January 14, 2025 • 42 mins
Could a simple shell casing and traces of a potato uncover the dark mystery behind a gruesome murder? The chilling tale of Kenisha Walker, a young mother whose life was brutally cut short, unravels in this gripping episode. Found dead in her Arlington, Texas home, Kenisha's story takes a somber turn as her eight-year-old son becomes the unwitting witness to a crime scene that would haunt any family's worst nightmares. With no signs of forced entry, the case hinges on tantalizing clues that point towards a shocking betrayal.
Join us as we navigate the tangled web surrounding Keith Haynes, the man whose name echoed through whispers of suspicion and deceit. Keith's intricate relationships and alleged motives form the backbone of the investigation, casting a long shadow of doubt and intrigue. Despite his public proclamations of innocence, the evidence begins to weave a narrative that leaves little room for redemption. Keith's attempt to divert blame is met with mounting pressure as we explore the strained bonds and hidden truths of his past.
In the final act of this tragic saga, justice seeks its due course amidst the heart-wrenching loss of two lives. The courtroom becomes a battleground of conflicting stories and damning evidence, ultimately sealing Keith's fate with a conviction of capital murder. This episode serves as a stark reminder of the destructive power of jealousy and the irreversible toll it takes on the innocent. Prepare to be captivated, horrified, and deeply moved by a story that reveals the darkest corners of human nature.
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Okay, so this week it's time tosip some wine and talk some
crime, and I'm going to betalking about the murder of
Kenesha Walker.
So it's Friday morning, april 14, 2017.
We are in Arlington, texas.
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This is the beginning of Easterweekend busy weekend.
Typically, people are eitherout that Friday sometimes
they're out that Easter Monday.
It's just a time for familiesto get together and have a very
family-oriented weekend.
Now, on that Friday morningparticularly, we're going into
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the weekend.
People are already off, they'remaking plans, but unfortunately
the Arlington Police Departmentis not closed and off.
Police officers are headed outto a 911 call that came in
around 1030 am, arlingtonDispatch.
The call came from a woman in atownhouse in South Arlington
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saying that she was going abouther usual morning when the
eight-year-old son of herneighbor, kenesha Walker,
knocked on her front door.
Now the woman says that thelittle boy is scared, he's upset
.
He told her that his motherwould not wake up, that she had
blood on her, his mother wouldnot wake up, that she had blood
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on her and he was afraid thatshe might be dead.
Police are immediatelydispatched to this location and
when they arrive at theapartment they head inside to
see what's going on.
So you have a young boy whopolice don't know if he saw
anything, if he heard anything.
We know that he eventually seeshis mother.
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She won't wake up and you knowhe's concerned.
So thankfully he goes next doorand tries to get help.
So police don't know yet whatthey might be walking into.
But she said it was just kindof unusual for Kenesha to not be
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with the son, and so you knowshe wasn't sure if she should
believe him or what he could beseeing.
So it scared her enough thatshe picks up the phone and she
just calls police.
So they come out, they, whenthey get into the apartment,
they call out to her.
They don't hear anything.
They don't see anything on theground floor of the apartment
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this is a two story apartment.
There isn't upstairs and theythere's just nothing.
It looks pretty orderly,doesn't look like anything's out
of place.
But when they go upstairs tothe master bedroom, that is
where they find Kenesha lying inthe bed with the covers pulled
up, basically to her chin.
So officers quickly determinethat she's unresponsive.
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When they take a closer look,they realize that she's covered
in blood.
They finally, you know she'scold to the touch.
And then they do see that shesuffered a gunshot wound, just
by observation, to the back ofher head.
All right, so they find the 25year old single mom dead of a
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gunshot wound to the back of herhead.
Her eight year old, of course,is, I'm sure, at this point
being asked a few questions andreally police are trying to
figure out what happened to thisgirl.
Well, it really wasn't untilthey pull those covers back that
they realize they're not justdealing with Kenesha's death.
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She's pregnant.
She's actually seven monthspregnant with her second child.
So after police realize thatthis woman is carrying another
child, they start to block offthe scene.
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They're doing some examinationof the house.
Now the first thing they noticeis that everything looks fine,
everything's put together, it'sclean, it's tidy, it doesn't
look like there's been any kindof struggle in the residence or
that anything has been ransackedor looked for.
They don't observe any signs offorced entry.
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Everything is locked.
So they think that possiblyKenesha probably let this person
in just by first glances atwhat they're observing at the
apartment, to the bedroom andconfirmed that she is deceased.
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There were no other signs oftrauma or struggle on the body.
It doesn't look like she put upany kind of fight against what
was happening to her and sinceshe's found actually in the bed
they are feeling very certainthat this might have just been
an ambushed attack, that sheprobably did not see what was
actually coming at her.
A couple of feet from that bedpolice do locate a single 40
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caliber shell casing, which theydo find.
They send it.
They collect it and send it toballistics.
They also notice that there'slike chunks of what looks like
potato and then they find out itis potato.
So there is chunks of potatothat have been splattered across
the victim's body in the bedand it's all over the room.
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They surmise that most likelythe killer was using the potato
as a makeshift silencer,basically trying to drown out
the noise.
Her son is clearly sleeping inthe next bedroom over, and so
they quickly just put two andtwo together and realized that
this was probably used as asilencer.
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So once police kind of gothrough the apartment looking
for things, they confirm thatthey don't think anything has
been stolen.
Nothing, any kind of biggerpieces of property are all still
there.
Everything seems to be in placeexcept one thing that they
can't find and that's her phone.
So police immediately start toprocess a search warrant and try
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to figure out and to get thesephone records and figure out who
she might have been talking tobefore the night of her death.
So after realizing that theapartment looks fine, the doors
are secure, there doesn't seemto be anything taken or any sort
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of windows broken, they quicklyrealized that Kenesha most
likely knew her killer andprobably just welcomed him or
her right on inside.
Now they're going to talk to theboy.
He's eight years old.
We know it's very difficult tointerview children.
You have to be very sensitivebecause of trauma, because you
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don't want them to get theirfacts confused.
So it's a very sensitive thingwhen you are interviewing young
kids.
But they want to ask him somequestions.
You know, do you know who waswith your mom last night?
You know who was with your momlast night.
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And they start to speak to himand he tells them that him and
his mom were actually bythemselves until they went to
bed.
And when he asked you know whattime did you go to bed?
He said well, my mom and Iusually go to bed around nine
o'clock.
So he had this number in hishead.
Now the same goes for when theyboth woke up and the mother is
now deceased.
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There was no one else in theapartment.
So he tells police we werealone when we went to sleep.
We're alone, you know they'realone.
The next day they asked if hehad ever heard the gunshot.
He says no.
However, he tells police thathe woke up around 2 am not
feeling well.
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So he goes into his mother'sroom and he tells her that he
wasn't feeling very good.
And that's when he realizesthat there's actually someone in
the bed with her.
Kenesha's son tells, like theyask him did you recognize him?
He says I didn't look at him.
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It was dark, I didn't.
He didn't say anything.
But when he asked his mom whoit was which he did she said it
was Moosey.
