Grandson Shares Video of Former Mayor Killed Alongside Daughter Allegedly Admitting He Sexually Abused Her

Joe Cornelius Sr., 82, a former mayor of Minden, Louisiana, was discovered useless alongside his daughter Keisha Miles, 31, in a narrative that has rocked the small group. NBC Information reported that Keisha’s 11-year-old son confessed to the shootings. He was arrested on September 2.

However what her 17-year-old son Uriah Miles uncovered and just lately revealed provides much more to the story behind the tragedy.

Shared with Folks, Uriah advised the outlet the movies date again to 2021 and had been recovered from his mom’s iCloud after the double murder. In them, Keisha reportedly confronts her father about alleged sexual abuses, with him allegedly providing some type of admissions.

“Once you do issues for me, you count on one thing in return. Like while you bought the furnishings, like while you bought that automobile for me, you at all times wished one thing in return and what you wished was one thing sexual … proper?” Keisha says in a single video seen by the outlet.

Noting that Cornelius doesn’t seem like conscious that he’s being filmed, he reportedly responds, “No matter it’s, you largely loved it.”

“No, I by no means did Joe, as a result of I felt like I needed to with a view to survive,” Keisha responds. “Everytime I did one thing with you, a bit of portion of me died,” she added, per Shreveport ABC affiliate KTBS.

“And on a regular basis I strive my finest simply to be a traditional daughter, and anticipating a traditional father and love in return,” she continued within the video, per the information outlet.

In response to Folks, Keisha proceeded within the video to enter element about a few of these alleged “one thing sexual” moments that her father “wanted.” At one level, she claims he “propositioned” her for sexual favors, per the outlet, however Cornelius pushed again on that assertion.

“I ain’t by no means mentioned nothing like that,” he says within the video, per the outlet. However when Keisha pushes on the difficulty, insisting that he sexually abused her, he reportedly retorts within the video, “You mentioned you did not inform no person about this, however you will have.”

She reportedly replied to that remark, “You advised me … you say … they may by no means consider you.”

“And no person will,” Cornelius purportedly replies within the video.

Uriah labored via a publicist to launch the movies. Che Manufacturing Group’s Chanel Hudson-O’Connor advised KTBS she bought concerned to assist share Keisha’s “bravery and braveness to confront somebody who has been sexually abusing her all through her life.”

Whereas Cornelius solely served briefly as interim mayor of Minden in 2013, he was additionally a councilman for the group of 11,400 folks in Webster Parish, Louisiana, in accordance with the Webster Parish Journal.

He was nicknamed “Mister Joe” for his work with the youth, even serving ice cream in the neighborhood. In 1990, the newspaper stories he shaped the Involved Residents of Minden, which raised cash for scholarships and provided assist to youngsters.

Keisha’s youngsters inform a distinct story of their grandfather. In response to the 11-year-old suspect’s lawyer, Christopher Murell, each of her sons had been conscious of the alleged abuse she endured beneath her father, and that it purportedly didn’t cease when she reached maturity and began her family.

Additional, the lawyer shared that the suspect claims his mom was frightened Cornelius may start to sexually assault her six-year-old daughter.

Talking with Folks, Uriah mentioned that Cornelius was “at all times trying” at Keisha, claiming he’d “inform her [there’s] one thing on the ground and to select it up,” and that “he [would] need her to take a seat on his lap.”

The police chief in Minden, Jared McIver, advised the journal that his division had heard “rumors” about Cornelius, however lacked “substantive proof” to again the claims.

Uriah mentioned he is “not likely frightened if they’re going to consider me or not.” He thinks the movies communicate for themselves, per Folks. “The proof is within the video,” he argued, “‘Trigger he actually is saying together with his personal [words].”

In response to native CBS affiliate KSLA, police advised them they’ve but to have the ability to verify the authenticity of the movies as they’ve not obtained them. Hudson-O’Connor advised KTBS that Uriah did report the incident to the division.

“There have been many, many rumors we heard, however had no substantial proof to these allegations. If whoever wished that video out thought it was necessary sufficient to be proof, they might flip it over to the police division,” McIver advised KTBS.

“Nothing from that small clip confirms something for us as a result of, as , there is a course of,” McIver mentioned to KSLA concerning the video. “If that is turned in as proof, there is a course of through which we’ve to ship that off and guarantee that it is not voice evaluation or AI generated.”

The police chief additionally mentioned that if Uriah’s hope in releasing the video was to “exonerate” his little brother, or assist his case, “it would not assist that case in any respect as a result of each folks had been murdered.”

The 11-year-old suspect, who has not been recognized within the media as a result of he’s a minor, is being charged as juvenile. He has entered a not responsible plea. Murrell advised KTBS he isn’t a “malicious” baby, however was put in an unimaginable, unfathomable scenario.

The boy is going through two counts of first diploma homicide. He’s being held on a $500,000 bond.