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Juanita Culver found it hard to believe that the Jonathan Carr she knew could be facing the death penalty for a crime rampage that included multiple rapes, robberies and murders. But District Attorney Nola Foulston wanted to clarify the crimes for the 73-year-old woman from Dodge City, who testified Wednesday in the penalty phase of Jonathan and Reginald Carr's capital murder trial. Foulston showed Culver color crime-scene photos from a soccer field where four people were shot to death on Dec. 15, 2000, and asked: Did that change her mind? "No, it doesn't.... I see that stuff, but it's...

WICHITA -- The mother of two brothers convicted of killing five people pleaded with jurors Tuesday to spare the men's lives, saying her children are pretty good and what happened two years ago was a horrible mistake. "I know other families out there are probably hating me to death. I am sorry for them, but spare my children. I love them just as much as you would love your children. I believe there is good in them. There is just something went wrong along the way," Janice Harding testified. Harding said her job in Dodge City has kept her...

Today, Jonathan and Reginald Carr begin fighting for their lives. A jury Monday found the brothers guilty of killing four Wichita residents on Dec. 15, 2000. Now, the jury must decide whether to sentence the brothers to death. Judge Paul Clark ordered the penalty phase of the trial to begin this morning. "Justice has been served -- and it is long awaited," Chief Deputy District Attorney Kim Parker said. Jurors found Reginald Carr, 24, guilty of all 50 crimes charged against him, including the capital murders of Dec. 15, the first-degree murder of Ann Walenta four days earlier and...

<p>WICHITA, Kan. — Brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr were found guilty Monday of four counts of capital murder for the execution-style killing of four friends two years ago in a snow-covered soccer field.</p> <p>Reginald Carr, 24, and Jonathan Carr, 22, were convicted for the Dec. 15, 2000, deaths of Aaron Sander, 29; Brad Heyka, 27; Jason Befort, 26; and Heather Muller, 25.</p>

Just heard, Reginald and Jonathan Carr declared guilty on over 40 counts including Burglary, Rape, Aggaravated Sodomy, and 4 counts of Murder. Nothing Follows.

Kim Parker knew that in a courtroom, no one hears the screams. For the veteran prosecutor, conveying to a jury in a quiet courtroom what she had seen in a snowy soccer field before dawn on Dec 15, 2000, would be her biggest challenge. Heather Muller must have felt the gun barrel touch her head before someone pulled the trigger. Investigators could tell that just from looking at the wound on the back of her head. She wouldn't be able to tell about that feeling. No one but one surviving woman would hear Aaron Sander plead: "Oh, God, no.......

Carr jury recesses for weekendJurors to resume deliberations Monday in trial of brothers accused in killing rampage WICHITA -- Behind the closed doors of a courtroom stacked with evidence, jurors deliberated all day Friday without reaching a verdict in the murder trial of two brothers accused of a nine-day crime rampage that left five people dead. Deliberations were to resume Monday. Jurors must decide on a combined total of 97 counts against Reginald Carr, 24, and Jonathan Carr, 22, that stem from a quadruple killing, a single homicide and a separate robbery. By late afternoon, defense attorneys gathered in the...

Deliberations begin in Carr trial Killing spree: Closing arguments that included graphic pictures of shooting victims move juror to tears WICHITA -- After emotional closing arguments from prosecutors, jurors began deliberations late Thursday in the trial of two brothers accused of a nine-day crime spree that left five people dead. One juror was in tears during District Attorney Nola Foulston's fiery oration that included a computer presentation of graphic pictures of four victims lying in the snow-covered soccer field where they died. "You have four people frozen in time -- bullets that thrashed through their brains that drew the...

Carrs' defense rests; jury deliberation near After listening to agonizing details of five killings, repeated rapes and robberies, jurors in the capital murder case of Reginald and Jonathan Carr finally had something to smile about Wednesday. They'll get the case today. "We rest," said Mark Manna, one of Jonathan Carr's lawyers, after introducing his lone piece of evidence: an Amtrak train ticket from Newton to Cleveland, Ohio, for the morning of a quadruple homicide. Manna's minute-long presentation brought smiles from jurors, who'd spent the day listening to a DNA expert testify for Reginald Carr. That witness did little to...

Survivor's police interview rattles Carr trial jurors Jurors who managed restrained reactions through weeks of emotional evidence in the Carr brothers' murder trial appeared to be on the verge of tears Tuesday morning. Some in the jury box clenched their teeth, others wiped their eyes, as the defense took the curious step of replaying the story of the state's star witness -- the survivor of the quadruple homicide. Playing the videotaped interview between the woman and police -- recorded two weeks after the Dec. 15, 2000, killings -- left courtroom onlookers moved and baffled. Reginald Carr's lawyers offered no...

