1. Kelvin Shelby Malone was an American spree killer who murdered at least four people in March 1981.
19 Facts About Kelvin Malone
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Kelvin Malone remained on death row at San Quentin State Prison until he was extradited to Missouri in December 1998 to face execution.
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Kelvin Malone was executed in January 1999 at the Potosi Correctional Center via lethal injection.
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Kelvin Malone grew up near Monterey but had relatives in Missouri in the St Louis area so lived there as well for some time during his youth.
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Kelvin Malone attended Brentwood High School in St Louis County, where he met Michael Terry Crenshaw.
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Kelvin Malone was sentenced to seven years as he was considered the accomplice in the crime.
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Kelvin Malone began his sentence on January 24,1980, at the Missouri Intermediate Reformatory at the Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City.
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Kelvin Malone asked Cambs for a ride and then took out a gun and held him hostage.
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Kelvin Malone then drove Cambs around in the car for an hour before finally letting him go near a freeway in Long Beach.
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One week later, Kelvin Malone took a bus trip back to St Louis, where he reunited with Crenshaw.
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Kelvin Malone's body was found eight days later in an abandoned shack just outside Daggett.
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On June 14,1983, Kelvin Malone was sentenced to death in California for the murder of Benham.
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Kelvin Malone was prosecuted by St Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch.
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Kelvin Malone chose to be imprisoned in California over Missouri, with a circuit judge agreeing to his request.
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Kelvin Malone was returned to California and placed on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
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Kelvin Malone was never charged in the 1981 murder of Rankin, whose body was never found.
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Details of the murder of a man in Merced County were never released, and Kelvin Malone was not charged in that killing either.
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On December 30,1998, Kelvin Malone was extradited from California to Missouri to face execution for the murder of William Parr.
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Kelvin Malone was executed on January 13,1999, at the Potosi Correctional Center via lethal injection.