Santa Fe Man Charged With Daughter’s Brutal Death

     AN ARREST IS MADE IN A SANTA FE COUNTY HOMICIDE FROM JANUARY 2015. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED 65 YEAR OLD WILLIAM KELLY ON MONDAY NIGHT AND CHARGED HIM WITH ONE COUNT OF MURDER AND TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, JULIEANNE KELLY. AN AUTOPSY FOUND THAT THE DAUGHTER HAD BEEN STABBED BETWEEN 30 AND 35 TIMES AND SUFFERED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA.

WILLIAM KELLY HAD ORIGINALLY REPORTED HER MISSING, BUT HER BODY WAS FOUND BY DETECTIVES ON HIS PROPERTY. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER SHARED THE RESIDENCE. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE TWO HAD A HISTORY OF ARGUING, PRIMARILY ABOUT THEIR LIVING ARRANGEMENT.

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