Disturbing details were revealed in a hearing Wednesday for a Powell County man accused of murdering a Winchester woman.
39-year-old Lonnie Martin is accused of killing 25-year-old Kyla Kline after investigators believe he picked her up in his van as she walked along a downtown Winchester street in early July.
Montgomery County authorities found Kline’s body buried on a farm. During Wednesday’s hearing, it was revealed that Kline was stabbed four times and hit in head with a mechanical object. Logs and tree limbs were then thrown on top of her.
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Police say they have a tape of Martin on video giving Kline a ride in Winchester. Police say they tracked Kline to the farm her body was discovered on by by using her cell phone’s GPS coordinates.
Earlier in the day, Martin was also charged with murder in the death of Joseph Bradley Martin, his cousin, who died after being hit by a train back in October 1995. The death was originally ruled accidental, and Lonnie Martin was listed as a witness in the case, but police now say evidence links Lonnie Martin with the death. Police believe Martin threw his cousin off of the Washington Street bridge into the path of the train.
Records also show Martin served ten years of a 15-year sentence for assaulting a woman in Estill County in 1997.
