New HampshireDepartment of JusticeOffice of the Attorney General

News Release

For Immediate Release
April 5, 2024

Contact:
Michael S. Garrity, Director of Communications
michael.s.garrity@doj.nh.gov | (603) 931-9375

Adam L. Woods, Assistant Attorney General
Adam.l.woods@doj.nh.gov | (603) 271-1725

Nicholas Chong Yen, Assistant Attorney General

Craig Keville Sentenced for First-Degree Murders

Concord, NH - Attorney General John M. Formella and New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark Hall announce that Craig Keville (age 35), of Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced today for his First-Degree Murders of Holly Banks and Keith Labelle on April 27, 2022. He was also sentenced on three class B felony counts of falsifying physical evidence and one misdemeanor simple assault. Mr. Keville was found guilty after trial on February 28, 2024.

Mr. Keville was given consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole on each of the first-degree murder convictions, one consecutive stand committed sentence of 3 ½ to 7 years on a charge of falsifying physical evidence for disposing of the firearm used in committing the murders, two suspended sentences of 3½ to 7 years on each of the remaining falsifying physical evidence charges, and a sentence of twelve months stand committed on the simple assault charge.

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