Vahteice Kirkman is a black man who has
been on death row in the state of Florida since 10/01/08.
Crime
He was convicted of 6 counts of
Burglarly, 3 counts of Battery, 4 counts of robbery, 2 counts of
fleeing, 2 counts of Premeditated murder, Attempted murder, and
Arson, committed on 11/05/95.
On July 30, 2010, approximately four years after first being made
aware of her murder, the Cocoa Police Department found the skeletonized
remains of Darice Knowles, a Bahamian citizen, in a heavily wooded and
swampy area in Cocoa, Florida. The examination of Darice's remains
revealed that her hands and feet had been bound with duct tape, her
mouth had been covered with duct tape, and she had been buried alive by
being covered with concrete and dirt.Cocoa police were led to the burial site a few days earlier by Christopher “Dread” Pratt, who had been Darice's on-again, off-again boyfriend. Pratt, also a Bahamian citizen, led police to the burial site as part of a plea agreement he entered into while awaiting trial for his involvement in the separate murder of Willie Parker. For the Parker murder, Pratt had been indicted years before—in October 2006—along with Kirkman and a third individual, Jonathan Page.
Under the plea agreement, Pratt would receive a ten-year sentence for the second-degree murder of Parker, as well as a ten-year sentence for the second-degree murder of Darice, followed by ten years of probation. The plea agreement was conditioned on Pratt showing the police where Darice's body could be located and on Pratt testifying truthfully against Kirkman in both murder cases. Pratt led the investigators to the burial area, and on the fifth day of searching, Darice's remains were found.
Address
You can write to this inmate
at:
Vahteice Kirkman 165328
PO Box 23608Tampa, FL 33623
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