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Alex King Released from Prison

By David Lohr

When baby-faced brothers Alex and Derek King, 12-and-13-years-old, respectively, killed their father in his Cantonment, Florida home on the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2001 with a baseball bat and then set the house afire to conceal evidence of the slaying, the story made national headlines.  The case became one of the most notorious killings in the state?s history.  Six years later Alex, now 18, is a free man.  He was released on Wednesday morning, April 9, 2008 at 9:45 a.m. after serving six years for his part in his father?s death. To recap the story, the boys? father, Terry King, was sitting in a living room chair with his feet propped up on a sofa, asleep, when he was bludgeoned to death with an aluminum baseball bat.  Firefighters working feverishly to extinguish the blaze that had been deliberately set, discovered his body...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).