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GREENE COUNTY COURT

Questions
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death-penalty case? answers
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Richard DeLong’s Despite an insurance company car-

ousel and lawmakers plotting for the
trial in deaths of 5 end of Obamacare, Missourians can be
covered through the federal health
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I
t was an unusually warm
day in Springfield on Jan.
20, 1999, when a 16-year-old
girl went next door for
some sugar. Inside the northwest
Springfield home, the teen found
the strangled body of her pregnant
neighbor.
The dead woman, Erin Vanderhoef,
had been bound by her hands and feet.
Police were called, and soon they
were investigating one of the most bru-
tal killings in the history of Springfield.
Elsewhere in the home, police found
the bodies of Vanderhoef’s three chil-
dren — two of whom were gagged. Offi-
cers determined the killings took place a
day prior, on Jan. 19.
They also learned Vanderhoef was
pregnant.
Days later, authorities arrested the
father of Vanderhoef’s unborn child —
34-year-old Richard DeLong — and
charged him with five counts of murder.
For justice to be done, prosecutors
said, there was only one sentence that
would suffice: the death penalty.
DeLong’s murder trial — which took
place in 2001 — is the last time Greene
County prosecutors have argued for the
death penalty in court.
As the trial begins for the man ac-
cused of kidnapping, raping and killing
10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014, prose-
cutors are again preparing arguments
for the death penalty.
Craig Wood’s jury trial begins Mon-
day.
His attorney said Wood was willing to
plead guilty in return for life in prison,
but prosecutors have not offered a plea
deal.
Wood is charged with five felonies:
first-degree murder, armed criminal ac-
tion, child kidnapping, rape and sodomy.
If Wood is convicted, jurors will then
See COURT, Page 5A
A list of people available to help oth-
ers enroll in Obamacare in the Spring-
field area is available online. An event
meant to help Springfieldians enroll
will be held by the Cover Missouri Co-
alition from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at
The Venues church, 2616 E. Battlefield
Road.
In the state, two insurance compa-
nies — Humana and Blue KC — are ex-
iting the marketplace in 2018. Cigna
will continue offering Missouri mar-
ketplace plans, and St. Louis company
Centene has said it will offer plans for
See ANSWERS, Page 6A
Jury pool in Craig
Wood case is
tough on crime,
KC attorneys say
HARRISON KEEGAN
HKEEGAN@NEWS-LEADER.COM
Attorneys in the Kansas City area
say Platte County jurors have a bit of a
reputation.
And it’s not a great one for people
ABOVE: From left, Dara Vanderhoef, charged with crimes.
Christopher Franklin, Erin Vanderhoef “I would not be dancing in the street
and Jimmy Vanderhoef. The if I was a defense counsel and I had a
Springfield family was murdered in jury coming in from Platte County,”
January 1999. said Kansas City defense attorney
Robert Calbi.
LEFT: Richard DeLong’s 1999 mug shot
On Friday, lawyers completed the
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process of picking a jury from Platte
County to hear the case against Craig
Michael Wood in Greene County.
Dr. Nancy Hornstein, a psychiatrist who testified at Wood, 49, is accused of kidnapping,
raping and murdering Springfield 10-
Richard DeLong’s sentencing, said he had a year-old Hailey Owens in February
2014.
psychotic episode the morning of the A Platte County jury will decide
whether Wood is guilty of first-degree
murders. According to Hornstein, DeLong’s alcoholic murder, and then possibly whether he
father would ram his son’s head into a toilet or countertop should be put to death.
Calbi is not involved in the Wood
when DeLong was a boy, causing head injuries.
See JURORS, Page 8A

