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Kelly Lorraine Shortt-Hamilton

Case from Knoxville, MD dated Aug 10, 2015

Victim Details

Kelly Lorraine Shortt-Hamilton

Female

Knoxville

MD

2015-08-10

27

Kelly

Lorraine Shortt-Hamilton

07/09/2026

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In the summer of 2015, the life of 27-year-old Kelly Lorraine Shortt-Hamilton was tragically cut short in a harrowing sequence of events that began with an act of arson and ended in a murder-suicide. On August 10th, a fire erupted at her apartment building in Brunswick, Maryland, a blaze that was deliberately set by her estranged husband, 44-year-old Daniel Ray Shortt Sr. Witnesses reported seeing Daniel Shortt forcibly remove his wife from her apartment just as the flames began to consume the b ...
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  • WBAL-TV: Man, woman found in crash died from gunshot wounds, police say
  • Md. couple's death ruled murder-suicide | Local News - The Journal
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