Chetopa man guilty in cook’s death
PARSONS ? A Chetopa man was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder in the 2004 death of an elementary school cook.
Charles Krider, 45, was convicted of killing Judith Shrum, 58, of rural Chetopa, whose body was found four days after she was reported missing on Jan. 19, 2004. She had been strangled.
Krider was originally charged with first-degree murder. His first trial ended in a mistrial when the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict after six hours of deliberations.
No motive for the murder was established in either trial.
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