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Case For The Fingerprint Project

By: Marco Rossini

The Murder of Grace Hayden

May 20, 1987 a 79 year old Grace Hayden was chilling at home in ST.Paul, NC til a named Kevin Thomas Ford raped and murdered her.

Grace Hayden

Ms. Hayden was a 79 year old woman from St.Paul, North Carolina. She was a elderly woman who could not drive and unfortunately had her medicine delivered by a man named Kevin Thomas Ford. Ford made his way into her house and would sexually assault her and then rape her. She was struggling so much that he ended up suffocating her until she was dead.

Grace Hayden

The Trial of Kevin Ford

After 32 years San Diego PD identified the fingerprints of a Mr. Kevin Thomas Ford and made the arrest in 2015. Kevin claims the sex was consensual, and he also claims he couldn't imagine what there family went through. But he was found guilty on a Rape and Murder charge and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Trial

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/man-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-in-san-diego-womans-1987-rape-and-murder

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The Scene and Cause

79, year old Grace Hayden would receive her medications by a delivery man every once in awhile at her house in St.Paul, North Carolina. One day a man would come into her house and her life would end in his hands. This was no ordinary medication delivery but a sick act portrayed by a man whose motive has never been discovered. He would sexual assault, rape, and strangle this poor elderly woman leaving her children and grandchildren behind.

The Event & Background

The Murder

Kevin Ford was born in North Carolina and grow up there. He was born in 1958 and would grow up to be a medication deliver and would meet a elderly woman named Grace Hayden. He would rape and kill her and go missing from the scene and flee to San Diego. It is not known how long he lived there before they dug up the fingerprints and made the arrest. But he was arrested after a strict Id of 32 year old fingerprints on the body of his victim.

Kevin T. Ford

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