

When Sandy promised a task, it was completed. Housework and cooking were not an immediate daily concern to Sandy as she concentrated on raising the family, volunteering at church and accomplishing her academic goals.

Sandy worked diligently coordinating activities in the Lutheran Church, despite a heavy schedule as a student and teacher. Having obtained a Master Degree, Sandy was studying for a Doctorate in Mathematics and Computer Science. Racer found no evidence of criminality – wrongful conviction of an innocent man, spending 20 years behind bars.Sandy was a perpetual student and teacher, interested in the practical applications of Mathematics, exciting others with her knowledge and enthusiasm. Instead, the state held him for another 14 years before paroling him in 2004.ĭave Racer, the author, presents the details of the case so you can make your own decision. Immediately, folks thought he’d be freed from prison and perhaps his earlier convictions would be overturned. Bird for the murder of Martin Anderson, however, it conducted a fair trial and the jury vindicated him. Bird even as he sat in prison fighting for vindication of his earlier convictions. When Lorna’s plan backfired and police accused her of murder, she pointed the finger at Rev. Investigators uncovered more than 60 men who confesses to sexual relations with Lorna, and she believed that by having her husband murdered, it would clear the way for her to marry the widower, Rev. The state also charged him with the murder of Martin Anderson, a member of his Emporia Kansas church, and wife of the church secretary, Lorna Anderson. Kansas convicted an innocent man, but held him in prison for nearly 20 years.īut Kansas hadn’t finished with its attempt to put him away for life. Both of these convictions, based on facts uncovered in a month’s long investigation, were wrongful. Bird of trying to hire someone to kill his church secretary’s husband, and then convicted him of the murder of his own wife. KotheĬaged Bird chronicles one of the most intense murder investigations and convictions in the history of Kansas.

By Dave Racer, MLitt with a foreword by Kenneth P.