Now the child says he doesn'tknow Moosey's real name.
But he says, you know, and he'sonly met him a few times, but
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he would come over to theapartment late at night to see
his mother.
So they've got a name, or atleast a nickname, right.
So the name Moosey is what theson, what the eight-year-old
child, is telling him.
So they decide that police aregoing to have to break the news
to Kenesha Walker's family.
Her family is living inMississippi at the time of this.
So detectives contact the mother, explain.
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You know what has happened totheir daughter.
They, you know she's she'svisibly upset, but they want to
know.
You know, do you know a Moosey?
Do you know this is the?
This is the name the child hasgiven us.
Do you know this person?
And the mom is is shocked.
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I mean she's shocked.
And she also said my daughterwouldn't have opened the door
for anyone and she is justcompletely beside herself that
somebody would have come in anddone this to her.
However, when she hears thename Moosey, she's just kind of
taken back because she's like,oh my gosh, I know exactly who
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that is.
That person's name is KeithHaynes, and the only reason I
know that is because he used todate my daughter in high school.
But she tells police I haven'theard about him in a really long
time.
My daughter has not saidanything to me about him.
I don't know why he would bethere or what kind of contact he
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had with my daughter, butthat's exactly who this is.
So now police have a name.
By the way, this is aninvestigation, you know, props
to the Arlington police becausethis was an open investigation
and an arrest within about eightor nine days after this
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happened.
So you know, they really didtheir due diligence in finding
out who this person was andstart to find him, locate him
and figure, you know, figure outwhat's going on.
So after Kenesha's mom tellsthem you know that she knows
exactly who this is she tellspolice that they used to date
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right, they dated back in highschool, but it's been a long
time since she's ever heard thatname.
So that's exactly what they'regoing on.
They're going on the fact thatnow they have the, now they have
Moosey's real name, which isKeith Haynes.
So because of this, lawenforcement starts, starts
really really starting to lookinto this guy.
But let me go back just a bit.
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When police arrived on the scene, after the 9-1-1 call is made,
um, within you know, half hour,hour, hour and a half half into
the actual on-site investigation, there's a woman that actually
shows up at the crime scene andshe tells police that she is a
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friend of Kenesha's and thatshe's there because she's
supposed to be picking upKenesha's son today and giving
him a ride to Mississippi tovisit his relatives for Easter.
So she's there to pick him upand now this could be good for
police.
You know, they kind of want tostart talking to her and when
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investigators inform her thatKenesha is deceased, I mean she
can't believe it.
She agrees to go to the station, she's providing a statement
and this is what she tells them.
She tells them that she spoketo Kenesha a lot like a lot and
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she actually had seen her theday of her murder and she didn't
say anything about having anyplans of anybody coming over.
So she thought that was strangethat Kenesha didn't say
anything and she wasn't sure orshe wasn't certain if somebody
was actually going to be there.
Now, even though she tellspolice, I don't know who would
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want to hurt her, know who wouldwant to hurt her and just like
Kenesha's mother, she doesrecognize the name Moosey and
again confirms it is KeithHaynes, now Kenesha's again old
boyfriend from high school.
But she's got some actuallyrecent information to share
about Keith that the mother didnot know and she reveals that
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Keith is actually the father ofKenesha's unborn child.
So Kenesha was pregnant withKeith Sainz's child.
But she also tells police thatKeith is actually in another
relationship with another womanand that woman is also pregnant
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and she is due around the sametime that Kenesha is due.
So you have this guy who hastwo women pregnant at the same
time.
I'm going to assume that wasprobably very that could
probably put a big burden onsomeone.
That could probably put a bigburden on someone, especially
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when we start talking about whatKenesha felt and said about
Keith Haynes and what theiractual dynamic was as a couple,
or really I mean because theyweren't a couple.
I mean she was carrying hischild but they weren't actually
dating or together.
I mean she was carrying hischild but they weren't actually
dating or together.
Now this friend of Kenesha'sshe doesn't know much about the
other woman that Keith wasseeing.
But this is again.
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Police are thinking.
Motive Is this?
This is kind of a volatilesituation.
Is this a potential for murder?
Could Keith have killed Keneshato protect the other woman and
protect her from knowing aboutthis relationship and God forbid
knowing about this other childthat was supposed to be born?
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So they, police, need to trackdown Keith Haynes and so they
ask her friend.
They're at the station, youknow, and she's still being
questioned and they're talkingand she says oh yeah, I can
actually try to get Keith'sphone number for you.
So she reaches out to a friendwho actually gives her Keith's
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phone number.
So then she calls.
She calls him from theinterview room, he answers and
this is what he actually says toher.
He says you know what Iactually heard about Kenesha's
death?
Yep, I did, and I actuallyalready heard that I'm probably
going to be a suspect.
So I'm on my way to the policestation right now to clear my
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name.
So this is what he tellsKenesha's friend, who's at the
police station because sheshowed up at the crime scene to
pick up the child.
Police tell her what happened.
They bring her back to thestation.
They're asking her somequestions.
She's able to find KeithHaines' phone number.
Keith Haines, again, is headedto the police station to clear
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his name.
But here's what's interestinghe went ahead and posted a video
on social media basicallysaying I'm innocent, I'm
innocent, I didn't have anythingto do with this, but I'm going
in to that police station toclear my name.
So police are starting tointerview Keith Haynes shows up
at the police station.
They want to know.
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You know.
He says I'm here to clear myname.
I know people are alreadythrowing my name around as a
potential suspect.
I didn't have anything to dowith this.
He says you know we werefriendly, but he had no, but
there was no reason to want tohurt her.
So Keith confirms that he isMucey, that he does go by that
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nickname, and he also tellspolice that Kenesha and him have
actually been on an off-again,on-again relationship since high
school.
He says that they had recentlyreconnected, starting seeing
each other again, and heconfirms that he could possibly
be the father of Kenesha'sunborn child, although he's not
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positive.
Now why isn't he positive?
Because he tells police thatKenesha had a white boyfriend,
she had a white boyfriend whowas married, and that you know
that.
Keith tells police that hewould encourage her to tell this
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man about what was going onright and to put a little bit
more pressure on him to be, youknow, to be there for the child
and you know to come clean andand so they're thinking, wow,
you know, this guy's offering alot of good information that we
might need and he's telling usabout a guy that, well, we don't
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know anything about and,because of how forthcoming he is
, police believe, okay, maybethis guy is helping us out and
maybe he's not really trying tohide anything.
Now he tells police he saw hertwo days before the murder, so
April 12th, which was more than24 hours before she was killed.
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That is the last time KeithHaynes says that he sees Kenesha
Walker and he says he goes overthere to talk about, like, the
future plans of the daycare fortheir child.
So that's the conversation hesays that they are having.
Now, at this point, police arethinking you know, is the son
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mistaken?
Did the boy maybe hear thatname?
I mean, you know they alwaysthink about that, right, like,
was the child asleep and thenmaybe dreamed about something
that had Moosey in it, and sohis mind is bringing back
something that maybe actuallydidn't occur, which was him
asking his mother who was inthere.
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You know, they don't know.
