MURDERS, MYSTERIES & JUST PLAIN SPOOKY
THE DARKER SIDE OF SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS
John Ross ~ Murdered by Osage Indians ~ October 1860
John Ledford ~ Murdered by Government Troops & Scouts ~ February 28, 1871
Jackson Davis ~ Murdered by Charles Jennison in a Shooting Affray ~ September 22, 1872
Sixth U.S. Cavalry Soldier Murdered in John Beard's (Red's) Dance House ~ January 2, 1873
Reed (a colored man) was Shot and Killed by Ramsey (a Texan) ~ June 1873
S. C. Johnson Treasurer of Sedgwick County Mysteriously Disappeared ~ 1873
Reddis was Shot and Killed by a Mexican at Oges Camp ~ August 16, 1873
William McKee was Killed by an Accidental Shot from a Pistol he was Repairing ~ August 20, 1873
John Snider was Thrown from a Buggy and Killed ~ August 23, 1873
John Beard was Shot by Joseph Lowe ~ October 27, 1873
Frank Seivers was Murdered and his Body Burned in a Paint Shop ~ January 1, 1874
"Leg" was Shot and Killed by Michael Meagher - January 1, 1876
Was Brown Hypnotized? A New Suggestion Regarding the Remarkable Mystery at Wichita - 03 Aug 1889
A Long Lost Husband Finds His Wife Remarried to A Criminal in Wichita, Kansas - 10 Nov 1891
A Mystery at Wichita. The Body of A White Man Found in a Supposedly Deserted House - 27 Feb 1894
Andrew F. Ross of Clearwater Found Near Crawford's Opera House - April 1, 1898
An Indian Romance & Suit for Libel - April 13, 1900
Mystery Over A Shooting - Lee Webster Was Bound to District Court at Cheney - 11 Dec 1900
A Mystery Partly Cleared - The Body of a Wichita Man Found in the Arkansas River - 25 Apr 1906
Murder of Two Unknown Men Between El Dorado & Wichita Contines to be a Mystery - August 4, 1908
A Kansas Mystery Solved 7 Oct 1911
No Light on Wichita Missing Man Mystery 27 Mar 1914
Mystery in Wichita Assault Intenerated Baker Attacked in Bed by Three Men - 27 Mar 1917
Mystery in Girl's Death - Poison Forced Down Throat of Topeka Young Woman, She Said - 19 Feb 1921
Man and Woman Trailed Her - Catherine Longoker - 19 Feb 1921
New Byers Case Mystery - May 21, 1921
An Arrest in Banta Case - Employee of Wichita Travel Company Released after Questioning - July 11, 1921
Mystery War in Wichita Bullets Flew in College Hill, But From Whence, No One Knows - 27 Jul 1921
Kansas Authorities Deny Couple Wanted for Slaying Chauffeur were Kidnapped - 23 Jun 1922
Despondent Couple Die Together ~ 26 Nov 1980
Testimony Begins In Trial Of Accused Killer Crease ~ 9 Dec 1980
Did Jack Hazelwood Die Accidentally? ~ 11 Dec 1980
Wichitan Digging In Yard Unearths Grim Surprise ~ September 6, 1989
Bloudgeoning Brings Sentence of 4-to-15 For Wichitan, 24 ~ 3 July 1992
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