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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Former West Virginia football player is indicted for raping and murdering his high school friend in a playground hours after she picked him up from the airport for visit home </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Jalique Keene has been held without bail in the death of female classmate in June</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Keene, 21, is suspected of killing 19-year-old Mikaela Conley near the Connors-Emerson School in Bar Harbor, Maine on June 2</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Conley&#8217;s body was discovered in a wooded area near their old school after her family reported her missing just a day earlier</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The two reportedly attended Mount Desert Island High School together, where Keene was a star running back before graduating in 2015 </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Switching to soccer he had spent the season playing in Europe</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Conley had driven to Boston to pick up her old friend at Boston&#8217;s Logan airport, where he was returning from Serbia after playing a season with an amateur football team</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Keene claims he had &#8216;consensual&#8217; sex with Conley, but that they later got into a &#8216;physical altercation,&#8217; the same night</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">He is being held without bail at Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth and is set to be arraigned on August 2</span></strong>1</h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-297647" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jalique-Keene-4.jpg" alt="Jalique Keene 4.JPG" width="649" height="446" /><strong>Former high school football star Jalique Keene [right in red reg uniform], appeared in court, Friday accused of raping and killing a former school mate</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A football player was indicted on Friday for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl.<br />
<a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/06/06/ex-college-football-player-jalique-keene-held-without-bail-in-classmates-death/">Jalique Keene, 21, is suspected of killing Mikaela Conley</a> near the Connors-Emerson School in Bar Harbor, Maine according to <a class="class" href="http://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Man-indicted-for-rape-and-murder-of-19-year-old-Bar-Harbor-woman-490555801.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WABI 5. </a><br />
Conley&#8217;s body was discovered in a wooded area near the school on June 2 after her family reported her missing just a day earlier.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297643" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jalique-Keene-left-and-Mikaela-Conley-right-2.jpg" alt="Jalique Keene [left] and Mikaela Conley [right] 2" width="760" height="500" />Jalique Keene [left], allegedly raped and murdered high school friend Mikaela Conley [Right] after she drove from Maine to pick him from Boston&#8217;s Logan airport on his return from Serbia on June 2</strong></h6>
<div>Former local high school football star Jalique Keene, now playing soccer in Europe, allegedly raped and murdered high school his old friend Mikaela Conley after she picked him from the airport on his return from Serbia on June 2</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Conley&#8217;s body was discovered in a wooded area near the school after her family reported her missing just a day earlier.<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">According to authorities, Conley [left] and her alleged killer went to Mount Desert Island High School together, where Keene was a star running back before graduating in 2015.<br />
He was arrested shortly after video surveillance cameras captured him allegedly dragging Conley across a school playground toward the wooded area where she was later discovered.According to authorities, the two went to Mount Desert Island High School together, where Keene was a star running back before graduating in 2015<br />
An autopsy report later concluded that Conley died by strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.<br />
Keene told police during questioning that he had sex with Conley and later admitted to getting into a &#8216;physical altercation&#8217; with the teenager the same night.<br />
The 21-year-old, however, denies that he killed Conley and claims to have left the playground following their liaison. He also told police that their sexual encounter had been consensual.<br />
Court documents show that on May 31, Conley had driven to Boston to pick up Keene at Logan airport, where he was returning from Serbia after playing a season with the Kraljevo Royal Crowns, an amateur football team.<br />
She returned with him back to her Bar Harbor home the same evening on Eden Street, located directly across from the Conners-Emerson School.<br />
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<div class="mh-excerpt">Former West Virginia State University football player held without bail in classmate’s death Jalique Keene, 21, has been accused in the death of 19-year-old former <a title="Ex-college football player, Jalique Keene, held without bail in classmate’s death" href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/06/06/ex-college-football-player-jalique-keene-held-without-bail-in-classmates-death/">[&#8230;]</a></div>
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Police say that Conley had uploaded a video to Snapchat of the two together at the playground around 2am on June 1. It remains unclear what was captured on the clip.<br />
Keene told police that it was the first time the two had sex with each other and that she &#8216;became upset&#8217; after they did so, which prompted a physical altercation.<br />
He says he left Conley at around 3:30am that morning and never saw her again.<br />
But Detective Tom Pickering wrote in a court affidavit that the former athlete had been captured by security cameras dragging an unconscious Conley over his shoulder around the same time.<br />
&#8216;At 3:36am a male appearing to be Jalique [appeared] at her side and after some sort of interaction, he is seen picking her up over his shoulder and walking off with her as she is kicking her feet,&#8217; the detective wrote.<br />
Hours later, the same cameras recorded Keene &#8216;come from around a row of bushes into the open holding an apparently lifeless Mikaela by her wrists pulled over his back with her body draped on his back and hastily dragging her&#8230; toward the area where her body was later found.&#8217;</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297648" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vigil-for-Mikaela-Conley-1.jpg" alt="Vigil for Mikaela Conley 1.JPG" width="781" height="406" /></strong><strong>Vigil for Mikaela Conley who was raped and murdered allegedly by an old friend, Mikaela, Conley on June 2, after she had driven to Boston to pick up Keene at Logan airport </strong></h6>
<p>Keene is being held without bail at Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth and is set to be arraigned on August 21 in Hancock County Superior Court.</p>
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Ex-college football player, Jalique Keene, indicted for raping and murdering his high school friend in a playground hours after she picked him up from the airport for visit home – Keene had been playing pro soccer in Serbia
