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2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 8th, 1992. Indianapolis, Indiana. Lucretia Gullet, who works at the Speedway Gas Station, picks up the phone at the station. On the other end is the district manager of Payless Shoes. He tells her that he’s worried – he’s been calling the Payless shop next door at 7325 Pendleton Pike for over 45 minutes -- no one’s answering. When Lucretia goes over to check, she is alarmed. No one is in sight at the store and the cash register drawer is open and empty. She runs back to the gas station to call police. When they arrive at 2:15 pm, they find the body of store manager, Robin Fuldauer, aged 26. Robin has been shot twice execution-style in the back of the head. No one knows it at the time -- except the murder -- but Robin’s murder is just the beginning… Anyone with information about the case should contact St. Charles City Police Department at 636-949-3333 or 1-800-800-3510, or e-mail:  i70killer@stcharlescitymo.gov Sources Composite of suspect:                              Possible weapon used:             https://questersite.wordpress.com/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/05/12/Authorities-hope-to-get-profile-of-I-70-serial-killer/9250705643200/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7vki47/missouri_i70_killer/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201509/the-zodiac-and-other-thrill-killers https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5kb548/where_is_the_i70_killer_now/ https://www.handgunforum.net/xf/threads/erma-werke-et-22.40046/ https://www.voxmagazine.com/magazine/i--holds-the-secrets-to-a-serial-killer/article_0e619dda-1232-11e6-a15a-4b82fff40a82.html https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2018/05/11/70-killer-terrorized-midwest-1992-hes-still-out-there/600805002/ https://www.insidehook.com/article/crime/ice-cold-trail-70-killer https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Interstate_70_Killer Unsolved Mysteries: (Prime TV) season 6 episode 21  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpaMkob9PLk&feature=youtu.be https://www.ktgunsmith.com/firelapping.htm https://www.indystar.com/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/what-is-reflexology/faq-20058139 https://www.kansascity.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

5:30 pm, Friday, October 1st, 1909.Swope Mansion, 406 South Pleasant Street, Independence, Missouri James Moss Hunton dines alone in the huge dining room of the cavernous Swope mansion. Although Cousin Moss -- as he is known to the family -- has felt unwell for several days, he is not one to let an upset stomach overcome his natural friendliness and good manners. So, when Pearl Kellar, a private nurse to his cousin, multimillionaire developer, Thomas Hunton Swope, passes by the dining room, he politely asks her to join him. Shortly after, the lady of the house, Mrs. Margaret Swope (widowed sister-in-law of Thomas) returns home from an afternoon of ‘calling on friends,’ with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Hyde. Suddenly Cousin Moss announces “I feel so peculiar. Everything is so dizzy before me.” Nurse Kellar attends to him in the library, while Mrs. Swope calls the family doctor and Frances’s husband, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Cousin Moss’s condition rapidly deteriorates. Both doctors agree that he is suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The accepted treatment at the time is to ‘bleed off’ the patient to lessen the pressure on the brain. An incision is made in the patient’s arm and allowed to bleed for a time. This has no helpful effect, and Cousin Moss is dead by 8:30 pm. According to Nurse Kellar, 20 minutes later, as she is preparing the body for the undertaker, Dr. Hyde pulls her aside and says, “As soon as you have some leisure, I want to have a private talk with you.” Sources https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006WAAKAW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6948725/james-moss-hunton https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/kc-true-crime/article705889.html https://kcparks.org/places/swope-park/ http://www.biologydiscussion.com/essay/essay-on-typhoid-history-signs-and-symptoms/5329 https://www.salon.com/1999/09/02/stewart/ https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-does-a-grand-jury-work.html https://crimejustice.law.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Admissibility-of-the-Defendant’s-Criminal-Records-at-Trial.pdf https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201207/psychological-profile-poisoner https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A108961 https://www.kansascity.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/  

5:30 pm, Friday, October 1st, 1909.Swope Mansion, 406 South Pleasant Street, Independence, Missouri James Moss Hunton dines alone in the huge dining room of the cavernous Swope mansion. Although Cousin Moss -- as he is known to the family -- has felt unwell for several days, he is not one to let an upset stomach overcome his natural friendliness and good manners. So, when Pearl Kellar, a private nurse to his cousin, multimillionaire developer, Thomas Hunton Swope, passes by the dining room, he politely asks her to join him. Shortly after, the lady of the house, Mrs. Margaret Swope (widowed sister-in-law of Thomas) returns home from an afternoon of ‘calling on friends,’ with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Hyde. Suddenly Cousin Moss announces “I feel so peculiar. Everything is so dizzy before me.” Nurse Kellar attends to him in the library, while Mrs. Swope calls the family doctor and Frances’s husband, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Cousin Moss’s condition rapidly deteriorates. Both doctors agree that he is suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The accepted treatment at the time is to ‘bleed off’ the patient to lessen the pressure on the brain. An incision is made in the patient’s arm and allowed to bleed for a time. This has no helpful effect, and Cousin Moss is dead by 8:30 pm. According to Nurse Kellar, 20 minutes later, as she is preparing the body for the undertaker, Dr. Hyde pulls her aside and says, “As soon as you have some leisure, I want to have a private talk with you.” Sources https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006WAAKAW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6948725/james-moss-hunton https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/kc-true-crime/article705889.html https://kcparks.org/places/swope-park/ http://www.biologydiscussion.com/essay/essay-on-typhoid-history-signs-and-symptoms/5329 https://www.salon.com/1999/09/02/stewart/ https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-does-a-grand-jury-work.html https://crimejustice.law.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Admissibility-of-the-Defendant’s-Criminal-Records-at-Trial.pdf https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201207/psychological-profile-poisoner https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A108961 https://www.kansascity.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

