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A man was convicted Friday of strangling a Wichita woman in 2011 while on parole for murdering a woman in Lawrence more than two decades earlier.
A Sedgwick County jury deliberated less than four hours before convicting Tyrone Walker, 47, of first-degree murder in the death of Janis Sanders, 44. Her nude body was found between an abandoned house and a small business in the 1100 block of South Washington on June 4, 2011.
During his trial, jurors were told that Walker was convicted in Douglas County of second-degree murder in the death of Tamara Baker, 25, who was reported missing on Oct. 31, 1989. Her body was found six months later in a wooded area of Lawrence. Walker was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison on that charge and was paroled to Wichita in February 2011.
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An inmate serving a life sentence for the April 2005 killing of Harvey County sheriff’s Deputy Kurt Ford will not collect more than $4,000 in cash that was seized from his home on the day of the shooting, a judge has ruled.
District Judge Warren Wilbert denied a motion filed by Gregory A. Moore, who was hoping to recover the money. A search warrant shows that the KBI found $200 in an envelope and $4,360 in a zip-top plastic bag in the master bedroom of the home at 131 SE 14th St. in Newton where the shooting occurred.
Harvey County Attorney David Yoder said in a written response to Moore’s motion that Moore owes more than $200,000 in damages that was awarded to Ford’s widow in a wrongful death lawsuit. Yoder also said the state may file a claim against Moore for back child support.
The state is expected to rest its case today in the retrial of a Wichita man accused of strangling a Wichita woman in 2011 while on parole for murdering a woman in Lawrence more than two decades earlier.
Tyrone Walker, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Janis Sanders, 44, whose nude body was found between an abandoned house and a small business in the 1100 block of South Washington on June 4, 2011. A jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction at Walker’s first trial in March.
During that trial, jurors were told that Walker was convicted in Douglas County of second-degree murder in the death of Tamara Baker, 25, who was reported missing on Oct. 31, 1989, and whose body was found six months later in a wooded area of Lawrence. Walker was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison on that charge and was paroled to Wichita in February 2011.