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Derek King
Son of Terry King and Kelly Marino/Janet French. Lived with biological
parents until his mother moved to Kentucky and married another man. Was placed in private foster care with the Lay family,
in Pace, FL. According to his foster parents, he grew more rebellious as he entered his early teen years, and was becoming
more than they could handle. The foster parents wished to send him to military school, but Terry King refused.
Derek, age 13 at the time of the murder, stands accused of swinging the
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Derek King
Son of Terry King and Kelly Marino/Janet French. Lived with biological
parents until his mother moved to Kentucky and married another man. Was placed in private foster care with the Lay family,
in Pace, FL. According to his foster parents, he grew more rebellious as he entered his early teen years, and was becoming
more than they could handle. The foster parents wished to send him to military school, but Terry King refused.
Derek, age 13 at the time of the murder, stands accused of swinging the
bat, ending his father's life.
Son of Terry King and Kelly Marino/Janet French. Lived with biological
parents until his mother moved to Kentucky and married another man. Was placed in private foster care with the Lay family,
in Pace, FL. According to his foster parents, he grew more rebellious as he entered his early teen years, and was becoming
more than they could handle. The foster parents wished to send him to military school, but Terry King refused.
Derek, age 13 at the time of the murder, stands accused of swinging the
bat, ending his father's life. | |
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Derek King
Son of Terry King and Kelly Marino/Janet French. Lived with biological
parents until his mother moved to Kentucky and married another man. Was placed in private foster care with the Lay family,
in Pace, FL. According to his foster parents, he grew more rebellious as he entered his early teen years, and was becoming
more than they could handle. The foster parents wished to send him to military school, but Terry King refused.
Derek, age 13 at the time of the murder, stands accused of swinging the
bat, ending his father's life.
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Son of Terry King and Kelly Marino/Janet French. Lived with biological
parents until his mother moved to Kentucky and married another man. Was placed in private foster care for approximately one
month before returning to his father's home. Alex did not want to be with his foster family, and truly desired to be with
his father. This is the only information currently available about Alex's foster arrangement.
Alex, late in his 11th or early in his 12th year, claims to have became
sexually involved with Terry's friend, Rick Chavis, 40. He wrote numerous "love letters" to Chavis, and at one time wrote
"before I met Rick I was strate(sic), but now I am gay." Chavis denies any sexual contact with Alex. |
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Terry King
Father of Derek and Alex King. Lived with the boys mother and her two
children from a previous relationship until the boys were 6 and 7. During much of this time, they were not in an intimate
relationship. After the boys mother moved and married, he placed both children in a children's home and foster care. Alex
was returned to his fathers care within months of being placed. Derek remained in foster care for approximately 6 years, and
only returned to his father's care 7 weeks before Terry King was murdered.
Witnesses and his sons say that King sometimes struggled to make ends
meet, but was a hard worker who did the best he could at providing for his children.
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Rick Marvin Chavis
Handyman Rick Chavis was the purported best friend of Terry King. Chavis
assisted both Derek and Alex King evade their father during a recent runaway attempt leading up to the murders. Chavis stands
accused of Lewd and Lascivious Sexual Battery against Alex King, and accessory after the fact to murder. Chavis was found
not guilty for the murder of Terry King.
Chavis's past history includes a charge and conviction of Lewd and Lascivious
Acts upon a Minor in January, 1984. He spent 6 months in jail. |
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