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Expecting tough budget year, MSU gets creative
CLAUDETTE RILEY
CRILEY@NEWS-LEADER.COM
Sugarcoating was not
an option Friday when Mis-
souri State President Clif
Smart talked about next
year’s budget.
Smart told the Board of
Governors the fast-grow-
ing university is braced to
make “more difficult than
usual” decisions regarding
its 2018-19 spending plan.
“We expect a hard year
next year,” he said. “... No
one is telling us it’s going to
be a good year — zero.”
With tax changes kick-
ing in, there is uncertainty
about the state budget, and
the amount available to
fund higher education —
and many other areas —
cannot be determined until
after the state adjusts its
spending plan to absorb
growing Medicaid ex-
penses and other manda-
tory costs.
MSU, along with every
other public college and
university in Missouri, ex-
perienced back-to-back
state funding cuts earlier
this year. For the Spring-
field campus, it was a loss
of nearly 9 percent of its
funding.
The university ab-
sorbed the blow by cutting
spending, eliminating po-
sitions and events, raising
tuition, dipping into re-
serves and forgoing pay in-
creases for employees.
Smart said the univer-
sity is starting its budget
planning process this fall,
months earlier than usual,
because it expects “anoth-
er challenging year” at the
state Capitol.
He said state funding
for higher education is ex-
pected to go down, not up.
For that reason, MSU will
start to build a budget as-
suming a state funding
drop of at least 2.5 percent
— although it may be high-
er.
“The second piece is we
know costs are going to in-
crease,” Smart said.
MSU has two primary
sources of revenue for its
operating budget. This
year, 34 percent was state
funding and 64 percent
was tuition and fees.
In a detailed overview,
Smart told the governing
board that the university
will work to come up with
$4.5 million to offset the
expected state funding
loss, cover higher ex-
Court
Continued from Page 1A
be asked to recommend a
sentence.
The jury — like it was in
the DeLong case — will be
from Platte County.
Wood has said he was
high on meth at the time of
Hailey’s abduction.
DeLong had a severe
meth addiction when he
killed Vanderhoef and her
children.
Dr. Nancy Hornstein, a
psychiatrist who testified
at DeLong’s sentencing,
said DeLong had a psy-
chotic episode the morn-
ing of the murders.
According to Horn-
stein, DeLong’s alcoholic
father would ram his son’s
head into a toilet or
countertop when DeLong
was a boy, causing head in-
juries.
DeLong also suffered
from chronic depression,
attention deficit hyperac-
tivity disorder, marijuana
dependency, opiate abuse
and more, Hornstein said.
An expert for the prose-
cution said DeLong’s brain
was completely normal
the day of the murders.
During the guilt phase
of DeLong’s trial, prosecu-
tors flashed crime-scene
photos on a bare wall of the
courtroom.
Jimmy, 11, under a
chair, with bruises on his
neck and a gag hanging out
of his mouth.
Chris, 10, a gag also
hanging out of his mouth,
with clothes and pillows
covering his body.
Darlene, 8, draped over
a chair.
The last picture showed
Vanderhoef, 36, who had
penses and meet goals in-
cluding maintaining affor-
dability for students.
Smart said many oper-
ating costs go up annually,
including insurance, utili-
ties and health care.
The university was re-
cently notified that it will
have to pay more into the
Missouri State Employees’
Retirement System, or
MOSERS.
This year, MSU in-
creased its annual contri-
bution by $2 million, and
that is expected to go up by
another $750,000 next
year.
Smart said a cost-of-liv-
ing pay raise for employ-
ees is a priority. If the uni-
versity offers a 2 percent
increase, it will cost nearly
$3 million.
“We have talked about
the importance of doing
some type of pay raise next
year,” he said. “We did no
cost-of-living adjustment
or pay raise of any kind in
the current year.”
On top of that, the uni-
versity expects $250,000 to
reward faculty who are
promoted — for example,
an associate professor who
becomes a full professor.
“We think it’s critically im-
portant that we continue to
do that promotion work.”
MSU has gained more
students every year for
nearly two decades. How-
ever, since it is nearly im-
possible to predict exact
enrollment each fall, the
annual budget is devel-
oped expecting flat enroll-
ment.
Smart said the conser-
vative approach has paid
off each year, until this
one, because the “unbud-
geted enrollment growth”
provided a financial cush-
ion. Last year, it generated
an extra $2 million.
This year, that cushion
was thin. MSU gained 450
students from the U.S. but
lost more than 200 from
other countries. Interna-
tional students pay much
higher tuition and fees, so
the university only gained
about $100,000.
“It did not produce sig-
nificant additional reve-
nue,” Smart said.
Smart said the univer-
sity is working to keep stu-
dents on track to graduate.
“We are working on a
whole series of things to
try and improve the reten-
tion and graduation rates,
