EKB News

Pikeville- Theft, Major Drug Deals gone bad, a sexually explicit video tape, Murder and tampering with evidence… sounds like a Hollywood screen play but in reality it was the case that was outlined this afternoon during opening arguments in the murder case against 19 year Ryan Corey Chaney of Elkhorn Creek.
According to the indictments, Chaney and 26 year old Arthur Adkins shot and killed Gregory D. Fleming while robbing him on June 6, 2005. The men allegedly used physical force or threatened Fleming and later destroyed or altered evidence related to the case, according to the indictment. Fleming's charred body was found by authorities in a car near Allegheny Road on June 9, three days after he was reported missing. Chaney has alleged that he was forced to take part in the murder and that Adkins was the man who actually did the killing.

Commonwealths attorney Rick Bartley countered that, in his opening arguments against Chaney stating that several pieces of evidence point to Chaney as being the one with the motive to commit the crime. Bartley stated that Chaney had actually stolen a large amount of marijuana from Fleming and that the two had arranged to meet in the Allegheny area the evening of the murder in order to “settle their dispute”.
Bartley also described a tape found in Fleming’s house which contains explicit acts between the defendant and Fleming also pointing to that as being a motive behind the murder.

Defense attorney Agnes Sipple however, argued that Chaney was only a “High School kid” who was simply at the wrong place, wrong time and with the wrong people arguing that Adkins was the major drug dealer with a background more fitting of a murderer.
Sipple, speaking with EKB news inside the courtroom, had one statement to foreshadow her defense of Chaney saying “Corey Chaney made some stupid mistakes on June 6th, but that doesn’t make him a killer.”
Chaney and Adkins are standing trial separately with the Commonwealth electing to try Chaney first. The trial is expected to continue through at least through the beginning of next week.