McGillvary recounted he had been hitchhiking and was picked up by Jett Simmons McBride, whom McGillvary describes as weighing 300 pounds (140 kg), and who claimed to be Jesus Christ. In February 2013, McGillvary was interviewed and videotaped by local Fox affiliate KMPH-TV in Fresno, California. He stated that he did not have health insurance, a social security card, a driver's license, a passport, or any official form of identification. Prior to the Fresno incident in 2013, McGillvary had been living as a transient, which he has described as "homefree". McGillvary has also stated that he adopted the name "Kai" after taking part in a "spirit walk" while living on an Indigenous reservation. As a teenager, he moved with his family to St. He has stated that he was raised in a fundamentalist Christian cult, that his parents were divorced, and that he had been molested in his youth. McGillvary was born on September 3, 1988, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In 2023, Netflix debuted the documentary The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker about McGillvary's rise to fame and murder trial. He cited the fallout from the video as part of his defense against the homicide charge. In 2019, McGillvary was convicted of first-degree murder in New Jersey. McGillvary subsequently received national attention in the press. Viral video as "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker"Ĭaleb Lawrence McGillvary (born September 3, 1988), also referred to as Kai, is a Canadian man who first became known from the internet viral video "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker", which featured him recounting a crime he witnessed while hitchhiking.
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