GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Pethtel, Frasier head to prison on separate murder convictions Rusty Lee Fraiser
Two men convicted of murder charges in separate Barton County cases were released to the Kansas Department of Corrections to begin their prison sentences Friday. Rusty Lee Frasier and Nicholas Pethtel were taken to the El Dorado Correctional Facility’s Reception and Diagnostic Unit (RDU). All male inmates start at the RDU, where they receive orientation and are assigned to a custody classification, appropriate programs and a permanent housing assignment.
Rusty Lee Frasier
Rusty Lee Frasier, 37, of Aransas Pass, Texas was released to the Kansas Department of Corrections Friday after being sentenced on Nov. 12 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 100 years in connection with the July 2018 premeditated murders of Alfred “Sonny” Carpenter and Pauline Carpenter, both of Wichita, during the Barton County Fair.