Kvam was convicted of killing a teenager, a woman and a 9-year-old girl in Oakland County in 1984. He was 17 at the time of the homicides. Under a U.S. Supreme Court decision, ...

At the age of 17, Kvam was sentenced in the 1984 stabbing deaths of Lovell's sister 15-year-old Wendy Lovell, her aunt, 27-year-old Joann Bray, and Bray's nine-year-old daughter, Chastity Bray.