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Carr trial to focus on guns and DNAProsecutors spend Friday laying the foundation to tie the Carr brothers to a handgun and five deaths. By Ron Sylvester - The Wichita Eagle - Sat, Oct. 19, 2002 The jury in the murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr should hear lab tests about guns and DNA when testimony resumes Monday. Prosecutors spent most of Friday laying legal foundation for those reports, which are expected to tie a gun to three incidents committed in December 2000 that left five people dead. DNA evidence, prosecutors hope, will prove the presence of one...

Survivor says she caught STD By Roxana Hegeman - The Associated Press - 10/18/2002 WICHITA -- A woman who survived a rape and shooting surprised prosecutors Thursday by telling them she had contracted the same sexually transmitted disease a detective just testified one of the suspects had. The woman alerted prosecutors after she watched live televised coverage of a police detective telling jurors that Reginald Carr had a sexually transmitted disease. The woman said that about two months after the attacks her doctor told her she had the same condition, District Attorney Nola Foulston said. Outside the jury's presence,...

Testimony on cellist slaying fills Carr trial By Ron Sylvester - The Wichita Eagle - Thu, Oct. 17, 2002 Anna Kelley said she initially dismissed her teenage daughter's claim that she had heard three gunshots outside their house on a quiet cul-de-sac in east Wichita. "That's not really the kind of thing that happened around here," Kelley testified Wednesday in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr. Kelley told of the night her neighbor Ann Walenta suffered gunshot wounds that would later prove fatal. The Carr brothers are charged with Walenta's death, one of more than 100...

ATM photos shown in Carr trial By Roxana Hegeman - The Associated Press - 10/16/2002 WICHITA -- Family members cried and held hands in court Tuesday as prosecutors showed jurors surveillance photos from automated teller machines where their loved ones were forced to make withdrawals before they were killed. Detective Jimmie Merrick, a financial crimes investigator with the Wichita Police Department, outlined for jurors the numerous withdrawals and attempted withdrawals from the accounts of Aaron Sander, Brad Heyka, Jason Befort and a woman who survived the shootings. Merrick testified that a total of $1,830 was taken from the four....

'I was afraid,' witness saysToni Greene, who realized the man police were looking for was asleep on her couch, testifies at the Carr brothers trial. By Ron Sylvester - The Wichita Eagle - Tue, Oct. 15, 2002 When Toni Greene heard news reports describing one of the suspects in a quadruple homicide the morning of Dec 15, 2000, the description sounded a lot like the man sleeping on her couch. His name: Jonathan Carr. Monday, Greene was on the witness stand pointing out Jonathan Carr and his brother Reginald Carr during their multiple capital murder trial. "Shock, confusion," is...

<p>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Toni Greene told jurors yesterday that she was just being a nosey mother when she went through the jacket pockets of a young man her teenage daughter had met at the mall days earlier.</p> <p>She found a diamond engagement ring in the pocket of Jonathan Carr's leather jacket. He was sleeping on her living room couch at the time.</p>

<p>WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- The grim details of how two brothers allegedly committed a nine-day crime rampage that left five people dead are being closely monitored by a community that is still shaken nearly two years after the slayings and more than a month into the brothers' murder trial.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - The Wichita, Kan., trial of two brothers charged with murdering five people and wounding a sixth in a December 2000 crime spree has local residents and prominent black leaders wondering why the national media have been relatively silent in the matter. Because the suspects, Jonathan and Reginald Carr, are black and their victims white, many observers in Wichita expected the brothers to be charged with hate crimes, which presumably would have sparked national news coverage. It didn't happen and some are raising the specter of a racial double standard by the national media, based on the lack of...

Trial opens window into night of fear BY RON SYLVESTER - The Wichita Eagle - Sun, Oct. 13, 2002 "Potential homicide... multiple victims... 37th and Greenwich Road.... " Deputy Matthew Lynch was halfway through his shift on the overnight road patrol when he heard that dispatch at 2:44 a.m. He was on Webb Road, just minutes away. Lynch saw nothing as he drove south on Greenwich Road. He continued until he saw a Honda Civic in a field at the end of a median at 29th Street North. He stepped out of his Sedgwick County sheriffs' patrol car into...

Victims' belongings linked to defendantAlso on Friday, a former WSU baseball player recounts being carjacked a week before the killings. BY RON SYLVESTER - The Wichita Eagle - Sat, Oct. 12, 2002 Crime scene investigators accustomed to scouring for spots, hairs and fingerprints found a mass of property belonging to the four homicide victims inside the Wichita apartment where police arrested Reginald Carr. What the investigators searched, wrapped and logged as evidence suggests greed as a motive in the shooting deaths of four people in a snowy soccer field earlier that morning, Dec 15, 2000. The property, some of...

