Crime

"Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker" arrested in NJ murder

By Iris Carreras

May 17, 2013 / 10:13 AM EDT / CBS News

AP Photo/Union County Prosecutorâ??s Office

Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, a hitchhiker-turned Internet celebrity, has been charged with beating a N.J. lawyer to death. McGillvary became known as "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" after he intervened in a February attack on a California utility worker and his interview with a local news reporter went viral. He was arrested at a bus station in Philadelphia on May 16, and charged with killing 73-year-old Joseph Galfy, Jr. at his home.