{"id":26942,"date":"2021-12-21T01:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=26942"},"modified":"2021-12-21T01:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:04:52","slug":"the-justice-files-who-killed-kelly-bodily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/21\/the-justice-files-who-killed-kelly-bodily\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Files: Who killed Kelly Bodily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CLEARFIELD Utah (ABC4 Utah) \u2013 Kelly Bodily was considered a big man and that\u2019s what puzzled his sister.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100072861519043\">Sherlene Perkins<\/a> wondered how he could have been overpowered and eventually killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was devastated beyond belief,\u201d said Perkins. \u201cKelly was dead for two days before the police found him. It just broke my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The murder of Bodily still remained a mystery one year after he was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/police-investigating-homicide-in-clearfield\/\">found dead<\/a> at his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clearfield,_Utah\">Clearfield<\/a> home.<\/p>\n<p>It was December 7th, 2020 when Clearfield Police arrived at his home on a welfare check. Two days earlier and according to a search warrant, Bodily was alive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/top-stories\/the-justice-files-reed-jeppson-simply-vanished\/?ipid=recirc-justice-files-reed-jeppson\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The Justice Files: <\/span>Reed Jeppson simply vanished<\/strong>\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>A neighbor \u201cexchanges a text message\u201d on December 5 with Bodily. Later that night, his wife \u201cheard a bang\u201d coming from Bodily\u2019s home. The wife also heard Bodily \u201cyelling\u201d for them.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Bodily \u201cnever responded\u201d to a text message from the neighbors. After going into the home, police determined Bodily was dead and it\u2019s suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives learned Bodily had been shot twice. Shell casings were found in the home and front yard. They later determined a 9 mm gun was the murder weapon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the search warrant, Bodily was \u201clying on the ground\u201d. Police found him \u201cholding a baseball bat\u201d in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly was like at least six-feet-four and he was very big and muscular,\u201d said Perkins. \u201cHe worked out with weights and so, he dealt with somebody that couldn\u2019t defend himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second search warrant indicated that police later discovered threats from a possible person of interest. The two met on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/top-stories\/the-justice-files-in-search-of-a-gun\/?ipid=recirc-justice-files-search-for-a-gun\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The Justice Files:<\/span><\/strong> <strong>In search of a gun<\/strong>\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe social media post, we became aware of that very early on,\u201d said Devin Rogers, the assistant police chief with Clearfield. \u201c(It was) an argument that took place on a social media post. We\u2019ve interviewed that acquaintance and ruled him out as being involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After that, the trail turned cold.<\/p>\n<p>An initial reward of $<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/local-news\/5k-reward-offered-for-info-in-dec-2020-clearfield-homicide\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5,000<\/a> was offered in August. But Perkins said she wanted to personally increase it. It now sits at $8,000.<\/p>\n<p>She said with her brother\u2019s passing, it has left many broken hearts including Bodily\u2019s teenage daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the most loving father in the world,\u201d said Perkins. \u201cHe was the greatest father that ever was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Bodily\u2019s murder is urged to contact <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClearfieldPD\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clearfield Police<\/a>. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clearfield.city\/tip-a-cop-form\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tip line<\/a> offers anonymity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/justice-files\/the-justice-files-who-killed-kelly-bodily\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CLEARFIELD Utah (ABC4 Utah) \u2013 Kelly Bodily was considered a big man and that\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cj-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26944,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions\/26944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}