KANSAS, January 21 - TOPEKA – (January 21, 2022) – Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued the following statement in connection with today’s rulings by
you did? i still do. i think we all did, but there was no evidence. that just drove me nuts. after 11 hours, they reached a decision. guilty of capital murder. guilty of the capital murder. guilty of the capital murder. guilty on all counts for reginald carr. his brother jonathan carr guilty of all but the carjacking of andy schreiber. reginald and jonathan were sitting there expressionless. they didn t show you know, they weren t upset by it. they weren t, you know, happy by it. reginald was sitting there putting chapstick on. that s how much it affected him. for more than six weeks, jurors said they had been hearing and seeing evidence that kept them awake at night. but the toughest task was yet to come, deciding if two men who killed so easily deserved the death penalty. coming up, a new picture of the carr brothers. polite, kind, warm, giving. will the jury spare their lives? when in cold blood continues. we re sitting on a bunch of shale gas.
sentence shall be death. then it was the defense s turn to make the case that the brothers did not deserve to die. we re going to bring some evidence in front of you to try to explain what has happened to reginald and jonathan carr, what has taken them from the place they were when they were children to the place they were on that night of december the 15th of the year 2000. the defense called witnesses who testified that the carrs were not the monsters they had been made out to be. jonathan carr used to work for juanita culver s husband. what can you tell us about jonathan? i thought he was probably one of the nicest, polite, kind, warm, giving, always he was the epitome of the finest young man you could find. reginald carr s wife, mandy, who did not want to be photographed, said he wrote poetry for her and drew pictures for his children while in
four friends and the attempted murder of the fifth, but also the kidnapping robbery of schreiber, the killing of h.g. s dog and the shooting of ann walenta. when ann walenta died of her wounds in early january 2001, the brothers were charged with her murder as well. 21 months later, their trial began. this is the case about nine days in december. it s about seven lives. it s about five murders, two survivors and two brothers. reginald carr and jonathan carr. the prosecution intended to prove that the soccer field massacre was only the final flourish in a crime wave. that began with the kidnapping of andy schreiber. the first witness was steve johnson, the man who answered his front door in the pre-dawn hours of december 15, 2000, to discover a naked, bleeding woman standing on his front porch, a woman who said she had just been shot in the head.
reginald carr. do you recall telling the detective, i never really got a look at his face because he kept it pretty much hidden? i don t know if those were my exact words or not. val wachtel argued that h.g. was not credible because she had been unable to make a positive identification of reginald carr at a preliminary hearing a few months before. as you look at mr. reginald carr sitting here today, does he look to you substantially the same as he did at the preliminary hearing? he s more shaven right now. when you were asked to identify reginald carr at the preliminary hearing, were you able to see his eyes? he had on glasses. are you able to see his eyes now? you can, but glasses are there again. are his eyes substantially the same as they were at the preliminary hearing? yes.