Old Home Town – 25 years ago

At a brief arraignment in a crowded Douglas County courtroom, 22-year-old Bryan Keith Bell was formally charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his former employer, restaurant operator Frank Seurer Sr. Bell, who had been fired earlier from his job at Seurer’s restaurant here, had returned to work after the slaying and apparently there was a confrontation. Seurer was the father of Kansas University football quarterback Frank Jr.