Alvin Andrew Kelly: Drug Trafficker and Multiple Murderer
Background and Criminal Activities
Alvin Andrew Kelly was born on March 14, 1951, in Culberson County, Texas. He became involved in methamphetamine use, drug trafficking and violent debt collection in East Texas. Kelly operated in the criminal world surrounding Walter "W.W." Shannon, a Kilgore-area drug trafficker for whom Kelly reportedly collected money. Witnesses later described Kelly as an armed and intimidating man who was willing to use violence against people believed to owe money or threaten the organization.
Kelly has frequently been classified as a serial killer because he was responsible for four murders committed in two separate incidents during 1984. The killings occurred approximately five weeks apart in Gregg County, Texas. Three members of one family were murdered inside their home, while the fourth victim was Kelly's roommate. The crimes were connected to Kelly's involvement in drugs, robbery and efforts to silence or exploit people within his criminal circle.
The Morgan Family Murders
Jerry Glenn Morgan and his wife, Brenda Morgan, lived with their 22-month-old son, Devin, in a mobile home in the Spring Hill area near Longview, Texas. Jerry and Brenda served as reserve city marshals. Prosecutors maintained that Kelly believed the couple had been supplying law-enforcement officers with information about drug trafficking and other criminal activity.
Several days before the murders, Kelly visited the Morgan residence with his younger brother, Steven Kelly, and drug dealer Ronnie Lee Wilson. Steven was instructed to remain in the vehicle but approached the residence after hearing an argument. He later testified that he saw Kelly pointing a handgun at Jerry Morgan and threatening to kill him. After noticing Steven outside, Kelly ordered him back to the vehicle. Kelly and Wilson then left the residence, but Wilson reportedly remarked that they had failed to complete the business for which they had gone there.
On the evening of April 30, 1984, Kelly returned to the Morgan home with Wilson and Cynthia Kelly, the woman who later became his wife. According to Cynthia's testimony, Kelly instructed her to remain in the vehicle while he and Wilson entered the residence. After hearing gunshots, she went inside and found that Jerry had already been shot. Kelly then shot Brenda in the neck and dragged her into a bedroom, placing her beside her husband.
Cynthia testified that Brenda was still alive and pleaded for help. Cynthia placed a towel beneath the wounded woman's head before returning to the living room to comfort Devin, who was crying. Kelly then took the toddler from Cynthia and shot him in the head. He pointed the weapon at Cynthia and ordered her to leave. As she returned to the vehicle, she heard another gunshot from inside the residence. Evidence and later testimony indicated that Kelly fired again to ensure Brenda was dead.
Kelly and Wilson removed firearms, household property and other valuables from the residence. The Morgans' Pontiac Catalina was also stolen. Cynthia and Wilson later helped wipe the vehicle to eliminate fingerprints before it was abandoned in a hospital parking lot in Tyler. The bodies of Jerry, Brenda and Devin were discovered by relatives on the morning of May 1, 1984, after family members became concerned when they could not reach them.
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