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Speaker 2: Hadn't went no girls as I'm hey everyone, and welcome
back to Blood Againola. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and
I'm back with another fifty Shades of Evil. Now, last
week we went to the state of Florida, and I
told you the case of Florida Death Row inmate Wayne Dody.
So if you haven't heard that one, go back and
listen to it. But if you're all caught up, I'm
bringing you to Kansas today and I'm going to tell
you the story of what is known as the Wichita
massa are now that led to the arrest and conviction
of Reginald and Jonathan Carr, who were brothers that went
on a week long killing spree in the year two thousand.
So let's get into it. And this story, as I said,
takes place in Wichita, Kansas. Wichita is located in the
south central Kansas area. It's a very large city, four
hundred thousand residents. And as you'll see with these larger cities,
they have a mixture, if you will, of social economic status,
Wichita being no different. You have a really nice affluent
area of Wichita, and you have some areas of Wichita
that are crime ridden and poverty ridden areas. But you
would struggle to find a time more notorious than on
December eighth to December fifteenth of the year two thousand
and we're going to give into why that is. But
before we do, I need to get into who are
the subjects are for today and give you a little
bit of their background. And I'm going to start with
Reginald Carr and Jonathan Carr, who were brothers. Now both
are originally from Dodge City, Kansas. Of course, just about
everybody out there knows or has heard of Dodge City.
It's one of the more notorious Wild West towns in America.
Reginald Carr was born in nineteen seventy seven. In a
couple of years after his birth, he had a brother
come along by the name of Jonathan Carr, and these
two rough childhood, no doubt about it. Their parents would
fight often, and there are even allegations that an older
sister of these two brothers was sexually abused not only
by their father, but also when the father and mother
get divorced, the mother would have boyfriends and allegedly it
had been reported that they also sexually abused that older sister.
As a matter of fact, by the age of six
years old, these two brothers had already been exposed to drugs, sex,
and by the nineteen eighties their parents would divorce. Now
their father was completely out of the picture. After that
divorce and throughout their high school years, both of these
guys would develop quite a record. And I'm going to
talk about Reginald first, primarily because he's the older brother,
and in his adolescence he would kind of show a
lot of signs of criminal activity shoplifting, some assaults, fights,
things of that nature, drug related offenses in his early
teenage years, and by the time he was eighteen, he
had been sent to prison for thirteen months for theft
as well as six months for aggravated assault. Jonathan, he
had a lot of similar issues. They just had no
structure at home. This led to a lot of behavioral problems,
substance abuse issues. As a matter of fact, by the
time Jonathan was sixteen, and shortly after his brother gets
sentenced to prison for those infractions I just told you about,
Jonathan attempts suicide by drinking any freeze. He ends up
dropping out of school in the ninth grade after he
gets in trouble for beating up a student in which hey,
he was going to get expelled from school anyway, but
he just drops out, lives a life on the streets right.
Very little to no structure at all for these guys.
So moving on to the age of nineteen and shortly
after being sentenced to prison, Reginald had other charges to
face for drugs. Those were laid upon him prior to
being sentenced for his present crime, and he gets an
additional twenty eight months on the drug charges. Now, I
want to really get to the cusp of what we're
going to talk about today, but I want to paint
a picture of these two guys in the trouble. You
would already see that they were getting into before any
of what I'm about to talk about happened. So let's
get to the year two thousand and Reginald gets parole
from President after serving time for those convictions, and at
this time he's twenty two years of age of thereabouts.
His brother Jonathan was currently in jail at the point
that he gets released on a dui charge. Now, upon
Jonathan's release, the brothers they're back together again and they're
both out of jail. But it wouldn't last because this
actually spelled horrific trouble for Wichita, Kansas. Now, at this time,
Reginald is twenty three and Jonathan is twenty. So let
me tell you about Andrew Shreiver. Andrew was twenty three
years old and he was an assistant baseball coach at
what is known as Newman University. This is in Wichita, Kansas.
