They're always nice guys
Quote of note
In 2001, the Kansas City Police Department received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to help investigators use DNA testing to clear unsolved cases. The department worked with its regional crime lab and used the money to pay overtime and other costs for work on the old cases.
"Solving old crimes is now a regular thing for us," Sanders said Monday. "But we haven't had a serial case, particularly one so painful and extensive."
So how about we use all that expertise to settle all those wrongful imprisonment claims?
Same reaon the FDA won't allow a premium beef exporter to test his stock for Mad Cow disease…it "sends the wrong message."
DNA Leads to Suspect in Decades-Old Kansas City Slayings
By P.J. Huffstutter and Lynn Marshall
Times Staff Writers
April 20, 2004
Using DNA samples, some of them nearly three decades old, prosecutors have charged a 53-year-old man in Kansas City, Mo., with strangling a dozen women between 1977 to 1993.
Lorenzo J. Gilyard, a supervisor with a trash collection company, was charged Monday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and two counts of capital murder, the statute in effect at the time of two of the slayings.
If Gilyard is convicted in the city's largest serial killing spree, he could face life in prison without parole, or the death penalty, Jackson County prosecutor Mike Sanders said.
Gilyard, who is married and lives in southern Kansas City, is being held without bail. He previously had been convicted in Missouri of assault, theft, burglary and sexual abuse.
Gilyard was arrested Friday night. His attorney could not be reached for comment Monday.
Gilyard's friends and acquaintances were shocked to hear that he could be connected to the women's deaths.
"People around here are just stunned," said Tom Coffman, a spokesman for Deffenbaugh Industries Inc., where Gilyard has worked since 1986. "He was calm, even-tempered, respected by all the guys who worked with him."
