The Wichita Massacre , also known as Wichita Horror , is a number of random robberies, assaults, rape and murders committed from 7 to 14 December 2000 by Reginald and Jonathan Carr brothers against several people in the city of Wichita, Kansas. In this period, Carrs killed five people and a dog in the process of robbery and assault, robbing another man, and injuring a woman. The crime shocked Wichitans, and triggered an explosion in the sale of weapons, locks and home security systems. The brothers were tried and convicted for various charges, including kidnapping, robbery, rape, four mass murders, and one count of first-degree murder. They were both sentenced to death in October 2002.
This case continues to be noticed because the punishment of convicted persons is punished by various decisions relating to the law of capital punishment. In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the state death penalty, but the Kansas attorney general appealed to the US Supreme Court. It upholds the constitutionality of the state capital punishment law; this meant that Carrs and the other cursed murderers were returned to the death penalty. Defense lawyers continue to appeal.
On July 25, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned Carrs' death sentence for misconduct of court judges in the sentencing process. Court sentencing is required for each brother. Prior to this, the attorney general appealed against a high court ruling to the US Supreme Court, which was agreed in March 2015 to hear the case. In January 2016, the United States Supreme Court overturned the Supreme Court of Kansas decision and returned the death penalty. Both Carr's brothers are currently imprisoned at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.
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The Carr brothers, Reginald, 22, and 20-year-old Jonathan of Dodge City, have had a long criminal record when they started the party. On December 8, 2000, recently arriving in Wichita, they rob Andrew Schreiber, assistant 23-year-old baseball coach. On December 11, three days later, they shot and wounded 55-year-old cellist and librarian Ann Walenta as he tried to escape from them in his car. Walenta died three days after the shooting.
Their crime action culminated on December 14, when Carrs invaded the house on 12727 E Birchwood Drive and proceeded to rob and sexually harass three men and two women, killing four of them. The brothers walked into an almost randomly chosen home where Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort and his girlfriend, a young woman identified as "Holly G.," all in their twenties, spent the night. They are all working adults; Befort is a local high school teacher, Heyka a finance director with a local financial services firm, Muller a local preschool teacher and Sander a former financial analyst who has learned to become a priest. Holly is a teacher.
The Carrs originally scoured the house for valuables. Befort intended to apply for Holly, and he found this when Carrs found an engagement ring hidden inside a popcorn box. After the search, Carrs forced their hostages naked and then tied them up. They then repeatedly raped the two women, and forced the men to commit sexual acts with women and women to each other. They drove the victim to an ATM to clear their bank account, before taking them to the lonely Stryker Football Complex in the suburbs. There they shot all five execution styles behind their heads. The Carr brothers drove the Befort trucks to their bodies and let them die.
Holly G. survived her head wound on the soccer field because her plastic clasp turned the bullet. After the killers leave, he walks naked for more than a mile in cold weather to seek first aid and take shelter in a house. Before getting medical treatment, he reported the incident and description of his attacker to the couple who brought him in, before the police arrived.
The Carrs had returned home to ransack him for other valuables, and while there beating Holly's dog, Nikki, with the golf club. The next day the police arrested Carr's brothers. Reginald was identified by the dying Schreiber and Walenta. The District Attorney said that, based on evidence in the case, Carrs's motives were robbery.
With the help of Holly's testimony at the trial, Carr's brothers were convicted of nearly all charges against them, including kidnapping, robbery, rape, four massacres, and one count of first-degree murder. Reginald Carr was convicted of 50 counts and Jonathan Carr 43. They were each sentenced to death for murder in the capital, as well as life imprisonment, with decades to serve before eligible for parole. Their case was filed.
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There has been a continuing concern for Carr's brother's case because of various decisions about Kansas's death penalty law and a decision by a high court in such cases. In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the state death penalty, but the attorney general appealed this ruling to the US Supreme Court. It upholds the constitutionality of the state death penalty law, which returns Carrs and other cursed murderers to the death penalty.
On July 25, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court announced it had canceled Carr's death sentence on appeal. The six majority of the judiciary say that they did so because the court judge failed to separate the court's verdict for each of the defendants. According to the release of the Kansas Supreme Court public information official, the court unanimously reversed three of the four suspect convictions of each of the defendants because the jury's instruction on the murder of victims of crime-based crimes was "fatal and three of the murder charges of several first duplicate murder killings. "
The high court upholds most of the rulings against each brother despite a lower court error. The court ruled that the brothers were entitled to separate the court of judgment, because "the difference in the moral faults of the two defendants" could cause the jury "to show mercy to someone while refusing to show mercy to another." Even if the death penalty is not enforced, each Carrs has been sentenced to serve at least "70 to 80 years" in prison before being eligible for parole.
The Kansas Attorney General appealed the high court's verdict to the US Supreme Court, which in March 2015 agreed to hear the case of Carr's brothers, along with other death cases from the state. In January 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States returned the death penalty, ruling 8-1 that both jury instructions opposed by Carrs and the combined punishment process violated the Constitution.
Criticism of crime coverage in Wichita
The victim was white and Carr's brother was black, but the District Attorney stated that there was no evidence of a crime of racial crime. Based on the robbery, the Sedgwick County Lawyer, Nola Foulston decided not to treat this incident as a hate crime. Conservative media commentators David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and Thomas Sowell say the crime is underestimated; they feel the national media suppress the story because of political correctness. Sowell claims that the media have a double standard of racial abuses, tend to commit "white crimes against blacks" but discourage "crimes as cruel as blacks against whites".
Years later The Wichita Eagle commented that the deaths of four black boys killed by a black man eight days before the "Wichita Massacre" in 2000 received less media coverage than Carr's brother's murder. In the first case, the worst killing in town in 27 years, Cornelius Oliver, 19, killed his girlfriend Raeshawnda Wheaton, 18, at her home, and her roommate Dessa Ford, and friends Jermaine Levy and Quincy Williams, who visited the women. Oliver shoots people behind his head where they sit on the couch. The couple are known to have "an arbitrary and violent relationship". The police arrested Oliver that day; he still has blood on his shoes.
Some members of the black community questioned why the murders of the four black youths were replaced by the attention given to the Carrons' murder of four young white men. A relative of Wheaton asked, "How could something be worse than the others, if the results [some deaths] are the same?" But Wheaton's death and his friends are characterized by Oliver who has a personal relationship with at least one of his victims, unlike Carrs who selects their victims at random. In addition, Carrs carried out attacks and other harassment of the victims. Oliver was found guilty of four murders and served a life sentence in prison, without the possibility of parole before 2140.
Legacy
- Muller is a pre-school teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School. The school established the annual award, the Heather Muller Love of Faith Award, awarded to the 8th grader who is worthy of his memory.
- Episode 4 Law & amp; Sequence: SVU domination is based on this case.
See also
- The killing of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
- List of massacres in Kansas
- The death penalty in Kansas
- Kansas Department of Correction
References
External links
- The Prison Prison Database of Kansas - Kansas Department of Corrections
- Carr, Jonathan D (KDOC # 76065) - current status is locked up
- Carr, Reginald D Jr (KDOC # 63942) - current status is incarcerated
- Broad explanation of crime by the TV Court Crimes Library
- 'Wichita' Brother Massacre Sentenced
- Kansas Decision v. Marsh by the United States Supreme Court
- KAKE-TV news stories about Wichita Horror's married engagement
- "Is this the killing of Kansas with fraternal infidelity?", CNN and CourtTV
- Kansas v. Jonathan Carr , Kansas Supreme Court
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