Crime of the Week - Wichita and Sedgwick County
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CRIME STOPPERS CASE No. 1221
Crime Stoppers and the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help to solve several cold cases. Today we are seeking information on a missing person that is a potential victim of a homicide. In March of 2001, Jennifer Wilson was 27 years old and lived with her roommate in the area of 143rd ST. E. and 63rd ST. S. Wilson and her roommate were involved in an argument at the residence and the roommate left. When the roommate returned Wilson was gone. Wilson left her car, all her belongings, and her dog, which she was known to take everywhere. At the time of her disappearance Jennifer Wilson was 5’07, weighed 115 pounds, with brown curly hair and blue eyes. Today Wilson would be 39 years old.

Jennifer Wilson 1998 Jennifer Wilson 1997

If you have information about this cold case or any felony crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You can also submit a tip online at www.wsccs.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to CRIMES (274637). All ways are secure and anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000, and Crime Stoppers will never ask your name. Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County is a non-profit organization of citizens against crime.

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Police chief: Seacat, in interview, said he ‘bullied’ wife

The city’s police chief testified Friday that former Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy Brett Seacat admitted he’d “bullied” his wife the night before she was found shot to death in their Kingman home after a fire.

Chief Marc Holloway, called to testify in the fifth day of Seacat’s first-degree murder trial, told Kingman County jurors he responded at about 4 a.m. April 30, 2011, to the Seacats’ home, which was “fully engulfed” in fire.

Seacat had already called 911 and reported his wife killed herself and set the home on fire.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 07:24 CDT
Maize High teacher charged with criminal threat

Prosecutors on Friday charged a Maize High School teacher with a criminal threat involving an assistant principal, and a judge ordered that he not have any contact with school staff and not go on any Maize district property.

Now that school is out, the bond for the defendant, James R. Stiverson, is being reduced from $250,000 to $25,000, Judge Warren Wilbert said during Stiverson’s first court appearance Friday afternoon. Wilbert said Stiverson also will be under electronic monitoring if he is released on bond.

The charge, a felony, alleges that on Tuesday, Stiverson “did then and there unlawfully threaten to commit violence, communicated with intent to place another in fear, to-wit: Julie D. Cannizzo, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such fear.” Cannizzo is a Maize High assistant principal.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 14:10 CDT
Jury sees video of house fire in Kingman murder trial

Jurors in the murder trial of Brett Seacat watched a video Thursday of the April 30, 2011, fire that quickly engulfed the upper story of his Kingman home, bursting through the windows on the back of the house before crawling up and over the rooftop.

They also heard two loud popping sounds come from the engulfed home, followed by more popping sounds, and a man could be heard saying “something’s going off” and that there were “fireworks in the house.”

Shawn Harbert testified he and a friend were walking on Pine Street in Kingman when they smelled smoke and saw the fire. He captured the blaze on video with his cellphone.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 07:24 CDT
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