Pensacola, FL: Molester Ricky Chavis Writes Love Letter To Child Muder Suspect, Alex King....
Slimpickins
him, IMO.
Slim
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2002
Love letter found on wall of Chavis' cell
Missive thought to be written to youngest King brother
By Ginny Graybiel
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
Convicted child molester Ricky Chavis is suspected of scribbling a love
letter to child murder suspect Alex King on the wall of a courthouse cell.
The 349-word message urges the 12-year-old boy: "Hang in there. It will work
out if nothing changes in the testimony. You know who not to trust. They are
keeping us apart until this is over."
It concludes: "I L U always and forever. You know who."
Chavis, 40, is accused of harboring Alex and his 13-year-old brother, Derek,
who are charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 26 death of their
father, Terry King.
He has characterized himself as a friend and mentor to the brothers, but
Alex's attorney, James Stokes, has accused him of being the boy's "adult
lover."
Use the menu below to access previous stories about brothers Derek and Alex
King (above, left and right respectively).
The message was found March 26 on the wall of an M.C. Blanchard Judicial
Building holding cell, where Chavis had been incarcerated six days before.
He is jailed under $50,000 bond on charges of accessory after the fact and
tampering with evidence.
Escambia County Jail Director Dennis Williams said the King brothers, who
are jailed without bond, have not been in the cell so could not have seen
the message.
Williams said he cannot definitively say Chavis wrote the letter.
But he said: "The contents of the note would certainly lead one to believe
that."
The contents also are similar to a message that Chavis tried to relay to
Alex on Jan. 19.
Detention deputies caught him using a small rock to scratch the words "Alex
don't trust" into a cement floor in the jail recreation yard.
Assistant State Attorney David Rimmer turned a handwritten copy of the
courthouse note over to the King brothers' defense attorneys last Friday,
according to the latest discovery documents in the case.
Undo influence
King, a single father, was killed as he slept in his home on Muscogee Road
in Cantonment.
In his confession, Alex told investigators he came up with the idea because
he feared punishment for running away several days before. Derek confessed
to repeatedly smashing his father in the head with an aluminum baseball bat.
After several false stories to investigators, Chavis said the boys called
him from a nearby convenience store after their father's death. He picked
them up, kept them in his mobile home in Brentwood for nearly two days, then
turned them into the Escambia Sheriff's Office.
Chavis was convicted in the early '80s of molesting two teen-age boys. He
denied molesting the King boys.
He also denied knowing about the slaying in advance. He accused Terry King,
his friend, of mentally abusing the children but said he did not know a
death plot against him was in the works.
Alex's lawyer has alleged that Chavis held great sway over the children and
may have had far more involvement than he admits.
A note written by Alex and found in his father's home also points to such
sway.
The child wrote that his life was "cloudy" before he met Chavis. Since then,
"My ultimate goal in life now is what his is. It is about sharing your life
with someone else's. Before I met Rick, I was straight, but now I am gay."
Words of warning
The writer of the courthouse note assured Alex, the presumed recipient, of
love "always and forever."
"I'm thinking about you day and night," he wrote. "Please be careful. I'm
with you and your thoughts."
The note advised Alex not to change his story to investigators. Thus far,
the boy has given investigators no indication that Chavis had any
involvement in the slaying or molested him.
"Our future depend(s) on the outcome of us in court and what happen(s) to
us," the note said.
It suggested that investigators are trying to persuade Alex to "talk and get
me 50 years in prison." Chavis actually faces a possible 35 years in prison.
"If a deal has been promised to get you to say yes about certain things that
we know about, just remember that be bold and be strong," the note said.
"Nothing has changed."
It continued: "They will lie to you to get you to talk. Please don't give
in. I'm still with you."
The note also urged Alex "to stay in touch with me or Mike." Chavis' brother
is named Mike.
Jail director Williams said there's no chance of Chavis and the King
brothers coming in contact in the jail.
"Because of the level of security surrounding these three individuals, their
movements are closely scrutinized," he said.
He said, however, that he cannot guarantee that information is not passed
between Chavis and the boys because they have several common visitors.
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vond...@hotmail.com
Slimpickins wrote:
> **What a creep. He/ Chavis even has a creepy child molestor 'look' about
> him, IMO.
>
> Slim
>
> PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2002
>
> Love letter found on wall of Chavis' cell
> Missive thought to be written to youngest King brother
>
> By Ginny Graybiel
> @PensacolaNewsJournal.com
>
> Convicted child molester Ricky Chavis is suspected of scribbling a love
> letter to child murder suspect Alex King on the wall of a courthouse cell.
>
> The 349-word message urges the 12-year-old boy: "Hang in there. It will work
> out if nothing changes in the testimony. You know who not to trust. They are
> keeping us apart until this is over."
>
> It concludes: "I L U always and forever. You know who."
>
> Chavis, 40, is accused of harboring Alex and his 13-year-old brother, Derek,
> who are charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 26 death of their
> father, Terry King.
>
> He has characterized himself as a friend and mentor to the brothers, but
> Alex's attorney, James Stokes, has accused him of being the boy's "adult
> lover."
>
*snip*
Wanna bet Chavis actually murdered the dad himself and has brainwashed the boys
into taking the fall for him--or, if the boys were involved, the murder was
Chavis' idea and executed under his direction. This is starting to look more and
more like the Heath Stocks/Lonoke Boyscoutmaster case, where a pedophile
manipulates his "boy" into
getting rid of family members who have learned the truth about him.
Vonda
Slimpickins
<vond...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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***That's certainly possible, Vonda. I really don't know if the cops have
completely ruled that scenario out or not.
Slim
