These week we are moving back and hitting Kansas.
Amber's story:
On Decoration Day in 1925, Florence Knoblock was in her farm home doing the Saturday chores. She had collected the eggs from the hen house, cut her husband and son's hair, made breakfast and had left the bread to rise on the stove. The county was shocked when her body was discovered with her head bashed in and her throat cut. The town was quick to look at two black men from the community as many thought that "certainly a white man couldn't have committed such a crime" . When the men were brought in for questioning, there was no evidence to point to them as the murderer. However there was someone very close to the case that's behavior came into question. Florence's husband was arrested and tried for the crime, twice.
Celina's story:
Wichita faced a spree of random robberies, rapes and murders in the winter of 2000. This spree would lead to a buying frenzy of guns and home security systems. Two brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr arrived in Wichita in December 2000 and started their criminal spree, culminating on December 14, when they entered a home on E. Birchwood Drive, there they robbed, raped, tortured and murdered the college age men and women that they found there. One woman ended up surviving and helped lead the police to the murderers. Her bravery and sheer determination helped bring the Carr's in.
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