Eventually, the two divorced and their father immediately abandoned his old life. Their father, and later their mother's boyfriends, would sexually abuse their older sister. Born in Dodge City, their parents quarreled a lot and would turn extremely violent against one another. With the help of HG’s testimony, the brothers were convicted of nearly all 113 counts against them and were both given the death penalty.The early lives of Reginald and Jonathan Carr were rather harsh. Every year the school awards a deserving 8th grade student the Heather Muller Love of Faith Award. One relative questioned “How could one be any worse than the other, if the results were the same?” Aftermath Speculation has been raised that this may have been due to the race of the victims. Sowell went on to claim that the media has a double standard regarding interracial offenses, tending to play up “vicious crimes by whites against blacks” but play down equally “vicious crimes by blacks against whites”.ĭespite the accusations of limited news coverage of the incident, The Wichita Eagle commented that four young black people who were murdered only eight days before the “Wichita Massacre” received even less media coverage. Media commentators David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and Thomas Sowell all stated that the crime did not garner much airtime or space in the national mainstream media due to political correctness. Since there was reportedly no prima facie evidence of racial motivation, only that the victims were white and the Carr brothers are black, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston decided not to treat the incident as a hate crime. The District Attorney stated that the Carrs’ motive was robbery. 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. survived because her metal barrette deflected the bullet, and ran naked for more than a mile in freezing weather to report the attack and seek medical attention. They returned to the house to ransack it for more valuables, and in the process killed Nikki, H.G.’s muzzled dog. The Carr brothers then drove Befort’s truck over the bodies. They then drove the victims to ATMs to empty their bank accounts, before finally taking 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. They also forced the men to engage in sexual acts with the women, and the women with each other. After the search, 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. learned of Befort’s intent to propose marriage when the Carrs, by chance, discovered the engagement ring hidden in a can of popcorn. In a much-remarked point of tragedy, H.G. They initially scoured the house for valuables. The brothers broke into a house chosen nearly at random where Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort and his girlfriend, a young woman identified as ‘H.G.’, all in their twenties, were spending the night. 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. 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. On December 8, 2000, having recently arrived in Wichita, they committed armed robbery against 23-year-old assistant baseball coach, Andrew Schreiber. The Carr brothers, 22-year-old Reginald and 20-year-old Jonathan, already had lengthy criminal records when they began their spree.
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The attacks, along with the reemergence of serial killer Dennis Rader and the murder of the Clutter Family in the 1950s and the Dayton Street Murders in 1974, rank as the worst crimes in the history of Kansas. Supreme Court, which upheld the death penalty law and returned the Carrs and other condemned killers to death row. Although it appeared that a 2004 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court overturning the state death penalty law was going to spare the Carrs, the decision was appealed to the U.S. The brothers were tried, convicted and sentenced to death in October 2002. The crimes shocked Wichitans, and purchases of guns, locks, and home security systems subsequently skyrocketed in the city. A sixth victim, a woman known as HG, survived a gunshot wound to the head. The Wichita Massacre, also known as The Wichita Horror, was a murder/assault/rape/robbery spree perpetrated by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr against several people in the city of Wichita, Kansas in December 2000.
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