African American Serial Killers Part 13

Unlike filmmakers the Coen brothers or the rap duo Clipse, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr chose to be destructive monsters rather than creative forces. Now, this particular entry in this series may require an asterisk. They did not commit their crimes over a period of months but a few days.

Instead, they chose one night to extinguish the lives of five people, more or less. In one instance, the jury acquitted Jonathan of all counts against Andrew Schrieiber’s robbery.

Known as “The Wichita Massacre,” the Carrs showed their lowest rungs on the humanity scale by killing Ann Walenta. Then, they went on to kill Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort.

One survivor, now with the pseudonym “Holly G.” escaped in the frosty patches of snow and ice. Her friends didn’t get to be so fortunate. Though they all received a bullet in the back of the head, Holly managed to escape with a fractured skull due to a hair accessory which deflected the round.

Once she had dragged herself bleeding and stumbling in the nude, blood dripping on the snow, she found a house with Christmas lights. She had refused asking passersby in vehicles, fearing that the Carr brothers would return to kill her.

A startled couple took her into their house and wrapped her in a blanket. She described the horrific night and recounted the tale again to the police. In time, the Carr brothers would be discovered and brought to justice.

Things get a bit tricky in the court system. Over the years since their crimes, the brothers Carr had been sentenced to death, seen that overturned, and then finally resentenced to capital punishment by the US Supreme Court.

How could these ogres not get the death penalty? In a state like Kansas which recognizes it, what must perpetrators do to satisfy the requirements of being put on a table and injected with a fatal mixture of chemicals?

The Carrs represent something so vicious because they had absolute disregard for human life. Their unselfishness led them to steal the lives of these individuals. Without ever hesitating before their murderous rampage, they started force and kept going.

More textbook scenarios pervade their cases. Some mentions of child abuse surfaced but what does that have to do with deciding to claim the lives of other humans in terrifying fashion?

While the two brothers currently sit on death row, they must face their consciences. There is no excuse for their malevolent behavior. Once they first chose to go out on this spree, there lived the harsh seed of violence and disgusting acts.

When they coerced their victims to strip and perform sexual acts on each other, that sealed their fate as sadistic losers who could not cope with reality as men. The scared little boys did not exhibit any reason or compassion that night.

For Holly G. to escape and inform against the two brothers, that remains such an instance of justice being served. Though the legal system had almost botched their executions, it appears that it will be a day where both Carr brothers will be wiped off the face of the earth.

In the time that they will have to wait to die, Holly G. will most likely be a wife and mother and living an existence free from all hurt, hazard, or harm. While the Carrs rot on the row, all they should look forward to is their own destruction.

If there is enough time to give them an opportunity to confess to other crimes, now would be sufficient. Before their lives as nothing become snuffed out, it would help law enforcement to find out whether they know even more criminals.

The future will paint this portrait of siblings who did their worst. It will show the racial bias of saying that blacks couldn’t have pulled off this kind of crime. And instead of calling them “masterminds,” the moniker monsters will ultimately suffice.