So they just start to kind ofwonder.
You know, are we headed in theright direction?
And did he maybe get the daysmixed up?
Was Moosey over there?
You know, the night or twonights before this happens?
But then he thinks it's thisnight.
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So they're trying to be.
You know he's eight right, sothey're trying to be mindful of
all of this.
So when detectives ask Keith ifit's true that he's in a
relationship with another womanthat he'd gotten pregnant, he
does confirm that it is.
He admits also that his othergirlfriend doesn't know anything
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about his relationship withKenesha or her pregnancy where
he could possibly be the father.
So now they have Keith.
He's being forthcoming.
He even offers up his DNA, hisphone.
They do look at text messages.
We'll talk about what theyeventually find once they really
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put in the search warrant forhis phone records.
However, they have this otherguy to think about now.
Keith has given them not a namebut a description and just
multiple conversations that hesays he had with Kenesha.
He doesn't, you know, that'sthe thing.
He doesn't know the guy's name,which police thought was a
little strange considering howclose.
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He made it seem like him andKenesha were in him, encouraging
her to go and tell him.
But he doesn't have a name forthem.
Keith also says that heencouraged Kenesha to not only
tell this guy about thepregnancy even though he was
married right but that sheshould report the abuse that she
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was telling Keith Haynes thatthis guy was inflicting on her.
So Keith goes to tell policeand says yeah, not only was
Kenesha sleeping with this whiteguy who was married.
But he also beat her up.
And he beat her up and Iencouraged her to report the
abuse.
She wouldn't do it.
She was scared to tell theother guy about this pregnancy
because he was married and shedidn't know how he would react.
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And so, you know, you kind ofhave this separation right Going
and telling someone else he'screated this guy in his head
because that's what he is, thisguy in his head that doesn't
exist.
And so they, you know theyreally don't have anything to
hold him on at this point.
It really is just.
You know, you have two men thatcould be possibly the fathers
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of this child, according toKeith Haynes, and then you have,
you know, a woman no longerhere to talk about that.
But you now have a friend whothey've, you know one friend
that they've talked to and givena little bit of light about
what was happening, going on.
But they want to try to clearKeith, at least clear him to
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move forward and try to figureout who this other person is.
So you know, he comes in, he itsounds like Kenesha has another
boyfriend that would want herout of the picture.
If he's telling the truth, then, you know, would this have been
the?
This wouldn't have been thefirst time that that boyfriend
would have, you know, abused herand, you know, did it just go
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too far?
Did she finally tell him aboutthis child?
But before they're going to,like, completely shift their
focus away from Keith Haynes,because he doesn't.
His alibi is that he's at homealone.
But he's given his DNA, he'sgiven over his phone and
ultimately, in their preliminarysearches they don't find
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anything suspicious, really,that connect Keith to, you know,
kenesha's murder.
So they start investigating theother boyfriend, right, they're
feeling pretty confident thatat this point Keith's actions
are showing that he probably hadnothing to do with this.
So they decide they're going tojust start focusing their
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energy just a bit on findingthis white guy that Kenesha was
dating.
Now, even though Keith doesn'tknow his name, they think that
one of Kenesha's friends might.
So they start talking to people, and they have, you know,
they're talking to her lovedones, they're talking to her
friends, but nobody has everheard or at least the people
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they're talking to have neverheard of Kenesha dating this
white guy.
Never, white boyfriend, never,never heard about it.
In fact, they all say the onlyperson and the only man that had
been in Kenesha's life recentlywas Keith Haynes.
So they do find one friend inMississippi, her friend back in
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Mississippi and she's able toshed some light on something.
This is a very it's good tohave friends like this.
You should have a good friend.
You can send some screenshotsto you or let them know, hey, if
anything ever happens to me.
Here's what you need to do withthis information.
And that's exactly what kind ofrelationship Kenesha had with
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this young lady in Mississippi.
So she tells police thatKenesha would sometimes tell
people that the father of herbaby was a white guy, but she
only did that because she wasashamed to admit the truth.
And that truth is that thefather was really Keith.
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Now she goes on to tell policethat Kenesha and Keith had a
very tumultuous relationship.
Tell police that Kenesha andKeith had a very tumultuous
relationship, even though Keithsaid in this interview that
everything was great and theywere friends and he was trying
to give her advice.
She tells detectives that thetwo were constantly fighting,
they never got along.
That her friend did not want arelationship with him even after
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finding out that she waspregnant.
Want a relationship with himeven after finding out that she
was pregnant and Keith did.
He wanted to rekindle this pastrelationship, but she was only
willing to co-parent with himand she didn't want him as a
love interest.
I mean, she thought he was aliar, she thought he was a
cheater, she wasn't willing toreally go there with him
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romantically and be committed tohim because she just didn't
think it was going to work outand she didn't want to go down
that road again.
So this is what her friend istelling police and they text all
pretty much every day.
She hears from her pretty muchevery day and she does say that
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there were some text messagesthat seemed to get worse and
worse and worse as his pregnancywent along.
Kenesha, basically, was askingKeith for help with the baby.
That he didn't show up when hewould.
He kept letting her down.
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He wasn't helping buy thingsfor the child, he really wasn't
participating.
I think that he probably knewchild support was going to be
coming soon.
Well, I remind you, he hasanother woman that's delivering
children twins, by the way.
So that's just additional childsupport he's going to be paying
.
He's basically going to havethree kids within a two week
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span.
So a lot of pressure.
So police start to really kindof listen to what this young
woman is saying.
And then when Kenesha found outthat Keith was seeing another
woman who was also pregnant, Imean she was very upset.
It was clear that he wasirresponsible and immature and
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she just wanted nothing to dowith him.
I mean she, you know, there wasjust no way she felt like she
could really rely on him.
Then her friend sends her somemessages alongside with some
screenshots of an argument thatthey both had and she basically
tells her friend in Mississippithat she thinks Keith might be
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trying to kill her.
So police end up getting asubpoena, getting the warrant
and getting Kenesha's textmessages.
So what they see is that they'reclearly in this relationship
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about this child.
There are clear signs thatKenesha doesn't want anything to
do with him on a personal,private relationship level.
She wants to co-parent andthat's about it.
This really upset Keith.
He wanted to be with her.
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He was not.
What you know, I don't know.
It's confusing, right?
You have a woman who knows theguy that she is going to be
having his baby is not good forher and she's willing to go
through this alone.
I mean she's wanting, you knowshe's basically saying I don't
have time for, you know, gamesand this nonsense.
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And so I feel like, especiallywith the fact that a lot of
people in her life did not knowthat this guy was the father of
the child, there was a lot ofshame there, I think.
And maybe a part of her wanted,you know, for their child to
know the father or maybe atleast rely on him to do some
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things.
But she could tell from thebeginning, you know, when she
found out who she was pregnant,that this was not going to be
what she wanted.
And, um, you know, her friendsmade it very, her friend made it
very clear that she was veryconcerned about her safety at
one point.
And I believe one of the textmessages basically said you know
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, um, um, you know, I think he'sgoing to try to kill me.
I've been afraid of him.
So there's some disturbing, youknow, things going on.
