OLATHE, Kan. -
A Kansas judge has decided there is enough evidence for three young men to stand trial for the murder of 18-year-old Keighley Aylea. Overland Park, Kan., police said Joe Mattox and Scott Calbeck confessed to killing Aylea last September. Police said Aylea's former boyfriend, Dustin Hilt had not confessed, but prosecutors have charged all three with first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery.
Testimony at Tuesday's preliminary hearing included never before released details about Aylea's murder. Detectives said Alyea was still alive after her abductors thought they had beaten her to death and stuffed her in the trunk of her car. Police said confessions from Mattox and Calbeck revealed the three men, all 18 at the time of the crime, heard Alyea screaming and pounding from inside the trunk, begging for help.
Police said the three suspects pulled the car over, took her out of the trunk and asked if she would rat them out. Detectives said Alyea promised to tell no one and begged the three men to drop her off at a hospital. Instead, police said Hilt stabbed her with a hunting knife in the stomach and Calbeck admitted to kicking her in the head. In all, Aylea suffered at least 29 stab wounds, at least nine to the chest. Detectives said she had been smothered and had been beaten around her head and neck.
Police said the three men drove Aylea to a field near Harrisonville, Mo., and dumped her body, but not before taking $80 from her pocket. Alyea's father was in the courtroom and heard all of the testimony. He said the three suspects spent the $80 the next day on cigarettes and McDonald's.
Detectives said the three drove Alyea's car back to Overland Park, Kan., and tried to clean the bloody car with bleach. A few days later, police found her car abandoned at an apartment complex.
Mattox told police that Hilt wanted to hurt Alyea and take her car, but never mentioned murder as part of the plan. But Calbeck told investigators it was Mattox who mentioned wanting to kill Alyea and who first attacked her with a metal jack handle in the back of her car as they drove her around.
A motive was not revealed except that police said that Calbeck said Mattox just went crazy in the back seat.
Testimony at Tuesday's preliminary hearing included never before released details about Aylea's murder. Detectives said Alyea was still alive after her abductors thought they had beaten her to death and stuffed her in the trunk of her car. Police said confessions from Mattox and Calbeck revealed the three men, all 18 at the time of the crime, heard Alyea screaming and pounding from inside the trunk, begging for help.
Police said the three suspects pulled the car over, took her out of the trunk and asked if she would rat them out. Detectives said Alyea promised to tell no one and begged the three men to drop her off at a hospital. Instead, police said Hilt stabbed her with a hunting knife in the stomach and Calbeck admitted to kicking her in the head. In all, Aylea suffered at least 29 stab wounds, at least nine to the chest. Detectives said she had been smothered and had been beaten around her head and neck.
Police said the three men drove Aylea to a field near Harrisonville, Mo., and dumped her body, but not before taking $80 from her pocket. Alyea's father was in the courtroom and heard all of the testimony. He said the three suspects spent the $80 the next day on cigarettes and McDonald's.
Detectives said the three drove Alyea's car back to Overland Park, Kan., and tried to clean the bloody car with bleach. A few days later, police found her car abandoned at an apartment complex.
Mattox told police that Hilt wanted to hurt Alyea and take her car, but never mentioned murder as part of the plan. But Calbeck told investigators it was Mattox who mentioned wanting to kill Alyea and who first attacked her with a metal jack handle in the back of her car as they drove her around.
A motive was not revealed except that police said that Calbeck said Mattox just went crazy in the back seat.
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