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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/

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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/

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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.”

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/

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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.

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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