Bay County, Fla. (WMBB) – The second man convicted of murdering someone in Bay County and sitting on death row inmate died this week.
Kale Bates was executed Tuesday, but that’s not how the second man died.
The Florida Department of Corrections website lists Matthew Kaylor as the deceased.
The legality of Lieutenant Collins’ extradition mission has been raised doubts.
News Channel 8’s Sister Station News 13 confirmed that Kaylor committed suicide on Tuesday night.
It is unclear how Kaylor committed suicide and why the corrections officers were unable to prevent it.
On July 8, 2008, Kaylor raped and murdered 13-year-old Melinda Hinson.
Hinson and her family lived at Value Lodge Motel on West Highway 98.
She walked to Kaylor’s room and burned a cigarette.
Kaylor rapes the girl, strangles her phone cord, and stuffs her body under the bed. The maid at the motel found her body two days later.
A local ju umpire voted 8-4 in favor of the death penalty when Kaylor was convicted of first-degree murder.
Since the ju judge’s vote was not unanimous, Kaylor received a new ruling phase in 2023.
Kaylor demands the judge decides his fate rather than a ju judge, and says he has promised that he will not put Hinson’s mother on trial.
During the resentment, the prosecutor announced that his mother had passed away.
Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson heard of the incident and ended up killing Kaylor.
Kaylor’s lawyers then filed a new appeal and said that if they had known Hinson’s mother had passed away, they would have requested the ju judge to hear about the case.
The appeal was rolled up in the state Supreme Court, where the judge refused it earlier this year.
Kaylor has been on death row since 2009.
“Matthew Kaylor knew he was facing the same inevitable fate as Kayle Bates. By committing suicide, he saved a lot of money to Florida taxpayers,” State Attorney Larry Basford said.
Kaylor was 50 years old.
The state will perform an autopsy as part of his investigation into his suicide.
