As Mateo Clavel Wills' sentencing neared in a sex crime case that involved two preschool-age girls, one of the girls told her mom she'd like to be there in court that day. She was afraid, but she also wanted talk to the judge about Wills. The young girl's request, which her mom passed on to ...
"Because I am innocent!" Carrody Buchhorn told a crowded Douglas County courtroom Wednesday when her attorney asked why she was there. "I want my certificate of innocence," she said, before emotionally describing how the police "had made everyone think" she had violently killed a 9-month-old ...
Nine-month-old Oliver "Ollie" Ortiz died of natural causes, not child abuse: That's what a forensic pathologist hired by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office said almost three years ago, and that's what she said again in testimony Tuesday — in the process, heaping implicit scorn on ...
A man who pleaded no contest to lesser charges after originally being charged with raping a 9-year-old girl was sentenced on Tuesday to probation in Douglas County District Court. Judge Amy Hanley sentenced Tyrone Gipson Jr. to a total of 30 months in prison for two counts of aggravated ...
Nine years after 9-month-old Oliver "Ollie" Ortiz died at a Eudora day care, the question of what killed him — natural causes or child abuse — remains legally unsettled, as does the innocence of the day care worker originally accused of murdering him. That woman, Carrody Buchhorn, is ...
UPDATED 3:10 p.m. Saturday The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that killed one person and critically injured another in southwest Lawrence on Friday night. Douglas County deputies, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical and Consolidated Fire District No. 1 were called to the ...