8:00 pm, Wednesday, September 4th, 2002.  Great Bend, Kansas. A truck driver makes his nightly delivery at the Dolly Madison Cases Discount Bakery Store. When he goes to the small office in the building to finish up his paperwork, he makes a grisly discovery: the bodies of two women lie face on the floor in pools of blood.   http://www.karadahproject.com/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsSXxLTFJ0 Sources http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_gbdollymadison.shtml https://www.gbtribune.com/news/local-news/news2/double-homicide-remains-unsolved/ https://www.hutchnews.comhttp://missingpiecesshow.homestead.com/MissingPiecesEpisode56Archive.html Great Bend Police Department: 620-793-4120 https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/women-brutally-killed-at-a-salon-b04834175b05 http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_gbdollymadison.shtml https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787 https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/56i1gd/the_hair_gallery_massacre_florence_mt/ https://unsolved.com/gallery/i-70-serial-killer/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

Atchison Daily Champion Newpaper Dateline: Thursday, July 9th, 1885. Atchison, Kansas. The community was shocked shortly after the supper hour last night, by the announcement that Miss Mary Baldwin had been found cruelly and brutally murdered in her bed, and the circumstances which have developed make it the most shocking and atrocious homicide that has ever occurred in our midst. Want to help change the world? Check out the Karadah Project International at https://www.karadahproject.com Thanks for listening. You can comment about the episodes below or email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. Sources https://www.atchisonglobenow.com https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://www.google.com

Midnight, Zero Hundred Hours, July 10th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This night, 5 men await execution in their cells on death row at the United State central military prison. One by one, each is marched to the gallows -- recently constructed over an elevator shaft at the prison salvage warehouse. All in attendance are called to attention by the prison commander, Colonel William Eley, who reads the sentence “to be hanged by the neck until dead.” Each condemned man is permitted to make a final statement. Colonel Eley pronounces “May God have mercy on your soul.” Then the prisoner is led to the gallows platform where his hands and feet are bound, while a black hood is placed over his head. A noose is guided around his neck. Silence fills the death chamber. At the commander’s signal, a lever is pushed forward, and the trapdoor of the gallows falls open. The process repeats 4 more times that night. Zero hundred hours, July 14th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Two prisoners are hanged at the warehouse. Zero hundred hours, August 25th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 7 men meet their Maker in the dark elevator shaft. Thank you for listening. Please visit the Karadah Project at http://www.karadahproject.com/ to find out how you can help change the world. You can comment about this episode below or email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com Werner Drechsler, recovering from a bullet wound to his right knee, disembarks USS Osmond Ingram assisted by Hermann Polowzyk Sources https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Corporal-Kunze-Trummel-Parnell/dp/0818403136 http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2008/may/28/wwii_german_pows_buried_fort_leavenworth/ http://genealogytrails.com/oka/powcamps.html http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=839 http://www.militarian.com/threads/murder-at-aiken-pow-camp.608/ http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-118A/U-118POWs.htm https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com https://www.augustachronicle.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcs9bcMGxNc   https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/     https://www.amazon.com/Death-Papago-Park-POW-Camp/dp/1467135763

March 10th, 1873.  Southeastern Kansas. In 1873, there are many ways to die on the road between Independence, Kansas, and Fort Scott, Kansas. The Osage Trail is a dangerous one. Never mind natural dangers – unforgiving terrain, tornados, blizzards, rattlesnakes -- this area has a well-earned reputation for harboring outlaws and raiders from nearby Indian Territory. Lately, settlers are especially jumpy. For the past couple of years, a surprising number of people have disappeared while traveling the Osage Trail. Even seasoned settlers – used to the dangers of the Old West – are becoming uneasy. Remains of murdered men have turned up on the prairie. There is talk of forming a ‘vigilance committee.’ Matters come to a head when Dr. William York, the brother of a prominent Kansas State Senator goes missing on March 10th, 1873, on his way home from Fort Scott. The Fort Scott Daily Monitor: “The trace of him is lost at Big Hill, or Drum Creek, where it is more than probable he was foully murdered to get possession of his horse and other property which he might have had about him. The locality where he disappeared is a notorious one, this not being the first event of a similar kind that has transpired in the neighborhood.” SOURCES https://www.amazon.com/Bender-Tragedy-Mary-York/dp/1981809171 https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Southeast-Kansas-Larry/dp/1467141402 http://leatherockhotel.com/BloodyBenders.htm#Thumbnails Wichita Eagle:    https://www.kansas.com History of Labette County, Kansas (1901) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette00case/page/74/mode/2up https://dailyjournalonline.com https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015484/1873-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/ https://www.murderpedia.com https://www.kansasmemory.org/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Bender Tragedy by Mary York

March 10th, 1873.  Southeastern Kansas. In 1873, there are many ways to die on the road between Independence, Kansas, and Fort Scott, Kansas. The Osage Trail is a dangerous one. Never mind natural dangers – unforgiving terrain, tornados, blizzards, rattlesnakes -- this area has a well-earned reputation for harboring outlaws and raiders from nearby Indian Territory. Lately, settlers are especially jumpy. For the past couple of years, a surprising number of people have disappeared while traveling the Osage Trail. Even seasoned settlers – used to the dangers of the Old West – are becoming uneasy. Remains of murdered men have turned up on the prairie. There is talk of forming a ‘vigilance committee.’ Matters come to a head when Dr. William York, the brother of a prominent Kansas State Senator goes missing on March 10th, 1873, on his way home from Fort Scott. The Fort Scott Daily Monitor: “The trace of him is lost at Big Hill, or Drum Creek, where it is more than probable he was foully murdered to get possession of his horse and other property which he might have had about him. The locality where he disappeared is a notorious one, this not being the first event of a similar kind that has transpired in the neighborhood.” SOURCES https://www.amazon.com/Bender-Tragedy-Mary-York/dp/1981809171 https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Southeast-Kansas-Larry/dp/1467141402   http://leatherockhotel.com/BloodyBenders.htm#Thumbnails Wichita Eagle:    https://www.kansas.com History of Labette County, Kansas (1901) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette00case/page/74/mode/2up https://dailyjournalonline.com https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015484/1873-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/ https://www.murderpedia.com https://www.kansasmemory.org/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Bender Tragedy by Mary York  

