Laurens Parents’ Deaths At Hand Of Their Son Revisited A Year Later Binghamton Newspaper Publishes Report Editor’s Note: An hour ago, The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin published an in-depth look at the case of Kevin Perry, now in prison in the deaths of his parents a week before Christmas 2017. By ANTHONY BORRELLI, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin After a heated argument with his mother and father, an angered Kevin A. Perry stormed into another room. That’s when the 23-year-old threatened to kill his…
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Perry Will Serve At Least 22 Years In Parents’ Deaths Now 24, He Would Be 46 Before Any Possible Parole, D.A. Says COOPERSTOWN – Kevin Perry, 24, convicted of killing his parents in Laurens last December, will soon be en route to a maximum-security prison for at least 21.875 years. As agreed upon when he pleaded guilty in September, Perry was sentenced today in Otsego County Court to 25 year to life on each of two counts of second-degree murder,…
Laurens Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Parents LAURENS – Kevin Perry, 23, arrested for shooting his parents Timothy and Solveig in their home in Laurens a week before Christmas, Friday pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, according to reports. Perry was arrested after crashing his father’s stolen truck in Schoharie. His sister Rebecca had discovered their parent’s bodies earlier that evening and notified Otsego County Sheriff’s Deputies that the truck had been stolen. During his arraignment on Dec. 18,…
Cameras Set Stage, Helped Solve Killing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Otsego County’s first slaying of 2017 – on New Year’s morning – happened in an Oneonta apartment with a surveillance camera in every room. The cameras helped put suspect Joshua Underwood, 25, in the victim’s room, and help convict the man, said District Attorney John Muehl. Underwood was convicted Friday, March 30, to 20 years in jail. “Witnesses said they got into a fight about…
UNDERWOOD GETS 20 YEARS Perry Offered 25 In Parents’ Slaying By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Joshua Underwood, 25, who plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the New Year’s Day death of his boyfriend, Mark Morrison, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Otsego County Court. Officials say around 3:30 a.m. Jan. 1, 2017, Underwood called 911 and reported that he had killed his boyfriend, 52-year-old Mark Morrison of Oneonta. Police found Morrison dead in his…
Laurens Homicide Sent To Grand Jury By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Arguing on behalf of his client, Kevin Perry, defense attorney Andrew Puritz told Town Justice Sean Farrell that Perry, accused of the murders of his parents, Timothy A. Perry, 59, and Solveig E. Perry, 52, on Tuesday, Dec, 12, should be released on his own recognizance. “The evidence tying him to the crime is thin, circumstantial evidence,” he said during the 75-minute felony hearing in…
LONG GUN USED, NOT PISTOL VICTIMS’ DAUGHTER FOUND HER PARENTS; SON HELD IN DEATHS By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com TOWN OF MIDDLEFIELD – The sister of Kevin A. Perry came home on the evening of Tuesday Dec. 12 to find both of her parents dead on the floor of their Laurens trailer home, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. reported at a press conference this afternoon at the county jail. Both were killed by gunshots, and Kevin Perry,…
DOUBLE SLAYING IN LAURENS SON CHARGED WITH KILLING MOM, DAD By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A 23-year-old man in is custody, charged with the slaying of his parents at the home they shared in Laurens. Kevin Perry, 23, allegedly shot his parents, Tim and Solveige Perry, last night at their home at 400 New Road in Laurens. Following a 911 call from a relative who allegedly found the two deceased in the home, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department dispatched…