And a little bit about this guy. He was an
avid outdoorsman. He had a deep passion for baseball. He
actually had played sports since he could literally walk. Baseball
was his thing. He played catcher and he loved that
position because, in his words, he could be involved in
every pitch in every play of baseball. He was very athletic.
He played college baseball as a matter of fact, prior
to becoming a coach. And he was a big guy
six feet tall, two hundred and twenty pounds, and he
was originally from Mountain View, California. Now by all accounts,
every account. Just a great guy, no criminal history, living
the typical life of a young person making their way right.
He young professional, but things would drastically change for him
on December seventh of two thousand. So let's get into
what happened. On the evening of December seventh of two thousand,
around ten forty five pm, Andrew Schreiber stops at a
convenience store located in East Wichita, Kansas. He parks his
vehicle on nineteen ninety eight Ford Expedition SUV on the
side of that building and he goes inside to make
a purchase. He makes his purchase, he goes back out
to his vehicle, he jumps in, and he starts the
vehicle up. Shreiver was then approached by a blackmail in
his twenties, approximately five nine to five ten, medium build,
wearing a beanie blue jeans and a longsleeved dark T shirt.
The individual was later identified as a Reginald car and
he points a semi automatic black handgun at the driver's
side window. He presses the barrel against the glass, and
he orders Schreiber to unlock the door and move to
the front passenger seat. Reginald then strikes Schreiber in the
back of the head with the gun to like hurry
him along. He enters the vehicle and he backs out
of the parking lot and he drives away while asking
Schreiber if he had any money. Schreiber, he complies, and
he just hands over his wallet. He's not looking for
trouble man. This guy's all about his life right and
building his professional life. He didn't want this problem. So
at this point, Reginald drives a short distance and then
he pulls the suv over and in nearby Alli in
a second blackmail later identified as Jonathan Carr, the brother,
he pulls out a handgun and he presses it against
the front passenger window at Shreiber, and he orders Schreiber
to slide over into the middle seat, which he does.
The second man slides in the vehicle and then he
takes the gun and he strikes Shreiber in the head
with the pistol. Now, at this point, both brothers start
demanding Schreiber's ATM card and his pen number, to which
he provides that as I said, this guy on won
no problems, the guys being compliant the whole time. At
this point they proceed to drive to three ATMs in
the area, and at each stop, this guy's forced to
exit the vehicle with draw cash, and the men the
whole time they're driving to these ATMs would just be
holding this gun against his head reminding him, you better
listen to us. Now. I'm sure we're all familiar that
ATMs have withdraw limits, and it's for reasons like this
primarily that they do. And at this point in time,
and with whatever bank that Shreiber was using, those withdraw
limits were three hundred dollars typically, So at the first
bank they force him to withdraw three hundred dollars. At
the second bank they force him to withdraw another three
hundred dollars. At the third bank, he goes to withdraw
three hundred, he can't do it, so he's able to
withdraw two hundred. Then he attempts to draw three hundred again,
but that transaction failed. Why because at this point they've
taken all the money out of this guy's account. He
ain't got a ton of money. So the total amount
that was stolen was about eight hundred dollars, which is
all the cash that this guy had. Now during all
this driving around to all these ATMs. The man are
also demanding Shriver's jewelry, which he pulls off a chain
he had, gives it to him, takes all that off
his watch, and they just start pistol whipping this guy again.
So after running around to all these ATMs, the car
brothers they start talking about how they're gonna get rid
of this guy. At first, they discussed taking him to
a remote location somewhere and just leaving him there, and
that's what they decide to do. So eventually they stop
at a car wash. In the two vehicles, they switch positions,
with Jonathan now being the driver of the vehicle and
Reginald being the passenger, but they don't drive away. Instead,
they tell Shrever to lie down on the floor of
the expedition in the back seat, face first, and he
hears them and he can hear them start wiping down
the entire suv on the inside and why is that, well,
they're trying to remove fingerprints, et cetera. And he hears
all of a sudden, out of the clear blue three gunshots.
