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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Kenneth John Freeman
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 46 |
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Height: 6'2" |
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Weight: 250 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black
Mustache. |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Hazel |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Good-looking and very muscular. |
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Wanted for :
Child Rape, Kennewick, WA;
Jan 01, 2001
Failure To Appear, Kennewick, WA;
Mar 23, 2006
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Seattle, WA |
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Possible Location : Seattle , WA |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Avid gym-goer and bodybuilder. |
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Case Story |
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A Father's Breach Of Trust |
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For high school junior Kylie Freeman, it started out like a normal evening at home with her mom and stepfather. But as the family watched the film "Forrest Gump," something that happened to one of the characters on screen suddenly triggered Kylie's memory of a horrible thing that had happened to her. That's when police say Kylie revealed to her family that her father, Kenneth John Freeman, had raped her six years earlier.
Investigators say they discovered that the abuse had started when Kylie was ten years old, around the time that Freeman was divorcing his second wife, Kylie's stepmother. Cops say Freeman would show Kylie pornography and molest her, then threaten her not to tell anyone. After Freeman's divorce was finalized later that year, the abuse didn't stop. In fact, police say it got a lot worse.
»Kenneth Freeman Video Gallery
But in January of 2001, after Kylie's mother had a talk with her about sexual abuse, Kylie refused all of her father's advances. Kylie told authorities that while the abuse stopped, the coercion didn't. She never spoke of the abuse for fear that her dad would go to jail. |
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Police Find Evidence Of Past Evils |
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Based on Kylie's account alone, prosecutors felt they had enough information to file felony charges of child rape in the first degree. Detectives would soon discover disgusting and damning pieces of evidence against Freeman. As they examined Kylie's computer, forensic experts uncovered graphic homemade pornography of Kenneth Freeman sexually abusing Kylie -- computer files that police suspect were put there by Freeman himself. Cops seemed to have all the evidence they needed to put Freeman behind bars for a very long time.
However, Freeman never showed up for his arraignment hearing in Kennewick, Washington in March, 2006. In fact, detectives found surveillance video of him four hours away in Seattle leaving a parking garage on the day of his hearing. When Freeman failed to appear, a warrant was issued for his arrest. The one-time federal law enforcement officer and reserve sheriff's Deputy became a fugitive.
ICE and US Marshals started monitoring Freeman's activity months after he made their 'Most Wanted' list. Cops say Kenneth Freeman's prior career in law enforcement as a reserve deputy and security guard made him harder to catch. That is until May 2, 2007, when Freeman crossed the border from China to Hong Kong and was arrested by local police. |
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The Woman Behind The Man |
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Authorities tell AMW that Ken Freeman had help staying one step ahead of the law when he fled the country in March of 2006...his third wife, Maleka May Freeman. Cops believe that Maleka made a series of trips to China to see the then-fugitive and that she withheld information and made false statements to police.
Maleka Freeman was arrested on May 3, 2007 --the day after her husband -- by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She was detained as she exited an international flight from China.
When the agents encountered Maleka Freeman, she had two sets of luggage, one containing four pairs of men's shoes, twelve men's shirts, four pairs of men's pants, two sport coats, underwear, belts, and three bottles of AXE men's body spray. In her second piece of luggage was a wedding anniversary card which read 'For My Husband.' When questioned by ICE agents whom she was seeing in China, she claimed to be meeting her father, sister, and niece at the airport in Hong Kong. She also claimed that she hadn't seen Ken Freeman since March 23, 2006.
Agents also asked Freeman who the clothes were for and she replied that they were for her female cousin and no one else. However, authorities found a removable hard drive that contained pictures of Maleka and Ken Freeman together. The images were dated November 2006 but appeared to have been taken during a trip she took to China from August to December of 2006.
Maleka May Freeman recently pled guilty to making false statements to ICE officials and US Marshals about her husband's whereabouts. She also admitted to lying about helping Freeman cross the Canadian border to Vancouver, BC on March 23, 2006. Hours later, Freeman was on a flight to China. On November 29, 2007, Freeman's third wife, Maleka May Freeman, was sentenced to 6 months home confinement and 240 hours of community service as part of a 3 year term of probation for lying to two different law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions about knowledge of her husband's whereabouts.
- By Robert Brown and Denise Poon, AMW Staff |
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