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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...

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....

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...