Kentwood Man Pleads Guilty to Murder

21st Judicial District Attorney Scott Perrilloux reports that Kevin Cordell Buckley, 37, of Kentwood, has pleaded guilty as charged in the 2021 murders of a Kentwood couple.Buckley appeared before ad hoc Judge J. Michael McDonald in Amite on Wednesday, March 27, and pleaded guilty as charged to the first-degree murders of 55-year-old Lewis “Payton' Travis and his wife, 54-year-old Iva Jane Travis…

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