3 carnival workers charged in killings of Kansas couple
Source: Associated Press
Updated 2:27 pm CST, Monday, December 10, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Three carnival workers have been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Kansas fair whose bodies were found days later in shallow graves in a national forest in Arkansas.
The Kansas Attorney General said 52-year-old Kimberly Younger, of McIntosh, Florida; 54-year-old Michael Fowler Jr., of Sarasota, Florida; and 35-year-old Rusty Frasier, of Aransas Pass, Texas, are jailed on $1 million bond in Arkansas, where they also face charges.
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Alfred "Sonny" Carpenter and Pauline Carpenter of Wichita had been selling crafts, jewelry, purses and other handmade items at the fair in Barton County, Kansas, in July when they were killed. Investigators believe the carnival workers used the couple's recreational vehicle to drive the bodies 320 miles (515 kilometers) to Van Buren, Arkansas. Their bodies were found buried in shallow graves next to a creek outside the small community of Natural Dam in the Ozark National Forest.
Police in Arkansas have said Younger texted the other suspects posing as a carnival mafia boss named Frank Zaitchik and ordered them to kill the Carpenters and dispose of the bodies. Fowler told investigators that he believed this was an initiation into the carnival mafia, so he shot the couple and Frasier stabbed Alfred Carpenter.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/3-carnival-workers-charged-in-killings-of-Kansas-13454935.php#photo-16626242
(Should it become required that everyone attending state fairs should be armed?)
chowder66
(9,067 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Looks like its off to Google for a rabbit hole research session.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)JudyM
(29,236 posts)You wonder if its reality or mental illness...
chowder66
(9,067 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)But a horrible tragedy in real life.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)between themselves.
Grins
(7,217 posts)...if the perpetrators had been immigrants.
And in a couple days I would have received, yet another, one of "those" emails screaming for a wall, for deportation, or both.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)I didn't know the Tilt a Whirl operator with the missing fingers earned his bones the hard way, and when the knock over the milk bottles booth makes me an offer from the bottom shelf, I can't refuse.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I don't know how much control they would have over the vendors though.
The game booths are con artists.
Period.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I have album cover illustrations already in my head
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