At that point. One of them tells him to remain
lying down and wait there twenty minutes before moving, and
they also tell him before they jump back out of
the vehicle. We're going to be watching. So Shreib waits
a little while and he hears the car start up,
which later on is determined was the getaway car for
the brothers. He hears that start up, he hears the
car drive away, and he puts up his head just
as those tail lights are leaving. And the only thing
that he noticed was the vehicle had square tail lights,
which was kind of different in those days. He then
exited the vehicle and he sees one tire with three
bullets in it from a three eighty caliber gun. But
despite the fact that three bullets were in this tire,
he was able to drive it. Now he had to
find his keys first, which he did miraculously in a
field that they had thrown him in right there by
the car wash. Sheer luck on that, but he does
manage to drive home, even with three bullets in that tire,
and he calls nine to one one and tells police. Now,
obviously he was injured in all this with all the
pistol whipping going on, but nothing serious fortunately for him.
Unfortunately it would not be the same story for other
victims of these So as police start investigating this. What
they don't realize is the Wichita massacre is just beginning
while they are doing their investigation into this carjacking. Just
three days later, on December eleventh of two thousand, the
area would be introduced to Anne Walenta. So before we
go into what happened, let me tell you a little
bit about Anne's background. At the time she became the
victim of the car brothers, she was fifty five years old.
She was a very accomplished musician. She actually played the cello,
and she was also a librarian who resided in East Wichita, Kansas. Now,
she graduated in music education in nineteen sixty eight. She
gets her master's degree in music. And music was not
only a major part of her life, it was her life.
She loved it and she was very beloved by everybody
who came a loss this lady. Now, on the evening
of December eleventh of two thousand, around nine to forty pm,
and was just returning home from orchestra practice. She was
driving her two thousand GMC Yukon and just headed back home.
Now she approached her driveway, what she didn't notice is
that she was being followed. She pulls into her driveway,
and at that point, a four door sedan stops in
front of a nearby resident. A man later identified as
Reginald car exits the passenger seat of that vehicle and
he approaches the driver side of Anne's Yukon and he
tells her that he needed help, and, for whatever reason,
not sensing something was a miss, she lets her window
down a few inches to speak to Reginald, not all
the way down, just more than cracked, but not all
the way down. At that point, he yanks out a
three eighty caliber handgun, points it at her head. He
kind of turns it sideways to fit it through that
partially opened window, and he tells her don't move now. Anne,
at this point freaks out. She goes to kick the
suv into reverse, and when she does that, at almost
the exact same time, Reginald, sensing she's about to haul ass,
fires three shots into the vehicle. At that point, Anne
just kind of slumps in that seat she's hit, and
the sedan drives away from the scene. Now, somehow, Anne
manages to start honking the horn and flashing the lights,
which alerts a neighbor. The neighbor runs outside, runs up
to the suv where she finds Anne slumped over. Of course,
she calls nine to one one. The police come and
Anne is rushed to the hospital and is able to
provide a description to police. Now, she is in bad shape.
All three shots that were fired from Reginald's gun hit her.
It was life or death literally for her, and sadly,
one of those bullets severed her spinal cord which paralyzed her.
Now in the meantime, police are gathering up bullet casings
from the scene and they start working the case. On
a much more tragic note, Anne would fight for her
life for close to a month before she would eventually die.
This was on January second of two thousand and one. Now,
brought up these bullet casings for a reason, and that
is because police in short order would manage to match
those bullet casings to the bullet casings that were recovered
from that car wash in the carjacking of Andrew Shreiber.
So they know these things are linked and it would
play a role obviously in the conviction of the car
brothers later on. So we're going to fast forward only
three more days to the early morning hours of December
fourteenth and five, victims. I'm going to tell you about
the crime, and I'm going to tell you who those
people were individually. So around eleven PM on December fourteenth
of two thousand, the car brothers, armed with handguns forced
their way into what's none as a triplex, which think
of a duplex as downstairs and upstairs apartments at triplex
is three. So they force their way into this triplex.
