19 Facts About Kevin Keith

Kevin Keith was born on December 18,1963 and is an American prisoner and former death row inmate from Ohio who was convicted of the 1994 triple-homicide that killed Marichell Chatman, her daughter Marchae, and Linda Chatman.

In high school, Kevin Keith played defensive tackle at Canton McKinley High School, winning a state title in 1981.

The Bucyrus Police Department and Crawford County prosecutors claimed that Kevin Keith carried out the shooting in retaliation for his January 1994 arrest for selling 2.6 grams of crack cocaine, which had resulted from information received from Rudel Chatman.

Kevin Keith was arrested on February 15,1994, and his bond was set for $1 million.

The Reeves' said that they knew Kevin Keith because he was Marichell's ex-boyfriend, but did not know he was a drug dealer and that Marichell's brother, Rudel Chatman, was an informant who had recently helped to expose a drug ring involving Kevin Keith.

Quanita claims that she gave police the wrong name when she was in the hospital but that she is positive Kevin Keith was the shooter.

Kevin Keith's trial began on May 10,1994, only a few months after the murders, and he was represented by attorney James Banks, who had never worked on a capital murder case before.

At trial, the prosecution claimed that Kevin Keith was trying to retaliate against Rudel Chatman for his role as an informant in the drug bust that led to Kevin Keith's January 1994 arrest.

Kevin Keith presented multiple alibi witnesses which placed him about thirty miles away from the crime.

Kevin Keith claimed that he spent the evening of February 13,1994, with his two girlfriends.

Kevin Keith claimed that at around 6 pm he was at the home of his girlfriend, Melanie Davison, in Mansfield, Ohio.

Kevin Keith testified that she could conclude that tire tracks matched the car after comparing the tracks to a photograph on a tire brochure.

Kevin Keith's car had a license plate containing "043", which matched the imprint left in the snowbank at the scene of the crime.

Kevin Keith claimed that the state relied heavily upon the testimony of Yezzo, a forensic analyst at the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, who provided a crucial link between Kevin Keith and the crime scene.

Kevin Keith claimed Yezzo's personnel file showed that Yezzo was mentally unstable and that her forensic conclusions were untrustworthy.

Kevin Keith was scheduled to be executed on September 15,2010, by lethal injection, by a unanimous recommendation of the parole board.

Under these circumstances, I cannot allow Mr Kevin Keith to be executed.

Kevin Keith connected with Kim Kardashian, who expressed support for the commutation of Keith's sentence in July 2019.

On October 3,2022, Kardashian released the first episode of a podcast created with Spotify titled The System: The Case of Kevin Keith, which gained international attention.