BOSTON, May 21, 2013—The men who killed Billie Kee and Kevin Thomas, Jr., were sentenced to consecutive life terms for their murder plus an additional decade for using a high-capacity firearm in the 2011 slayings, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

The terms had been recommended by Conley’s office, and at prosecutors’ request will not begin until the two complete the sentences they’re already serving for unrelated offenses – Corbin an assault and battery, and Fulgiam for violating the terms of his probation on an earlier conviction.

“The facts demanded these sentences,” Conley said. “All murder is cruel and all murder is senseless, but the level of violence in this case was almost inhuman. Ms. Kee and Mr. Thomas left families behind who deserve to know that these men will never walk a free step again. The public deserves certainty that they will never return to civilized society.”

Judge Peter Lauriat imposed the sentences after emotional impact statements from both victims’ families, including one from Kee’s father, William Kee, who recalled the day he had to identify her remains at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner – right across the street from the hospital in which she was born prematurely 24 years earlier.

Corbin and Fulgiam were convicted of all charges yesterday on the second day of jury deliberations and after nine days of testimony proving that Corbin and Fulgiam travelled to 957 Hyde Park Ave. where Kee, 24, lived with her boyfriend, Thomas, 32, at about midnight on July 26, 2011.

The evidence and testimony showed that the defendants bound the victims in the course of an armed robbery, then repeatedly stabbed and shot them. Both victims suffered multiple traumatic injuries, including injuries that claimed their lives. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

In the aftermath of the murders, investigators recovered a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at the scene. The handgun was a ballistic match to the firearm that killed Kee and Thomas. On the magazine inside were multiple fingerprints matching those of Fulgiam. Also recovered at the scene was an electrical cord used to bind Kee. It had been cut from a curling iron. On the curling iron was a fingerprint matched to Corbin. Corbin’s prints were on file from prior arrests and convictions for aggravated assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm, mayhem, and other offenses; Fulgiam’s were on file from prior arrests and convictions for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, armed assault with intent to murder, armed robbery, and other offenses.

Additionally, cell phone records showed that Corbin was in contact with Thomas in the days and hours preceding the murders, that Corbin was also in frequent contact with Fulgiam during the same time frame, and that both defendants were in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene before, during, and after Kee and Thomas were killed.

Based on a review of Thomas’ electronic communications, investigators further learned that Corbin owed a large amount of money to Thomas and that Thomas expected payment for that money. Included in those communications was an agreement by Corbin to meet Thomas on July 25, 2011.

The case was tried by Chief Trial Counsel John Pappas and Assistant District Attorney Zachary Hillman of the DA’s Appellate Division. Katherine Moran was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Corbin was represented by attorney Jack Miller and Fulgiam by attorney William White.

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