11:00 am, September 28th, 1953. Kansas City, Missouri. A taxi pulls up to the French Institute at Notre Dame de Sion, an exclusive private elementary school, located in the fashionable Hyde Park section of Kansas City. A respectable-looking 40-ish woman steps out of the cab, asks the driver to wait, and rings the bell at the front door of the school. The French nun in charge of welcoming visitors, Sister Morand, is a kind soul who immediately senses the uneasiness in the woman and lets her in the door. The woman relates that her sister, Mrs. Virginia Greenlease, has just suffered a heart attack. She needs to pick up her 6-year-old nephew, Bobby, to go to the hospital. Bobby is fetched from his first-grade Latin class. The woman takes his hand. They walk out of the school and get into the waiting cab. Not long after, Mother Marthanna, the principal of the school, returns to her office and is told about Mrs. Greenlease. She asks what hospital, but Sister Morand is not sure. Mother Marthanna calls the Greenlease home and is surprised when Mrs. Greenlease answers the phone herself. “How are you feeling?” she blurts out. “Why just fine,” says Virginia Greenlease. “Why do you ask?” And so, for the Greenlease family, the nightmare begins. Thanks for listening to Part 1 of 'Bonnie and Carl. Part 2 will be up shortly. Please subscribe to Prison City Murders and tell your friends about the podcast. It would be wonderful If you could leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. There's a place to comment below, and you can also email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. Thank you so much for listening and until next time (part 2 soon -- I promise), please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. SOURCES https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312376790?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=4CRX00BZ2HWBZ3Y7FSTH https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/greenlease-kidnapping https://archive.org/details/GreenleaseKidnapping/page/n7 Newsreel: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=2F54844486057568460C2F54844486057568460C&FORM=VIRE Terror in the Heartland https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA&FORM=VIRE Murder Sites https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=4C732D541866D91702044C732D541866D9170204&FORM=VIRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPBguCJEd4 Deadly Women (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt https://www.forbes.com/2011/01/18/americas-most-affluent-communities-business-beltway_slide.html#879ee80772ad https://www.newspressnow.com/multimedia/videos/news/tales_of_the_midland_empire/hotel-robidoux/video_548e9a7d-b4f1-5302-a77a-830f76bf584d.html https://chicagodailynews.net https://www.kansascity.com https://www.stltoday.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

11:00 am, September 28th, 1953. Kansas City, Missouri. A taxi pulls up to the French Institute at Notre Dame de Sion, an exclusive private elementary school, located in the fashionable Hyde Park section of Kansas City. A respectable-looking 40-ish woman steps out of the cab, asks the driver to wait, and rings the bell at the front door of the school. The French nun in charge of welcoming visitors, Sister Morand, is a kind soul who immediately senses the uneasiness in the woman and lets her in the door. The woman relates that her sister, Mrs. Virginia Greenlease, has just suffered a heart attack. She needs to pick up her 6-year-old nephew, Bobby, to go to the hospital. Bobby is fetched from his first-grade Latin class. The woman takes his hand. They walk out of the school and get into the waiting cab. Not long after, Mother Marthanna, the principal of the school, returns to her office and is told about Mrs. Greenlease. She asks what hospital, but Sister Morand is not sure. Mother Marthanna calls the Greenlease home and is surprised when Mrs. Greenlease answers the phone herself. “How are you feeling?” she blurts out. “Why just fine,” says Virginia Greenlease. “Why do you ask?” And so, for the Greenlease family, the nightmare begins. Thanks for listening to Part 1 of 'Bonnie and Carl. Part 2 will be up shortly. Please subscribe to Prison City Murders and tell your friends about the podcast. It would be wonderful If you could leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. There's a place to comment below, and you can also email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com.   Thank you so much for listening and until next time (part 2 soon -- I promise), please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. SOURCES https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312376790?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=4CRX00BZ2HWBZ3Y7FSTH https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/greenlease-kidnapping https://archive.org/details/GreenleaseKidnapping/page/n7 Newsreel: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=2F54844486057568460C2F54844486057568460C&FORM=VIRE Terror in the Heartland https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA&FORM=VIRE Murder Sites https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=4C732D541866D91702044C732D541866D9170204&FORM=VIRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPBguCJEd4 Deadly Women (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt https://www.forbes.com/2011/01/18/americas-most-affluent-communities-business-beltway_slide.html#879ee80772ad https://www.newspressnow.com/multimedia/videos/news/tales_of_the_midland_empire/hotel-robidoux/video_548e9a7d-b4f1-5302-a77a-830f76bf584d.html https://chicagodailynews.net https://www.kansascity.com https://www.stltoday.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

Listeners, I checked the audio on all the platforms I could think of. So... I think everything is ok now.  Sorry about that.  (I guess I'll have to dock my pay:)) Thanks for your patience.  9:15 pm, November 15, 2013. Valley Center, Kansas. A 911 call comes into Sedgewick County Emergency Communications from the quiet Wichita, Kansas, suburb of Valley Center. The caller is the 16-year-old son of Melissa and Roger Bluml. He reports that he parked behind his parents’ pickup truck in the driveway of their home. He notices that the driver’s side door is open slightly. “Oh, my god…I just opened up the car and there’s blood everywhere.” Thanks for listening. Please leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. You can comment on the cases below and email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com.  Until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. Sources Wichita Eagle: https://www.kansascity.com Snapped (on Oxygen) Episode 12, Season 25: https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/anthony-bluml-kisha-schaberg-murder-adoptive-parents 911 call: https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/season-25/videos/snapped-christopher-bluml-calls-911-season-25-episode-12 KSN TV (Wichita) KAKE TV: (Wichita) https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bluml+murders&view=detail&mid=FA1C96607650599A4C73FA1C96607650599A4C73&FORM=VIRE https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/

