Crime & Justice

Kentucky Christian College Student Was Strangled to Death, Coroner Finds

‘PASSIONATE HEART’

Eighteen-year-old Josiah Malachi Kilman’s cause of death was “asphyxia by manual strangulation,” according to authorities.

Justin Rohrlich
Justin Rohrlich 

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Side-by-side photos showing murdered college student Josiah Kilman next to suspect and fellow student Charles “Zeke” Escalera
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Justin Rohrlich

Justin Rohrlich

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