Now they don't know he's liedto them, right?
Keith came in and said that therelationship with Kenesha was
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great, they were all gettingalong well.
But they discover even moredisturbing communications
because now they've subpoenaed,they find out, you know,
basically, looking throughKeith's phone, there's nothing
there, right.
But once they get really deepdown into the messages from the
phone company, they see that youknow, there's a lot of
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disturbing communication goingon between them.
You know, keith, let them.
Keith, let police look at hisphone.
But he had deleted so manythings that there was no reason
to hold him at that time.
But police actually learn thathe's also changed his phone
number on the same day thatKenesha was killed.
Now, originally Keith had toldpolice that he last saw Kenesha
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on that Wednesday, april 12th.
But his phone records show thathe'd actually been texting her
the same night she was killed.
And in that text he basicallysays hey, I'm on my way over to
the apartment.
Can you leave the door unlockedfor me?
Around 1045 on April 13th, lessthan 12 hours before Kenesha's
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body is found.
Around 1045 on April 13th, lessthan 12 hours before Kenesha's
body is found.
That is when the big kicker ofthe text message comes through.
He says he's 40 minutes awayfrom the house, that she should
probably just go to bed and thathe will let himself in.
Now let's talk about the murderweapon.
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Now let's talk about the murderweapon.
We know it was um.
They found a 40 caliber bulleton the floor in kinesha's
bedroom.
These are also some textmessages that they found and
this is all about the murderweapon.
So they see that the basicallythe day she's killed he texts a
friend and or an acquaintance.
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Police don't know at this point, they're just reading the
messages.
But he's asking to borrow a gun.
So they don't know yet.
But just on correspondence backand forth they notice that he's
trying to get a weapon theowner of the gun.
So they end up tracking downthe phone number.
They see the text, they callhim and the owner basically
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tells police that he knows Keith.
And on that Thursday nightKeith text him and asked if he
could actually borrow his gun.
And the reason Keith gave forneeding the weapon is that he
was going to meet up with awoman he met online for sex and
he didn't want to be unarmed.
He didn't want to be without aweapon, just in case he was
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being set up, just in case, youknow, weird things happen.
We know that when you meetpeople online you have to be
safe.
So his friend thought well, hey, he came and picked up the gun
and returned it the followingmorning.
So he shows police this gun andthey take a note that it is a
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.40 caliber pistol, the sametype of weapon that they know
was used to kill Kenesha.
But that's not all.
The owner of that gun says itshould be fully loaded, but when
they check the actual magazinethere's only one bullet inside.
So it's clear at that pointsomeone has actually been firing
this gun.
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Police think it's all lining up.
They take Keith into custody.
Between the lies, the textmessages and him borrowing the
gun, he is looking like theprime suspect in Kenesha's
murder.
He is looking like the primesuspect in Kenesha's
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murder.
April 19th, which is aWednesday gosh, five days after
Kenesha was shot in her home um,they surround Keith's
apartments and this in Plano,texas, and make that arrest.
Arlington, I gave you props foreight or nine days, five days,
I didn't realize it was onlyfive days.
Well, great work.
They got this guy in handcuffs,brought him in.
This is when he basicallysurrenders.
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He says we have a warrant foryou, we're going to.
You know you're surrounded.
They're going to his home.
So they arrest him and chargehim with capital murder.
And he complies.
He comes out.
They make the arrest.
Well, now they're going to takehim back and start
interrogating him.
So he's telling police back atthe station.
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You know they're interrogatinghim again.
So he basically waives hisrights and he's like I'll talk.
I have no problem talking andtelling you.
You know whathappened.
Now, at the start of theinterview he sticks to his story
and he admits that he did visitKenesha's apartment a day
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before the homicide.
But he insists he wasn't therewhen she was killed and has no
idea what happened to her.
But then they start rolling outthe evidence.
He's getting a littleuncomfortable.
They start sharing informationand text messages that the
friend gave to them and showedthem.
They also address the deletedphone messages.
They put more.
You know they're reallystarting to put some pressure on
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him just for him to maybe admitthat he was doing some of these
things.
But then he's like I alwaysswitch my phone number.
That's not big of a deal, butthe more evidence that police
start to really roll.
Keep asking him.
You know we have GPS data.
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We know you're on your way toher apartment.
The little boy even knew youwere in the bed and he's like I
was never there andhe.
But then they start, you know,throwing other evidence at him.
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You know this is ourcircumstantial at this point
until you know, they canactually match that bullet to
the to the weapon that wasactually found text and says he
hasn't had a gun in hispossession at any time recently.
However, he can't explain howthe messages ended up in his
phone records if he didn't sendthem.
I mean, this guy is really likegrasping for straws here.
So they basically say you knowwhat?
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Fine, we've got enough evidenceagainst you If you don't want
to admit what you did.
You know, we know you're lying.
So you know he eventually says,hey, I'm done talking and
refuses to admit anything.
But they are going to chargehim with capital
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murder.
So when the trial finallybegins in 2023, prosecutors
argue that there's basically amountain of evidence against
this guy in the Kenesha Walkermurder.
They point out the phonerecords, they point out the text
messages to the friend toborrow the gun.
They point out the fact thatKenesha was rejecting him and
you know, and he was upset aboutthat.
Yet you know you could see thatshe clearly had no interest in
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him, but he just kept pushingand pushing for this
relationship.
But now she's pregnant with hischild and he knew he'd be on
the hook for child support soonher child, like I mentioned
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earlier, but also the otherwoman's twins that will be
due.
Around the time that Kenesha'schild was supposed to be born, I
think the walls were closing in.
I think that he probably knewthat this was not going to end
well, that the other woman thiswas not going to end well, that
the other woman, right Keneshahad found out about her.
Right, kenesha found out,realized that he has another
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woman that has a baby pregnant,about to deliver.
She didn't want to haveanything to do with him but
agreed that co-parenting wassomething that she would be okay
with.
But then he just kept lettingher down, and letting her down,
and letting her down, and Ithink maybe she just kind of had
enough and said listen, if youdon't want to be a part of this
life, you're definitely notgoing to be a part of my life,
but I want you a part of ourchild's life.
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But if this isn't good enough,then so be it, if it's just not
enough.
So they believe this was themotive for murder.
Um, instead of, you know,dealing with it like a man, he
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drove to kanisha's apartment andmanaged basically to convince
her to let him inside, and thereason was that they could talk
about daycare plans for theirchild.
And then it got later, you know, and she probably convinced, he
probably convinced herprosecutors believe that.
You know he probably asked tosleep over.
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You know they believe this wasaround midnight, 1230, one
o'clock, and then that's whenher son comes in at 2am and then
mother gives the name Moosey asthe person that's in
bed.
They believe, at some point,because he's seen, because the
boy sees, because that boy, at 2am spoke to the mother and that
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he sees the man in the bedaround two o'clock, they know
that the murder happened afterthat, right?
So they believe at some pointKeith got up, grabbed the weapon
, went and grabbed a potato fromthe kitchen and then snuck
behind this young lady that'sseven months pregnant and fired
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one bullet in the back of herhead, killing her instantly.
