BEAUTIFUL GRADUATE, 19, ENJOYS FIRST APARTMENT TIL PHANTOM CREEPS IN
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Aaliyah Kyles rented her first apartment in January, securing a unit at The Boulevard in the Hickory Hills neighborhood of Memphis.
The complex features smart locks on every unit, off-street parking, and regular patrols. Amenities include a gym, pool, basketball court, playground, and a spacious clubhouse. The location sits just minutes from Hickory Ridge Mall, the Memphis Coliseum, and Memphis International Airport.
Around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 9, a resident at The Boulevard heard gunshots and saw a man dressed in all black running from a nearby apartment. She called 911 to report the shooting but could not provide details about the suspect.
Memphis police responded and found the door to Aaliyah Kyles’ apartment wide open. Nothing inside appeared immediately out of place, but officers discovered a gruesome scene in the bathroom. Kyles was lying dead in the bathtub. She was naked and had multiple gunshot wounds.
Investigators determined the suspect entered through a window with a broken lock. The medical examiner later confirmed Kyles had been raped.
Joining Nancy Grace today
- Anthony Kyles - Father
- Montina Kyles - Mother
- Esperonza King - Kyles Family Attorney / Founder of EA KING LAW / Wrongful Death Attorney
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide”
- Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, and Host of YouTube channel, "The Interview Room,"
- Dr. Thomas Coyne - Chief Medical Examiner, District 2 Medical Examiner's Office, State of Florida; Forensic Pathologist, Neuropathologist, Toxicologist; X: @DrTMCoyne
- Sydney Sumner - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporte
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:07.6 | She's beautiful. She's brilliant. She is a hardworking graduate. And she's just 19. This beautiful grad, 19 years old, enjoying her very first apartment. |
| 0:29.1 | She's so proud. |
| 0:33.3 | She enjoys it until a monster creeps in. |
| 0:41.8 | Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:47.6 | O'Lea Kyle's, a 19-year-old recent high school grad with a promising future ahead of her, |
| 0:52.1 | wishing to follow in her sister's footsteps. Alia is an ROTC hopeful and dedicated employee, but things take a sinister turn when neighbors |
| 1:00.0 | report a disturbance at Alia's apartment. |
| 1:03.0 | Can you imagine this little girl, all proud of her very first apartment, until a figure clad entirely in black sneaks into the garden. |
| 1:17.7 | Joining me right now are two very special guests. |
| 1:21.3 | Let me introduce to you Anthony and Montina Kiles. They are joining us from Memphis. Mr. Mrs. Kiles, thank you for being |
| 1:32.6 | with us tonight. Yes, and thank you for having us. I really don't know exactly where to start, |
| 1:38.7 | because when I first heard about your girl and I saw her picture. My heart nearly broke. How proud were you, Mrs. |
| 1:50.7 | Kyle's, on her graduation day? I was so proud of her because she, it was, she's my baby. I have four |
| 1:59.7 | girls and she was the baby and I was so proud that we was attending her graduation. |
| 2:06.6 | She was so ready, get out of school. |
| 2:10.6 | And she was looking forward to moving through her sister's footsteps and going to the army. |
| 2:20.8 | Now the sister was in the military, correct? |
| 2:24.9 | She was considering following her sister's footsteps. |
| 2:27.7 | Now, I'm looking at that graduation photo. |
| 2:41.7 | I've just got to tell you that it was the proudest day of my parents' life when I graduated. I mean, we, my brother and I were first-generation college grads. My dad worked on the railroad, Norfolk Southern. My mother |
| 2:49.4 | worked her way up from being a bank teller. And I remember my |
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