which is good for students
been hogtied.
Then-Greene County
Prosecutor Darrell Moore
said her death was espe-
cially gruesome.
“He wanted to watch
Erin struggle,” Moore
said. “She killed herself.
He rigged it so she would
die by her own feet. She
was struggling to keep her
feet up.”
DeLong, authorities
said, was in a love triangle
with Vanderhoef and an-
other woman, Stacie Lef-
fingwell.
Leffingwell, as well as
Harold “Bobby” Lingle,
were identified as accom-
plices in the murders.
Leffingwell died in Oc-
tober 1999 from complica-
tions of AIDS before she
could go to trial.
Lingle was convicted of
five counts of murder in
2002. Prosecutors did not
pursue the death penalty
against him.
After Lingle’s convic-
tion, Moore told the News-
Leader his theory on the
quintuple homicide.
“I still believe Stacie
Leffingwell was the insti-
gator of the whole thing,”
Moore said. “Stacie Lef-
fingwell was the toxic
combination that set the
whole thing up. Absent
Stacie Leffingwell and her
desire to see Erin dead,
I’m not convinced this
whole thing would have
happened.”
At DeLong’s sentencing
hearing, his mother, Mary,
pleaded for mercy, noting
her son has HIV.
“With HIV and the pos-
sibility of AIDS, he can’t
live that long anyway,” she
said. “Why don’t you let
him live the time he has
left?”
DeLong’s attorney
asked the jurors to “let
October 29, 2017 5A
and produces more mon- Other changes coming among other benchmarks. that you hit, the smaller the
ey.” Smart said there are “There is some uncer- deduction from the state.”
other reasons the coming tainty now in how they are Smart said there is also
Tuition likely going up going to be used. Our old a question about whether
year will be a challenge.
Budget cuts are expect- This year, the state’s performance funding institutions will be treated
ed. Before the start of the public colleges and univer- measures only applied to as a group or individually
fiscal year on July 1, MSU sities received roughly the new money and impacted when it comes to state
plans to identify at least same cut, but that could be how much new money you funding next year.
$1.5 million in savings. Last changing. got,” he said. “We antici- “Last year, everyone
year, ideas for belt-tight- In December, the Mis- pate these performance got the 6.5 percent cut, ev-
ening were solicited from souri Coordinating Board funding measures, at least erybody got the 2.5 per-
students, staff and faculty. of Higher Education is ex- to some extent, are going to cent withhold,” he said.
“We are going to look to pected to roll out new per- be applied to core funding “We anticipate that may
reduce costs and reallo- formance funding mea- and could impact the not be the case, so univer-
cate that money,” he said. sures. Institutions are amount of the reduction sity A may get a 3 percent
Smart noted 73 percent of evaluated on their out- that we get.” reduction, university B
the budget is personnel, so comes, such as retention He added: “In theory, if may get a 5 percent reduc-
there may be a loss of posi- rate and graduation rate, it works that way, the more tion, university C may get a
tions, but it is not yet clear that you get right, the more 10 percent reduction.”
how many.
Students will likely be
asked to pay more in tu-
ition and fees.
Without a state waiver,
MSU is only allowed to
raise in-state, undergradu- She’s loving
ate tuition by the same per-
centage as the Consumer better health.
Price Index. The CPI will
be set in early 2018 but is
expected to hover near 2
Her new life.
percent.
Smart said raising tu- And herself.
ition by 2 percent would
generate nearly $3 million
next year.
“If we do that, it be-
comes extremely impor-
tant that we’re working in
other ways to reduce the
cost for our students,” he
said.
Several options are on
the table. For example, a
faculty group is evaluating
a proposal to reduce the
number of credit hours
needed for a bachelor’s de-
gree from 125 to 120.
Smart said a prelimi-
nary review showed at
least 80 percent of stu-
dents would graduate with
the same requirements as
they do now but would be
required to take fewer
elective courses. “We
think it’s very meaningful
to look at.”
A decision could be
made as early as the spring
and, if approved, the
change could be in effect
by fall 2018.
The university is also
exploring the use of free
“open access” textbooks
for a range of courses or
providing more curricular
Ready to find a lasting solution
items in digital formats.
MSU is also phasing out
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After three hours of de-
liberation, the Platte Coun-
ty jury decided to spare
DeLong’s life. He was sen-
tenced to life in prison
without the chance of pa-
role.
DeLong, now 53, is
housed at the Potosi Cor-
rectional Center in Miner-
al Point.
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8A October 29, 2017
Craig Wood takes the stand during a court hearing on March 3, 2016. His trial in the February
2014 kidnapping, rape and slaying of Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens starts Monday in the