And then he leaves theeight-year-old to find his
mother and then not only that,the child that she's carrying,
which is his um, is also nowdeceased.
At this point, he's got nowhereto go.
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The jury, the courts, they wereable to see through these lies
and on December 11, 2023, theyfind him guilty of capital
murder of Kenesha Walker and,under Texas law, automatic
sentence to life in prisonwithout parole.
Until next time, friends, staysafe, have fun and cheers to
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next time.
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Okay, so this week it's time tosip some wine and talk some
crime, and I'm going to betalking about the murder of
Kenesha Walker.
So it's Friday morning, april 14, 2017.
We are in Arlington, texas.
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This is the beginning of Easterweekend busy weekend.
Typically, people are eitherout that Friday sometimes
they're out that Easter Monday.
It's just a time for familiesto get together and have a very
family-oriented weekend.
Now, on that Friday morningparticularly, we're going into
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the weekend.
People are already off, they'remaking plans, but unfortunately
the Arlington Police Departmentis not closed and off.
Police officers are headed outto a 911 call that came in
around 1030 am, arlingtonDispatch.
The call came from a woman in atownhouse in South Arlington
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saying that she was going abouther usual morning when the
eight-year-old son of herneighbor, kenesha Walker,
knocked on her front door.
Now the woman says that thelittle boy is scared, he's upset
.
He told her that his motherwould not wake up, that she had
blood on her, his mother wouldnot wake up, that she had blood
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on her and he was afraid thatshe might be dead.
Police are immediatelydispatched to this location and
when they arrive at theapartment they head inside to
see what's going on.
So you have a young boy whopolice don't know if he saw
anything, if he heard anything.
We know that he eventually seeshis mother.
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She won't wake up and you knowhe's concerned.
So thankfully he goes next doorand tries to get help.
So police don't know yet whatthey might be walking into.
But she said it was just kindof unusual for Kenesha to not be
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with the son, and so you knowshe wasn't sure if she should
believe him or what he could beseeing.
So it scared her enough thatshe picks up the phone and she
just calls police.
So they come out, they, whenthey get into the apartment,
they call out to her.
They don't hear anything.
They don't see anything on theground floor of the apartment
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this is a two story apartment.
There isn't upstairs and theythere's just nothing.
It looks pretty orderly,doesn't look like anything's out
of place.
But when they go upstairs tothe master bedroom, that is
where they find Kenesha lying inthe bed with the covers pulled
up, basically to her chin.
So officers quickly determinethat she's unresponsive.
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When they take a closer look,they realize that she's covered
in blood.
They finally, you know she'scold to the touch.
And then they do see that shesuffered a gunshot wound, just
by observation, to the back ofher head.
All right, so they find the 25year old single mom dead of a
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gunshot wound to the back of herhead.
Her eight year old, of course,is, I'm sure, at this point
being asked a few questions andreally police are trying to
figure out what happened to thisgirl.
Well, it really wasn't untilthey pull those covers back that
they realize they're not justdealing with Kenesha's death.
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She's pregnant.
She's actually seven monthspregnant with her second child.
So after police realize thatthis woman is carrying another
child, they start to block offthe scene.
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They're doing some examinationof the house.
Now the first thing they noticeis that everything looks fine,
everything's put together, it'sclean, it's tidy, it doesn't
look like there's been any kindof struggle in the residence or
that anything has been ransackedor looked for.
They don't observe any signs offorced entry.
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Everything is locked.
So they think that possiblyKenesha probably let this person
in just by first glances atwhat they're observing at the
apartment, to the bedroom andconfirmed that she is deceased.
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There were no other signs oftrauma or struggle on the body.
It doesn't look like she put upany kind of fight against what
was happening to her and sinceshe's found actually in the bed
they are feeling very certainthat this might have just been
an ambushed attack, that sheprobably did not see what was
actually coming at her.
A couple of feet from that bedpolice do locate a single 40
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caliber shell casing, which theydo find.
They send it.
They collect it and send it toballistics.
They also notice that there'slike chunks of what looks like
potato and then they find out itis potato.
So there is chunks of potatothat have been splattered across
the victim's body in the bedand it's all over the room.
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They surmise that most likelythe killer was using the potato
as a makeshift silencer,basically trying to drown out
the noise.
Her son is clearly sleeping inthe next bedroom over, and so
they quickly just put two andtwo together and realized that
this was probably used as asilencer.
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So once police kind of gothrough the apartment looking
for things, they confirm thatthey don't think anything has
been stolen.
Nothing, any kind of biggerpieces of property are all still
there.
Everything seems to be in placeexcept one thing that they
can't find and that's her phone.
So police immediately start toprocess a search warrant and try
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to figure out and to get thesephone records and figure out who
she might have been talking tobefore the night of her death.
So after realizing that theapartment looks fine, the doors
are secure, there doesn't seemto be anything taken or any sort
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of windows broken, they quicklyrealized that Kenesha most
likely knew her killer andprobably just welcomed him or
her right on inside.
Now they're going to talk to theboy.
He's eight years old.
We know it's very difficult tointerview children.
You have to be very sensitivebecause of trauma, because you
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don't want them to get theirfacts confused.
So it's a very sensitive thingwhen you are interviewing young
kids.
But they want to ask him somequestions.
You know, do you know who waswith your mom last night?
You know who was with your momlast night.
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And they start to speak to himand he tells them that him and
his mom were actually bythemselves until they went to
bed.
And when he asked you know whattime did you go to bed?
He said well, my mom and Iusually go to bed around nine
o'clock.
So he had this number in hishead.
Now the same goes for when theyboth woke up and the mother is
now deceased.
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There was no one else in theapartment.
So he tells police we werealone when we went to sleep.
We're alone, you know they'realone.
The next day they asked if hehad ever heard the gunshot.
He says no.
However, he tells police thathe woke up around 2 am not
feeling well.
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So he goes into his mother'sroom and he tells her that he
wasn't feeling very good.
And that's when he realizesthat there's actually someone in
the bed with her.
Kenesha's son tells, like theyask him did you recognize him?
He says I didn't look at him.
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It was dark, I didn't.
He didn't say anything.
But when he asked his mom whoit was which he did she said it
was Moosey.
Now the child says he doesn'tknow Moosey's real name.
But he says, you know, and he'sonly met him a few times, but
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he would come over to theapartment late at night to see
his mother.
So they've got a name, or atleast a nickname, right.
So the name Moosey is what theson, what the eight-year-old
child, is telling him.
So they decide that police aregoing to have to break the news
to Kenesha Walker's family.
Her family is living inMississippi at the time of this.
So detectives contact the mother, explain.
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You know what has happened totheir daughter.
They, you know she's she'svisibly upset, but they want to
know.
You know, do you know a Moosey?
Do you know this is the?
This is the name the child hasgiven us.
Do you know this person?
And the mom is is shocked.
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I mean she's shocked.
And she also said my daughterwouldn't have opened the door
for anyone and she is justcompletely beside herself that
somebody would have come in anddone this to her.
However, when she hears thename Moosey, she's just kind of
taken back because she's like,oh my gosh, I know exactly who
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that is.
