Mattapan men convicted of gunning down couple in Hyde Park apartment while toddler slept

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Michael Corbin and Earl Fulgiam for the 2011 double murder of Billie Marie Kee and Kevin Thomas, Jr. in their apartment at 957 Hyde Park Ave., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The verdict means a mandatory sentence of life without possibility of parole.

According to the DA's office:

The evidence and testimony showed that the defendants bound the victims in the course of an armed robbery, then repeatedly stabbed and shot them. Both victims suffered multiple traumatic injuries, including injuries that claimed their lives. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

In the aftermath of the murders, investigators recovered a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at the scene. The handgun was a ballistic match to the firearm that killed Kee and Thomas. On the magazine inside were multiple fingerprints matching those of Fulgiam. Also recovered at the scene was an electrical cord used to bind Kee. It had been cut from a curling iron. On the curling iron was a fingerprint matched to Corbin. Corbin's prints were on file from prior arrests and convictions for aggravated assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm, mayhem, and other offenses; Fulgiam’s were on file from prior arrests and convictions for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, armed assault with intent to murder, armed robbery, and other offenses.

Additionally, cell phone records showed that Corbin was in contact with Thomas in the days and hours preceding the murders, that Corbin was also in frequent contact with Fulgiam during the same time frame, and that both defendants were in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene before, during, and after Kee and Thomas were killed.

Kee left two children, one of whom was 4 at the time and sleeping in another room in the apartment while his mother was murdered. Thomas also left two children.