Greene County Courthouse. NEWS-LEADER FILE PHOTO
Jurors
Continued from Page 1A
case, but he regularly tries
cases in Platte County. He
said the jurors north of the
Missouri River are gener-
ally tougher on crime than
jurors from other counties
in the Kansas City area.
He said in his experi-
ence, jurors in Platte
County are sharp, skepti-
cal and will make a de-
fense attorney work.
“They are not going to
go for the Twinkie defense
or anything like that,” Cal-
bi said. “They live up to the
reputation that this is the
Show Me State.”
Arguments in the case
should begin Monday at
the Greene County court-
house.
North Kansas City law-
yer Mark Ferguson said
the attorneys in Wood’s
case are likely dealing
with a jury pool that is pre-
dominantly white, conser-
vative, old and wealthy.
Ferguson said that de-
mographic is generally
bad news for defense at-
torneys.
“The more conserva-
tive, the more likely you
are to lose,” Ferguson said.
“The more pro-law, pro-
law enforcement they are
going to be.”
If that’s true, Wood’s de-
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Platte County to Greene
County.
Republican Donald
Trump had less support in
Platte County than in
Greene during the Novem-
ber election. Platte is also
slightly more diverse,
with a population that is 87
percent white, versus
Greene’s 91 percent.
One of the big differ-
ences between the two
counties is median house-
hold income — $41,227 in
Greene County compared
to $68,254 in Platte County,
according to the United
States Census Bureau’s
2015 information.
Ferguson has a unique
perspective on Platte
County jurors since he
used to work as a prosecu-
tor there before becoming
a defense attorney about
20 years ago.
He said winning cases
in Platte County was easi-
er as a prosecutor.
“Out of the five coun-
ties in the Kansas City
metro area, I would say it
is probably the second
toughest,” Ferguson said.
“Johnson County, Kansas,
being tougher.”
There is some data to
back up the notion that
Platte County is tough on
crime.
A 2015 report from the
Missouri Sentencing Advi-
sory Commission found
that “average” offenders
SUNDAY NEWS-LEADER § News-Leader.com
Search heats up for next
Nixa school superintendent
CLAUDETTE RILEY replacement earlier this tised. After reviewing ap-
CRILEY@NEWS-LEADER.COM year. plications, the next step is
Zac for the board to decide
The Nixa school board Rantz, who will go through the
will meet Monday to start chief com- interview process.
sifting through the appli- munica- “The board will con-
cations from 24 individ- tions offi- duct multiple rounds of
uals who want to lead the cer, said in-person interviews with
district. the 24 ap- those that have applied,
The deadline to apply Stephen plicants in- but there are no plans to
for the superintendent Kleinsmith cludes sev- announce finalists,”
job was midweek. en women Rantz said.
This is the first time and 17 men. Kleinsmith’s current
the 6,200-student district Three applicants were in- salary is $182,492. Ac-
in Christian County has ternal. cording to the district, the
launched a search for a The applicants are pay for the next superin-
new leader in nearly two from Missouri and eight tendent will be based on
are less likely to get proba- decades. Stephen Kleins- other states. The district experience.
tion in Platte County than
Greene County.
mith, superintendent
since 2000, will retire
has not yet released a
breakdown of which
Rantz said the earliest
the board is expected to
It’s unclear how many June 30 after 18 years in states and how many are make a hiring decision is
of the sentences analyzed the post. from each one. Dec. 14. But, the board has
in the report were handed Kleinsmith announced Nixa Public Schools the option of pushing that
out by judges and how plans to step down more has been working with the date if it needs more time.
many by juries. than a year ago, citing Missouri School Boards’ The new superinten-
Wood’s attorneys asked health reasons. The board Association on the search, dent is expected to start
for an outside jury to hear started searching for his which was widely adver- July 1.
Wood’s case early on in the
court proceedings, argu-
ing the vast media atten-
tion had compromised the
Greene County jury pool.
The Greene County
Prosecutor’s Office initia-
lly argued against having
an outside jury before
both sides settled on ship-
ping in a jury from another
part of the state.
Wood’s attorney Pat-
rick Berrigan said he
could not comment on why
both sides agreed on Platte
County for the jury pool.
Dan Conklin was the
judge in this case when
Platte County was select-
ed. Generally speaking, he
said the court needed a
county that was far away
and large enough that the
attorneys could easily find
a pool of about 500 poten-
tial jurors.
The last Greene County
death penalty case was
also heard by a Platte
County jury back in 2001.
The Platte County pros-
ecutor’s office did not re-
spond to a request for com-
ment about working with
jurors in the county.
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CRAIG WOOD TRIAL — DAY 1