That person's name is KeithHaynes, and the only reason I
know that is because he used todate my daughter in high school.
But she tells police I haven'theard about him in a really long
time.
My daughter has not saidanything to me about him.
I don't know why he would bethere or what kind of contact he
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had with my daughter, butthat's exactly who this is.
So now police have a name.
By the way, this is aninvestigation, you know, props
to the Arlington police becausethis was an open investigation
and an arrest within about eightor nine days after this
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happened.
So you know, they really didtheir due diligence in finding
out who this person was andstart to find him, locate him
and figure, you know, figure outwhat's going on.
So after Kenesha's mom tellsthem you know that she knows
exactly who this is she tellspolice that they used to date
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right, they dated back in highschool, but it's been a long
time since she's ever heard thatname.
So that's exactly what they'regoing on.
They're going on the fact thatnow they have the, now they have
Moosey's real name, which isKeith Haynes.
So because of this, lawenforcement starts, starts
really really starting to lookinto this guy.
But let me go back just a bit.
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When police arrived on the scene, after the 9-1-1 call is made,
um, within you know, half hour,hour, hour and a half half into
the actual on-site investigation, there's a woman that actually
shows up at the crime scene andshe tells police that she is a
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friend of Kenesha's and thatshe's there because she's
supposed to be picking upKenesha's son today and giving
him a ride to Mississippi tovisit his relatives for Easter.
So she's there to pick him upand now this could be good for
police.
You know, they kind of want tostart talking to her and when
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investigators inform her thatKenesha is deceased, I mean she
can't believe it.
She agrees to go to the station, she's providing a statement
and this is what she tells them.
She tells them that she spoketo Kenesha a lot like a lot and
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she actually had seen her theday of her murder and she didn't
say anything about having anyplans of anybody coming over.
So she thought that was strangethat Kenesha didn't say
anything and she wasn't sure orshe wasn't certain if somebody
was actually going to be there.
Now, even though she tellspolice, I don't know who would
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want to hurt her, know who wouldwant to hurt her and just like
Kenesha's mother, she doesrecognize the name Moosey and
again confirms it is KeithHaynes, now Kenesha's again old
boyfriend from high school.
But she's got some actuallyrecent information to share
about Keith that the mother didnot know and she reveals that
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Keith is actually the father ofKenesha's unborn child.
So Kenesha was pregnant withKeith Sainz's child.
But she also tells police thatKeith is actually in another
relationship with another womanand that woman is also pregnant
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and she is due around the sametime that Kenesha is due.
So you have this guy who hastwo women pregnant at the same
time.
I'm going to assume that wasprobably very that could
probably put a big burden onsomeone.
That could probably put a bigburden on someone, especially
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when we start talking about whatKenesha felt and said about
Keith Haynes and what theiractual dynamic was as a couple,
or really I mean because theyweren't a couple.
I mean she was carrying hischild but they weren't actually
dating or together.
I mean she was carrying hischild but they weren't actually
dating or together.
Now this friend of Kenesha'sshe doesn't know much about the
other woman that Keith wasseeing.
But this is again.
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Police are thinking.
Motive Is this?
This is kind of a volatilesituation.
Is this a potential for murder?
Could Keith have killed Keneshato protect the other woman and
protect her from knowing aboutthis relationship and God forbid
knowing about this other childthat was supposed to be born?
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So they, police, need to trackdown Keith Haynes and so they
ask her friend.
They're at the station, youknow, and she's still being
questioned and they're talkingand she says oh yeah, I can
actually try to get Keith'sphone number for you.
So she reaches out to a friendwho actually gives her Keith's
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phone number.
So then she calls.
She calls him from theinterview room, he answers and
this is what he actually says toher.
He says you know what Iactually heard about Kenesha's
death?
Yep, I did, and I actuallyalready heard that I'm probably
going to be a suspect.
So I'm on my way to the policestation right now to clear my
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name.
So this is what he tellsKenesha's friend, who's at the
police station because sheshowed up at the crime scene to
pick up the child.
Police tell her what happened.
They bring her back to thestation.
They're asking her somequestions.
She's able to find KeithHaines' phone number.
Keith Haines, again, is headedto the police station to clear
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his name.
But here's what's interestinghe went ahead and posted a video
on social media basicallysaying I'm innocent, I'm
innocent, I didn't have anythingto do with this, but I'm going
in to that police station toclear my name.
So police are starting tointerview Keith Haynes shows up
at the police station.
They want to know.
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You know.
He says I'm here to clear myname.
I know people are alreadythrowing my name around as a
potential suspect.
I didn't have anything to dowith this.
He says you know we werefriendly, but he had no, but
there was no reason to want tohurt her.
So Keith confirms that he isMucey, that he does go by that
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nickname, and he also tellspolice that Kenesha and him have
actually been on an off-again,on-again relationship since high
school.
He says that they had recentlyreconnected, starting seeing
each other again, and heconfirms that he could possibly
be the father of Kenesha'sunborn child, although he's not
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positive.
Now why isn't he positive?
Because he tells police thatKenesha had a white boyfriend,
she had a white boyfriend whowas married, and that you know
that.
Keith tells police that hewould encourage her to tell this
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man about what was going onright and to put a little bit
more pressure on him to be, youknow, to be there for the child
and you know to come clean andand so they're thinking, wow,
you know, this guy's offering alot of good information that we
might need and he's telling usabout a guy that, well, we don't
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know anything about and,because of how forthcoming he is
, police believe, okay, maybethis guy is helping us out and
maybe he's not really trying tohide anything.
Now he tells police he saw hertwo days before the murder, so
April 12th, which was more than24 hours before she was killed.
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That is the last time KeithHaynes says that he sees Kenesha
Walker and he says he goes overthere to talk about, like, the
future plans of the daycare fortheir child.
So that's the conversation hesays that they are having.
Now, at this point, police arethinking you know, is the son
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mistaken?
Did the boy maybe hear thatname?
I mean, you know they alwaysthink about that, right, like,
was the child asleep and thenmaybe dreamed about something
that had Moosey in it, and sohis mind is bringing back
something that maybe actuallydidn't occur, which was him
asking his mother who was inthere.
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You know, they don't know.
So they just start to kind ofwonder.
You know, are we headed in theright direction?
And did he maybe get the daysmixed up?
Was Moosey over there?
You know, the night or twonights before this happens?
But then he thinks it's thisnight.
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So they're trying to be.
You know he's eight right, sothey're trying to be mindful of
all of this.
So when detectives ask Keith ifit's true that he's in a
relationship with another womanthat he'd gotten pregnant, he
does confirm that it is.
He admits also that his othergirlfriend doesn't know anything
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about his relationship withKenesha or her pregnancy where
he could possibly be the father.
So now they have Keith.
He's being forthcoming.
He even offers up his DNA, hisphone.
They do look at text messages.
We'll talk about what theyeventually find once they really
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put in the search warrant forhis phone records.
However, they have this otherguy to think about now.
Keith has given them not a namebut a description and just
multiple conversations that hesays he had with Kenesha.
He doesn't, you know, that'sthe thing.
