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Post by Joanna on Dec 3, 2016 23:38:36 GMT -5
Lillie was my aunt and she was shot in the head and murdered when I was 11 back in 1984. Lillie and my uncle were separated at the time and he blamed himself that she was staying with her sister and that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was never the same after her murder and fell into heavy alcohol abuse where he is even today. I hope a fair trail and if convicted I hope he receives his due justice in Huntsville. The stupid decision of a selfish person for the benefit of a couple hundred dollars ended and destroyed many lives. Thank you for sharing this information and I'm sorry about your aunt. If you've read the other posts here, you know there are claims that Edmond Degan has apparently told some people that he was dating Yleen Kennedy. Is there anything to this? Or do you think he's just attempting to explain the reason his DNA was found at the scene?
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Post by yellowrose on Feb 3, 2017 16:38:11 GMT -5
I do know that not a single friend or any family member of the Kennedy sisters had/has any knowledge of the suspect Degan ever being romantically involved with Yleen Kennedy. Suspect Degan was a business partner of hers and was interviewed by the police back in 1984 when the murders occurred. At that time, Degan stated he was not romantically involved with Yleen and had not seen her for at least a week. Her boyfriend at the time was interviewed as well. The boyfriend's DNA along with the suspect's was compared to Yleen's rape kit. Degan's DNA came back as a high probability match. Suspect Degan’s story has now changed to he was dating Yleen to explain his DNA matching the rape kit.
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Post by pat on Feb 4, 2017 3:17:26 GMT -5
I do know that not a single friend or any family member of the Kennedy sisters had/has any knowledge of the suspect Degan ever being romantically involved with Yleen Kennedy. Suspect Degan was a business partner of hers and was interviewed by the police back in 1984 when the murders occurred. At that time, Degan stated he was not romantically involved with Yleen and had not seen her for at least a week. Her boyfriend at the time was interviewed as well. The boyfriend's DNA along with the suspect's was compared to Yleen's rape kit. Degan's DNA came back as a high probability match. Suspect Degan’s story has now changed to he was dating Yleen to explain his DNA matching the rape kit.
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Post by yellowrose on Feb 4, 2017 13:17:49 GMT -5
I hope so because it would be horrible to have the wrong person who has been sitting in the county jail for the past 2 years awaiting trial. Trial is scheduled for early June 2017.
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Post by Joanna on Feb 4, 2017 19:48:22 GMT -5
I hope so because it would be horrible to have the wrong person who has been sitting in the county jail for the past 2 years awaiting trial. Trial is scheduled for early June 2017.
It bothers me that he's told more than one story and I find it unlikely that he was Yleen Kennedy's boyfriend. Then there's the story that he borrowed a hammer and smashed a gun into pieces and burned some things shortly after the murders.
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Post by yellowrose on Feb 20, 2017 15:43:38 GMT -5
Defendant Edmond Degan plead guilty to the murder of Yleen Kennedy today in the 208th Harris County District Court. A family member gave a victim impact statement. At the conclusion of the victim impact statement, Degan said, "I am truly sorry." Edmond Degan was sentenced to 15 years incarceration. Most would agree the punishment does not fit the crime...The crime was punished by the laws of 1984 on the day the brutal murders occurred.
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Post by Joanna on Feb 20, 2017 15:48:41 GMT -5
Defendant Edmond Degan plead guilty to the murder of Yleen Kennedy today in the 208th Harris County District Court. A family member gave a victim impact statement. At the conclusion of the victim impact statement, Degan said, "I am truly sorry." Edmond Degan was sentenced to 15 years incarceration. Most would agree the punishment does not fit the crime...The crime was punished by the laws of 1984 on the day the brutal murders occurred.
Thank you for sharing this information.
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Post by catherine on Feb 22, 2017 2:07:39 GMT -5
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Post by denagirl on Mar 31, 2017 13:32:19 GMT -5
Yleen was my best friend from the time I was 13 years old until the time of her death. We lived in the same neighborhood as kids. I knew her parents, Jack and Rose, both her sisters and her brother, Chuck. Her mother Rose was as mean as a snake, but her father, Jack, was a prince of a man. Her mother was just generally bitchy, and she was always pissed at us for teasing Lillie. I regret some of the things we did to Lillie, but it was just easy to tease her and she was a little tattle tale. Jack was an old country western singer who played a honky tonk piano they had in their den. Jack and Rose used to sing at country gigs together before they got married. Jack used to have a bear he named Sally. He would take Sally to his gigs with him. He bought a new convertible Cadillac he drove to one of his gigs and took Sally along with him. He chained Sally to a green apple tree while he went inside for his gig. When he came out he put Sally in the back seat of his new Cadillac and started to his next gig. Sally got the runs in the back seat of his new car from the green apples and Jack had to stop and hose the car down. Sally hated Rose and Rose hated Sally, so he got rid of her after that. Her father chased me around their front yard one time with a pair of real pig ears tied to his head. He got them at the butcher shop. He took an ice pick and punched a hole in each ear, put string through the holes and put them on his head. When I fell down, he rubbed the pig ears all over me. Yleen and I drove to Dallas with him one time and he told jokes the whole way. We had so much fun, just the 3 of us.