It's located in northeast Wichita, Kansas and this residence, this
triplex is shared by three men, a guy by the
name of Jason Beffert who is twenty six in a
high school science teacher, Brad Haika who is twenty seven
and director of finance at a finance company, and Aaron
Sanders who is twenty nine and a former financial analyst
who is actually studying to be a priest now that evening.
Also present in that triplex were two females, Heather Mueller,
who was a preschool teacher and someone were just gonna
call Holly, who was an elementary school teacher and is
also the girlfriend of Jason. Now, these people are all
just hanging out being twenty somethings when these two guys,
these two brothers, break into the home armed with guns
and incidentally totally picked this house out by random. The
Car Brothers, upon entry, order all five occupants into the
bedroom at gunpoint, and they bound their hands with black
electrical tape and pantyhose of all things, and they forced
them all to strip naked. At this point, the Car
Brothers start ransacking the house. They're looking for cash, they're
looking for credit cards, jewel whatever. Now one of the
things that actually find y'all, and this is so sad.
Hidden in a popcorn box they find an engagement ring
that Jason was going to give to his girlfriend Holly
just a few days later. She didn't even know about this,
and they pull it out. And how's that for a situation?
To find out that your boyfriend was about to ask
you to be his wife. Unbelievable, So they ransacked the
house in over the next three hours, the Car brothers
subjected the male victims to repeated physical assaults, just beating
the shit out of these guys, and they would rate
the female occupants of that home multiple times in places
such as the bathroom and the bedrooms of the home.
The Car brothers would then force the two young ladies
to perform sexual acts on them while the men watched.
In all three male occupants, they were forced to watch
this entire ordeal go down just horrific. Now, during this invasion,
the Car brothers made two separate trips to the ATM
to withdraw money using the victims debit cards. First, around midnight,
Jonathan Carr takes Heather Muller still naked, mind you, but
he does allow her to wear a sweater. What a
nice guy to an ATM in a grocery store parking lot.
She withdraws three hundred and fifty dollars. Now, upon returning
back to the home, he takes the other female victim, Holly,
also partially clothed, and she withdraws approximately eight hundred dollars
from an ATM. And the brothers would alternate guarding the
remaining victims in the house while the other one would
go to the ATM to withdraw money. So around two
am on December fifth, fifteenth, the Car brothers have had
enough and they decide to go ahead and end the ordeal.
So they gather up all five victims still naked, and
they asked Jason to give up his keys to his
Dodge to cot of pick up and they drive about
six miles from where this all went down. Now, at
this point, these people, these victims are tunnely naked. It's
twenty five degrees outside and it's freaking snowing, And they
bring them out to this field that is covered in snow,
and they force them to get down on their knees
in the snow, and then they walk down the line
and shoot every one of them in the back of
the head execution style. Now, Jason, Brad, Aaron, and Heather
are killed instantly. Holly was shot, but by sheer miracle,
y'all tell me God doesn't work in mysterious ways. By
sheer miracle, she survives because the bullet that was intended
to go directly in the back of her head, it
basically skips off of a plastic hair clip she was wearing.
Can you believe that shit. So she ended up with
just a scalp wound. And that's the reason I'm not
disclosing her name. It's because she lived. But she lives
obviously in a lot of fear and she doesn't want
her name disclosed. So all these people are shot and
killed execution style, with the exception of Holly, But she
does lay down in that field and plays dead, and
the brothers assume everybody's dead. They get back in the
Dodge Dakota and they leave the scene. Now, after they left,
they were turned back to these people's home and they
steal just about everything in it. Now, while this is
going on, Holly steal naked and very injured, she runs
over a mile through the snow to a nearby residence
where the people who own that residence, they were awakened
by her beating on the door, helped me, help me,
and around four point thirty in the morning, they let
her into the house and they call police, and she
is able to provide a full description of the assailants
and the full details of what occurred that night that
I just told you. I don't know what would have
happened beyond this had that girl not lived. It is
a sheer miracle. And incidentally, this poor lady, in addition
to everything else that she endured that night at the
hands of these monsters, she also discovers one of them
gave her an STD when she was ra by them.