Around Midnight, Saturday, June 29th, 1974. Rural Gray County, Western, Kansas. Gray County Sheriff Marvin Kramer, nicknamed “Squirt,” is out on patrol when he hears a call for the Ensign, Kansas, volunteer fire department to respond to a fire at the farm of Richard and Clara Ann Anton. Sheriff Kramer rushes to the scene. By 12:40 a. m., Sunday morning, the Anton farmhouse is engulfed in flames. When the blaze is extinguished, the home is burned to the ground. In the ashes of the basement, two bodies are found, presumably Richard and Clara Ann. Please subscribe to Prison City Murders and tell your friends. If you could leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts – that would be awesome. You can comment on the case below. If you hate putting your thoughts out there on the internet, you can email me at  email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. Sources “Harvest of Hate” by Kermit Jaedeker in The New York Daily News, February 1, 1976.           Accessed on www.newspapers.com Truman Capote: In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons, Answered Prayers https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Blood-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745580 https://www.amazon.com/Music-Chameleons-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745661/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hand+carved+coffins&qid=1578089884&s=books&sr=1-2 https://www.amazon.com/Answered-Prayers-Truman-Capote/dp/0679751823/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=truman+capote+answered+prayers&qid=1578089981&sr=8-1 http://markmaynard.com/2019/04/truman-capotes-silent-rattlesnakes-and-the-hoax-behind-hand-carved-coffins/ https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2006/07/truman-capote-truth-and-lies.html http://reprints.longform.org/hoax-truman-capote-secret London Times, Peter and Leni Gillman https://ota.fas.org/reports/8320.pdf https://www.salina.com/ https://www.parsonssun.com/ https://www.gctelegram.com/ https://www.kansas.com/              Wichita Eagle-Beacon https://www.doc.ks.gov/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ TIPS: kbi.ks.gov and 1-800-KS-CRIME.

8:45 am, June 22nd, 1900. Merchant Street, El Dorado, Kansas. Report from the Butler County Democrat newspaper: Mrs. Emma Spangler and Mrs. Betty Mobberly … hear screams from the home of Olin and Clara Castle. They run to the front door of the house, but the screen door is locked. They hear to sounds of a struggle inside. They run to the back of the house, but that door is also locked. As they run back to the front of the house, they see through a window that Mrs. Castle is on the floor with a woman bending over her. Emma and Betty break in the front door and pull the woman away from Mrs. Castle. They both recognize her as Miss Jessie Lee Morrison. Mrs. Spangler starts to take Jessie to her home, but she breaks away saying “I must have that letter.” Both Jessie and Mrs. Castle are bleeding profusely. While, Betty attends to Clara Castle who has been slashed in the throat, Emma takes Jessie home and calls a doctor. “But a few moments passed until word was taken down town, all was excitement and business was practically suspend. Both men and women crowded to the scene.” Clara cannot speak, but she is conscious. She motions to Betty to bring her something to write with. She writes “Jessie Morrison killed me.”     artist rendering for the Kansas City Star Sources https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Southeast-Kansas-Larry/dp/1467141402/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1576173576&sr=8-1 https://www.butlercountytimesgazette.com https://www.facebook.com/ST-LOUIS-Globe-Democrat-317244905115627/ http://history.rays-place.com/ks/butler-eldorado.htm www.kshs.org https://www.kansasmemory.org/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/    

9:30 am, Saturday, September 20st, 1980. Olathe, Kansas. A huge blast at 901 Van Mar Drive tears through the home of Robert Post, 51, and his wife Norma Jean Post, 47. A neighbor runs outside to find a body blown into his back yard and body parts littering the rubble of the two-story ranch-style house. Only a chimney and part of the living room remain standing. The explosion is felt for blocks in the quiet-middle class neighborhood. Dead at the scene are Robert, Norma Jean, daughters Diane and Susan, 19 and 20, and son Richard, 21. The county attorney announces the deaths are being investigated as homicides: “We are pretty certain that there was a bomb.” Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjl5jiwSH4 https://www.wonderopolis.org https://www.kansascity.com https://www.joplinglobe.com https://www.sedaliademocrat.com https://intimateviolencedeathnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/olathe-ks-man-found-guilty-in-2006.html https://kansascity.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EAF4405D5F9CCD9?search_terms=daniel%2Bcrump%2Bmurder%2Bolathe%2B1997&text=daniel%20crump%20murder%20olathe%201997&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=KCSB&pdate=1997-01-17 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/143/1256/2428882/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/140201996086206/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/  

DATELINE: Monday, September 30th, 1929. Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri. Police statement of Mrs. Mayme Hofman: Before I knew what was happening I heard the shot … and I jumped out the door and ran upstairs. While I was running up the stairs I heard a second shot. Mr. Bill Reed lives down the stairs from us and I knocked on his door and the Reeds were entertaining guests. Mr. Reed opened the door, and then he went downstairs with me. When we got into the Bennetts’ apartment, Mr. Bennett was lying on the floor and Mrs. Bennett was in the living room… I saw Mr. Reed pick up the gun, but I do not know where it had been… Mrs. Bennett then sat down beside Mr. Bennett, and sitting there on the floor, she became hysterical. Mr. Reed then said, “Call the doctor.” … He arrived in just a little while and just as the doctor began his examination and had announced Mr. Bennett dead the police officers and a reporter from the The Star came in. Sources: The Devil's Tickets by Gary Pomerantz (available on amazon.com) https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+devils+tickets&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/let-there-be-lights https://www.larryco.com/bridge-learning-center https://www.bridgebase.com https://www.acbl.org https://www.kansascity.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://www.fold3.com/

DATELINE: Monday, September 30th, 1929. Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri. Police statement of Mrs. Mayme Hofman: Before I knew what was happening I heard the shot … and I jumped out the door and ran upstairs. While I was running up the stairs I heard a second shot. Mr. Bill Reed lives down the stairs from us and I knocked on his door and the Reeds were entertaining guests. Mr. Reed opened the door, and then he went downstairs with me. When we got into the Bennetts’ apartment, Mr. Bennett was lying on the floor and Mrs. Bennett was in the living room… I saw Mr. Reed pick up the gun, but I do not know where it had been… Mrs. Bennett then sat down beside Mr. Bennett, and sitting there on the floor, she became hysterical. Mr. Reed then said, “Call the doctor.” … He arrived in just a little while and just as the doctor began his examination and had announced Mr. Bennett dead the police officers and a reporter from the The Star came in. Sources: The Devil's Tickets by Gary Pomerantz (available on amazon.com) https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+devils+tickets&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/let-there-be-lights https://www.larryco.com/bridge-learning-center https://www.bridgebase.com https://www.acbl.org https://www.kansascity.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://www.fold3.com/

