would this have been the? This wouldn't have been the first time that that boyfriend would have, you know, abused her and, you know, did it just go too far? Did she finally tell him about this child?
Speaker 1:But before they're going to, like, completely shift their focus away from Keith Haynes, because he doesn't. His alibi is that he's at home alone. But he's given his DNA, he's given over his phone and ultimately, in their preliminary searches they don't find anything suspicious, really, that connect Keith to, you know, kenesha's murder. So they start investigating the other boyfriend, right, they're feeling pretty confident that at this point Keith's actions are showing that he probably had nothing to do with this. So they decide they're going to just start focusing their energy just a bit on finding this white guy that Kenesha was dating.
Speaker 1:Now, even though Keith doesn't know his name, they think that one of Kenesha's friends might. So they start talking to people, and they have, you know, they're talking to her loved ones, they're talking to her friends, but nobody has ever heard or at least the people they're talking to have never heard of Kenesha dating this white guy. Never, white boyfriend, never, never heard about it. In fact, they all say the only person and the only man that had been in Kenesha's life recently was Keith Haynes. So they do find one friend in Mississippi, her friend back in Mississippi and she's able to shed some light on something. This is a very it's good to have friends like this. You should have a good friend. You can send some screenshots to you or let them know, hey, if anything ever happens to me. Here's what you need to do with this information. And that's exactly what kind of relationship Kenesha had with this young lady in Mississippi. So she tells police that Kenesha would sometimes tell people that the father of her baby was a white guy, but she only did that because she was ashamed to admit the truth. And that truth is that the father was really Keith.
Speaker 1:Now she goes on to tell police that Kenesha and Keith had a very tumultuous relationship. Tell police that Kenesha and Keith had a very tumultuous relationship, even though Keith said in this interview that everything was great and they were friends and he was trying to give her advice. She tells detectives that the two were constantly fighting, they never got along. That her friend did not want a relationship with him even after finding out that she was pregnant. Want a relationship with him even after finding out that she was pregnant and Keith did. He wanted to rekindle this past relationship, but she was only willing to co-parent with him and she didn't want him as a love interest. I mean, she thought he was a liar, she thought he was a cheater, she wasn't willing to really go there with him romantically and be committed to him because she just didn't think it was going to work out and she didn't want to go down that road again.
Speaker 1:So this is what her friend is telling police and they text all pretty much every day. She hears from her pretty much every day and she does say that there were some text messages that seemed to get worse and worse and worse as his pregnancy went along. Kenesha, basically, was asking Keith for help with the baby. That he didn't show up when he would. He kept letting her down. He wasn't helping buy things for the child, he really wasn't participating. I think that he probably knew child support was going to be coming soon. Well, I remind you, he has another woman that's delivering children twins, by the way. So that's just additional child support he's going to be paying. He's basically going to have three kids within a two week span. So a lot of pressure. So police start to really kind of listen to what this young woman is saying.
Speaker 1:And then when Kenesha found out that Keith was seeing another woman who was also pregnant, I mean she was very upset. It was clear that he was irresponsible and immature and she just wanted nothing to do with him. I mean she, you know, there was just no way she felt like she could really rely on him. Then her friend sends her some messages alongside with some screenshots of an argument that they both had and she basically tells her friend in Mississippi that she thinks Keith might be trying to kill her. So police end up getting a subpoena, getting the warrant and getting Kenesha's text messages.
Speaker 1:So what they see is that they're clearly in this relationship about this child. There are clear signs that Kenesha doesn't want anything to do with him on a personal, private relationship level. She wants to co-parent and that's about it. This really upset Keith. He wanted to be with her. He was not.
Speaker 1:What you know, I don't know. It's confusing, right? You have a woman who knows the guy that she is going to be having his baby is not good for her and she's willing to go through this alone. I mean she's wanting, you know she's basically saying I don't have time for, you know, games and this nonsense. And so I feel like, especially with the fact that a lot of people in her life did not know that this guy was the father of the child, there was a lot of shame there, I think. And maybe a part of her wanted, you know, for their child to know the father or maybe at least rely on him to do some things.
Speaker 1:But she could tell from the beginning, you know, when she found out who she was pregnant, that this was not going to be what she wanted. And, um, you know, her friends made it very, her friend made it very clear that she was very concerned about her safety at one point. And I believe one of the text messages basically said you know, um, um, you know, I think he's going to try to kill me. I've been afraid of him. So there's some disturbing, you know, things going on. Now they don't know he's lied to them, right?
Speaker 1:Keith came in and said that the relationship with Kenesha was great, they were all getting along well. But they discover even more disturbing communications because now they've subpoenaed, they find out, you know, basically, looking through Keith's phone, there's nothing there, right. But once they get really deep down into the messages from the phone company, they see that you know, there's a lot of disturbing communication going on between them. You know, keith, let them. Keith, let police look at his phone. But he had deleted so many things that there was no reason to hold him at that time. But police actually learn that he's also changed his phone number on the same day that Kenesha was killed.
Speaker 1:Now, originally Keith had told police that he last saw Kenesha on that Wednesday, april 12th. But his phone records show that he'd actually been texting her the same night she was killed. And in that text he basically says hey, I'm on my way over to the apartment. Can you leave the door unlocked for me? Around 1045 on April 13th, less than 12 hours before Kenesha's body is found. Around 1045 on April 13th, less than 12 hours before Kenesha's body is found. That is when the big kicker of the text message comes through. He says he's 40 minutes away from the house, that she should probably just go to bed and that he will let himself in.
Speaker 1:Now let's talk about the murder weapon. Now let's talk about the murder weapon. We know it was um. They found a 40 caliber bullet on the floor in kinesha's bedroom. These are also some text messages that they found and this is all about the murder weapon.
