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David Kandelaki

Case from Louisville, KY dated Jan 18, 2018

Victim Details

David Kandelaki

Male

Louisville

KY

2018-01-18

31

David

Kandelaki

07/30/2026

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In a quiet apartment near Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, a tragic story unfolded that began with a wife's worried phone call. On January 18, 2018, the body of 31-year-old David Kandelaki, a male, was discovered alongside 30-year-old Joshua Rice. Both men had been fatally shot. The grim discovery was made after Kandelaki's wife filed a missing-persons report. He was supposed to meet her and their children in Miami, Florida, after they returned from an overseas vacation, but he never made h ...
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  • Odessa American: Man arrested in Texas in shooting deaths of 2 in Kentucky
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