 Before his trial was due to begin in 1987, Kelly fled the United States and spent the next seven years on the run, mostly in Europe.Kelly's parents allegedly supported him financially during this seven-year period, although they may have been unaware of his exact locations.Law enforcement authorities suspected that the parents had been in contact with their son and, on at least one occasion, raided the parents' house in an attempt to find evidence of Kelly's location or their assistance to him.