Dad executed wife and son with shotgun 2 weeks after divorce hearing, set house ablaze 'to cover up the murders'

A 53-year-old antheral successful Indiana volition walk the remainder of his beingness successful situation for killing his ex-wife and lad conscionable 2 weeks aft helium and his ex-wife appeared for a divorcement hearing, executing the victims successful their location earlier mounting it connected fire.

Gibson County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey F. Meade ordered Michael R. Kegg Jr. to service the maximum sentence of 126 years successful a authorities correctional installation for the 2025 slayings of 51-year-old Malisa Kegg, and 34-year-old Michael Kegg III, tribunal records show.

Specifically, Meade handed down 64 years for the son's execution and 62 years for the ex-wife's murder, with the sentences to beryllium served consecutively.

Amanda Kegg, Michael Kegg's woman astatine the clip of the murders and alleged co-conspirator, is charged with 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of conspiracy to perpetrate murder. She is presently scheduled to spell to proceedings successful November.

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office and the Francisco Fire Department connected Dec. 31, 2024, responded to a 911 telephone astir a operation occurrence astatine a location successful the 7000 artifact of East State Road 64 successful Francisco, which is astir 125 miles southbound of Indianapolis.

When the occurrence was subdued, investigators went wrong and recovered a dormant assemblage — aboriginal identified arsenic Kegg's lad — lying adjacent to a tin of accelerant successful the kitchen, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

A 2nd assemblage was recovered successful the surviving country and identified arsenic Malisa Kegg. While some bodies were burned, the victims besides suffered gunshot wounds to the chest. Autopsies subsequently confirmed that the parent and son's causes of decease were gunshot wounds suffered earlier the location fire.

Investigators recovered 2 spent shells from a .410-gauge shotgun adjacent Malisa Kegg's assemblage and 1 adjacent to her son's body. A shotgun was besides discovered successful the location propped against partition and loaded with with an unfired shell.

Michael Kegg, who had appeared for a divorcement proceeding with Malisa Kegg conscionable 2 weeks earlier, was rapidly pegged arsenic a premier fishy successful the treble murder. During that hearing, the justice ordered him to implicit a laundry database of tasks successful a abbreviated play of time, Town & Courier reported.

In an interrogation with detectives, Amanda Kegg initially said she and Michael Kegg had argued connected the nighttime of Dec. 30, 2024, and she had not seen him astatine each connected Dec. 31. However, she aboriginal said that successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Dec. 31, Michael Kegg told her to permission her telephone astatine location and thrust him Francisco truthful helium could "take attraction of something." She noted that Michael Kegg besides near his telephone astatine the house.

Amanda Kegg claimed she dropped him disconnected astatine a parkland and waited successful the car for astir 2 hours earlier leaving. It was aboriginal revealed that she really went to Michael Kegg's slope and withdrew $800 from the ATM, the maximum allowed per day.

Michael Kegg told investigators helium went from the parkland to the victims' location to bash immoderate enactment connected a vehicle. He said helium spoke to his ex-wife and son, who told him "he needed to leave." He claimed helium past near and some victims were inactive alive.

"Michael Kegg (Jr.) advised that helium near the residence and walked done the tract retired of the backmost of the house, and toward Hopkins Park," the affidavit states. "Michael Kegg (Jr.) advised that arsenic helium was walking distant from the residence helium heard and saw lights and sirens responding toward Francisco."

Investigators said they believed Michael and Amanda Kegg "formulated a plan" to termination the victims and past lit the location connected occurrence "to screen up the murders."

One time earlier the fire, Michael Kegg went to Francisco municipality hallway and demanded that the h2o beryllium unopen disconnected successful Malisa Kegg's home, Town & Courier reported. He reportedly told officials helium nary longer wanted to wage her inferior bills.