I haven’t read all the posts so sorry if this is a duplicate. Aren’t the adoptive parents from the Emporia area?
Here’s a good article from the Emporia Gazette:
http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/2007/jun/08/suspect_former_emporian/
I don’t know anything about the adoptive parents. A couple days ago Rte66 and I exchanged the fact that we had uncovered an Edwin K Hall in the Olathe are, and I said maybe it’s this guy’s dad or uncle. Age was given as 51. That was before I heard he was adopted. So I was asking Rte a question about it.