A bond modification hearing Thursday morning in Christian County Circuit Court saw no changes made for Kendall Spikes who is charged with assisting in a 2021 murder case that left two people dead.
Kendall Spikes is represented by attorney Sands Chewning who asked for the placement of an ankle monitor to replace his $500,000 bond given his lack of a lengthy criminal history.
click to download audioSpecial prosecutor Blake Chambers, who normally serves Butler, Edmonson, Hancock, and Ohio as 38th District commonwealth’s attorney, agreed that Spikes handled his last court diversion well but reminded the court he is still charged with serious felonies.
click to download audioCircuit Judge John Atkins denied the request for the ankle monitor but said the request could be revisited down the road.
click to download audioKendall Spikes and his father, Bobby Spikes, are both charged in connection to the December 2021 murders of Candace Marcel and Stanley Bussell in Hopkinsville.
Bussell was found at Marcel’s Hopkinsville home, while Marcel was found in a car in eastern Trigg County later that day. Police said both victims had been shot, with Marcel reportedly Bobby Spikes’ former girlfriend.
Kendall Spikes was indicted in October for first-degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence, complicity to murder, and complicity to kidnapping. Police say he removed, concealed, altered, or destroyed a gun believed to be used in the crime as well as cell phones, which also may have been evidence.
Bobby Spikes is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of robbery, and single counts of tampering with physical evidence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and kidnapping resulting in death. His trial is set for next June although attorneys have yet to decide whether the father and son will be tried together or separately.
Kendall Spikes is due back in court on January 10.
