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    PSA Airlines pilot Christian Martin (51) arrested in 2015 triple murder

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    LOUISVILLE, Ky. -
    A pilot with an American Airlines subsidiary was arrested early Saturday morning at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on murder charges, according to news reports.

    Christian Richard Martin, 51, was indicted by a grand jury Friday in a triple homicide in 2015 in Christian County, Kentucky, according to WDRB-TV. He?s facing three counts of murder, a count of arson and a count of attempted arson, among other charges.

    Investigators said Martin killed three people identified as Calvin Phillips, his wife, Pamela Phillips, and another man, Edward Dansereau, sometime around Nov. 15, WDRB reported. Phillips was found shot to death in his home. Pamela Phillips and Dansereau were found dead in a burned-out car a few miles away.

    Authorities allege Martin relocated from Christian County to North Carolina after the murders.

    He is a pilot for PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, and has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.

    American Airlines officials issued a statement on the Martin case that said in part that they were ?saddened? by the allegations.

    ?We have an unwavering commitment to the safety and security of our customers and team members, and will provide any investigative assistance possible to law enforcement throughout their investigation,? the statement said.


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    https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/christian-martin/

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    Christian Martin, a pilot for an American Airlines subsidiary and former decorated Army Major once the subject of previous legal controversy, now stands accused in the triple murder of a Kentucky woman and two men, one of whom was a popular local musician.

    Martin, 51, who is sometimes known as “Kit Martin,” was arrested at the Louisville airport on May 11, 2019 and accused of murdering Calvin Phillips, Pamela Phillips, and Edward Dansereau in Christian County, Kentucky. According to WKDZ Radio, in a story on the murders in 2018, “Calvin Phillips was listed as a potential witness for the prosecution and the defense in the case of Major Christian Martin, who was charged with sexual assault and mishandling classified information.”

    Then an Army Major, Martin was indeed accused in a series of other charges in 2016, including misuse of classified materials, but he was only convicted of a couple of lesser offenses. Even back then, Martin was named as a person of interest in the deaths of the couple and Dansereau, but he had some intense defenders online, who argued the allegations were the product of a high-conflict marital situation.

    “Martin faced child rape charges, accusations he beat his step-son and charges he mishandled classified information. That information on CDs and laptops had been discovered by Calvin Phillips. He was Martin’s next door neighbor, who was murdered before he could testify against Martin,” reported Fox 17 Nashville in 2016.

    “If someone killed a federal witness, it’s not just an attack on our family. This is an attack on the entire legal system,” Matt Phillips, the couple’s son, said in 2017.

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    Thanks for posting this-I've been meaning to but have been crazy busy.

    He's actually a pilot for a small regional carrier-PSA, so like the 50-70 seat connector flights. They do connecting flights for American.

    I am super interested in hearing more details on what they had on him and what the witness was going to testify to.

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    https://www.wsmv.com/news/accused-of...7860b5cfa.html

    Our investigation found that Cal Phillips intended to testify in Martin’s upcoming court hearing what he knew about allegations that Martin abused his former stepson and had improperly kept discs full of classified military information. Two weeks before the court martial, the three were murdered.

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    https://www.wsmv.com/news/how-an-acc...0e69b734d.html

    In the court martial, Martin was ultimately found guilty of military convictions including battery of a minor under the age of 16.

    The News4 I-Team consulted with legal experts and found that in most states, including Tennessee, an assault conviction of a minor is a felony.

    A review of the types of convictions that will keep an applicant from being a pilot is a felony conviction of aggravated assault.

    So how did Martin become a pilot with American Airlines if he was ultimately convicted in a military court of a charge that many states consider a felony?

    The answer is that a conviction in a military court can be translated differently in a criminal background check.

    It all depends on the state where the court martial is located and how that state ultimately translates the military conviction to a criminal conviction in civilian court, which then appears in a criminal background check.

    The family of a couple killed in a triple homicide in Pembroke, KY, is offering a six-figure reward for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case.

    Although Martin was convicted of battery of a minor in his court martial, the charge showed up in Kentucky as “simple assault” in the criminal background check.

    Simple assault is not a felony and did not prevent him from being hired as a pilot.

