Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Sex Offender Cellmate
A judge in Florida this week sentenced a 44-year-old man to spend the remainder of his life behind bars for the brutal murder of his former prison cellmate—a convicted child sex offender—whose throat he crushed.
“Inmate Carruthers strangled Inmate Kever and forcefully stomped his throat area that led to his death,” arresting documents reportedly stated. “Inmate Carruthers showed no regard for human life while committing murder.”
Kever was transported to the facility’s medical unit where doctors pronounced him dead. A subsequent autopsy reportedly determined that the death was a homicide caused by “manual strangulation/traumatic injuries of head/neck.”
Kever in 1996 was convicted on four counts of lewd and lascivious indecent assault on a child under 16, sexual battery, and attempted sexual battery. At the time of his death he was serving a sentence of eight years and nine months after being found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender in compliance with the state regulations, according to Florida Department of Corrections records
Hey I have to agree with Anne and Cherokee and several others. I was put in Lock-up when I first got involved in all this stupid type sex registry. They put me in a cell with two murders that were awaiting trial. One was 18 and the other was in his mid 40’s.. Here I am 66 years of age and one of the person’s in the cell said to one of the guards or trustee’s get that guy out of here before I Kill him.
I didn’t even know what was going on as murder can play on some in jail. Seems the sex registry seems worse and plays on others. Course I knew to keep my trap shut in jail but this was a regional jail and not the small time jail.
You all have to remember I’m in a commonwealth state of VA and it can get pretty tricky in they put you in with a mixture. Even a bull pen is not as bad awaiting trial or doing a weekend type ordeal when I was back in high school and a bit of college.
If you are in jail for a sex offense its best to keep your mouth shut and hope for the best. Crime and punishment are bad enough.
I want to make this short but still get my point across. To those of us lucky enough to have a job while having to be on the registry. The Boss man knows, and chose to keep it to himself…I worry the day will come when the people I interact with will discover that I am on the registry …that day will be the begining of my losing everything I have gained after I was released from the penitentiary.
Also on that day I will be rejudged by those same people who trust me to do the right thing for them as part of my job…and this all because they are now full of discontent and, yes, hate towards me because of my past bad choice.. any closeness that has arisen because of business dealings will no longer be reviewed as a positive business relationship..The list is long of all the things that will change as soon as those I deal with forget what a good honest man they have been dealing with. Yes, I believe my Boss man will be forced to ” let me go “…to me that’s a form of death, all because people can find out if they wanted to…
Edward
About 5 years into my last job I saw everyone gathered in the bosses office. It had windows on 3 sides and I snuck over to a corner and peeked in the window. I freaked out when I saw the boss and every employee lurking over the bosses shoulders as he shared my registry page.
I knocked and when I came in, everyone scattered and the boss turned off the screen. I was 2nd in command and I said “You wanted to see me boss?”. I thought he was going to bring up the registry but instead he said ” I am going on vacation on Monday so you will be in charge.”
Being pissed that he called everyone into the office to see that, I knew things were going to become really bad for me. There was NO one else qualified to be the supervisor but I could not let what just happened stand.
Without mentioning that I saw what happened, I said to him “You will have to get someone else boss, I quit” and handed him my keys and went home. When corporate called me a month later to ask why I quit without notice ” By time I was finished telling her the Hell I had been through during those past years, she ended up having the company attorney call me.
My point never assume they don’t already know. I just had a neighbor I have known for 20 years mention that she has known about me all that time and never mentioned it and never treated me different. I forget why it came up but it did.
I have not worked since 2014. Got denied disability, got denied food stamps, got denied Everything. Pretty sure because I am on the registry according to the lawyer I hired. (Free unless you win) He said he has never had a client on the registry win but has heard other lawyers say they have. When I asked about it, he said it was not the lawyer that matter, it was the judge you get assigned to that decides if you sink or swim.
I’ve had some “friends” to dismiss me because of a sex charge (though none of them or theirs were affected). I’ve had others who found out or were told after having known me for a long time and they’ve still been supportive. In prison, another inmate even relented and said that “maybe not everyone with a sex offense is all bad.” Many in prison are even less learned than the general public so a “sex charge” = “worst scum, must be destroyed.”
In other words, people MAY surprise you in positive ways, after knowing you for awhile and then learning of your past.
Lack of employment makes me question my skills, my own role in life, if I’ll be relegated to some starter minimum wage job for the rest of my life.
Edward R…..
Just Wait Until A Compliance Check is made at one of your employers; or in my case a subcontractor….Talk About Embarrassment!!!
14 US Marshals in Combat Fatigues and all the Guns and Ammo; the Local POO-LEECE, and DOJ Officials….Talk about a waste of money!
-At least they entered the back of the building and only one person, so far has commented to me; she is a dear friend of mine; her response was, “DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO!”
Again, I will walk away from them as there is NO CODIFIED STATUTE WITH REGARDS TO COMPLIANCE CHECKS ON PERSONS WHO ARE NOT WARDS OF THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT….THEY CANNOT STOP YOU, AS THAT WOULD BE FALSE ARREST;
PLEASE EVERYONE STAND UP TO THESE BULLY TACTICS WITH REGARD TO COMPLIANCE CHECK…DO NOT TALK TO THEM..
WHERE IS THE CODIFIED STATUTE REQUIRING ‘YOU’ TO PRESENT YOUR ID DURING A COMPLIANCE CHECK???…THERE IS NONE…IT DOES NOT EXIST!
THANK YOU!
Truth
First off, legally if you are off probation, the compliance checks are supposed to be to verify your address. Showing up at your work, especially with 14 US Marshalls. Things like that seem to only happen when someone calls in a tip or you pissed off the wrong person.
This is plain and unequivocal proof of the punishment level law enforcement gets away with on a daily basis. Having worked in law enforcement myself in the distant past, I can say I saw incidents happen on a weekly basis that left me unable to sleep at night.
The more the judges allow registry Gestapo to get away with, the more creative ways they come up with to push us into being “Someone else’s problem”.