A witness at the center of an alleged scheme to hide a tape depicting R. Kelly in a threesome with a minor told the jury Friday that he only handed over a partial copy of the tape to Kelly’s associates because he “didn’t think they’d know the difference.'
Keith Murrell, 45, is a key witness for prosecutors, who are trying to prove that Kelly and his two co-defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown, conspired to buy back incriminating tapes and hide years of Kelly’s sexual misconduct.Murrell’s testimony, which capped the second week of Kelly’s trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, helped shore up key elements of the indictment.
Murrell said he showed the video to several friends — including Freeman — but never gave it to anyone else. He was stunned in 2007, he said, when McDavid called him out of the blue and said they knew he had a tape. After he passed, McDavid “told me ‘Thank you’ and he shook my hand and gave me a hug. And then he gave me the money also.” Murrell says it was a bag with $80,000 in cash.In her testimony Thursday, Van Allen sobbed when she described how McDavid threatened her after she had failed a polygraph test about the tape, telling her “they should have murked me from the beginning” — that is, they should have killed her.
Bonjean showed increasing exasperation with Van Allen’s failure to nail down a timeline for when exactly she met Kelly and how old she was at the time. At one point, as Van Allen again said she was confused by a question, Bonjean threw her hands up in the air and looked toward the ceiling, letting out a heavy sigh.
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