Wichita, kansas, december 2000. in the days immediately following what came to be known as the soccer field murders, investigators found connections between jonathan and reginald carr and the two earlier crimes in the same area, the carjacking of andy schreiber and the shooting of ann walenta. remember the watch andy had been wearing on the night he was abducted? it was found in reginald s girlfriend s apartment, and the bullets recovered at all three crime scenes matched. investigators believe both schreiber and walenta were targeted because they drove expensive cars. but the home invasion at the nearby condo didn t make any sense. that is, until a neighbor told police that she d been followed home on the night of the murders by someone who drove away when she stopped at her mailbox. i think they made a mistake, they picked the wrong house. all right i want to know about the search warrant. district attorney nola foulston charged the carrs not only with the murder of the four
Wichita, kansas, december 2000. in the days immediately following what came to be known as the soccer field murders, investigators found connections between jonathan and reginald carr and the two earlier crimes in the same area, the carjacking of andy schreiber and the shooting of ann walenta. remember the watch andy had been wearing on the night he was abducted? it was found in reginald s girlfriend s apartment, and the bullets recovered at all three crime scenes matched. investigators believe both schreiber and walenta were targeted because they drove expensive cars. but the home invasion at the nearby condo didn t make any sense. that is, until a neighbor told police that she d been followed home on the night of the murders by someone who drove away when she stopped at her mailbox. i think they made a mistake, they picked the wrong house. all right i want to know about the search warrant. district attorney nola
The lone survivor of the soccer field massacre known as h.g. riveted the courtroom with her horrific story. the three-hour ordeal of rape, robbery and torture she and her friends endured and finally the brutal shooting. the bullet meant to kill h.g. incredibly was somehow deflected by the plastic hair clip she was wearing. now the defense responds to her powerful testimony. attorney val wachtel says he was as shaken as everybody else by the soccer field killings. i live a block and a half away in birchwood. but days after the carr brothers were arrested and charged for a night of crime that began at the condo on birchwood, wachtel became reginald carr s court appointed lawyer. it s not like you clap your hands with glee. but it s an oath you took, so you do it. because the case had become a sensational story in wichita, wachtel tried to get the trial
it s just amazing that someone has this kind of memory, this kind of recall that can pinpoint these guys. from the beginning, this would be a case driven by memories, indelible images like the scene at the soccer field. the blood was against the snow and then refrozen, and it was just a bizarre, very bizarre scene. so you couldn t have prepared yourself for what you were about to see? no. we identified with a lot of these victims. they could be your children. they could be your brother, your sister. this is just so wrong. four young victims, barely clothed, shot execution-style. this didn t belong in wichita, kansas. this belonged in some war zone. when detective kelly otis arrived at the hospital trauma room, the survivor, the woman we ve called h.g., was surrounded by doctors, nurses and technicians. her head is bloody. her face is kind of away from me
the apartment belonged to the suspect s girlfriend. inside police found a big screen tv and other items belonging to the soccer field victims. the suspect has been arrested at an apartment complex in northeast wichita. andy schreiber saw the arrest on television. i thought, oh, my god, that s the guy that kidnapped me. though the suspect gave police a phony name at first, he was later identified as reginald carr, 23, an ex-con from dodge city. within 12 hours of discovering the bodies in the soccer field, police had a second suspect in custody, 20-year-old jonathan carr, reginald s brother. he was turned in by a woman whose daughter had recently started dating him. jonathan happened to be sleeping on the woman s couch when the news of the murders broke. the suspects are two