<p>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge's decision yesterday to disallow hearsay evidence makes it unlikely that Reginald Carr, one of two brothers accused of a nine-day crime spree that left five persons dead, will testify in his own defense.</p> <p>Reginald Carr's attorney, John Val Wachtel, told District Judge Paul Clark yesterday that his client would testify that Jonathan Carr gave his brother a cell phone before leaving with an unknown man the evening of Dec. 14, 2000.</p>

Carr jurors get break as deliberation rules ironed out While jurors take the day off from testimony, lawyers and the judge will be working today in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr. Testimony has recessed until Tuesday because of scheduling with an out-of-town expert for Reginald Carr's defense. Jonathan Carr's defense doesn't plan to call any witnesses. The state rested its case Friday morning. Prosecutors, the defense and Judge Paul Clark will work today on trying to finalize jury instructions. Before the trial ends, the judge will give jurors printed instructions outlining the laws they must...

DNA lets the dead speak in Carr trial EDITOR'S NOTE: The Carr brothers' capital murder trial is offering, for the first time, a clearer picture of events surrounding a quadruple homicide Dec 15, 2000. In this account, drawn from testimony for the prosecution last week, forensic investigators piece together evidence. Some content is graphic, and reader discretion is advised. Heather Muller can't tell about the horrible last moments of her life. Still, she has become one of the most important witnesses against the men police suspected of raping, robbing and killing her. Muller would give the kind of testimony...

After finishing what appeared to be an overwhelming case Friday morning, prosecutors began dismantling the defense of Reginald Carr. District Attorney Nola Foulston and Chief Deputy Kim Parker turned around the testimony of two defense witnesses on cross-examination and kept another from testifying, sending the jury in the capital murder trial home before lunch. Reginald Carr's defense continues Tuesday, with the scheduled arrival of a DNA expert. Jonathan Carr, Reginald's younger brother and co-defendant, plans on calling no witnesses, his lawyers told Judge Paul Clark. So strong was the state's evidence -- marked by 849 exhibits -- a routine...

State to rest case against the CarrsIt has taken three weeks for prosecutors to present all their evidence in the murder trial. The Sedgwick County District Attorney's office will rest its case this morning against Jonathan and Reginald Carr after providing a mountain of evidence in the capital murder case. Reginald Carr's defense got a head start Thursday and stalled a bit of the state's momentum with lengthy cross-examination focusing on the weakest DNA link to their client. But the sheer weight of evidence surrounding the quadruple homicide on Dec. 15, 2000, is imposing. District Attorney Nola Foulston and Chief...

<p>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Escorted by law-enforcement vehicles, jurors in the capital murder case of Reginald and Jonathan Carr yesterday boarded a city trolley to tour the scenes of a nine-day crime rampage nearly two years ago.</p> <p>In pouring rain, the trolley slowly drove by the house where Ann Walenta was shot, as well as the house where five friends were abducted and the soccer field where they were later shot. They also drove by the house where the sole survivor of the shootings ran for help and the spot where the murder weapon was found at the side of a highway.</p>

Mary Dudley spoke with a soft bedside manner Tuesday as she gave the jury a clinical view of killing in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr. Testimony by Dudley, Sedgwick County's coroner, came with diagrams and color photographs of autopsies to document beatings, rapes and gunshot wounds that left five people dead in December 2000. Such evidence inevitably becomes part of any murder trial, and it can be difficult to watch. A juror fainted in one Wichita murder trial last year, but the Carrs' jurors maintained the stoic demeanor they have shown throughout the past three weeks....

Reginald and Jonathan Carr's final attack began on the evening of Dec. 14, when the two brothers burst into a Wichita, Kan., home and pulled out their guns. Several days earlier, the Carr brothers had taken a man hostage at gunpoint, robbing him of $800 before leaving him stranded on a dirt rode. A few days after that, they discharged a bullet into the skull of a 55-year-old female cellist, as she parked her car outside of her home. Then, on Dec. 14, the Carr brothers took five Wichita residents - three men, two women - hostage. The brothers...

Carrs linked to crime scene Forensic investigators connect shoe prints to brothers and tie a gun to the December 2000 killings of five people. Forensic invesigator Gary Miller shows a shoe imprint found on a windshield sunshade that he said matches the sole of a shoe Jonathan Carr lost while running from police. The sunshade was found in the triplex where five people were terrorized. A forensic lab examiner matched bullets to a gun and imprints to shoes worn by Reginald and Jonathan Carr. The aim of Gary Miller's testimony Monday during the murder trial of the Carr brothers was...

Luck, vivid memories helped cops By Ron Sylvester - The Wichita Eagle - Sun, Oct. 20, 2002 Police say they sometimes rely on dumb luck and dumb mistakes to solve crimes. They had a little of both Dec 15, 2000, when a woman showed up naked on a doorstep and said she and four friends had been terrorized and then shot on a soccer field. First, she lived to tell. Then, as television stations broadcast news of a second quadruple homicide in eight days, Wichitans took it personally. They watched for stolen vehicles and suspects they had heard about....