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News accounts of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Byron Case

The following are the newspaper articles that appeared in The Kansas City Star, the Independence Examiner, the Pitch Weekly, and on web sites of some local TV stations at the time of the arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing of Byron Case for the murder of Anastasia WitbolsFeugen. Case was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole. A final "news" story, published by a community college newspaper, was written without any fact-checking. It has annotations made by the webmaster.

Please check here for news accounts of the murder and subsequent investigation.

Kansas City Star, 06/12/01 Murder charge filed in 1997 case
Independence Examiner, 06/12/01 Man charged in '97 homicide
KSHB-TV41 webcast, 6/12/01 Police arrest man believed to have murdered 18-year-old woman in Lincoln Cemetery
KMBC-TV9 webcast, 6/12/01 Father Vindicated 3 Years Later
KCTV-5 webcast, 6/12/01 Tip Leads to Murder Charge in 1997 Killing
KMBC-TV9 webcast, 6/14/01 Hearing Begins In 4-Year-Old Murder Case
Independence Examiner, 4/29/02 Maybe now, answers
Kansas City Star, 4/30/02 'Horrible secret' led witness to drug addiction
Independence Examiner, 4/30/02 Friend recounts slaying
Independence Examiner, 5/01/02 Defense builds case
Kansas City Star, 5/02/02 Murder suspect tries to debunk key witness
Independence Examiner, 5/02/02 Defense says witness lied
Kansas City Star, 5/03/02 Jury finds Byron Case guilty of killing 18-year-old college student in 1997
Independence Examiner, 5/03/02 Case Guilty
Pitch Weekly, 5/16/02 Cemetery Plot
Kansas City Star, 6/29/02 Man sentenced to life in cemetery killing of college student
Independence Examiner, 6/29/02 Case gets life in prison
Penn Valley Community College Spectrum, 7/2002 Re-Examining the Case

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