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Murder
suspect back in jail
Date:
11/8/2007
By Glenn
Smith
The Post
and Courier
Thursday, November 8, 2007
A North Charleston man who skipped out on his trial for murder last month is
back behind bars after his arrest Wednesday on the grounds of a homeless shelter
in Berkeley County, authorities said.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force found Keith Renard
Bradley, 31, hiding on the property of C&S Community Care Home in Alvin. He was
arrested without incident around 4 a.m., Charleston County sheriff's Maj. John
Clark said.
Bradley is one of three people charged in the 2002 kidnapping and killing of
Miriam Leeks, 37, a homeless woman. She was found bludgeoned and wrapped in a
sheet in woods off Willtown Road in Adams Run.
Charleston County investigators had few leads to work with until a witness
came forward last year. In March 2006, deputies arrested Bradley and Hans
Frazier, then 35, on murder charges. Cynthia Major, then 37, was charged with
accessory after the fact of murder.
Bradley was the first of the three scheduled to go to trial, but he went on
the run Oct. 1, the same day his trial was to begin, authorities said. He had
been free on $50,000 bail while awaiting his day court, according to county
court records.
Working off tips and leads, the task force tracked Bradley to Alvin, where he
was arrested on a bench warrant, Clark said.
Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said prosecutors had been prepared to
bring Bradley to trial in absentia in December. They are pleased that he will
now be attending the proceedings, she said.
"We are very relieved that he is in custody, where we thought he should have
been all along," she said.
Reach Glenn Smith
at 937-5556 or
gsmith@postandcourier.com.
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