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    https://www.courier-journal.com/stor...tin/7532246002

    Ex-airline pilot finally goes on trial in gruesome Kentucky triple murder

    Two years after commercial airline pilot Christian “Kit” Martin was pulled off a jet at the Louisville airport and charged with a gruesome triple murder in Christian County, a jury Thursday heard conflicting accounts of the crime that went unsolved for years.

    In an opening statement, special prosecutor Barbara Whaley said Martin had the motive to kill Calvin Phillips; his wife, Pamela; and neighbor Edward Dansereau; in tiny Pembroke, Kentucky, because Calvin was set to testify in a court-martial that could end Martin's Army career.

    She also said prosecutors will show that a shell casing found five months after the crime was conclusively shown to have been fired from a .45-caliber handgun found in a safe in Martin’s home across the street.

    Whaley, an assistant attorney general, also told the jury, which is hearing the case on a change of venue in Hardin County, that the family found Martin’s dog tags on a shelf in their historic home.
    Calvin and Pamela Phillips, found dead in 2015

    But Martin’s attorney, assistant public advocate Tom Griffiths, noted there were no eyewitnesses to the crime, no DNA and no fingerprints. And he said he will present forensic proof that the bullets that killed the victims did not come from his client’s gun.

    Griffiths suggested the damning evidence — the shell casing and military ID which mysteriously were missed by police who scoured the home — must have been planted there, possibly by Martin’s angry ex-wife, who had vowed to ruin him.

    The case attracted national attention when Martin, a former Army major who flew for American Airlines, was handcuffed at the airline gate as he was about to take off May 11, 2019. He was still wearing his pilot’s uniform when he was booked on three counts of complicity to murder, arson and other charges.

    The trial is being streamed live by Court TV.

    The 2015 murders went unsolved for four years before Martin was finally charged — in part because of cell tower records that Christian County sheriff’s deputy told a grand jury disproved his alibi that he was home at the time of the crimes.

    Whaley didn’t mention the cell phone evidence Thursday, which a defense expert has disputed.

    She said Martin wanted to get rid of Phillips because he was supposed to testify in two weeks at a court-martial in which Martin was charged with mishandling classified information and abusing his wife’s son.

    That trial was postponed and when it was finally held the next year — without Phillips, who was dead — Martin was convicted of less serious misdemeanors.

    Whaley said prosecution witnesses will testify Martin fatally shot Calvin Phillips in his home on the morning of Nov. 18, 2015, then dumped the body in the cellar and tried, unsuccessfully, to burn it.

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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...id=mailsignout

    Pilot convicted in gruesome 2015 triple murder in Kentucky

    Two years after commercial airline pilot Christian “Kit” Martin was pulled off a jet at the Louisville airport and charged with a gruesome triple murder in western Kentucky, a jury Wednesday found him guilty, according to the attorney general’s office.

    Martin, 53, was convicted of the murders of three people in Christian County in a case that was tried on a change of venue in Hardin County.
    Special prosecutors Barbara Whaley and Alex Garcia told the jury that Martin killed Calvin Phillips because he was about to testify in Martin’s military court-martial trial on multiple charges.

    The military court eventually convicted Martin on one count of mishandling classified information and one count of assault on a child. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and was discharged after 30 years of military service.

    The prosecution claimed that Dansereau and Phillips’ wife were collateral damage.

    “The families and the Pembroke community have endured a profound loss,” Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in a statement Wednesday night. “While this verdict in no way eases that pain, I hope that they find some peace and comfort today.”

    The sentencing phase of the trial will begin Thursday.

    Martin’s attorney, assistant public advocate Tom Griffiths, did not immediately respond to a request for comment after the verdict.

    He argued in an opening statement that the prosecution’s theory that his client wanted to silence a witness in his court martial made no sense because Phillips also was set to testify for the defense in the military trial.

    The jury heard conflicting accounts of the crime, which went unsolved for years.

    In an opening statement this month, Whaley said Martin had the motive to kill Calvin Phillips because a conviction in the court martial could have ended his 30-year military career.

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    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...hbors-79815694

    Former pilot gets life sentence in killing of 3 neighbors

    A former Army major accused of killing three neighbors to eliminate a witness in a court-martial has been sentenced to life in prison, Kentucky’s attorney general said.

    Christian Richard Martin will not be eligible for parole, according to a statement Thursday from Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Jurors convicted Martin after a two-week trial in June in the deaths of Calvin and Pamela Phillips and Edward Dansereau in Pembroke.

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