So police at this point they have on their hands
a quadruple homicide, and within two hours, at six point
thirty in the morning. The media is broadcasting this everywhere
as well as a bolo A be on the lookout
for a Dodge Dakota. Now, as luck would have it,
a resident of an apartment complex in the Kansas area,
he looks out his window and he spots a Dodge
Dakota parked outside of his apartment complex that he's not
used to seeing. Even more interesting than that is he
discovers a large television set in the bed of that truck.
And the reports put out by the media said that
they stole a large television set. So he doesn't even
call police. This dude drives to the police station to
report it. He quite simply didn't want to hang out
at his apartment and make that phone call because he
was worried, what if these guys are going to come
into my apartment. But that's how sure he was that
these people were responsible. He actually drives to the police station.
So around seven thirty am, police seal off the entire
area surrounding that apartment complex and they discover the truck
and they also find stolen property that they know belonged
to the victims inside of that truck, as well as
the television that was in the bed of that truck.
So police start knocking on doors in that apartment complex,
and one of those doors is that of Reginald Carr's girlfriend. Jim,
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on the door, unbanished to that time that this is
reginald course girlfriend. But after a delay, she does open
the door and police see Reginald trying to run out
of the back window of that apartment, so obviously he's arrested.
And when they search the apartment they find one thousand
dollars in cash and credit cards belonging to Jason Beefer
a watch that belonged to Heather Mueller's mother in just
about all the other stolen property from that So this
guy's dead to right now. The same day, they are
also able to locate and arrest Jonathan, who was at
his girlfriend's house. He of course tries to run as well,
but he's captured after a short footchase. Now, before I
go any further, I'm going to go through a little
bit of the background of all the people I just
told you about involved in that horrific night, because I
want to show them the proper respect and I want
to let you know a little bit more about who
these people were, these victims of this horrific crime that
these two brothers committed. So Jason Beefert He was born
in nineteen seventy four. He was a twenty six year
old high school science teacher and basketball coach in which
you taught Kansas at Augusta High School. His career was
centered on education in athletics. He taught science classes, he
coached basketball, and he would often return home late from practices,
really dedicated himself to that. He was known for his
structured routine. This guy would ensure doors were locked and
lights off before going to bed every night. Just kind
of in that habit right. Personally, he was in a
committed relationship with his girlfriend Holly, or we're calling her Holly.
She was also a fellow teacher, and he had planned
to propose marriage to her. As I told you before
he was killed. Now his life was marked by stability
and ambition, and he was described as a reliable friend
and educator with a focus on building a family and
a career in Wichita. Just a great guy. I also
mentioned Brad Haka and Brad was born in nineteen seventy
three and he was originally from Saline County, Kansas. He
was a twenty seven year old director of finance at
Kash Financial Services in Wichita, and he grew up in Kansas.
He actually graduated from Dodge City High School, followed by
Dodge City Community College and then Kansas State College where
he earned his degree. At Kansas State, he was a
member of a fraternity and he later joined the university's
alumni club. Family was important to him. He was survived
by his father and his stepmother, His mother and his stepfather,
a sister and a brother in law, two step brothers,
one stepsister, and several uncles and aunts and even a
great aunt, and he was known for his educational achievements
and his dedication to Wichita's financial sector. Now Aaron Sander
was born in nineteen seventy one and he was a
twenty nine year old former financial analyst who had recently
decided to pursue the priesthood in Wichita, Kansas. And he
was described as a divinity student, transitioning from a career
in finance where he had worked as a financial analyst
including Koch Financial who has friend worked for, to a
religious vocation and just by all accounts, another great guy. Now,
let me tell you about Heather Mueller. Heather was born
around nineteen seventy five. She was twenty five years old.