Yleen and I snuck into a drive-in porn movie one time. We made her older sister Darlene, who was very shy and kind of socially retarded, drive alone in the car through the gate and then we got out of the trunk and got in the front seat. She LOVED the Stones, but especially Mick Jagger. She and I went to see the Rolling Stones at the old Jeppenson Stadium at the U of H. She laughed hysterically one time when my brother fell down the stairs carrying a vacuum cleaner and seriously hurt himself. We stole a baby Jesus from a nativity scene one time from one of the neighbor's yards at Christmas. We rearranged the words on a portable sign at a church in our neighborhood with our personal message on it. Yleen had a pet monkey for awhile named Chi Chi. He would run up the side of the curtains to the top and then take a crap and it would run down the curtains. Rose was not happy and the monkey was gone in no time. Yleen lived with my family one time when Rose kicked her out. Later as adults, she and I lived in West U in a house on Tennyson St.
Lillie was a young 23 year old unmarried girl. She had been living with her boyfriend off and on, but they were NOT married. She wanted more in life than to be stuck with a house full of kids, dirt poor in Pasadena. She and her boyfriend had separated multiple times. She was desperately trying to get free of him. He was one of the first suspects in the murders because he and Lillie had such a volatile relationship. The 11 year old boy, David may have thought Lillie was his aunt, but she wasn't. The only children Lillie was aunt to were her sister Darlene's children. Degan was not Yleen's boyfriend. I'm sure he wanted to be, like all the other men she knew, but he wasn't. She could have her pick and I guarantee you, he wasn't her type. They weren't business partners either. She had her own thing going - she didn't need him! He met her at the "rag picking" warehouse, came over wanting more, and then had to kill them both when it went too far. The END! He did it and got away with it for 30 years. He will be out of TDC if 5 years with good behavior. I wanted the death penalty!! |
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Post by jason on Apr 1, 2017 0:53:13 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Degan was required to allocute before he was sentenced and explain the circumstances of the murders?
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Post by justice4kennedycuzns on Jun 11, 2017 16:51:31 GMT -5
Lillie was my aunt and she was shot in the head and murdered when I was 11 back in 1984. Lillie and my uncle were separated at the time and he blamed himself that she was staying with her sister and that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was never the same after her murder and fell into heavy alcohol abuse where he is even today. I hope a fair trail and if convicted I hope he receives his due justice in Huntsville. The stupid decision of a selfish person for the benefit of a couple hundred dollars ended and destroyed many lives. Thank you for sharing this information and I'm sorry about your aunt. If you've read the other posts here, you know there are claims that Edmond Degan has apparently told some people that he was dating Yleen Kennedy. Is there anything to this? Or do you think he's just attempting to explain the reason his DNA was found at the scene?
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Post by jason on Jun 12, 2017 7:39:13 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing this information and I'm sorry about your aunt. If you've read the other posts here, you know there are claims that Edmond Degan has apparently told some people that he was dating Yleen Kennedy. Is there anything to this? Or do you think he's just attempting to explain the reason his DNA was found at the scene?
Do you have something to add to the discussion?
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Post by heartbroken on Jul 17, 2017 14:05:43 GMT -5
Thank you Denagirl for sharing your beautiful memories of Yleen. You brought to life the friend that I had so many years ago in high school. She had a personality bigger than life itself and after all these years, still makes me smile just to think of her. She made it easy to love her. There is no doubt that she is bringing laughter, merriment, and a sense of fun to all those in the great beyond and may her being be permeated in the unconditional love she so deserves.
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Post by kennedysisters on Jul 27, 2017 17:24:02 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Degan was required to allocute before he was sentenced and explain the circumstances of the murders? PLEASE HELP in the Protest Against the Parole of the Kennedy Sisters Killer
Edmond Degan, a violent criminal with a lengthy record, got away with murder for over 30 years before being charged. After serving less than 3 years (1/4 of his prison sentence), Murderer Edmond Degan is under review for Parole by the State of Texas.
On the morning of Monday, March 5, 1984, my Grandfather Jack left his house and walked around the corner to his daughter Yleen’s home after she had failed to show up to drive him to a doctor’s appointment. As he walked towards Yleen’s house located on East 12th Street in the Heights area, he noticed her door was open and he immediately suspected that something was terribly wrong. As he entered the entry way, he stumbled into a grisly murder scene. His youngest daughter, Lillie age 23, was fully clothed laying on the ground near the entry way with a single gunshot wound to the head. Just a few feet away, his other daughter, Yleen age 33, was laying on her living room floor in a night shirt with her panties around her ankles. Yleen had paper towels shoved down her throat to muffle her screams. She had been bludgeoned over the head multiple times with a blunt object and shot once in the arm. Her throat had been stabbed several times resulting in her death. The crime remained unsolved for several decades. My Grandparents and my Mother (the eldest sister of Yleen & Lillie) went to their graves never knowing what happened to their loved ones.
