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.



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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.



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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.

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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.

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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/

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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