A trial date has finally been set for a brutal double homicide in Madison County.
Daniel Keene and Lebruce Ellington appeared before a judge Thursday with a courtroom filled with family hoping to get some closure.
The nightmare began when Sonsary “Sonsi” Warford and Charles “Chew” Walker went missing in 2010. Police found their bodies two years later, buried in a Richmond field.
Daniel Keene and Matthew Denholm were charged in the kidnapping and murder. Sonsi was executed and Chew was tortured before he was killed. Lebruce Ellington was also charged in the couple’s death.
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Denholm pled guilty to killing Sonsi and another man in an unrelated Berea case. He’s serving a life sentence.
In court on Thursday Sonsi and Chew’s families were hoping for a similar outcome, hoping that the two would also plead guilty.
Chew’s aunt says he would’ve been 35 this year.
“Every time we come to the courtroom it’s like opening a wound back up,” she says. And “that seems like it’s never going to heal.”
While they are one step closer to ending this nightmare, they fear the worst is yet to come.
The trial is set for late 2015.
