CASE 359La Cygne, Kansas
2004
Unsolved homicideAlonzo Brooks
Alonzo Brooks disappeared after a party near La Cygne in April 2004. His family found his body a month later. The FBI continues to seek information about the homicide.
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Showing 1–6 of 6CASE 027Prairie Village, Kansas
1995
Debora Green & the Farrar children
A 1995 fire at Debora Green’s Kansas home killed two of her children; another daughter escaped. Investigators determined the fire had been deliberately set and also investigated the poisoning of Green’s estranged husband. Green entered no-contest pleas to murder and attempted-murder charges in a case that exposed violence within a family of physicians.
CASE 074Kansas
1974–1991
Dennis Rader · “BTK”
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United States Air Force, 1966 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (U.S.). Cropped/resized.Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991 while maintaining a family and working life. Calling himself BTK in communications about the crimes, he resurfaced after years of silence. Investigators traced a computer disk to him before his 2005 arrest and guilty pleas.
CASE 120Holcomb, Kansas
1959
The Clutter family
Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children Nancy and Kenyon were murdered at home in Kansas in 1959. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith had gone there expecting to find money. Their convictions and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood made the case a landmark in crime writing.
CASE 320Kansas City, Missouri
1953
Bobby Greenlease
Bobby Greenlease was abducted in 1953, and his family paid a large ransom. The money did not bring him home; investigators traced the kidnapping, his killing, and the missing ransom funds.
CASE 193Topeka, Kansas; South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware
1951–1954
The families behind Brown v. Board of Education
Families and NAACP lawyers challenged segregated public schooling through cases that reached the Supreme Court together. Brown v. Board of Education rejected racial segregation in public schools in 1954. Simple Justice follows the legal strategy and the people behind that constitutional decision.
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