Kaelin Moore

So at the time that police showed up to his house, he was 36 years old and he worked as a waiter in Manchester, Missouri.

He was born on October 25th, 1965.

He moved to Ferguson with his parents when he was about 10 years old.

His parents divorced when he was 13.

Other than that, he had no known childhood traumas.

And this is...

Like trigger warning animal abuse.

We do know that he was killing animals in the neighborhood.

There was like reports of a neighbor's dog that he maybe killed.

This came out much later in his life, though.

Yeah.

A lot of the people that were close to Maury when he was growing up didn't really think he was that off as a person.

No, I saw one neighbor that was like, he wouldn't hurt a fly.

Teachers and neighbors remembered him as being quiet, shy, and withdrawn.

But it seems like he came out of his shell long enough to make a lifelong friend named Khadiza, who described Maury as being a big brother figure and that he taught her how to drive.

Maury graduated high school late.

He was 19 years old in 1985 when he graduated.

And afterwards, he spent two years in the Army Reserves working as a medical and dental assistant.

After that, he went to Morris Brown College in Atlanta, and according to Maury, while he was there, he developed an addiction to crack, and that cost him nearly $300 a day.

In 1988, 22-year-old Maury used a plastic toy gun to rob five stores so that he could have money for more drugs, and that earned him a 15-year prison sentence, but he was released after just five years, and that was June of 1994.