50 Shades of Evil: Kansas

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0:49 Inside these walls, inside the wild. 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.

1:48 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.

3:19 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.

3:59 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.

5:33 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.

6:25 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.

7:07 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.

7:55 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.

8:45 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.

9:55 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

11:29 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.

12:35 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.

13:53 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.

14:55 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,

16:26 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.

17:11 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.

17:54 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.

18:37 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.

20:05 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.

20:51 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.

21:32 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,

23:07 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

24:39 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.

25:40 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.

26:28 So police start knocking on doors in that apartment complex, and one of those doors is that of Reginald Carr's girlfriend. Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should do a podcast about it, and with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have dominated the week. We cover trending crimes from all over the country and even sprinkle in a few globally. Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to your podcasts, simply by searching Crime Wire Weekly or clicking the link in the description of this podcast. They knock 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.

27:42 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

29:12 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.

30:04 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.

31:21 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.

32:09 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.

33:05 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.

33:49 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.

34:46 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.

35:44 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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