She was a preschool teacher and she also taught kindergarten
and just known as a faithful follower of Christ. She
had a degree in audiology and she was pursuing a
master's degree in the same field while working with children.
Her career was dedicated to early childhood education and she
was known for her love of children, which extended to
founding what's known as Heather's Camp in two thousand, a
summer program for visually impaired youth. Wow, I mean, this
young lady just sounds amazing. And incidentally, this camp that
was founded after her death has continued for over twenty
four years, uplifting children who are blind and visually impaired.
And I get chills just reading that. She was the
former girlfriend of Aaron Sander, also killed and maintained a
friendship that brought her to that triplex on the night
of the incident. Her friends would describe her as someone
who modeled Christian values closely, with a life centered on faith,
education and community service. And her legacy, y'all continues even
to this day. They have an annual Heather Muller Love
of Faith Award at her school, given to an eighth
grade student exemplifying her spirit. And I literally just got
choked up reading that. She just sounds like such a
beautiful person who was going way too soon. Let me
tell you about Holly. Holly was a twenty five year
old elementary school teacher in Wichita, Kansas. She was in
a committee of relationship ship with Jason, and on the
night of the incident she arrived around eight point thirty.
Holly actually learned of Beefert's intention to propose marriage to
her when the perpetrators discovered the hidden engagement ring. Her
professional life involved teaching young students, and she was known
for her dedication, even expressing concern during the ordeal about
who would care for her students if she didn't survive.
That's what kind of person that this girl was personally.
She had a very supportive family, and she loved pets
in just another beautiful person that these monsters just for
no fucking reason, took away. So we're going to fast
forward a little bit again, and I'm just going to
tell you police were able to link all of these crimes.
I just told you about the media. Of course, they
were all over this thing, and there was a lot
of pressure on the police to get convictions out of
these guys, right, which with all of this evidence, that
should be easy. So let's get into the trials. And
Reginald Carr as well as his brother, they were tried
jointly in the Sedgwick County District Court. Reginald faced one
hundred and thirteen counts and eventually this would get reduced
to fifty counts and Jonathan faced ninety three counts, which
eventually would be reduced to forty three counts. They had
a preliminary hearing in April of two thousand and one
where Holly, the survivor, testified and she detailed the invasions,
the rapes, the ATM robberies, and the executions. Now Andrew
Schreiber also testified identifying the brothers from that earlier robbery.
On October seventh of two thousand, jury selection and the
trial began, and over one thousand potential jurors were screened
for this trial over several weeks, and it included survivor
testimony from Holly ballastics played a big role from the forensics,
especially as it linked to the gun that was used
in all of the crime, as well as DNA RA
evidence from those rapes, which was a big thing. November
four of two thousand and two, closing arguments and the
jury deliberation started after thirteen days of testimony from eighty
five witnesses, and on November fifth of two thousand and two,
the jury convicts Reginald car on all fifty counts and
they convict Jonathan Carr on forty three counts. All those
counts mirrored each other except for Reginald had firearm possession charges.
Because he was a convicted felon. His brother was not,
so he didn't have that charge. Everything else mirrored exactly.
November fourteenth of two thousand and two, death sentence is
recommended by the jury, and on November fifteenth, the following
day of two thousand and two, Judge Clark imposes the
death sentence for the four capital murders against both brothers.
So from two thousand and two to what seems like forever,
all the way to twenty sixteen, this thing gets appealed
to the hilt, doesn't matter. Everything is held up. I'm
not gonna bore you with the details of you know,
the intricacies of all the appeals, but I'm gonna tell
you this twenty six years later, still arguing on whether
or not they deserve to die for what I just
told you they did. So there you have it. Thank
you so much for listening. I'll be back next week
with another brand new state to cover on this series
fifty Shades of Evil, And until next time for Bloody
and goa. I'm Jim Schiman, Peace.
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