Victims' belongings linked to defendant
Also 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 which belonged to Andrew Schreiber -- who was carjacked the week before the quadruple homicide --nearly filled the courtroom of Sedgwick County Judge Paul Clark on Friday, where brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr face the death penalty.
Some have questioned whether there was a racial motive in the case, where five people were shot execution style as they knelt naked in the snow. The Carr brothers, charged with a combined 113 crimes, are black. Those crime victims -- as well as two others -- were white.
But no one, including the survivor from the soccer field shootings who testified this week, hinted at any racial motive for the attacks.
Police and prosecutors have always pointed to robbery as the motive, and Friday's evidence reinforced that.
Reginald Carr's lawyers don't dispute that the property was in his possession, along with a truck belonging to victim Jason Befort. Befort's credit card was in Carr's pocket when police arrested him inside apartment No. 819 at 5400 E. 21st Street. But his lawyers say he received everything from his younger brother, Jonathan, and another unidentified man, who are responsible for the killings.
Besides two television sets, including a Sony big screen, Wichita crime scene investigator Scott Pike found several pieces of luggage with signed name tags of Befort, Brad Heyka and Aaron Sander, three of the four homicide victims from the soccer field.
Those bags bulged with lootfrom the triplex where the men lived before being killed. The watch of the other soccer-field victim, Heather Muller, also turned up in Carr's pocket in the apartment.
Pike identified items for the jury most of Friday morning while assistant prosecutor Kim Parker placed heavy bags in front of him on the witness stand, at times out of breath as she questioned him.
Shirts and pants still on the hangers filled several bags; there were two pairs of size 9 ½ dress shoes; two watches; three remote controls; a pocket computer; wireless phone; the surviving woman's credit card and her winter coat, and a men's toiletry kit with cologne, tweezers, nail clippers. There were blankets, electronic cords and cables, computer keyboards, a mouse, mouse pads and speakers.
On the floor with the televisions were VCRs, CD players, a computer monitor. There were drinking glasses and a 120-piece tool set still in the store packages in the days before Christmas.
Pike also found several ATM receipts belonging to the victims, showing money removed earlier that morning. The woman who survived testified this week that the victims were forced to withdraw money at gunpoint.
In the apartment's back bedroom, Pike found a letter addressed to "Reggie Carr." Underneath the envelopes sat a wallet with a driver's license and credit cards that belonged to Heyka.
Also on the dresser sat a Guess watch with a blue face, just like Schreiber had the night he was robbed.
Police think Schreiber was the first victim in a series of three crimes. Authorities also have charged the Carrs in the death of Ann Walenta.
Schreiber, a former Wichita State University baseball player, left his home between 10 and 10:30 the night of Dec. 7 to run to the convenience store and pick up a couple of tins of chewing tobacco. The store was crowded, so he had to park away from the door by a Dumpster.
Returning to his 1998 Ford Expedition, Schreiber started the engine. Before he put it in gear, he looked out the window and saw a man -- whom he would identify Friday as Reginald Carr -- coming toward him fast with a gun pointed at him.
"He told me to move over," Schreiber testified Friday. He moved to the other seat, as he felt the man hit him with the butt of the black automatic pistol.
Within minutes, the man pulled into a vacant parking lot, ordered Schreiber to hand over his wallet with $50 inside. Another man, also armed with a gun, appeared on the passenger side window and ordered Schreiber in the back. He felt the other man hit him with what felt like a gun.
The abductors then started driving him to automated teller machines on Wichita's east side, the two carjackers in the front seats. They pointed a gun at his temple and told him to look out of the window.
As they drove to one ATM, Schreiber said they passed his house. He thought of his roommate and a woman friend who was supposed to visit him.
"At that point, I would've rather died than take them to my house where I know those two people were," Schreiber said.
The men drove Schreiber to ATMs, making him draw out $300 until they drained his savings account.
Schreiber said he began to fear the worst, as the men drove north to Kechi, then east looking for a deserted road. He said a silent prayer with two requests.
"The first request I made was that if this is my time to go, please make it quick," he said. "The second request I made in my prayer that the people close in my life knew how much I loved them."
Then District Attorney Nola Foulston asked: Why didn't he fight back? He's 225 pounds. These guys were smaller. Why didn't he try to get away?
Schreiber struggled for an answer. They had guns, he said.
"Did the guns increase their size and strength?" Foulston asked.
"Yes," Schreiber said.
He said as they picked up another car, the passenger got out. They drove him to a desolate road, not far from the soccer field where four people would die just a week later.
It was after midnight, Dec 8, when they left him by his vehicle with a tire shot out and his keys in the middle of the road.
But he was alive.
A week later, as police led Reginald Carr out of the apartment filled, TV stations taped the arrest. Schreiber saw the report and called police.
That's the guy who attacked him, he told police.
Reach Ron Sylvester at 268-6514 or rsylvester@wichitaeagle.com.
Actually, Wastoute, the ratio of black-on-white rape vs. white-on-black rape was 2000 to 1, according to the report "The Color of Crime" which has been taken from US Dept. of Justice statistics. This ratio is itself somewhat inaccurate due to the fact that the Dept. of Justice deliberately skews the crime statistics by counting hispanic perpetrators as "white" while classifying hispanic victims as "hispanic." The era of "lynchings" has been greatly overstated by the leftists who control the media and publishing houses as well. The 1865-1935 period witnessed approx. 6000 extra-legal executions by vigilantes. Many of these were whites hanging other whites for various crimes, some were whites hanging blacks, and a few were black mobs hanging whites. James Lubinskas wrote an excellent article on this topic which appeared on FrontPageMag. com last week.
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Actually, it was very helpful. In 1994 300,000 white women were raped and 10% of those rapes were perpetrated by black men. Let us say that yields 30,000 rapes that MAY be the kind of crimes I am discussing. So things aren't quite as bad as I estimated. If 60% are "acquaintance rapes", which may be a bit high, then only about 10,000 times a year does what I am describing happen i.e.; black men raping white women as a hate crime. Even so it is a lot more than our current DC killer who is getting 3 min. of every 15 min. news cycle.
