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For more than 37 years a marker at Sunset Hill Cemetery near Lakewood has noted the final resting place of a woman found slain along old Route 17 in the town of Ellery.
The bronze plate states “Jane Doe 1983,” a simple, yet painful reminder that the woman’s identity and the puzzling events leading up to her murder remain a mystery to this day.
“You’d think something would have come up by now,” said Randy Vanderschaaff, a retired criminal investigator with the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office.
Efforts have been renewed to solve the decades-old homicide by the Sheriff’s Office with the help of a powerful tool unavailable to police in the early ’80s social media.
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Rep. Stephen Owens, R-Hesston, championed a bill Thursday that would divert Kansans convicted of crimes stemming from drug addiction away from prisons toward a certified treatment program.
TOPEKA A bill passed Thursday by the Kansas House would establish a program diverting people with drug offenses from prison toward resources to fight their addiction.
The legislation, which passed by a 123-0 vote, would establish a certified drug abuse treatment program in place of criminal proceedings. Prosecutors would be allowed to sign agreements with judges and community corrections for supervision.
Defendants who pass through the program would not be convicted while those who do not would be tried.
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Suspected human remains found in Gumboro last week were located in the same area a missing man was last seen 10 years earlier.
Police confirmed the discovery Jan. 22 after maintaining a weeklong presence on R Farm Lane. The remains have been turned over to the Division of Forensic Science for identification and to determine manner of death.
Police have yet to announce any link in the cases.
John Douglas Wisniewski Sr., then 45, was last seen at his home on R Farm Lane at about 1 a.m. Jan. 24, 2011, according to a Delaware State Police press release at the time. He is still listed as missing in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
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Rep. Ponka-We Victors, D-Wichita, is cosponsoring legislation that would require the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered Indigenous people in Kansas.
TOPEKA While the world faces a global health crisis, advocates say, Indigenous people are facing an epidemic of their own with American Indians missing or murdered at disproportionately high rates.
Two legislators are acting to change that reality in Kansas.
As of Jan. 7, 2021, there are more than 696 missing American Indian or Alaskan Native people, including three in Kansas, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. A 2020 report using data from the Sovereign Bodies Institute, a nonprofit, Indigenous-led research organization, said 2,306 American Indian women and girls in the U.S have gone missing within the past 40 years, with 58% conne
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com. Alice Yue Xie, 41, departed Mariposa for Yosemite on the Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS) bus on Jan. 14 and either left for her day hike to the Upper Yosemite Fall overlook upon arrival or the next day, authorities said. This individual is believed to have gone on a day hike to the Upper Yosemite Fall overlook on January 14 or the morning of January 15, 2021. She has not been seen since, a statement on the National Parks Service (NPS) website reads.
Xie is described as an Asian female who is less than 5 five feet tall, less than 100 pounds, and has neck-length black hair, Yosemite National Park says.