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Security Guard Convicted of Murder in 2018 Shooting Outside Kansas City Bar
Katie Bernard 

Dec. 13, 2019

Christopher L. Jones, 37, was charged in July 2018 with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and tampering

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Pleasant Hill Man Convicted of Killing a Witness in Another Murder Case
Katie Bernard

Nov. 16, 2019

A Pleasant Hill man was convicted Friday of shooting and killing a witness for another murder he was charged with

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Deputy Faces Charges for Shooting Someone in The Back. It’s Not Her First Shooting.
Glenn E. Rice and Katie Bernard

Oct. 9, 2019

Update: After the charges were announced, the family of a man shot and killed by the deputy in 2017 said they want a

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KC Area Teens Didn’t Pull the Trigger but Are Charged with Murder. Is that Justice?
Luke Nozicka

Sept. 22, 2019

Johnson County District Attorney Stephen M. Howe discusses the felony murder rule and how his office uses

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Man Sentenced in Slaying of Young Mother Bound in Duct Tape, Shot in Front of Son
Robert A. Cronkleton 

May 12, 2019

A Kansas City man who bound a young mother with duct tape and shot her in the head with their 2-year-old

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Jury Finds Suspect Guilty of Several Crimes in Domestic Violence Case
JP Law

March 19, 2019

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (March 11, 2019) For the past week, the family of Elizabeth Richards has listened and watched gruesome

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Was It a Coverup? Records, Picture Changed in Jackson County Jail Inmate’s Death
Mike Hendricks

Dec. 16, 2018

Reports of shocking brutality, filth and incompetence within the walls of the Jackson County Detention Center

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Baby Lisa’s Parents Considered Suspects
JP Law

Nov. 11, 2011

An attorney for baby Lisa’s parents said they are considered suspects in her disappearance

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Youngest Jackson County Defendant to Stand Trial as An Adult Acquitted Murder Charge
JP Law

July 6, 1996

Jurors acquit boy of murder David Collins was 14 at time of shooting. He was tried as an adult.

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