Great Bend ? Two Lyons men were charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Great Bend man and the kidnapping and death of his former girlfriend.

Sidney John Gleason, 24, and Damian Thompson, 25, who are cousins, were charged Friday with capital murder, first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping, the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said.

Thompson and Gleason are accused in the shooting death of Darren Wornkey, 24, and the kidnapping and death of his 19-year-old former girlfriend, Mikiala Martinez, last weekend.

A six-day search for Martinez failed to find her.

“The evidence leads us to believe that she’s been murdered,” Atty. Gen. Phill Kline said Friday. “I hope I’m wrong.”

Martinez and Wornkey had two children together.

Gleason and Thompson also are accused of stabbing and robbing an elderly Great Bend man earlier this month. The crimes came less than a month after Gleason was paroled.

Gleason had spent about 40 months in jail or prison for shooting his mother’s former boyfriend in Topeka in 2000. After being paroled in late 2003, he went back to prison after violating conditions of his parole, the Corrections Department said.

The Wichita Eagle reported in May that more than two dozen Kansans died in the past four years at the hands of people being supervised by state parole officers. Murder charges were then pending against parolees in eight other homicides.

The capital murder charges are punishable by lethal injection if there are convictions and death sentences. They were based on the multiple deaths in Great Bend and other information obtained during the investigation, Kline said.

The charges will be jointly prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office and Barton County Atty. Rick Scheufler.

Gleason is being held in the Barton County Jail and Thompson in the Rice County Jail, each on $1 million bond.

Gleason’s mother, Irene Gleason of Lyons, said her son had applied for jobs in Newton, McPherson and around Lyons while on parole but had not been hired. Irene Gleason said her son had been meeting about once a week with his parole officer, “doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing.”

Gleason and Thompson also have been charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated battery in the Feb. 12 stabbing of Paul Elliott, 76, at his Great Bend home.

Elliott said he fought back against his attackers and ran to a neighbor’s home for help.