(Efi Chalikopoulou)After a 13-month search, Zachary Kilgore, 50, is in custody over allegations that he and former Louisville football coaches and educators Ronnie and Donnie Stoner raped a 17-year-old high school student in 2007. Court records show Kilgore was arrested Friday, and pleaded not guilt y.A Jefferson County grand jury indicted the men in July on a combined 52 criminal counts for the alleged sexual abuse of several girls over an 18-year span. The Stoner brothers turned themselves in days after the indictment, and pleaded not guilty. But Kilgore remained at large.LMPD spokesperson Aaron Ellis told KyCIR “it appears that [Kilgore] turned himself in” to the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections last Friday. Ellis did not answer questions on why it took more than 13 months to apprehend him. A citation was not available from the clerk’s office or LMDC to provide more information about Kilgore’s arrest.The allegations against the men were the subject of extensive reporting by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in season 3 of KyCIR’s podcast, Dig.Alexis Crook, the oldest alleged victim in the case, told KyCIR that the Stoner brothers sexually abused her for years when they were her high school football coaches at Evangel Christian School from 2005 to the time she turned 18.Crook told KyCIR she’s hopeful Kilgore’s arrest is another step on a path towards accountability.Crook said Kilgore, a close friend of the Stoners, had sex with her in his van in 2007, along with the brothers. Crook, who was 17 at the time, said she was intoxicated because the three had served her a significant amount of alcohol. Kilgore was indicted on complicity to first-degree rape, which carries a 10- to 25-year prison sentence.Donnie Stoner was indicted on the rape and sexual abuse of Crook in 2005 and another 17-year-old girl in 2023 at Manual High School. Ronnie Stoner was indicted on the rape and sexual abuse of Crook, and two other girls. Alyssa Foster told KyCIR Ronnie Stoner raped and sexually abused her when she was an 8th grader at Newburg Middle School in 2016. Ronnie Stoner’s daughter, Aryalle Stoner, told KyCIR her father sexually abused her from the age of 11. KyCIR does not normally name alleged survivors of sexual abuse, but the women have given their permission to be named in our coverage.Crook said since the indictment she and the other alleged victims have had “moments of anger, exhaustion, fear and frustration.”“But we have never stopped believing that we deserve the opportunity to see this through,” she said.Crook has been deeply anxious about her safety over the last year. She told KyCIR Kilgore offered her tens of thousands of dollars to recant her allegations against him, but she declined.“I don’t know if this puts a bigger target on my back, or if this neutralizes the threat,” said of Kilgore’s arrest.Kilgore was convicted and served time for facilitation to manslaughter in a 2009 double-homicide. He was also accused by fellow inmates in 2011 of using a contraband cellphone to intimidate witnesses in the case leading up to trial.An email obtained by KyCIR shows prosecutor Andrew Reinhardt asked Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry to increase Kilgore’s $50,000 bond to $1 million in September 2025.“He has evaded capture by leading high speed chases that ultimately had to be terminated by LMPD,” Reinhardt wrote.KyCIR tried earlier this year to obtain records related to the search, including dash cam footage and incident reports related to any chases by the criminal interdiction unit. Officials initially told KyCIR those records did not exist. When KyCIR refiled the request in March, providing the prosecutor’s note to the judge, LMPD denied the request saying the release of those records, “could seriously jeopardize the investigation and efforts to locate and apprehend Mr. Kilgore which has been ongoing for over eight months.”The trial was initially scheduled for this August, but was pushed back to February when Donnie Stoner obtained new counsel. ...read more read less