Second person indicted in 1997 cold case murder

Floyd Roger Hurst

A grand jury in Cleburne County has indicted a second Anniston man in connection with the 17 year old death of an oxford man.   According to court documents, the indictment alleges that 50-year-old Kenneth Earl Kemp II, along with 65-year-old Jack David Stovall II of Anniston, kidnapped and killed 44 year old Floyd Roger Hurst, in January 1997.  According to the indictments, the two suspects killed Hurst by “total body traumatic fragmentation.”  Both Stovall and Kemp were arrested March 20.  Oxford police Lt. L.G. Owens said Wednesday that Kemp is being held in the Oxford City Jail. According to his indictment, Kemp has no bond set.  Investigators had previously suspected that Stovall, former owner of the Red Horse Lounge in Anniston, suspected Hurst and two other men of burglarizing his home and stealing cash, guns and $80,000 worth of jewelry.  In December 1997, Stovall pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of murder-for-hire, saying he hired a Georgia man to kill Barry Jackson, one of the men he suspected of burglarizing his home.  Stovall was also charged with, but did not plead guilty to, murder-for-hire in the death of Daryl Adams, who in the summer of 1997 was found shot dead inside a limousine near Alabama Show Palace in Anniston.  Stovall was sentenced to nine years in prison and was released in 2005. Stovall remains in the Cleburne county jail with out  bond.