PROSECUTOR, DEFENSE AGREE:

WOOD RAPED, KILLED HAILEY
5 big moments
from the 1st day
of Wood’s trial
Harrison Keegan and Giacomo Bologna
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK

After more than three and a half

years of court proceedings, arguments
began Monday morning in the Craig
Wood trial.
Wood, 49, is accused of kidnapping,
raping and killing 10-year-old Hailey
Owens on Feb. 18, 2014.
Prosecutors plan to go after the death
penalty if Wood is convicted of first-de-
gree murder.
Here are five big moments from the
first day of the trial.

1. Wood had child porn printouts

Before opening statements began,

Judge Thomas Mountjoy heard a mo-
Defense attorney Patrick Berrigan makes his opening statement during the trial of Craig Wood on tion filed by Wood’s attorneys about im-
Monday in Springfield. ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER ages of apparent child pornography
found in Wood’s bedroom after Hailey’s
abduction.
Question is whether Wood deliberated before acting Wood’s lawyer, Patrick Berrigan, ar-
gued the printouts from the internet
don’t have any bearing on this case and
Giacomo Bologna Springfield News-Leader | USA TODAY NETWORK According to could unfairly prejudice the jury.
Berrigan, Wood According to Berrigan, the photo-

T
he attorney for Craig Wood told jurors Mon- acted spontane-
ously when he kid-
day that his client kidnapped, raped and napped Hailey,
killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014. who was walking
In his opening statements Monday home from a on the internet.
friend’s home on
morning, defense attorney Patrick Berri- Hailey Owens Feb. 18, 2014.
gan largely agreed with the prosecution about the ba- Wood was not
driven by conscious thought, Berri-
sic facts of the case. gan said during the trial’s opening
Here’s where they disagreed: Did Wood deliberate statements, but was acting on long-
before those acts? suppressed urges — and fueled by
meth.
If Berrigan can convince the jurors that Wood did If this had been a deliberate ac-
not deliberate before allegedly killing Hailey, it could tion, Berrigan argued, Wood would
not have grabbed Hailey in daylight,
spare Wood’s life. in front of witnesses and in a car
Prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty for with a license plate that pointed
Wood, but they must first prove he committed first- back to him.
“He has no disguise whatsoever,”
degree murder. Berrigan said. “There’s no marks or
A first-degree murder conviction means there was nylon stocking over his head. He
doesn’t even have dark sunglasses.”
deliberation before the murder took place, which Ber-
rigan said is missing from this case. See TRIAL, Page 3A
graphs showed prepubescent girls, in-
cluding one involved in a sexual act. He
said the photos were taken more than a
decade ago and were easily accessible
Greene County Prosecutor Dan Pat-
terson argued the photographs could
point to Wood’s motive.
Mountjoy granted the motion filed by
the defense, preventing the photo-
graphs from being introduced at trial.
2. Eyewitness gives emotional
account of Hailey’s abduction
Michelle Edwards, an eyewitness to
the abduction, was the state’s second
witness on Monday.
Edwards testified that she was sitting
in her garage on West Lombard Street
on Feb. 18, 2014, on hold with the IRS
when she saw Hailey walk in front of her
house.
See MOMENTS, Page 3A