Tuesday morning, July 20th, 1909.  The Quarters of Capt Charles Murphy, Grant Avenue, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Mrs. Murphy recounts the fateful events of that morning: “Minnie and I were standing just inside the door. Lieut. Hand was standing just outside with his left arm raised and his hand resting against the door. Without speaking O’Neal drew a revolver and fired four times under Lieut. Hand’s arms. Minnie fell and died instantly. My dress was burned by the powder.” Officer's Quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Charles Wesley O'Neal -- convicted murderer from the National Archives in Kansas City, Missouri Sources https://www.leavenworthtimes.com https://www.cjonline.com https://legaldictionary.net/stalking/ https://www.cardcow.com/253067/officers-quarters-at-ft-leavenworth-fort-kansas/ https://www.voa.org/ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/81146123 https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/          

About 2 o’clock in the morning, Thursday, July 8, 1965. Kansas City, Missouri. Dorothy Reynolds, who manages the Great Plains Motor Hotel off US Highway 71 near the airport in Kansas City, Missouri, responds to the night buzzer in the lobby. She lets a young man in to register for a room. He pulls a gun and announces that he’s there to commit a robbery. He takes $256 from the cash drawer and marches Dorothy back to the managers’ apartment. They pass her sleeping granddaughter. The bandit gags and ties up Dorothy and her husband, Jack, and flees into the night. The Reynolds free themselves within a few minutes and go to wake their granddaughter, Denise Sue Clinton, age 9, who is spending the night on a daybed in the living room. Little Denise is gone -- forever. Sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-duct-tape-4040012 https://www.modot.orghttps://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-people-who-confessed-to-terrible-crimes-on-their-deathbed/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.examiner.net/ https://www.newspressnow.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ This case is still open – if by some chance, you know anything about it, please call the Kansas City, Missouri, Cold Case Squad at 816-234-5136.  My email is prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or comment on the cases here if you like.

April 20th, 2004. Jackson County Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri. Lorenzo J. Gilyard, Jr., is charged with 12 counts of first-degree murder in the strangling deaths of 12 Kansas City women. The dates of the killings range from 1977 through 1993. The prosecutor announces he will seek the death penalty. Gilyard is held at the county jail without bond. Victims: Age  Date found murdered Stacie Swofford      17    04/17/1977 Gwendolyn Kizine  15    01/23/1980 Margaret Miller      17    05/09/1982 Catherine Barry      34    03/14/1986 Naomi Kelly             23    08/16/1986 Debbie Blevins        32    11/27/1986 Ann Barnes              36    04/17/1987 Kellie Ford               20    06/09/1987 Angela Mayhew      19    09/12/1987 Sheila Ingold           36    11/03/1987 Carmen Hibbs        30    12/19/1987 Connie Luther        29    01/11/1993 Helga Kruger          26    02/12/1989 TIPS hotline in Kansas City  (816) 474-8477 Sources: Piers morgan youtube.com   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzZIyF47k9c https://www.news-leader.com Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press https://www.kansascity.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com/search?text=lorenzo%20gilyard&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%5B0%5D=KCSB&sort=old&page=4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Gilyard http://www.murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gilyard-lorenzo.htm https://lorenzogilyard.weebly.com/lorenzo-gilyards-profile-evidence.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110211211401/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/02/09/after-22-years-tv-drama-helps-family-find-missing-loved-one/ https://www.cj.txstate.edu/people/faculty/rossmo.html https://www.amazon.com/Geographic-Profiling-D-Kim-Rossmo/dp/0849381290/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=geographical+profiling+rossmo&qid=1572899013&s=books&sr=1-1 http://theresaallore.com/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-touch-dna-jonbenet-ramsey/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5701463/lorenzo-gilyard-kansas-city-strangler-piers-morgan-serial-killers/ https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Minds-Serial-Killers-They/dp/0275990990/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=psychology+of+serial+killers+ramsland&qid=1572976076&sr=8-1

June 24th, 1983. 2639 Park Avenue East, Kansas City, Missouri. At about 5:45 p.m., 16-year-old Terri Allen leaves her house to run an errand. When she doesn’t return home, her worried mother starts calling her friends. The next morning, her lifeless body is found in a brushy area a few blocks from her home. She has been strangled. Source Citation "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: East High School; Year: 1982 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Listeners, this is a cold case:  Circumstances of the crime: Last seen at 5:45 p.m. June 24, 1983, leaving her home in the 2600 block of Park Avenue in Kansas City. Her strangled body was found at 9 a.m. the next morning in a bushy area near 22nd Street and Woodland Avenue. Suspect information: No identified suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call: The Kansas City Police Cold Case Squad at 816-234-5136. Sources: Tom Jackman Kansas City Star (April 8, 1990) "Serial Patterns Appear in 42 Unsolved Slayings"  https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article160154974.html Rick Montgomery “Despite modern technologies, too many crimes remain unsolved” https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article160039484.html Joe Robertson "Standout student found strangled a day after she stepped out to run an errand" https://www.findagrave.com https://www.genealogybank.com https://www.murderpedia.org  https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rabbit%20hole https://www.Wikipedia.org

