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Earlier this year, a bushy-haired hitchhiker named Kai become an online sensation after video emerged of him explaining he stopped a man from attacking a couple by hitting him with a hatchet. Now Kai McGillvary is wanted for the murder of a New Jersey man.
Union County authorities say that McGillvary is suspected of killing 73-year-old attorney Joseph Galfy Jr., who was found dead in his Clark, NJ home on May 13. The Star-Ledger reports that McGillvary, 24, "cut his hair in an attempt to alter his appearance [and] was last seen at a light rail station in the Haddonfield area." He is also considered armed and dangerous.
It's unclear how Union County authorities came to suspect McGillvary, an itinerant drifter. Here's the video that launched McGillvary to Internet stardom:
McGillvary is already charged with murder and has bail set at $3 million even though he hasn't been located. There's a $5,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest.
http://gothamist.com/2013/05/16/viral_video_star_kai_the_hitchhiker.php
Sigh......
Hope it's not true.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)He's posting on Facebook and recording music. They can't locate him?
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)Caleb Kai Lawrence Yodhehwawheh
He needs an attorney now. Immediately.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)"what would you do if you woke up with a groggy head, metallic taste in your mouth, in a strangers house... walked to the mirror and seen come dripping from the side of your face from your mouth, and started wretching, realizing that someone had drugged, raped, and blown their fuckin load in you? what would you do?"
Posted on Tuesday. The victim was killed on Monday. Here's his death notice: http://clark.patch.com/articles/services-announced-for-clark-homicide-victim-joseph-galfy
Hmmm...
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)there was something about him that creeped me out. He reminded me of this dangerous nutty guy I knew.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)The line between "free spirit" and "troubled" is often blurred, but he had clearly crossed it. Dude needed help then, and judging from his Facebook page, he's needed help for a long time.
cali
(114,904 posts)uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)his ridiculously phoney accent will give him away - wait and see.
uppityperson
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An autopsy performed the following day determined that Galfy died as a result of "blunt force trauma", according to Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow.
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Investigators said Kai met the attorney near Times Square, and a surveillance camera captured images of them. The men later went back to the victim's house, officials said.
A post was made to his Facebook page on Tuesday in which Kai claims he was raped by the man.....
Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)It coud be a setup?
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)It's not really looking like it. If he's on camera. And then there's this, from the arrested article:
"We have located various points along the way where he has been and we have determined there may have been some homicides along the way," said Union County prosecutor Ted Romankow.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)feel really weird, doing "what if" stuff and trying not to. It seems he did assault this guy, not sure if murdered or assaulted and he died, and if there was sexual abuse or what. Very odd.
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/national_world&id=9105613