COLD CASE KANSAS columns and links . . .
Each "Cold Case Kansas" column profiles an enduring Kansas mystery. This Web site provides links to pdf's of the columns and to other sites devoted to unsolved Kansas crimes. Please direct comments to Paul Fecteau at paul@coldcasekansas.com . Get the latest information regarding research for upcoming stories by following ColdCaseKS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ColdCaseKS |
Daphne Bunker Rhodes
During her time in Topeka, New York socialite Daphne Bunker Rhodes surrounded herself with a colorful crowd of fellow Menninger patients from prominent and occasionally notorious backgrounds. In the summer of 1962, her friends and acquaintances found themselves suspects in her murder. The Topeka Police Department has granted Cold Case Kansas access to the Daphne Rhodes homicide file. Visit the link below and read coverage featuring never-before-public details about the case...
the Murder
of Daphne Bunker Rhodes
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Karen Harkness and Michael Sisco
were a successful and well-liked couple when they were shot to death in their bed in 2002 in Topeka. Read award-winning Kansas author Eileen Umbehr's profile of this heartbreaking cold case by clicking here.
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Karen Harkness featured on the memorial at Felker Park in Topeka (Photo by Eileen Umbehr) |
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Alonzo Brooks left his family home in Gardner on the night of April 3, 2004. The 23-year-old wound up one of the few blacks at a party in a farm house near La Cygne in Linn County. He never came home. . .
Private Investigator Susan Schmitz has spent over a year researching the case and prepared this account of what is known about Brooks's fate and the mystery that lingers:
"The Mysterious Death of Alonzo Brooks"
(Published on the Cold Case KS 'Blog)
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Alonzo Brooks (image courtesy of the Brooks family) |
Jackie Hay (Missing Person)
In September of 1981, five-year-old Jackie Hay vanished after a family outing in Topeka and has never been found. A Cold Case Kansas column in the works will be devoted to her story.
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Jackie Hay (image from missingkids.com) |
Bruce Douglass
The 1973 disappearance and death of W.S.U. student Bruce Douglass ranks as one of Kansas's most bizarre and baffling unsolved cases, and in an the June 4th issue of tmiWeekly, Paul Fecteau and Kris Casarona explore the mystery, evaluating the possibility that Bruce was the first victim of serial killer Dennis Rader. Click here to download the issue's cover and the full article:.
"Field of Mystery"
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Dana Hupfer
"When Wichita Police found a body dumped near a railroad track, it had all the markings of a notorious serial killer. But, years later, the case remains unsolved and the killer's identity may linger in the dark secrets of a mother of three." Click on the link below for the rest of this article which is featured on a site that provides a comprehensive account of the unsolved murder of Dana Hupfer.
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Dana Hupfer (image courtesy of the Hupfer family) |
Michael Holley
A hail of gunfire at Deep Pockets Billiards in Topeka claimed the life of young Michael Holley on February 23, 2008. The full article from the April 1, 2009, issue of tmiWeekly has been posted to the Cold Case Kansas 'blog:
"Father Fights For Justice"
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Michael H. Holley (image from Topeka Crime Stoppers) |
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Damon Anderson and his daughter (photo courtesy of the Anderson family) |
Kelly Lynn Albright
The Cold Case column in the December 4, 2008, issue of tmiWeekly tells how a childhood friend, a distant uncle, and a Wichita writer have pledged to identify the killer of 12-year-old Kelly Lynn Albright who was abducted from her home, brutalized, and stabbed to death in Hutchinson in 1970. Download the article here:
"Cold Case Stirs Controversy in Hutch"
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Placard posted near the field where the body of Kelly Lynn Albright was found. |
Stephanie Mendez, Marilyn Monroe,
and Willie Thrower
In the summer of 2001, Topeka Police discovered the bodies of three shooting victims at 1313 S.E. 10th. The Cold Case Kansas column in the November 13, 2008, issue of tmi Weekly explores the mystery surrounding these deaths and reveals the tragic history of the house where the murders took place. Read the full article:
"Murder House Had Horrific History"
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Stephanie Mendez, Marilyn Monroe, and Willie Thrower. |
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Dana Whisler's senior picture from Truman High School in K.C. |
Roxanne Zwiesler
Among the prime suspects in the 1994 murder of Roxanne Zwiesler are prominent Topekans. The Cold Case Kansas column in the October 30, 2008, issue of tmi Weekly featured her case. Download the article here:
"Roxanne's Killer Remains At Large" (pdf)
Or view it as a 'blog post here:
"Roxanne's Killer Remains At Large ('blog post)
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Roxanne Zwiesler (Photo courtesy of the Zwiesler family) |
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