New photos released in Kanawha County murder case

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Detectives with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department are still working to identify two men who may be accomplices to a murder.

New surveillance photos of Kelsey Marie Legg, 20, of Marmet, who is already charged with murder, and the two men were released Monday.

The photos were taken from surveillance video captured at the Lowe’s Home Improvement Store in Kanawha City on Sept. 24, a day after investigators allege Legg lured Kareem Hunter, of Charleston, to her apartment to kidnap him.

The three were reportedly buying paint among other items.  Legg was also seen at the same Lowe’s on Sept. 25 buying a roll of carpet with a man.

Anyone who can identify the men is asked to contact the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department at 304-357-0169 or submit a tip at www.kanawhasheriff.us.

Legg’s brother, Matt, told investigators he heard a disturbance on Sept. 23 in his sister’s Marmet apartment, the last day Hunter was seen, and later saw two men putting a body in the trunk of a car.

Legg turned herself in to deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department on Saturday night.  She is being held in the South Central Regional Jail on a felony murder charge.

The criminal complaint against her alleges Legg’s apartment had been cleaned and repainted and the carpet had been replaced, but blood stains and splatters were found there.

Legg is scheduled to be back in Kanawha County Magistrate Court for a preliminary hearing on Thursday.





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