November 2nd, 1870. North of Abilene, Kansas. Respected lawman T J Smith, nicknamed "Bear River Smith," is brutally murdered while serving an arrest warrant for murder. The desperados responsible, Andrew McConnell and Moses Miles, flee on horseback.  Thomas J. Smith, Police Chief, Abilene, Kansas image from Kansas Memory site -- Kansas State Historical Society https://www.kansasmemory.org/ This is a wonderful site with hundreds of images related to Kansas history. Great pictures of the Old West. Sources The links to the sources used for this case are listed below. There’s a very good book called Abilene Lawmen, by Larry Underwood (available on Amazon). I really like the way it paints a picture frontier life in Kansas cow towns like Abilene. There’s also an episode of American Lawmen called “The Two Fisted Marshal of Abilene” on PBS, that reenacts the events of this case. There’s a version on youtube – (if you don’t mind constant ads) If you google “Thomas Smith Abilene,” there are a number of websites about his life and death. There were a couple that I really www.truewestmagazine.com and www.legendsofamerica.com. The primary newspapers that had relevant articles were the Abilene Chronicle (now the Reflector-Chronicle) and the Topeka Commonwealth (which was bought out by the current Topeka paper, the Capitol-Journal.) Finally, as always, I googled and wiki'd and went through genealogy sites. https://www.amazon.com/Abilene-Lawmen-Smith-Hickok-1870-71-Missouri/dp/1886225400 American Lawmen (Ep7 of 8) The Two Fisted Marshal of Abilene | PBS America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwKL-CySGGY https://www.truewestmagazine.com https://www.legendsofamerica.com Gunsmoke Podcasts (I found a couple on Stitcher – search for "Gunsmoke") TV Show: https://www.cbs.com/shows/gunsmoke/ Radio: http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Gunsmoke.php https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4356/thomas-james-smith https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228477/page/1 http://www.kancoll.org/articles/tomsmith.htm http://www.abilenecityhall.com/index.aspx?NID=605 http://www.abilene-rc.com https://www.cjonline.com https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://wikipedia.org

June 15th, 1929. Fort Riley, Kansas. Mrs. Zenana Shepard, wife of Army doctor Major Charles A. Shepard, lies severely ill at the Army Hospital. Her life cannot be saved. Unsure of the cause of death, doctors at the hospital ask for Dr. Shepard’s consent to do an autopsy. He refuses, saying that his wife would not want to be mutilated. The commanding general at Fort Riley intervenes. Zenana’s organs and fluids are preserved for analysis. Sources: https://denverpost.newsbank.com/ https://www.star-telegram.comhttps://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.201501-0135OE https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/290/96/ https://livebrooks.com/about-us/history/ https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/22/mercury-was-considered-a-cure-until-it-killed-you.html https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/coffins-in-a-bottle https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/flappers https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/290/96.html Thank you for listening. Until next week, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. You can comment or ask questions below or email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. 

Just the show notes. Audio to be posted Monday. Pacific Stars and Stripes Newspaper: Dateline: Camp Zama, Japan. November 22nd, 1953. Susan Rothschild, 9, daughter of Col and Mrs. Jacquard H. Rothschild, Chicago, Armed Forces Far East chemical officer, was found unconscious in an empty drainage moat near here yesterday and was pronounced dead on arrival at the 8169th Army Hospital a few minutes later. The child was found by her father in an earthen moat, about two or three feet deep but empty, behind the Sagamihara fire station at 6:10 p.m. and was rushed to the hospital. Investigation into the cause of death is being made at the Tokyo Army Hospital where the body was taken for autopsy. Sources https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.stripes.com https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/25/german_pows_buried_prison https://www.startribune.com https://www.sfexaminer.comhttps://daughterofliberty.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/index.html http://720mpreunion.org/history/time_line/1953/1953_tl.html https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-final-service-6411529 https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/419/256.html https://www.britannica.com/science/artificial-respiration https://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org https://www.chicagotribune.com https://www.wikipedia.org Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, October 1964, book review by Matthew Meselson of Tomorrow's Weapons, Chemical and Biological, author Jacquard Hirschorn Rothschild Listeners, I get my sound effects from envatomarket https://audiojungle.net/ Theme music by me.

Early morning, February 28th, 1982. Olathe, Kansas. Young Johnson County, Kansas, Assistant District Attorney Paul Morrison is called by police to a duplex at 1000 West Sheridan in Olathe, Kansas. The bedroom is a bloody crime scene. David Harmon, a 25-year-old banker, lies brutally bludgeoned to death in his bed. Years later Morrison vividly recalls the shocking sight of the body: “You couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman, 10 years old or 80.” Sources A Cold-Blooded Business author Marek Fuchs https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.tampabay.com https://www.democratandchronicle.com https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/police-catch-woman-and-her-young-paramour-20-years-after-they-beat-husband-to https://www.newspapers.com https://www.genealogybank.com https://kansascity.newsbank.com/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-who-murdered-husband-in-kansas-freed-after-9-years/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-knock-on-the-door/ https://the-line-up.com/mark-mangelsdorf-the-man-who-killed-his-best-friend-and-got-away-with-it-for-24-years https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/  https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story?id=732881&page=1#.UEr9lI1lT0M https://people.com/archive/conspiracy-to-kill-vol-65-no-9/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13559768/david-j_-harmon https://www.Wikipedia.org Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

Noon, Monday, May 6, 2013. Ottawa, Kansas. None of his family or friends talk with Andrew Stout, age 30, for several days. Three of his friends decide to stop by his rural Kansas home to check on him. One of them peers into the detached garage near the house, recoils, and says “Is that teeth?” They have discovered a human body partly covered with a tarp. The smell of death hangs heavy over the property. Just after noon that day, they call 911. Sources https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article319903/In-disbelief-friends-describe-quadruple-murder-suspect-Kyle-Flack-as-judgmental-but-loyal.html https://legaldictionary.net/hearsay-evidence/ http://www.franklincoks.org/index.aspx?NID=701 http://www.ottawaherald.com/article/20160317/NEWS/303179841 https://www.cjonline.com/http://www.ottawaherald.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article319903/In-disbelief-friends-describe-quadruple-murder-suspect-Kyle-Flack-as-judgmental-but-loyal.html https://web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb/offenderListAction.do?docId=1246922 https://kaufmanatlaw.com/legal-news/can-states-curtail-insanity-defense-supreme-court-to-decide/ https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