He doesn't know the guy's name,which police thought was a
little strange considering howclose.
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He made it seem like him andKenesha were in him, encouraging
her to go and tell him.
But he doesn't have a name forthem.
Keith also says that heencouraged Kenesha to not only
tell this guy about thepregnancy even though he was
married right but that sheshould report the abuse that she
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was telling Keith Haynes thatthis guy was inflicting on her.
So Keith goes to tell policeand says yeah, not only was
Kenesha sleeping with this whiteguy who was married.
But he also beat her up.
And he beat her up and Iencouraged her to report the
abuse.
She wouldn't do it.
She was scared to tell theother guy about this pregnancy
because he was married and shedidn't know how he would react.
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And so, you know, you kind ofhave this separation right Going
and telling someone else he'screated this guy in his head
because that's what he is, thisguy in his head that doesn't
exist.
And so they, you know theyreally don't have anything to
hold him on at this point.
It really is just.
You know, you have two men thatcould be possibly the fathers
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of this child, according toKeith Haynes, and then you have,
you know, a woman no longerhere to talk about that.
But you now have a friend whothey've, you know one friend
that they've talked to and givena little bit of light about
what was happening, going on.
But they want to try to clearKeith, at least clear him to
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move forward and try to figureout who this other person is.
So you know, he comes in, he itsounds like Kenesha has another
boyfriend that would want herout of the picture.
If he's telling the truth, then, you know, would this have been
the?
This wouldn't have been thefirst time that that boyfriend
would have, you know, abused herand, you know, did it just go
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too far?
Did she finally tell him aboutthis child?
But before they're going to,like, completely shift their
focus away from Keith Haynes,because he doesn't.
His alibi is that he's at homealone.
But he's given his DNA, he'sgiven over his phone and
ultimately, in their preliminarysearches they don't find
(24:20):
anything suspicious, really,that connect Keith to, you know,
kenesha's murder.
So they start investigating theother boyfriend, right, they're
feeling pretty confident thatat this point Keith's actions
are showing that he probably hadnothing to do with this.
So they decide they're going tojust start focusing their
(24:40):
energy just a bit on findingthis white guy that Kenesha was
dating.
Now, even though Keith doesn'tknow his name, they think that
one of Kenesha's friends might.
So they start talking to people, and they have, you know,
they're talking to her lovedones, they're talking to her
friends, but nobody has everheard or at least the people
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they're talking to have neverheard of Kenesha dating this
white guy.
Never, white boyfriend, never,never heard about it.
In fact, they all say the onlyperson and the only man that had
been in Kenesha's life recentlywas Keith Haynes.
So they do find one friend inMississippi, her friend back in
(25:28):
Mississippi and she's able toshed some light on something.
This is a very it's good tohave friends like this.
You should have a good friend.
You can send some screenshotsto you or let them know, hey, if
anything ever happens to me.
Here's what you need to do withthis information.
And that's exactly what kind ofrelationship Kenesha had with
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this young lady in Mississippi.
So she tells police thatKenesha would sometimes tell
people that the father of herbaby was a white guy, but she
only did that because she wasashamed to admit the truth.
And that truth is that thefather was really Keith.
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Now she goes on to tell policethat Kenesha and Keith had a
very tumultuous relationship.
Tell police that Kenesha andKeith had a very tumultuous
relationship, even though Keithsaid in this interview that
everything was great and theywere friends and he was trying
to give her advice.
She tells detectives that thetwo were constantly fighting,
they never got along.
That her friend did not want arelationship with him even after
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finding out that she waspregnant.
Want a relationship with himeven after finding out that she
was pregnant and Keith did.
He wanted to rekindle this pastrelationship, but she was only
willing to co-parent with himand she didn't want him as a
love interest.
I mean, she thought he was aliar, she thought he was a
cheater, she wasn't willing toreally go there with him
(26:59):
romantically and be committed tohim because she just didn't
think it was going to work outand she didn't want to go down
that road again.
So this is what her friend istelling police and they text all
pretty much every day.
She hears from her pretty muchevery day and she does say that
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there were some text messagesthat seemed to get worse and
worse and worse as his pregnancywent along.
Kenesha, basically, was askingKeith for help with the baby.
That he didn't show up when hewould.
He kept letting her down.
(27:41):
He wasn't helping buy thingsfor the child, he really wasn't
participating.
I think that he probably knewchild support was going to be
coming soon.
Well, I remind you, he hasanother woman that's delivering
children twins, by the way.
So that's just additional childsupport he's going to be paying
.
He's basically going to havethree kids within a two week
(28:03):
span.
So a lot of pressure.
So police start to really kindof listen to what this young
woman is saying.
And then when Kenesha found outthat Keith was seeing another
woman who was also pregnant, Imean she was very upset.
It was clear that he wasirresponsible and immature and
(28:26):
she just wanted nothing to dowith him.
I mean she, you know, there wasjust no way she felt like she
could really rely on him.
Then her friend sends her somemessages alongside with some
screenshots of an argument thatthey both had and she basically
tells her friend in Mississippithat she thinks Keith might be
(28:48):
trying to kill her.
So police end up getting asubpoena, getting the warrant
and getting Kenesha's textmessages.
So what they see is that they'reclearly in this relationship
(29:09):
about this child.
There are clear signs thatKenesha doesn't want anything to
do with him on a personal,private relationship level.
She wants to co-parent andthat's about it.
This really upset Keith.
He wanted to be with her.
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He was not.
What you know, I don't know.
It's confusing, right?
You have a woman who knows theguy that she is going to be
having his baby is not good forher and she's willing to go
through this alone.
I mean she's wanting, you knowshe's basically saying I don't
have time for, you know, gamesand this nonsense.
(29:54):
And so I feel like, especiallywith the fact that a lot of
people in her life did not knowthat this guy was the father of
the child, there was a lot ofshame there, I think.
And maybe a part of her wanted,you know, for their child to
know the father or maybe atleast rely on him to do some
(30:17):
things.
But she could tell from thebeginning, you know, when she
found out who she was pregnant,that this was not going to be
what she wanted.
And, um, you know, her friendsmade it very, her friend made it
very clear that she was veryconcerned about her safety at
one point.
And I believe one of the textmessages basically said you know
(30:39):
, um, um, you know, I think he'sgoing to try to kill me.
I've been afraid of him.
So there's some disturbing, youknow, things going on.
Now they don't know he's liedto them, right?
Keith came in and said that therelationship with Kenesha was
(31:02):
great, they were all gettingalong well.
But they discover even moredisturbing communications
because now they've subpoenaed,they find out, you know,
basically, looking throughKeith's phone, there's nothing
there, right.
But once they get really deepdown into the messages from the
phone company, they see that youknow, there's a lot of
(31:22):
disturbing communication goingon between them.
You know, keith, let them.
Keith, let police look at hisphone.
But he had deleted so manythings that there was no reason
to hold him at that time.
But police actually learn thathe's also changed his phone
number on the same day thatKenesha was killed.
Now, originally Keith had toldpolice that he last saw Kenesha
(31:44):
on that Wednesday, april 12th.
