Kenneth Michael Spice, a 31-year-old White male, was found dead on June 15, 2015, in a wooded area off Primrose Circle in Meriwether County near Greenville, Georgia, after his family had reported him missing. Early reporting said he was a Newnan resident, and investigators soon determined that what had happened to him was not an unexplained disappearance but a homicide.
Authorities said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed he had suffered an apparent gunshot wound, turning the quiet patch of woods where he was discovered into the center of a murder case that quickly drew attention across west Georgia.
What emerged from the public reporting was the outline of a killing that appeared tied not just to violence, but to betrayal. Investigators said evidence from the scene helped point them toward people Kenneth Spice knew. Two months after his body was discovered, the first major break came when Timiquae Marquan Slaton, 22, of Newnan, was arrested and charged with malice murder and armed robbery. Reports said Slaton and Spice had previously worked together at Yamaha in Newnan, a detail that gave the case an especially personal edge, as though Kenneth had not vanished into danger from strangers, but had been pulled into it by someone from his own orbit.
The case widened soon after that first arrest. Meriwether County authorities announced additional suspects had been taken into custody as investigators worked backward through what they believed had happened before and after Kenneth Spice was killed. Alex Ezekiel Everett, 20, of Greenville, was reported arrested on charges including malice murder, armed robbery, tampering with evidence, and concealing the death of another. Keyon Derrell Marshall, 20, of Greenville, was reported charged with tampering with evidence. Another man, Dionte Favors, 22, was publicly linked to the case through reporting that said he was charged with felony murder, armed robbery, and making false statements. Together, those arrests suggested investigators believed the killing was not a single isolated act, but a crime with multiple participants and an effort afterward to hide what had been done.
The public picture that remains is one of a man whose life ended violently and whose body was left in the woods while the people around him became the focus of a widening investigation. The accessible online reporting centers on the discovery of Kenneth Spice’s body, the gunshot homicide finding, and the arrests that followed, especially the allegation that robbery was part of what led to his death. Even years later, the story still reads like a hard, abrupt break in the lives around Greenville and Newnan: a missing man, a grim discovery off a rural road, and a murder case that unfolded through a chain of arrests pointing to a group rather than a lone suspect.
