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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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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/

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8:45 am, June 22^nd, 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/

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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/

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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

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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