Sex, Drugs, and Bad Parole: The Appeals

• In Event: Posters II

Abstract

"What happened to those boys who shot those kids?"
"They've been charged with capital murder."
"What's capital murder?"
"Well, anyone convicted of capital murder can get the death penalty."
"How's that done?"
"Lethal injection."
"...Do you feel anything [from that]?"
-Jonathan Carr, during an interrogation with homicide detective Kelly Otis
-http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/carr_brothers/4.html
Jonathon and Reginald Carr were violent convicted felons in the custody of the Kansas
Department of Corrections. In 2000, the Carr Brothers were paroled and released from prison
for what was supposed to be intensive supervision by the KDOC parole office. The Carr brothers
slipped away from that supervision in December, 2000. They proceed to commit some
robberies and committed a bizarre and horrific series of brutal murders in which the victims
(both male and female) were forced to have sex with their assailants and each other prior to
being shot by their attackers. The Carr brothers were captured and their offenses caused a
media circus and firestorm that involved race relations in Kansas. This research examines the issues and outcomes of that crime, the trial, and the appeals that followed.

Author

• Stacia Pottorff, University of Central Missouri