Town note
Kenton sits where Route 42 and Route 300 cross, and the town website says it grew up at the crossroads.
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FILE 44 / 15 November 2017 / 116 MIN / full
James says they are going to Kenton, Delaware, in Kent County, in the northwest part of the state, about 20 minutes outside Dover and 15 minutes from Marydel, Maryland about 0:06:37
Kenton sits where Route 42 and Route 300 cross, and the town website says it grew up at the crossroads.
about 0:13:15Kenton was first laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis, who began acquiring property in the area around 1790.
about 0:13:24The community was first known as Grogtown, then Lewis Crossroads, and in 1806 it was named Kenton.
about 0:13:49There is an Amish community just west of Dover, about 1,200 to 1,500 people, and the Amish Country bike tour every September is one of the largest cycling events in Delaware.
about 0:14:23Kenton sits where Route 42 and Route 300 cross, and the town website says it grew up at the crossroads.
about 0:13:15Kenton was first laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis, who began acquiring property in the area around 1790.
about 0:13:24The community was first known as Grogtown, then Lewis Crossroads, and in 1806 it was named Kenton.
about 0:13:49There is an Amish community just west of Dover, about 1,200 to 1,500 people, and the Amish Country bike tour every September is one of the largest cycling events in Delaware.
about 0:14:23Rose Foods, a company in the town, was shuttered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014.
about 0:16:05Richard T. Kepfer of Hartley got a ticket in Kenton on July 15th, 2017, declared the town a speed trap and filed information requests; he found more than $131,000 in traffic tickets were collected in 2016.
about 0:15:36Delaware's method of execution was hanging until June 1986, when the General Assembly required lethal injection; executions must be carried out between 12.01 a.m. and 3 a.m.
about 1:39:41Bill Bailey was the last inmate hanged in Delaware, in 1996, because he was convicted before 1986; the hanging before that was in 1946.
about 1:39:0633.56%
Biggest faith: Catholic, 10.69%
about 0:19:26White 68.60% · Black 2.89% · Asian 0.0% · Hispanic 25.21%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▲ about 25% above average
Violent crime
▲ 25% above average
Listing: Rose Lane
about 0:22:39Listing: three bed, two bath, 1,600 sq ft on High Street
about 0:22:55Listing: East Commerce Street, three bed, three bath
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Comparison: "about the same as in 1890". Direction: about the same.
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"24.5"
Comparison: "37.4 national". No direction stated.
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"almost 55%"
Comparison: "females usually almost about 51%". No direction stated.
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"72"
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"2.36"
Comparison: "almost a full person more than the average". Direction: above.
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"33.3%"
Comparison: "more than twice the average". Direction: above.
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"68.60%"
Comparison: "about 63% normal". No direction stated.
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"2.89%"
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"0.0%"
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"25.21%"
Comparison: "about 17% on average". No direction stated.
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"33.56%"
Comparison: "lower than the 50% average". Direction: below.
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"10.69%"
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"0.11%"
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"0.20%"
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"52%"
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"about 46%"
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"about 5%"
Comparison: "right on par with the national average". No direction stated.
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"almost $40,000"
Comparison: "about $14,000 below the national average of almost $54,000". Direction: below.
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"28%"
Comparison: "normally about 6%". No direction stated.
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"95"
Comparison: "100 being par". Direction: below.
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"69"
Comparison: "100 being par". Direction: below.
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"$129,000"
Comparison: "about $186,000 nationally". No direction stated.
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"about $960"
Comparison: "national average about $1,030". No direction stated.
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"$196,831"
Comparison: "bank owned, on the site 663 days". No direction stated.
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"$199,000"
Comparison: "sale pending". No direction stated.
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"$239,900"
No direction stated.
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"about 25% above average"
Comparison: "though almost no crime was reported in 2015". Direction: above.
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"25% above average"
Direction: above.
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Small Town Murder visits Kenton, Delaware, a tiny crossroads town in Kent County where Route 42 meets Route 300, about 20 minutes from Dover and 15 minutes from Marydel, Maryland. It was laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis, who had been buying land since about 1790, and was called Grogtown and then Lewis Crossroads before taking the name Kenton in 1806. Its population is 265, with 72 households and a median age of 24.5. The mayor, Howard Colman, publishes an email address at Comcast. A ticket given to Richard T. Kepfer in July 2017 led to a finding that more than $131,000 in fines were collected in 2016, after Rose Foods was shut by the FDA in 2014.
The case begins on December 1, 1986. The three younger men stole a 1965 Mustang and went north. Nave's sister, Kathy Spence, later said she brought the three men clothes at the Fieldsborough service station, where attendant Wilbert Dill saw only three men, and drove them around until 7 p.m. The Starfire was found on County Road 139 outside Kenton. That morning the home of Frank and Dorothy Sini on County Road 168 was burgled; a size 48 black motorcycle jacket, several pocket watches and loose change were taken. Half a mile away lived Richard and Madeline Kisner and their 16-year-old son, Brian. Richard left for work at 7.30 a.m. and Brian had already left for school. Madeline, 44, did not arrive at her job, and her co-worker Alice Holman phoned repeatedly. When Brian came home at about 3.30 p.m. he assumed his mother, who was in her bedroom wearing a red house coat, was asleep. After Holman's call at 3.40 p.m. he went to the bedroom door, saw blood around his mother's head, took a knife, called the police and locked himself in the family's pickup truck.
Police found Madeline on the bed with a nylon stocking around her neck, her hands tied behind her back with shoelaces and a sock tied over her mouth. She had been stabbed 14 times. Richard Kisner told officers that her Chrysler LeBaron, its keys and some cash were missing, and that she kept several two dollar bills in her wallet. The autopsy by Dr Judith Tobin found 12 stab wounds to the chest, one to the head, one to the neck and signs of attempted strangulation. A haemorrhage in the heart caused her death.
That evening, at the Zoo Bar in Milford, a man introduced himself to Patty Dennis as Abaddon, which he said meant one of Satan's disciples. He wore an oversized leather jacket and was asked to leave. He wore the Sinis' jacket and carried four of their pocket watches, change, a two dollar bill and a cotton sock matching the one used to gag Madeline. A large tattoo of his nickname was on his stomach.
McCoy, Erwin and Nave were captured on December 22, 1986, in a creek bed in northwestern Arizona. Nave's sister, Dill and the physical evidence contradicted this. The defence's motions for a change of venue were denied, as were its attempts to keep out evidence of his Aryan Brotherhood membership and swastika tattoos. An FBI agent matched the sock and red fibres from her robe, and serologists found blood consistent with hers on his clothes.
The aggravating factors were that he was an escaped prisoner, that the killing took place during a burglary or robbery, and that it was for gain. In March 1990 the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed. He was resentenced to death on April 2, 1993.
The public and the victim's family were not allowed to attend. Madeline Kisner is buried at the Oddfellows Cemetery in Camden, Delaware.
December 1, 1986 / the Kisner home near Kenton, Delaware
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