On May 31, 2018, at approximately 9 a.m., deputies from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop in Cincinnati and executed a Boone County arrest warrant on a Cincinnati man for the murders of Kelli Kramer and her nine-year-old son, Aiden Kramer which occurred on or about March 20, 2018. Both died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds to their heads and torsos.
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Joshua Ward, 48 of the 11,000 block of Norbourne Drive in Cincinnati, is *charged with two (2) counts of Murder, a capital offense. Detectives working the case obtained the arrest warrant on May 30, 2018 and immediately set into a motion a plan with other law enforcement agencies to take Ward into custody in addition to simultaneously serving search warrants in various locations. Our investigation revealed Ward was involved in an intimate relationship with Kelli beginning in December 2016 and ending abruptly in May 2017. Ward believed Kramer was responsible for destroying him. Ward is currently being held in the Hamilton County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Kentucky.
Sheriff Michael A. Helmig wishes to publicly acknowledge and thank the following agencies for their assistance over the past nine weeks; the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (A.T.F.), the United States Marshalls, Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil and his staff, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones and his staff, West Chester Police Department, Crime Stoppers, Boone County Attorney Robert D. Neace and his staff, and the Boone County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office.
*Charges in a criminal complaint are accusations only. It is the government’s burden to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.
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