Reginald Carr had $996, victims' credit card, watchOfficers recount arrest BY HURST LAVIANA - The Wichita Eagle - Fri, Oct. 11, 2002 Reginald Carr made a dash for the balcony door when he heard a knock from police officers who were tracking down a suspect in the execution-style murders of four Wichitans, a Sedgwick County jury was told Thursday. But when Carr was greeted outside by half a dozen other officers with guns drawn, he ducked back inside, only to be overwhelmed by officers who were storming the apartment. A description of the arrest came during the fourth day...

Carr trial: Survivor describes sexual attacks by armed intruders By Roxana Hegeman - The Associated Press 11:45 p.m. 10/8/2002 WICHITA -- Her voice steady, the sole survivor of a quadruple homicide graphically described for jurors Tuesday the sexual attacks she and her four friends endured the last night they spent together. Defendants Reginald and Jonathan Carr stared at the woman as she recounted in detail how the five friends were forced by armed intruders to have sex while the intruders watched, and how she herself was raped. The Carr brothers are on trial in Sedgwick County District Court charged...

Legal wrangling opens Carr trial A lawyer for Reginald Carr suggests that Jonathan Carr and an unknown man committed the crimes. Jonathan Carr's lawyer requests a mistrial and is denied.BY RON SYLVESTER - The Wichita Eagle - Tue, Oct. 08, 2002 A call for a mistrial Monday highlighted the first day of testimony in the murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr.Val Wachtel, lawyer for Reginald Carr, drew objections from prosecutors and from Jonathan Carr's lawyer when he suggested in his opening statement that Jonathan Carr and another man were responsible for four of the murders the brothers are...

<p>After two years, two brothers accused of a week-long rampage of murder, rape and robbery in the American heartland will have their reckoning in a Kansas criminal court. The trial began Monday.</p> <p>In all, Reginald Carr, 24, and Jonathan Carr, 22, face 58 charges each. Of the six people they are accused of trying to kill, only one survived. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.</p>

Posted on Mon, Oct. 07, 2002 Deputy recalls moment of discovering bodies Jurors showed no emotion today as they passed a photo of the quadruple homicide crime scene at an east-side soccer complex nearly two years ago.But Sedgwick County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Lynch's voice cracked as he fought back tears while recalling when he arrived to find the four bodies in the early morning hours of Dec. 15,2000.It was part of the first day's evidence in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr, the Dodge City brothers charged with dozens of crimes including capital murder.The state spent...

<p>For nearly two years, residents of Wichita, Kan., have tried to push from their minds the image of a young woman, naked and bleeding from a head wound, running for her life across a frozen soccer field.</p> <p>But beginning today, the memories of "the Wichita horror" will be impossible to escape when testimony begins in the multiple-murder trial of Reginald and Jonathan Carr.</p>

<p>A notorious murder case that some observers say has been ignored because the victims are not minorities finally comes to court — and television. The "Wichita horror" trial will be broadcast by Court TV once jury selection is complete late this week.</p>

<p>When Reginald and Jonathan Carr go on trial today for a crime spree now known as the "Wichita Horror," there probably won't be any mention of race.</p> <p>But that doesn't mean the people of Wichita won't be thinking about it.</p>

We reported the story of the Wichita Massacre in these pages two years ago at the time it happened. Outside the local Wichita press, however, virtually the only media to report this hate crime were Frontpagemagazine.com and the American Renaissance newsletter. While the federal government rushes to Los Angeles to investigate an incident in which a handcuffed youth was slammed into the hood of a car and punched by an officer, a pall of silence still blankets the horrendous racial murder of four young people whose murderers are now on trial. The difference in the responses to these two stories...

The Wichita MassacreBy Stephen WebsterAmerican Renaissance | July 16, 2002 This article is taken from the August, 2002, issue of American Renaissance On September 9, Reginald Carr and his brother Jonathan go on trial for what has become known as the Wichita Massacre. The two black men are accused of a week-long crime spree that culminated in the quadruple homicide of four young whites in a snowy soccer field in Wichita, Kansas. In all, the Carr brothers robbed, raped or murdered seven people. They face 58 counts each, ranging from first-degree murder, rape, and robbery to animal cruelty. Prosecutors will...