[5] When Warren asked Marichell Chatman who the man was, she stated that "it was Kevin who had been involved in a large drug bust.
[5] It was later determined the large black man originally described was Keith's half-brother who had recently moved into the apartment complex.
[5][9] The Bucyrus Police Department and Crawford County prosecutors claimed that Keith carried out the shooting in retaliation for his January 1994 arrest for selling 2.6 grams of crack cocaine, which had resulted from information received from Rudel Chatman.
They claimed that when they went downstairs to eat dinner there was a knock on the door and Kevin Keith was there, wearing no mask or gloves.
[7] After drinking several glasses of water and realizing that Rudel Chatman was not there, the Reeves' claimed that Keith pulled a gun from the bag and shot the family.
[5] Keith claimed that they left his aunt's home ten minutes later and returned to Davison's home at 9:25 p.m.[5] Forensic analyst G. Michelle Yezzo testified that a license plate imprint of the numbers "043" left in a snow bank at the crime scene matched Keith's girlfriend's car.
[2] On October 28, 2016, Keith and his lawyer, public defender Rachel Troutman, filed a motion for new trial in the Ohio Third District Court of Appeals, claiming the state failed to make Brady disclosures regarding a witness, G. Michele Yezzo.
[8] Yezzo's personnel file included allegations that she habitually provided police departments the answers they wanted in cases.
[10] Yezzo had previously been placed on administrative leave and was actively under investigation at the time she worked on Keith's case.
[17] On September 2, 2010, Ohio governor Ted Strickland commuted Keith's sentence to life without parole, noting that there were questions about the evidence and a "troubling" failure to investigate other suspects.
[17]In 2022, Strickland stated that he wished he had completely commuted Keith's sentence and that he had expressed this to the current governor Mike DeWine.
[6] Rothschild Ansaldi was initially interested in creating a television show, but thought a podcast might better explain the story.
[6][19] On October 3, 2022, Kardashian released the first episode of a podcast created with Spotify titled The System: The Case of Kevin Keith, which gained international attention.
"[14] On episode eight of the podcast, Kardashian spoke with former Governor Ted Strickland, who stated that he wished he had fully commuted Keith's sentence in 2010.
[18] In October 2022, surviving victims Quentin and Quanita Reeves criticized the podcast, claiming that they were never contacted and that they do not care about new evidence.
[6][11][12] Quanita later stated in November 2022 that she had blocked Rothschild Ansaldi's number a few years prior, which explained the miscommunication about whether they had been contacted.