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Kevin
Bernard HALEY
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Serial rapist -
Robberies
Number of victims: 1 - 7
Date of murders:
1983 - 1984
Date of arrest: October 9, 1984
Date of birth:
1964
Victim profile:
Dolores
Clement, 55
Method of murder:
Strangulation - Beating
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Status:
Sentenced to death in July 1988
The Haley brothers made a lethal
team. Born in 1960 and 1964, respectively, Reginald and Kevin did
everything together, sharing drugs and women, ultimately joining
forces in a two-man crime wave that would terrorize Los Angeles.
Spurred on by what detectives called "a burning cocaine habit," the
brothers would participate in an estimated 500 burglaries, 60 rapes,
and eight murders over a five-year period ending with their arrest in
1984.
The first to die, in the official
tally, was 90-year- old Isabel Burton, beaten to death by the men who
looted and ransacked her home on April 20, 1983. Exactly one year
later, celebrating the event, 78-year-old D. Robinoff was beaten,
raped and murdered in her small L.A. apartment. The brothers missed
Willa Gerber, bungling a streetcorner abduction on May 12, but they
rebounded five days later, gunning down 15- year-old Jodie Samuels as
she ran to catch a school bus.
After their brief excursion into
street violence, the brothers reverted to type, victimizing older
women in their homes. Laverne Stolzy, 56, was raped and slain on June
26, followed by the beating death of 79-year-old Elizabeth Burns and
the strangulation of 89-year-old Elizibeth Karp. August's victim was
T. Okauchi, 88, bludgeoned to death in her looted home, with 55-year-old
Dolores Clement raped and murdered on September 27.
Arrested on October 11, 1984, the
brothers cracked swiftly under interrogation, providing graphic
details of previously unreported rapes. In addition to Kevin's various
murder charges, the Haley's would rack up 42 felony charges involving
24 separate victims. Reginald led the field, with four counts of
robbery, two burglaries, two rapes, two counts of sodomy, two of oral
copulation, two sexual assaults, one kidnapping, and one auto theft.
Kevin faced trial on thirteen burglaries, one robbery, one attempted
rape, and one count of oral copulation. The brothers were jointly
charged with six robberies, two kidnappings, one rape, and one count
of sodomy.
On August 8, 1987, Reginald Haley
was convicted on 20 counts, drawing a sentence of 60 years plus one
term of life imprisonment. While theoretically eligible for parole
after 30 years, it seems unlikely he will ever walk the streets again.
In June 1988, brother Kevin was convicted of murder, rape, sodomy,
robbery and burglary in the Dolores Clement case, his jury fixing the
penalty at death.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial
Killers
Man Convicted of '84 Rape, Murder of Woman
By Terry Pristin - Los Angeles Times
June 7, 1988
A former dog groomer, once described by police as a
"one-man crime wave," was convicted Monday by a Los Angeles Superior
Court jury of raping and murdering a Mid-Wilshire area woman in the
course of a $15 robbery.
Kevin Bernard Haley, 24, could get the death
penalty for the September, 1984, strangulation murder, rape, sodomy,
robbery and burglary of Dolores Clement, 55.
The jury, which began deliberations May 24,
deadlocked on whether Haley murdered Laverne Stolzy, 56, in 1984, and
on attempted rape and oral copulation counts involving a third victim,
who did not testify at the trial.
A mistrial was declared on those counts after
jurors voted 9-3 for acquittal in the Stolzy murder and 7-5 for a
verdict of guilty in the third case, Deputy Dist. Atty. Steven M.
Barshop said.
Haley is facing a separate trial for the murder of
Jodi Samuel, 15, who was robbed and shot on a Wilshire-area street as
she walked to catch a school bus.
After his arrest in 1984, police said Haley had
admitted committing six rapes and 53 burglaries. His older brother,
Reginald, was convicted last year in a series of rapes, kidnapings,
robberies and burglaries and was sentenced to 60 years in prison, plus
one life term.
Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates said in
1984 that the Haley brothers might be responsible for as many as eight
killings, including "some of the most violent murders committed
against older women in this city."
Gates also said they were suspects in 60 rapes and
500 burglaries from South Los Angeles to Venice over a five-year
period.
During Kevin Haley's three-week trial, jurors heard
a tape of Haley confessing to the Clement murder and saw a diagram he
drew of the crime scene, Barshop said. His fingerprints were also
found at the scene, the prosecutor said.
The penalty phase, which is expected to last at
least a month, is scheduled to begin next Monday. Barshop said he
plans to introduce evidence about the Samuel murder and the 1979
murder of Elizabeth Burns, 79, of Beverly Hills. Charges were not
filed in the Burns slaying.
2 Brothers Held in Crime Spree in Southwest L.A.
By Sandy Banks - Los Angeles Times
March 30, 1985
Two South Los Angeles brothers--one already charged
with the rape and murder of two women--were charged Friday with a
series of burglaries, robberies, rapes and sexual assaults in
connection with a yearlong crime spree in Southwest Los Angeles.
Kevin Haley, 21, and Reginald Haley, 24, will be
arraigned Monday on a total of 42 felony counts, Deputy Dist. Atty.
Steven Barshop said. The charges involve 24 victims and a series of
crimes committed from August, 1983, to August, 1984.
The charges against Reginald Haley include four
counts of robbery, two of burglary, two of rape, two of sodomy, two of
oral copulation, two of sexual assault, one of kidnaping and one of
auto theft. Kevin Haley is charged with 13 burglaries, one robbery,
one attempted rape and one oral copulation. Together, the brothers are
charged with six robberies, two kidnapings, one rape and one sodomy.
Hearing Due
Kevin Haley was charged last November with the
strangulation murder in September of Dolores Clement, 55, and the
beating death last June of La Vern Stolzy, 56. Police say he sexually
assaulted and killed both women while burglarizing their Southwest Los
Angeles homes. A preliminary hearing in those cases will be set next
week, Barshop said.
Reginald Haley also faces trial on burglary and
drug charges in an unrelated case, Barshop said.
Barshop called the two brothers "hot prowl burglars,"
who broke into occupied homes at night and often attacked the
occupants after burglarizing their homes. They were arrested last fall
after Wilshire Division detectives turned up evidence linking Kevin
Haley to the murders of Clement and Stolzy. Police said the brothers
stole to support their cocaine habits, sometimes working together and
sometimes alone.
Haley, Kevin
Bernard (1964- ), Reginald (1960- )
SEX: 2M RACE: B
TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex./Sad.
DATE(S):
1983-84
VENUE: Los
Angeles, Calif.
VICTIMS: Seven
MO: Career
criminals, serial rapists, and random slayers of females age 15 to 89.
DISPOSITION:
Life + 60 years for Reginald, 1987; Kevin condemned, 1988.
