Roadside Remains

Roadside Crosses in Harvey County, Kansas MURDER Some murder victims from Harvey and Sedgwick counties faced their final moments along our road sides, or their bodies were later placed there.  Beyond the tragedy of the situation itself comes the disrespect for the...

Andra Raye Smithhart

Double Murder-Suicide Wichita police report a man killed two people last night and then turned the gun on himself. Police believe 27-year-old Charles Hankerson killed nineteen-year-old Jesus Talavera and Andra Smithhart, a woman in her thirties. He then shot himself...

Matthew Ryan Schrag

Blanchette Guilty of Schrag Murder The man accused of beating 23-year-old Matthew Schrag to death with a baseball bat said little Monday afternoon after he pleaded guilty to the Jan. 23 murder. Robert Blanchette, 26, stood next to defense attorney Sarah McKinnon as...

Juan Guerra

Teen’s Body Found Near Halstead The body of a Newton teen-ager was found at 11:30 a.m. Monday at a secluded location on the shore of the Little Arkansas River about 2 miles northwest of Halstead, said Harvey County Sheriff Galen Morford.  Morford identified the body...

Baby DeLong & Letha Ann DeLong

Quizz Hutchinson Woman In Death Wife of Burrton Oil Field Worker Is Victim of Local Abortionist.  J. Rodney Stone, Harvey county attorney from Newton, was expected to arrive here late this afternoon to question a Hutchinson woman in connection with the death of Mrs....