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AUTOPSY REPORTS IN: 5-year-old found in creek, Lucas Hernandez, system full of drugs; ‘Stepmother’ Emily Glass dead from suicide

 AUTOPSY REPORTS IN: 5-year-old found in creek, Lucas Hernandez, system full of drugs; ‘Stepmother’ Emily Glass dead from suicide
Juveniles

Officials released the autopsy an toxicology results for 5-year-old Kansas boy Lucas Hernandez on Tuesday and the public is not any closer to understanding how the little boy died, even though a substance was found in his system. According to Public Information Officer Kate Flavin Wichita’s Forensics Science Unit, the results couldn’t determine how little …

Monday Crime Stories: Tot boy Lucas Hernandez stepmother dead; Suicide or homicide?
Podcast
June 11, 2018

Monday Crime Stories: Tot boy Lucas Hernandez stepmother dead; Suicide or homicide?

The death of Lucas Hernandez’s step mom has left many unanswered questions about the death of the 5-year-old Kansas boy. Why was Lucas’s father the one who discovered Emily Glass fatally shot in the house where he no longer lived? What did Jonathan Hernandez know about Glass’s physical abuse of little Lucas and about his …

Photos show infants bound in sleep sacks with hair ties, day care under investigation
child endangerment
April 18, 2018

Photos show infants bound in sleep sacks with hair ties, day care under investigation

Officials have launched an investigation after pictures surfaced reportedly showing babies tied up in a sleep sack at a Kansas day care. A woman named Tanya told KHSB that her 7-month-old son was among the babies shown in the pictures taken at Miss Anne’s Daycare. Tayna claimed the Department of Children and Families informed her of the pictures …

Militia members target Somali refugees in plot to bomb apartment complex, mosque
Hate Crimes
April 18, 2018

Militia members target Somali refugees in plot to bomb apartment complex, mosque

Three Kansas men were convicted this week for their roles in a plot to bomb an apartment complex largely occupied by Somali refugees and a nearby mosque. According to the Kansas City Star Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen were indicated about 18 months ago for planning an attack that would have been executed …

Daughter, 4, comes home from day care with 3 missing teeth, busted nose and bruises: Report
Child Abuse
April 16, 2018

Daughter, 4, comes home from day care with 3 missing teeth, busted nose and bruises: Report

A Kansas mother wants answers weeks after her 4-year-old daughter came home from day care with three teeth missing and a busted lip. Donisha Franklin told WDAF that she noticed her daughter, Heaven, had returned from Kingdom Christian Academy Daycare on March 1 with a swollen nose. Upon further inspection, she reportedly discovered that three of …

Charges filed after young boy’s decapitation on 168-foot water slide
Court
March 23, 2018

Charges filed after young boy’s decapitation on 168-foot water slide

The former operations director of a Kansas water park was arrested Friday on involuntary manslaughter charges for the 2016 death of a boy on a 168-foot water slide. Per The Kansas City Star, ex-Schlitterbahn employee Tyler Austin Miles, 29, was arrested in connection with the August 7, 2016, death of Caleb Schwab, 10. Miles worked at the Kansas City …

Evan Brewer: DCF received EIGHT CALLS about abused toddler found in concrete
Murder
March 7, 2018

Evan Brewer: DCF received EIGHT CALLS about abused toddler found in concrete

The Kansas Department for Children and Families reportedly received eight tips in 13 months about Evan Brewer, the toddler who was found buried in a cement structure in September. Documents obtained by The Wichita Eagle revealed that multiple calls were made to DCF from March 20 to August 31, 2017. The calls ranged from his mother’s apparent …