Speaker 1:So they see that the basically the day she's killed he texts a friend and or an acquaintance. Police don't know at this point, they're just reading the messages. But he's asking to borrow a gun. So they don't know yet. But just on correspondence back and forth they notice that he's trying to get a weapon the owner of the gun. So they end up tracking down the phone number. They see the text, they call him and the owner basically tells police that he knows Keith. And on that Thursday night Keith text him and asked if he could actually borrow his gun. And the reason Keith gave for needing the weapon is that he was going to meet up with a woman he met online for sex and he didn't want to be unarmed. He didn't want to be without a weapon, just in case he was being set up, just in case, you know, weird things happen. We know that when you meet people online you have to be safe. So his friend thought well, hey, he came and picked up the gun and returned it the following morning. So he shows police this gun and they take a note that it is a .40 caliber pistol, the same type of weapon that they know was used to kill Kenesha. But that's not all. The owner of that gun says it should be fully loaded, but when they check the actual magazine there's only one bullet inside. So it's clear at that point someone has actually been firing this gun. Police think it's all lining up. They take Keith into custody. Between the lies, the text messages and him borrowing the gun, he is looking like the prime suspect in Kenesha's murder. He is looking like the prime suspect in Kenesha's
Speaker 1:murder. April 19th, which is a Wednesday gosh, five days after Kenesha was shot in her home um, they surround Keith's apartments and this in Plano, texas, and make that arrest. Arlington, I gave you props for eight or nine days, five days, I didn't realize it was only five days. Well, great work. They got this guy in handcuffs, brought him in. This is when he basically surrenders. He says we have a warrant for you, we're going to. You know you're surrounded. They're going to his home. So they arrest him and charge him with capital murder. And he complies. He comes out. They make the arrest. Well, now they're going to take him back and start interrogating him. So he's telling police back at the station. You know they're interrogating him again. So he basically waives his rights and he's like I'll talk. I have no problem talking and telling you. You know what
Speaker 1:happened. Now, at the start of the interview he sticks to his story and he admits that he did visit Kenesha's apartment a day before the homicide. But he insists he wasn't there when she was killed and has no idea what happened to her. But then they start rolling out the evidence. He's getting a little uncomfortable. They start sharing information and text messages that the friend gave to them and showed them. They also address the deleted phone messages. They put more. You know they're really starting to put some pressure on him just for him to maybe admit that he was doing some of these things. But then he's like I always switch my phone number. That's not big of a deal, but the more evidence that police start to really roll. Keep asking him. You know we have GPS data. We know you're on your way to her apartment. The little boy even knew you were in the bed and he's like I was never there and
Speaker 1:he. But then they start, you know, throwing other evidence at him. You know this is our circumstantial at this point until you know, they can actually match that bullet to the to the weapon that was actually found text and says he hasn't had a gun in his possession at any time recently. However, he can't explain how the messages ended up in his phone records if he didn't send them. I mean, this guy is really like grasping for straws here. So they basically say you know what? Fine, we've got enough evidence against you If you don't want to admit what you did. You know, we know you're lying. So you know he eventually says, hey, I'm done talking and refuses to admit anything. But they are going to charge him with capital
Speaker 1:murder. So when the trial finally begins in 2023, prosecutors argue that there's basically a mountain of evidence against this guy in the Kenesha Walker murder. They point out the phone records, they point out the text messages to the friend to borrow the gun. They point out the fact that Kenesha was rejecting him and you know, and he was upset about that. Yet you know you could see that she clearly had no interest in him, but he just kept pushing and pushing for this relationship. But now she's pregnant with his child and he knew he'd be on the hook for child support soon her child, like I mentioned earlier, but also the other woman's twins that will be
Speaker 1:due. Around the time that Kenesha's child was supposed to be born, I think the walls were closing in. I think that he probably knew that this was not going to end well, that the other woman this was not going to end well, that the other woman, right Kenesha had found out about her. Right, kenesha found out, realized that he has another woman that has a baby pregnant, about to deliver. She didn't want to have anything to do with him but agreed that co-parenting was something that she would be okay with. But then he just kept letting her down, and letting her down, and letting her down, and I think maybe she just kind of had enough and said listen, if you don't want to be a part of this life, you're definitely not going to be a part of my life, but I want you a part of our child's life. But if this isn't good enough, then so be it, if it's just not
Speaker 1:enough. So they believe this was the motive for murder. Um, instead of, you know, dealing with it like a man, he drove to kanisha's apartment and managed basically to convince her to let him inside, and the reason was that they could talk about daycare plans for their child. And then it got later, you know, and she probably convinced, he probably convinced her prosecutors believe that. You know he probably asked to sleep over. You know they believe this was around midnight, 1230, one o'clock, and then that's when her son comes in at 2am and then mother gives the name Moosey as the person that's in
Speaker 1:bed. They believe, at some point, because he's seen, because the boy sees, because that boy, at 2 am spoke to the mother and that he sees the man in the bed around two o'clock, they know that the murder happened after that, right? So they believe at some point Keith got up, grabbed the weapon, went and grabbed a potato from the kitchen and then snuck behind this young lady that's seven months pregnant and fired one bullet in the back of her head, killing her instantly. And then he leaves the eight-year-old to find his mother and then not only that, the child that she's carrying, which is his um, is also now deceased. At this point, he's got nowhere to go. The jury, the courts, they were able to see through these lies and on December 11, 2023, they find him guilty of capital murder of Kenesha Walker and, under Texas law, automatic sentence to life in prison without parole. Until next time, friends, stay safe, have fun and cheers to next time. Thank you.