But his phone records show thathe'd actually been texting her
the same night she was killed.
And in that text he basicallysays hey, I'm on my way over to
the apartment.
Can you leave the door unlockedfor me?
Around 1045 on April 13th, lessthan 12 hours before Kenesha's
(32:06):
body is found.
Around 1045 on April 13th, lessthan 12 hours before Kenesha's
body is found.
That is when the big kicker ofthe text message comes through.
He says he's 40 minutes awayfrom the house, that she should
probably just go to bed and thathe will let himself in.
Now let's talk about the murderweapon.
(32:26):
Now let's talk about the murderweapon.
We know it was um.
They found a 40 caliber bulleton the floor in kinesha's
bedroom.
These are also some textmessages that they found and
this is all about the murderweapon.
So they see that the basicallythe day she's killed he texts a
friend and or an acquaintance.
(32:49):
Police don't know at this point, they're just reading the
messages.
But he's asking to borrow a gun.
So they don't know yet.
But just on correspondence backand forth they notice that he's
trying to get a weapon theowner of the gun.
So they end up tracking downthe phone number.
They see the text, they callhim and the owner basically
(33:11):
tells police that he knows Keith.
And on that Thursday nightKeith text him and asked if he
could actually borrow his gun.
And the reason Keith gave forneeding the weapon is that he
was going to meet up with awoman he met online for sex and
he didn't want to be unarmed.
He didn't want to be without aweapon, just in case he was
(33:32):
being set up, just in case, youknow, weird things happen.
We know that when you meetpeople online you have to be
safe.
So his friend thought well, hey, he came and picked up the gun
and returned it the followingmorning.
So he shows police this gun andthey take a note that it is a
(33:52):
.40 caliber pistol, the sametype of weapon that they know
was used to kill Kenesha.
But that's not all.
The owner of that gun says itshould be fully loaded, but when
they check the actual magazinethere's only one bullet inside.
So it's clear at that pointsomeone has actually been firing
this gun.
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Police think it's all lining up.
They take Keith into custody.
Between the lies, the textmessages and him borrowing the
gun, he is looking like theprime suspect in Kenesha's
murder.
He is looking like the primesuspect in Kenesha's
(34:33):
murder.
April 19th, which is aWednesday gosh, five days after
Kenesha was shot in her home um,they surround Keith's
apartments and this in Plano,texas, and make that arrest.
Arlington, I gave you props foreight or nine days, five days,
I didn't realize it was onlyfive days.
Well, great work.
They got this guy in handcuffs,brought him in.
This is when he basicallysurrenders.
(34:57):
He says we have a warrant foryou, we're going to.
You know you're surrounded.
They're going to his home.
So they arrest him and chargehim with capital murder.
And he complies.
He comes out.
They make the arrest.
Well, now they're going to takehim back and start
interrogating him.
So he's telling police back atthe station.
(35:18):
You know they're interrogatinghim again.
So he basically waives hisrights and he's like I'll talk.
I have no problem talking andtelling you.
You know whathappened.
Now, at the start of theinterview he sticks to his story
and he admits that he did visitKenesha's apartment a day
(35:40):
before the homicide.
But he insists he wasn't therewhen she was killed and has no
idea what happened to her.
But then they start rolling outthe evidence.
He's getting a littleuncomfortable.
They start sharing informationand text messages that the
friend gave to them and showedthem.
They also address the deletedphone messages.
They put more.
You know they're reallystarting to put some pressure on
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him just for him to maybe admitthat he was doing some of these
things.
But then he's like I alwaysswitch my phone number.
That's not big of a deal, butthe more evidence that police
start to really roll.
Keep asking him.
You know we have GPS data.
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We know you're on your way toher apartment.
The little boy even knew youwere in the bed and he's like I
was never there andhe.
But then they start, you know,throwing other evidence at him.
(36:58):
You know this is ourcircumstantial at this point
until you know, they canactually match that bullet to
the to the weapon that wasactually found text and says he
hasn't had a gun in hispossession at any time recently.
However, he can't explain howthe messages ended up in his
phone records if he didn't sendthem.
I mean, this guy is really likegrasping for straws here.
So they basically say you knowwhat?
(37:19):
Fine, we've got enough evidenceagainst you If you don't want
to admit what you did.
You know, we know you're lying.
So you know he eventually says,hey, I'm done talking and
refuses to admit anything.
But they are going to chargehim with capital
(37:44):
murder.
So when the trial finallybegins in 2023, prosecutors
argue that there's basically amountain of evidence against
this guy in the Kenesha Walkermurder.
They point out the phonerecords, they point out the text
messages to the friend toborrow the gun.
They point out the fact thatKenesha was rejecting him and
you know, and he was upset aboutthat.
Yet you know you could see thatshe clearly had no interest in
(38:06):
him, but he just kept pushingand pushing for this
relationship.
But now she's pregnant with hischild and he knew he'd be on
the hook for child support soonher child, like I mentioned
(38:30):
earlier, but also the otherwoman's twins that will be
due.
Around the time that Kenesha'schild was supposed to be born, I
think the walls were closing in.
I think that he probably knewthat this was not going to end
well, that the other woman thiswas not going to end well, that
the other woman, right Keneshahad found out about her.
Right, kenesha found out,realized that he has another
(38:54):
woman that has a baby pregnant,about to deliver.
She didn't want to haveanything to do with him but
agreed that co-parenting wassomething that she would be okay
with.
But then he just kept lettingher down, and letting her down,
and letting her down, and Ithink maybe she just kind of had
enough and said listen, if youdon't want to be a part of this
life, you're definitely notgoing to be a part of my life,
but I want you a part of ourchild's life.
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But if this isn't good enough,then so be it, if it's just not
enough.
So they believe this was themotive for murder.
Um, instead of, you know,dealing with it like a man, he
(39:36):
drove to kanisha's apartment andmanaged basically to convince
her to let him inside, and thereason was that they could talk
about daycare plans for theirchild.
And then it got later, you know, and she probably convinced, he
probably convinced herprosecutors believe that.
You know he probably asked tosleep over.
(39:56):
You know they believe this wasaround midnight, 1230, one
o'clock, and then that's whenher son comes in at 2am and then
mother gives the name Moosey asthe person that's in
bed.
They believe, at some point,because he's seen, because the
boy sees, because that boy, at 2am spoke to the mother and that
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he sees the man in the bedaround two o'clock, they know
that the murder happened afterthat, right?
So they believe at some pointKeith got up, grabbed the weapon
, went and grabbed a potato fromthe kitchen and then snuck
behind this young lady that'sseven months pregnant and fired
(40:41):
one bullet in the back of herhead, killing her instantly.
And then he leaves theeight-year-old to find his
mother and then not only that,the child that she's carrying,
which is his um, is also nowdeceased.
At this point, he's got nowhereto go.
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The jury, the courts, they wereable to see through these lies
and on December 11, 2023, theyfind him guilty of capital
murder of Kenesha Walker and,under Texas law, automatic
sentence to life in prisonwithout parole.
Until next time, friends, staysafe, have fun and cheers to
(41:30):
next time.
Thank you.
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