PINEVILLE, Mo. A primary school in McDonald County sits on the ground that was once the scene of a senseless slaughter. It was the beginning of a series of crimes that led to more carnage in a small Texas town. Rough Beginnings Levi King is a McDonald County native that by all accounts had […]
Robin Doan photographed March 12, 2014, near Palo Duro Canyon.
Darren Braun
In the fall of 2005, a young Missouri man, 23-year-old Levi King, went on a vicious and inexplicable 24-hour killing spree, first shooting an elderly man and his daughter-in-law in the rural community of Pineville, Missouri, then stealing their truck and driving to Texas, where he randomly stopped at a darkened farm house on the outskirts of the small Panhandle town of Pampa.
Dressed completely in black and toting an AK-47, King broke through the back door and immediately went to the master bedroom. He first put three bullets into the body of the home’s owner, 31-year-old Brian Conrad. He next fired two shots into Molly, the family’s dog. Then he turned his gun on Conrad’s 35-year-old pregnant wife, Michell, who was screaming. He shot her five times.