For over 30 years, the murders of the Kennedy sisters remained a cold case until a tip was received at the end of 2014. Mr. Edmond Degan was interviewed by police back in 1984 when the murders occurred. It wasn’t until a tip was called into HPD in 2014 that the investigation was turned towards Edmond Degan. Edmond Degan’s DNA came up as a High Probability DNA match collected from Yleen’s rape kit that had been preserved by HPD all of these years. The High Probability DNA match led to the arrest of Edmond Degan on January 14, 2015.
Edmond Degan remained in the Harris County Jail until February 20, 2017. The Defense and Prosecution came to a Plea Bargain agreement sentencing him to 15 years in state prison for the murder of Yleen Kennedy. As a part of the Plea Bargain, the Capital Murder charge was reduced to Murder by dropping the robbery and rape charges in the case. When Edmond Degan is released from prison, he will not be required to register as a sex offender because of the agreement of the Plea Bargain. According to the law, Edmond Degan cannot be prosecuted separately for the murder of Lillie Kennedy. He has never admitted to causing the death of Lillie and has never provided a motive for the murder of Yleen Kennedy.
As the law states, murderer Edmond Degan is eligible for parole after serving only ¼ of his sentence! I want to ask you how you would feel knowing this individual has the potential to be released back into society after serving only 2 years in Harris County jail and less than a year in state prison on a 15-year Plea Bargain sentence?
I can only hope that it is unlikely he would be granted parole so soon but let’s not forget he is already under Parole Review by the state of Texas and will be up for parole every subsequent year until his release. According to statistics, it is estimated Edmond Degan may only serve a couple of more years in state prison.
Let’s not ignore the fact that Edmond Degan has a lengthy criminal history that includes multiple Aggravated Robberies with a Deadly Weapon, Assault of a Family Member, Drug Possession charges and a Terroristic Threat charge. He literally got away with Murder for over 30 years before being charged. Who knows if there are other crimes Mr. Edmond Degan is responsible for that he has never been charged with. Do you feel safe having this individual released back into society including quite possibly in your very own neighborhood?
If you feel Edmond Degan is a danger to our society, I plead that you please send in an email or letter of protest to the Parole Board. Their decision can be reached in as little as 2 months’ time. My Grandmother and Grandfather along with my Mother are not here to protest the parole of the Kennedy sister's murderer. The victims, Yleen and Lillie, do not have a voice either. I will do everything in my power to fight Edmond Degan’s release but I am asking for help from my family, friends and our community.
Please make sure to include on the Email/Letter/Fax/:
Offender Edmond Degan
State ID# 02015096
TDCJ# 002116951
Mailing Address:
Victim Services Division
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, TX 78757-6899
Fax: (512) 452-0825
E-mail: victim.svc@tdcj.texas.gov
If you would like to verify Edmond Degan’s Parole Review date, please feel free to call (800) 848-4284 and provide his State ID# and TDCJ# that is listed above.
Please share this information with all of those who love the Kennedy Sisters!
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Post by kennedysisters on Aug 2, 2017 14:52:45 GMT -5
The latest Media coverage on Edmond Degan's Parole Protest:
Man who killed Heights sisters could be paroled after less than 3 years in prison
HOUSTON – One family’s fight for justice continues more than 30 years after the murders of two sisters in the Heights. The 1984 murders of Yleen and Lillie Kennedy went unsolved for decades until Edmond Beauregard Degan was arrested in 2015. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a plea bargain deal. Now, Degan, who has a long criminal history, is already under review for parole.
The news came as a shock to Jackie Elliott, the victims’ niece. She was only 11-years-old when Yleen and Lillie were killed in their small blue and white home near 12th and Oxford. Her mother came to her school to tell her what happened. “I was sitting in my school cafeteria with my classmates having lunch,” Jackie said. “You don’t expect for something like this to happen in your family.” She also remembers her grandfather’s heartache after finding his daughters’ bodies. “He walked around the corner and this is what he found, his own two daughters, so this has just affected our family in so many ways,” she added.
Yleen, 33, had been raped, beaten and stabbed. Lillie, 23, died of a single gunshot wound to the head. Jackie said her grandmother never got over it. “She spent most of her life trying to find out what happened to her daughters,” Jackie continued. “They all went to the grave not knowing what happened to Yleen and Lillie.”
Elliot has lived with the pain for most of her life. She doesn’t think the 15-year sentence was enough for Degan who was connected to the case through DNA. “He's been able to live his life for 30 years, go on, get married, have kids. All of the things my family was robbed of,” she said. “Serving the 15 years complete still, in my opinion, not enough time.”
Victim advocate Andy Kahan said he doesn’t see Degan being paroled now, but that he will be released automatically in 2024, thanks to an outdated law that would still apply. “The fact that he’s going to be automatically released in seven years, certainly adds to the pain, misery and grief that all the victims of the Kennedy sisters are going to have to endure,” Kahan added.
The family is asking anyone and everyone to send letters on their behalf protesting Degan’s parole. See post of July 27, 2017, (above) for details.
Source: Janelle Bludau, KHOU, July 31, 2017.
www.khou.com/news/crime/man-who-killed-heights-sisters-could-be-paroled-after-less-than-3-years-in-prison/460857020
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