Michael Fay was a seventeen year old teen killer from Ohio who would murder his two younger brothers
According to court documents Michael Fay was involved in an argument with his two younger brothers Blaine, 14, and Blake, 17, about Michael moving back into the family home. Michael would leave the home and head to a storage unit where he would retrieve a gun and drive back to the home and murder Blaine and Blake
Michael Fay would be arrested, plead guilty and be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for thirty years
Michael Fay Now
Number A695659
DOB 08/09/1995
Gender Male
Race White
Admission Date 11/18/2013
Institution Warren Correctional Institution
Status INCARCERATED
Aggregate Sentence
60.00( 30.00 PB ell) – Life
Parole Eligibility Years
30 years
Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date
05/02/2043
Michael Fay Case
An argument with Blake and Blaine Romes so angered Michael Fay that he drove 25 miles to fetch a handgun from storage, then returned to their Ottawa home, where he shot both teenagers as they slept, an assistant prosecutor said.
Three weeks before his scheduled trial, Michael Fay, 18, admitted Tuesday to Putnam County Common Pleas Judge Randall Basinger that he killed Blaine, 14, and Blake, 17, on May 9 after they argued about Fay’s older brother moving back into the home.
Michael Fay, who was 17 when he committed the crimes, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder. In exchange, prosecutors said they will dismiss two counts of abuse of a corpse and single counts of tampering with evidence and motor vehicle theft.
Judge Basinger accepted his pleas and ordered a presentence investigation. Fay, held in lieu of $5 million bond at the Wood County Juvenile Detention Center since his arrest, could be sentenced to prison for life without possibility of parole.
But Todd Schroeder, the assistant county prosecutor, said that as part of the plea deal, he will recommend a sentence that would allow Fay to go before the parole board after serving 60 years.
Because he was a juvenile when he killed the teens, Michael Fay was not eligible to face the death penalty for the murders.
Blaine was shot once in the head while he slept on a couch. His brother died after he was strangled, assaulted, and shot in the head while he slept in a bedroom of the home.
Mr. Schroeder told the court that Fay and the Romeses exchanged words in the late hours of May 8 while Fay’s mother, Victoria Fay, and the victims’ mother, Michelle Grothause, were working.
Fay remained angry after the brothers fell asleep, Mr. Schroeder said, and shortly after midnight he left the Elkcrest Trailer Court and drove Ms. Grothause’s vehicle to Lima, Ohio, where he visited a Taco Bell and the storage facility where Ms. Fay stored a 22-caliber handgun. He then returned to the trailer.
“He continued to be angry over the argument that occurred hours before. The defendant sat at the residence with the firearm in his hands and had made the decision to use it. At approximately 2:18 in the morning, as a train passed by, the defendant used that opportunity to use that firearm. When the train whistle blew, the defendant fired a single shot into the head of Blaine Romes,” Mr. Schroeder said.
Mr. Schroeder said Fay then went to the bedroom. There he assaulted and strangled Blake and shot him in the head. He said the crimes were committed with calculation and design.
Ms. Grothause wept as Mr. Schroeder recounted the events that Fay gave to police in a confession after he was arrested later that day in Columbus.
Investigators said Fay carried both teens from the home. He hid Blake’s body in a crawl space under the trailer, and used the victims’ mother’s vehicle to transport Blaine’s body to a ditch near Putnam County Road 7 just east of Ottawa.
Responding to a call on an Amber Alert issued for all three teens, Columbus police took Fay into custody at a gas station. Investigators said he initially lied about what happened to the Romes boys, but eventually admitted to killing them and gave information leading police to the bodies.
Mr. Schroeder said in an interview that Fay and his older brother moved into the home with Ms. Grothause and her sons in April, and the older Fay decided to move out several days before the murders.
“There was disagreement about whether or not he should come back to the residence,” he said.
Mr. Schroeder said he talked to Ms. Grothause about the plea agreement reached with Fay and his attorney, William Kluge, and said that she will give a statement at sentencing that would explain her feelings.
He said that if Judge Basinger accepts the sentence recommendation, Fay will be 78 before he may request release from prison.
“I thought that the higher sentence was appropriate, given the nature of the offenses. At the end of the day, Mr. Fay pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two teenage boys who had a lot of promise ahead of them. They were well liked. They did well in school,” he said. “Consecutive sentences are needed to adequately address what occurred in this case.”
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