Originally indicted on several related offenses in the December 2021 murders of Candace Marcel and Stanley Bussell, Kendall Spikes entered a guilty plea Friday afternoon in Christian County Circuit Court.
Special Prosecutor Blake Chambers — who typically serves Butler, Edmonson, Hancock, and Ohio as 38th District commonwealth’s attorney — said under agreement, Spikes must truthfully testify in the case of his father, Bobby, which is expected to begin June 16.
His original charges were first-degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence, complicity to murder and complicity to kidnapping of Marcel and Bussell.
His amended charges are complicity to tampering with physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution and/or apprehension, along with any other rulings Circuit Judge John Atkins will deem fit with the plea.
Police have reported that Spikes removed, concealed, altered, or destroyed a gun believed to be used in the crime — as well as some cell phones potentially evident in nature.
Because part of Kendall’s testimony was “necessarily confidential” for Bobby’s upcoming trial, Atkins said he ordered Friday’s proceedings not be made available to the public.
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’s former girlfriend, and it is Bobby who 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.
