the jurors were unmoved by the testimony about the brothers difficult childhood. we re accountable for the choices that we make in this life. there s a lot of kids that go through a lot worse things that they went through and they re not out killing people. then, on november 14th, 2002, exactly 23 months after the carr brothers had knocked on that condominium door, the vote. i ll approve the verdict as to form. ms. marcus, publish the verdict, please, ma am. at 5:30 in the afternoon the jury filed into the packed courtroom. i just remember my heart was pounding. that s all i could hear, was my heart just pounding. we find that the proper sentence for reginald d. carr jr. is death. we find the that the proper sentence for jonathan d. carr is death. i mean, it was emotional. in my mind, i ve just killed two men. that s all i can think about. the next morning before formal sentencing by the judge, the victim s families stood off camera and addressed the court.
defendants. and it became clear that the defense strategy was to point the finger at the other brother. jonathan carr s lawyer argued that neither andy schreiber, the carjack victim or ann walenta who survived long enough to talk to police, identified him as the second assailant and no physical evidence connected him to either crime. the only evidence connecting jonathan carr is the simple fact that he is the brother of the co-defendant reginald carr. only guilt by association. jonathan carr s lawyers called no witnesses. their only evidence, an unused train ticket to cleveland, ohio, good for the night of the murders. he was actually supposed to leave very early during the morning hours of december 15th, 2000. he was supposed to board an amtrak train out of newton,
yes. did jason say anything at that time? no. it was both a terrifying and poignant moment. the awful way she learned that jason was planning to propose. h.g. said the brothers took the ring that was supposed to be hers and then demanded money. none of us had any cash on us. they asked who had atm cards. we had all kind of raised our hands as we were laying down. and so, according to h.g., reginald carr forced them to drive him to atms to withdraw money, one at a time. they were wearing next to nothing. i asked him if he was going to shoot us. he said no. and i think i said, do you promise? and he said, yeah, i m not going to shoot you. did that convince you? it did. i went back and as i got in the closet, brad and jason and aaron were still in there. and i said, i think we re going to be okay. as the night wore on, h.g. said she was raped by both jonathan and reginald carr and at one point she said she saw jonathan carr raping her friend heather.
november 2002, the verdicts in the murder trials of reginald and jonathan carr are in. guilty of the capital murder. guilty of the capital murder. both brothers had been found guilty on five counts of murder. for six long weeks, jurors had wrestled with this case with evidence they said they found very upsetting. but the most difficult decisions were yet to come. should the carr brothers be sentenced to death? the prosecution had produced a mountain of evidence to convict the carr brothers. now it believed the case had already been made for the death penalty. the law is that in the state of kansas, if you commit a capital offense and if the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors, then the
jonathan and reginald carr and at one point she said she saw jonathan carr raping her friend heather. i walked in front of him over to jason s bathroom door where i opened the bathroom door and saw intruder number one raping heather. he shut the door in my face and said he wasn t done yet. h.g. said after three hours of terror, she watched as the carr brothers made a final walk through the condo marking items to be stolen later. they were mumbling something, and i m not sure what they said except for i heard big screams and shortly thereafter we were taken out of the house. and then the final act. she says the brothers forced the men to get into a car trunk. h.g. testified the dashboard clock read 2:07 a.m. as the five nearly naked friends were being driven to the soccer field. coming up we were all screaming.