Wichita, Kan. (1974)
01/15/1974: Police were puzzling over a crime scene where
the phone line was cut, the parents were bound, gagged, beaten, then strangled
to death. The son was also bound with three plastic bags over his head; he
likely suffocated. The daughter was hanging in the basement, toes two inches
from the floor. Their other three children were at school. There was no sign of
robbery, although the murderer appears to have stolen their car. Police later
suggested there was some sort of fetish to the murders but refused to describe
what had been done to the bodies in support of this theory. The B.T.K. murderer
eventually claimed to have done it.
Category: family non-resident
Suicide: no
Cause: mental illness
Weapon: strangle, hang[1]
[1] "Four In Wichita Family Slain," Kansas City Times, Jan. 16, 1974, 1, 16; “Murders Baffle Wichita Lawmen,” [Olathe, Kan.] Olathe News, Jan. 17, 1974, 1; “Letter Writer Claims He Killed Seven in Wichita,” [Iola, Kan.] Iola Register, Feb. 11, 1978, 1..
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