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OLATHE, Kan. -- The partially clad, frozen body of a 17-year-old girl was found a quarter-mile from the home where her sister was killed and brother severely beaten.
Authorities said two boys playing near Frisco Lake saw a leg sticking out of the ice at the lake's overflow drain Monday. Police retreived the body and a relative identified the girl as Kelly Rae Duffield.
Miss Duffield, 17, had been missing since Jan. 28, when her sister Janelle Lea, 12, was beaten to death and her brother, Paul, 15, was critically injured.
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Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed March 27, 1987.
This case arose from the following circumstances:
In the early morning hours of January 28, 1983, the Olathe Police Department was called to the home of John and Carole Duffield. The Duffields' son, Paul, had been brutally attacked, and their daughter, Janelle, bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant. The Duffields' other daughter, Kelly, was missing. Kelly's body was later located frozen and partially nude in a drainage ditch at a lake in Olathe.
Police detectives began their investigation about 5:00 a.m. on the 28th, by making a detailed photographic record of the Duffield home and surrounding area. Sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. Captain Jeffrey Herrman, of the Olathe Police Department, contacted officials at the Johnson County crime lab and requested their assistance in a blood analysis. Gary Dirks, a technician from the crime lab, arrived sometime thereafter but was delayed from collecting samples for about a half an hour, until the photographic record could be completed.
(Harris Enterprises, Inc. v. Moore)
OLATHE, Kan. -- The partially clad, frozen body of a 17-year-old girl was found a quarter-mile from the home where her sister was killed and brother severely beaten.
Authorities said two boys playing near Frisco Lake saw a leg sticking out of the ice at the lake's overflow drain Monday. Police retreived the body and a relative identified the girl as Kelly Rae Duffield.
Miss Duffield, 17, had been missing since Jan. 28, when her sister Janelle Lea, 12, was beaten to death and her brother, Paul, 15, was critically injured.
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Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed March 27, 1987.
This case arose from the following circumstances:
In the early morning hours of January 28, 1983, the Olathe Police Department was called to the home of John and Carole Duffield. The Duffields' son, Paul, had been brutally attacked, and their daughter, Janelle, bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant. The Duffields' other daughter, Kelly, was missing. Kelly's body was later located frozen and partially nude in a drainage ditch at a lake in Olathe.
Police detectives began their investigation about 5:00 a.m. on the 28th, by making a detailed photographic record of the Duffield home and surrounding area. Sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. Captain Jeffrey Herrman, of the Olathe Police Department, contacted officials at the Johnson County crime lab and requested their assistance in a blood analysis. Gary Dirks, a technician from the crime lab, arrived sometime thereafter but was delayed from collecting samples for about a half an hour, until the photographic record could be completed.
(Harris Enterprises, Inc. v. Moore)
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