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12 jurors and two alternates have been selected in Elizabethtown in the trial of Christian "Kit" Martin, who is accused of a triple murder in Pembroke in 2015

Pembroke Triple Murder Trial Begins with Opening Statements

Hopkinsville, KY, USA / WHOP 1230 AM | News Radio Jun 1, 2021 | 2:57 PM Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in the trial of Christian “Kit” Martin, the former Army major and commercial airline pilot charged with the November, 2015 murders of three neighbors in Pembroke. Much of the discussion during a hearing Tuesday was focused on a shell casing that matched a gun belonging to Martin which was found on the back porch of the home of Calvin Phillips on South Main Street in Pembroke. Family members were cleaning the home weeks after the scene had been processed when the c...

Defense attorneys are still waiting for a forensic report in the case of Pembroke triple-murder suspect Christian “Kit” Martin. A laptop computer that an investigator used to obtain cell phone evidence was reportedly corrupted and sent to the FBI Crime Lab in Quantico, Virginia. The full report concerning the computer is expected to be finished by the end of the business day on Friday. Tom Griffiths, one of three attorneys for Martin, said the report should have been completed sooner. Additionally, Griffiths requested an evidentiary hearing for a shell casing found at the South Main Stree...

  With the triple-murder trial of Christian “Kit” Martin a month away, defense attorneys are still waiting for evidentiary reports from prosecutors and police. Defense attorney Tom Griffiths told Chief Circuit Judge John Atkins during Thursday’s court appearance they were made aware of a box of items that has not been inventoried by the police. click to download audioGriffiths also said a laptop computer that was used by an investigator to obtain cell phone evidence was corrupted. That computer has since been sent to the FBI Crime Lab in Quantico, Virginia, and the defense has been ass...