February 5, 1979. Kansas City, Missouri. The marriage of Wanda Conkling and William Cadwalader is abusive: he beats her--she leaves him--he apologizes--they make up—he beats her… and on and on …  In early 1979, they are in one of the “let’s make up” phases. They plan a short vacation. They pack their bags and get ready to head out for the airport. Tragically, they open their front door to a murderer. Sources: This episode is based on a series of newspaper articles from the Kansas City Star (October 2018) called “A Man on Fire.” It’s a very good job of investigative reporting. It’s in 6 parts and they’re well worth looking at. I did some of my own digging, but much of the information is from these articles. The photos and videos that accompany the articles are very good, too. The reporters are Ian Cummings, Glenn E Rice, and Tony Rizzo. I recognize Tony Rizzo’s name—he’s kind of an ace crime reporter. The link is below. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article216751240.html https://www.kcur.org/post/5-little-known-historic-mob-locations-kansas-city#stream/0 https://www.drphil.com/advice/sexual-predator-warning-signs/ https://fox4kc.com/2016/08/06/woman-found-dead-in-northland-apartment-fire-leading-to-homicide-investigation/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/olathe/olathe-daily-news https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://www.stltoday.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJIkXuK7js https://ganglandwire.com

Saturday Morning, June 17th, 1933. Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Notorious bank robber Frank Nash, on the run after escaping from Leavenworth Federal Prison, is nabbed in Hot Springs, Arkansas, by two FBI agents and the McAlester, Oklahoma, police chief. After arriving at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, the four disembark from the train to make the dangerous journey by car up to Leavenworth, Kansas. Two more FBI agents and two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers, form a phalanx around the prisoner. Armed with two shotguns and pistols, they march through the station to the parking lot. As they watchfully load up the car, two men with machine guns and shout for everyone to put their hands up. A 30-second hell breaks loose. When the gun smoke settles, 5 men are dead. Sources The main source for this episode is The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of John Edgar Hoover's FBI, by Jeffrey Unger. This is an excellent book for those who want to know more about this case, or who just want a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Union-Station-Massacre-Original-Hoovers/dp/1933466081 https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://www.fbi.gov/ https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/verne-miller.html http://www.odmp.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_massacre https://www.stltoday.com/ https://oklahoman.com/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073225/   (The Kansas City Massacre 1975 ABC TV) I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review.  Even critical feedback is appreciated. You can email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or comment on the cases below.

Saturday Morning, June 17th, 1933. Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Notorious bank robber Frank Nash, on the run after escaping from Leavenworth Federal Prison, is nabbed in Hot Springs, Arkansas, by two FBI agents and the McAlester, Oklahoma, police chief. After arriving at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, the four disembark from the train to make the dangerous journey by car up to Leavenworth, Kansas. Two more FBI agents and two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers, form a phalanx around the prisoner. Armed with two shotguns and pistols, they march through the station to the parking lot. As they watchfully load up the car, two men with machine guns and shout for everyone to put their hands up. A 30-second hell breaks loose. When the gun smoke settles, 5 men are dead. Sources The main source for this episode is The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of John Edgar Hoover's FBI, by Jeffrey Unger. This is an excellent book for those who want to know more about this case, or who just want a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Union-Station-Massacre-Original-Hoovers/dp/1933466081 https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://www.fbi.gov/ https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/verne-miller.html http://www.odmp.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_massacre https://www.stltoday.com/ https://oklahoman.com/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073225/   (The Kansas City Massacre 1975 ABC TV) I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review.  Even critical feedback is appreciated. You can email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or comment on the cases below.

Late Friday night, the day after Thanksgiving, November 28th, 1958. Wolcott, Kansas. 18-year-old University of Kansas sophomore, Lowell Lee Andrews, calls the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office. He reports that there has been a burglary at his family’s farmhouse near the tiny Wolcott neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. In the house, he has found his mother, father, and sister--all dead. I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review. Even critical feedback is appreciated. You can email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or comment on the cases below. Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. Sources used for this episode are listed below: 2010 retrospective for New York Daily News by David J. Krajicek. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nicest-boy-wolcott-polite-lowell-lee-andrews-proved-cold-kansas-killer-article-1.198046 https://www2.ljworld.com/ https://www.doc.ks.gov/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/gsrstillviable.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Menninger-family https://www.atchisonglobenow.com/ https://themercury.com/ https://www2.ljworld.com/ https://oklahoman.com/ https://www.leavenworthtimes.com/

Saturday, May 3rd, 1980. Miami County, Kansas. Mark and Barry, ages 17 and 14, decide to go fishing near Bull Creek in Miami County, Kansas, maybe an hour’s drive south of Kansas City. The area is deserted countryside—soon to be underwater when a Marais des Cygnes Reservoir Project is completed. After they tire of fishing, they go off to explore the nearby woods and fields. When Barry sees a fresh mound of dirt near the creek, the two teens walk over to look more closely. Ominously, the mound is 10 inches high, 6 feet long, and 4 feet wide. When they spot a piece of denim and a red shirt sticking out from the dirt, they poke gingerly at the cloth. They recoil at terrible smell and cry out “It’s a body.” Poking some more, they see what looks like it might be a knee. That’s finally enough for our young adventurers. Barry yells “We better go tell my mom” as they race away from the scene. I posted the links to the sources used for this episode below. These sources were especially important: Reporter Andy Hoffman’s book Family Affairs was invaluable. His website is https://www.andyhoffmanbooks.com Area newspaper provide excellent coverage of the case, particularly the Kansas City Star, Olathe Daily News, and the Columbia Missourian. I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review. Even critical feedback is appreciated. Recently I set up an email for the podcase prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or you can comment on the cases on this website.  Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. Sources: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Moore_(politician) https://andyhoffmanbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-on-my-book-family-affairs-twenty.html https://www.doc.ks.gov/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/05/07/A-jury-Friday-convicted-Sueanne-Hobson-of-first-degree-murder/3279389592000/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/olathe/olathe-daily-news https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/

