Wichita Horror case - Ten year anniversary | Pro Death Penalty.com Discussion Board (2024)

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Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of the Wichita Horror case.

The Carr brothers, 22-year-old Reginald and 20-year-old Jonathan, already had serious criminal records when they began their spree.[4] On December 8, 2000, having recently arrived in Wichita, they committed armed robbery against 23-year-old assistant baseball coach, Andrew Schreiber. Three days later, they shot and mortally wounded 55-year-old cellist and librarian, Ann Walenta, as she tried to escape from them in her car; she died three days later.

Their crime spree culminated on December 14, when they invaded a home and subjected five young men and women to robbery, sexual abuse, and murder. The brothers broke into a house chosen nearly at random where Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort and Holly Glover, all in their twenties, were spending the night.

Initially scouring the house for valuables, the Carrs forced their hostages to strip naked, bound and detained them, and subjected them to various forms of sexual humiliation, including rape and oral sex. They also forced the men to engage in sexual acts with the women, and the women with each other. They then drove the victims to ATMs to empty their bank accounts, before finally bringing them to a snowy deserted soccer complex on the outskirts of town and shooting them execution-style in the backs of their heads, leaving them for dead. The Carr brothers then drove Befort's truck over the bodies.

They returned to the house to ransack it for more valuables, in the process killing Nikki, Holly's muzzled dog. Holly Glover survived (her plastic hairpin having deflected the bullet), after running naked for more than a mile in freezing weather to report the attack and seek medical attention.

In a much-remarked point of tragedy, she had seen her boyfriend Befort shot, after having learned of his intention to propose marriage when the Carrs, by chance, discovered the engagement ring hidden in a can of popcorn. The Carr brothers, who took few precautions, were captured by the police the next day, and Reginald was identified by Schreiber and the dying Walenta. The District Attorney stated that the Carrs' motive was robbery.

The crimes shocked Wichitans, and purchases of guns, locks, and home security systems subsequently skyrocketed in the city. The brothers were tried, convicted and sentenced to death in October 2002. They are still languishing on death row with their case yet to make any substantial headway in appeals. Who knows, when if ever, these two monsters will face justice?

In an unexpected but positive turn of events, the two survivors of this case, Andrew and Holly, began courting after the trial and subsequently married. They now live happily elsewhere in Kansas.

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rayozz
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I remember seeing some of this on one of the crime channels.

I know that they had appeals in 2009, no idea what happened.

Very cruel men.

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furoraceltica
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Why Germany REALLY abolished the death penalty
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301450.html

Article on death penalty in Europe

www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=158#death

Potassium_Pixie
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Capital Murder means Capital Punishment doled out. Quickly.

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Potassium_Pixie
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Capital Murder means Capital Punishment doled out. Quickly.

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