Sentencing delayed in Oskaloosa slaying
Oskaloosa ? The widow of a slain Oskaloosa farmer was angry Tuesday afternoon after the sentencing of the man convicted of killing her husband and disposing of his body in a cistern was continued until sufficient evidence about the killer’s criminal history could be completed.
“I’m so mad,” Genie Kingsbury said after the hearing, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. “No sentence. No peace. No closure.”
In asking for the continuance, Jefferson County Attorney Caleb Stegall told District Court Judge Gary Nafziger that he believed the presentencing investigation report for Adam Hooper, who was found guilty of the second-degree murder of Dale Kingsbury in late April, didn’t contain an accurate criminal history because some records hadn’t been obtained from Oklahoma authorities.
Hooper, 38, lived in Tahlequah, Okla., prior to coming to Kansas in early 2009.
Nafziger granted the continuance and didn’t schedule a date for a subsequent sentencing hearing.
Dale Kingsbury, 50, who had allowed Hooper to stay at his farm in exchange for doing chores, was reported missing Aug. 8, 2009. His beaten body was found later that day in a cistern a few feet from the front door of his house.