Saturday, May 3rd, 1980. Miami County, Kansas. Mark and Barry, ages 17 and 14, decide to go fishing near Bull Creek in Miami County, Kansas, maybe an hour’s drive south of Kansas City. The area is deserted countryside—soon to be underwater when a Marais des Cygnes Reservoir Project is completed. After they tire of fishing, they go off to explore the nearby woods and fields. When Barry sees a fresh mound of dirt near the creek, the two teens walk over to look more closely. Ominously, the mound is 10 inches high, 6 feet long, and 4 feet wide. When they spot a piece of denim and a red shirt sticking out from the dirt, they poke gingerly at the cloth. They recoil at terrible smell and cry out “It’s a body.” Poking some more, they see what looks like it might be a knee. That’s finally enough for our young adventurers. Barry yells “We better go tell my mom” as they race away from the scene. I posted the links to the sources used for this episode below. These sources were especially important: Reporter Andy Hoffman’s book Family Affairs was invaluable. His website is https://www.andyhoffmanbooks.com Area newspaper provide excellent coverage of the case, particularly the Kansas City Star, Olathe Daily News, and the Columbia Missourian. I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review. Even critical feedback is appreciated. Recently I set up an email for the podcase prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or you can comment on the cases on this website.  Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. Sources: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Moore_(politician) https://andyhoffmanbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-on-my-book-family-affairs-twenty.html https://www.doc.ks.gov/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/05/07/A-jury-Friday-convicted-Sueanne-Hobson-of-first-degree-murder/3279389592000/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/olathe/olathe-daily-news https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/

6:30 pm, Thursday, June 13th, 1996.  Overland Park, Kansas. A beautician at the Snip ‘N’ Clip Hair Salon finishes trimming a client’s hair. She and her customer walk to the front of the store. They see two young men approach the rear of a convertible parked outside. One of the men gets into the driver’s side of the vehicle. The other man points a gun through the open window at the man sitting in the passenger’s seat. As the passenger exits the car, a shot is fired. Reporter Tony Rizzo covered the carjacking story and the trial for the Kansas City Star. The Star also did excellent coverage on the escape. There is information online about the interviews with Toby. Just google ‘Escape Lansing Toby Dog’ and you’ll find them. A very good interview was conducted by Lauren Fox at http://www.KansasCity.com. I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review. Even critical feedback is appreciated. Recently I set up an email for the podcase prisoncitymurders@gmail.com or you can comment on the cases here. If you think I was too hard on ‘poor’ Toby, let me know, because I would still like to sentence her to be in a room with the  formidable Nancy Grace for a while. For now, I’m just hoping she gets some real therapy someday. Main Sources: http://www.kscourts.org/cases-and-opinions/opinions/supct/1999/19990416/79051.htm https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article216044285.html https://www.kmbc.com/article/toby-young-talks-about-escape-prison-life/3649543 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-kansas-jail-worker-talks-helping-man-escape-article-1.2265651 https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-fmcc-criminallaw/ https://www.safeharborprisondogs.com https://tobydorr.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/

Friday, November 14th, 2003.  Near Lawrence, Kansas. Two Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies conduct a welfare check at an isolated farmhouse. They find the scene of a bloody struggle in the living room. A women’s body lies face up on the floor. She is brutally beaten and stabbed multiple times. She appears to have been dead about a day. As the deputies search the house, they find a little girl’s room filled with toys and books. The little girl cannot be found. I posted the links to the sources used for this episode in the show notes. Author and Attorney Robert Beattie wrote the definitive book on this case Language of Evil. I highly recommend it. It’s available on Amazon. You can also find Dr. Thomas Murray’s scholarly works online, like The Language of Sadomasochism (available on Amazon for only $38.00 plus free shipping)  For newspaper reports, I used the Lawrence Journal World, and the Manhattan Mercury.  48 Hours and a couple of other true crime tv series covered the case. I remember watching the 48 Hours episode when it came out not too long after the trial. It was very good. The family and police cooperated, and they even got to put cameras in the courtroom for the trial. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Evil-Robert-Beattie/dp/0451225309 https://www2.ljworld.comhttps://themercury.com https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-mind-for-murder/ https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ks-supreme-court/1131588.html http://skepdic.com/consegrity.html https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/

Friday, November 5th, 1999.  Rural Kansas. At 4:20 PM, Camille Arfmann, 14 years old, steps off her school bus. She walks to the trailer where she lives with her older sister and her family. About 5:00 PM, a friend, Rose Meyer, stops by. She goes in the trailer and sees the teenager’s jacket and book bag inside the house. Not finding anyone home, Rose leaves. At 6:30 PM, friends stop by to take Camille to an activity at nearby Countryside Baptist Church. When there is no answer at the door, they leave. At 12:50 AM Saturday morning, the Jefferson County Sheriff receives a call reporting the teenager missing. https://www.thepitchkc.com/news/article/20615896/brothers-keeper https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/2007/95396.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ks-supreme-court/1329300.html https://www.kscourts.org/cases-and-opinions/opinions/supct/2002/20020201/85735.htm https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/floyd-bledsoe https://www.newspapers.com/https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.atchisonglobenow.com https://www.jeffcountynews.com https://www2.ljworld.com

7 people were convicted of the murders listed below. One died in prison and one is still incarcerated.  The others are either on parole or have been released. June 17, 1979, Topeka, Kansas. Catherine Cummings, age 20, 6-1/2 months pregnant, is found raped and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. September 2, 1980, Pittsburg, Kansas. A man walks into the police department saying he has just shot two people. April 8, 1987, Wichita, Kansas. Zeola Wilson, age 36, 8 months pregnant, is shot to death in her car. February 19, 1989, Kansas City, Kansas. 17-year-old honor student at Piper High School, Syndi Sue Bierman, is found beaten and stabbed to dead in her bed. February 7, 1993, Kansas City, Kansas. Police are called to the scene of a fatal shooting. Two men are seen leaving a home near the crime.  One of the men pipes up “I shot the bitch.” The initial source and inspiration for this podcast is Kansas City Star "19 Kansas inmates convicted of 1st-degree murder paroled in last 3 years" posted by Hurst Laviana. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article314454/19-Kansas-inmates-convicted-of-1st-degree-murder-paroled-in-past-3-years.html Other links: https://law.justia.com/ https://www.doc.ks.gov/ https://www.dougmagee.com https://www.pomc.com https://www.prisonlegalnews.org https://www.newspapers.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/ The link for the podcast blog is https://prisoncitymurders.blubrry.net/ Comments may be posted at that site.