Prescription monitoring program slowly spreads

American Medical Association head: ‘Great start’
but mandatory statewide program still needed
Jackie Rehwald
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
Although Missouri continues to be
the only state in the nation without a
statewide prescription drug monitoring
program, many counties and towns are
opting to join the St. Louis County pro-
gram.
David Barbe, a physician from Moun-
tain Grove and president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, called the St.
Louis County program a “great start” but
said a mandatory statewide program is
still needed.
“There are still tremendous holes in
the current St. Louis County-sponsored
and collaborative (program),” he said
during a recent trip to Springfield to talk
about the opioid epidemic with physi-
cians.
“If you live in Greene County and you
prescribe in Greene County and your pa-
tients are from Greene
County, then you’ve got
some information about
that individual,” Barbe
said. “If they drive out to
Mountain Grove to see me
Dr. Dave and I prescribe to them
Barbe and they fill a prescrip-
tion out there, the doctor
here in Greene County can’t see that.”
Barbe said he hopes the St. Louis
County program leads to a “real” state-
wide program.
“I think the fact that it exists at all is
an indication that the Missouri legisla-
ture has failed us up to this point,” he
added.
According to Barbe, an effective pre-
scription drug monitoring program has
three traits: it gathers as much informa-
tion as possible about what has been
prescribed to a patient, the information
is available to prescribers in real time or
close to real time, and it is an easy part of
the prescribers’ and pharmacists’ work-
flow.
Barbe went on to call Gov. Eric Grei-
ten’s recent executive order to create a
prescription drug monitoring program
“not useful.”
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When Terry Whaley joined Ozark
Greenways 22 years ago, the greenway
trail system was little more than a few
blocks of pathway be-
tween Grant and Kansas
Expressway.
As he prepares to retire
and hike and bike some of
the great trails in the
country, Whaley, 60, can
Terry be satisfied that Ozark
Whaley Greenways now take
walkers, runners and bi-
cyclists on 72 miles of
trail — 78 miles if you
count the James River
Water Trail for paddlers.
He’s passing the reins
to Mary Kromrey, who
Mary was hired by the Ozark
Kromrey Greenways board to be
the new executive direc-
tor. She takes over on Nov. 1.
“I have no plans other than to travel
with my wife, who retired in 2016,”
Whaley said Monday afternoon. “We
want to do some hiking and biking, and
do it while we still have the bodies to do
it.”
On the list: Bike trips along the Co-
lumbia River Gorge in Oregon and the
Trial
Continued from Page 1A
Police said they found the body of
Hailey covered in black plastic bags in a
blue plastic bin in the basement of
Wood’s house on East Stanford Street.
Meth would later be found in the
house, Berrigan said, as well as a purple
folder with disturbing stories and pic-
tures.
The folder was found in the drawer of
Wood’s bedroom dresser, Berrigan said.
“And in this purple folder they find
handwritten stories,” attorney Patrick
Berrigan said. “There’s stories about
sexual fantasies — two of them about
having sex with 13-year-old girls.”
Police also found four pictures of
young girls, Berrigan said, and all four
girls attended the school were Wood
worked as an in-school suspension su-
pervisor.
Moments
Continued from Page 1A
Edwards said she did not know Hai-
ley but had seen the girl in the neigh-
borhood before.
Edwards said Craig Wood pulled up
in a Ford Ranger pickup truck, asked
Hailey where Springfield Street was
and then pulled the girl into the truck
before speeding away.
With tears running down her face,
Edwards said her husband, Carlos,
sprinted after Wood and was feet away
from reaching the truck before it sped
away.
Carlos Edwards would later testify
that he would have gotten to the truck if
not for a drainage ditch in front of the
house that caused him to take an indi-
rect path.
Prosecutors played Michelle Ed-
wards’ frantic 911 call from moments af-
ter the abduction. Edwards provided po-
lice with Wood’s license plate number, a
key piece of evidence that helped inves-
tigators track down Wood that evening.
Prescriptions
Continued from Page 1A
Under Greiten’s plan, prescribers and
providers will not be able to access pa-
tient data.
“That is purely a law enforcement
(program),” Barbe said. “It doesn’t help
me. It doesn’t help my patient.”
About the St. Louis County program
Stone County announced last week
that it would also join the St. Louis Coun-
ty prescription drug monitoring pro-
gram, bringing the total to nearly 40 of
Missouri’s 144 counties that are partici-
pating or plan to participate in the pro-
gram.
Springfield City Council and the
Greene County Commission passed bills
in July that allow local pharmacies and
prescribers to join the program. Pharma-
cies began collecting information about
Highway to the Sun trail in Glacier Na-
tional Park. Maybe some whitewater
rafting in Utah.
Under Whaley, Ozark Greenways
built out the 35-mile railroad link be-
tween Springfield and Bolivar, turning it
into a mostly gravel path for hikers and
bicyclists.
“We own the Frisco Highline Trail,
and it needs to be the crown jewel of
Ozark Greenways,” Whaley said. “It’s a
tremendous asset, but it’s under-mar-
keted, under-utilized and under-pro-
moted.”
The Ozark Greenways board voted to
hire John Montgomery to take on the
management, maintenance and promo-
tion of the Frisco Highline Trail. It’s a
full-time position, Whaley notes.
Another trail that Whaley said has a
lot of potential to become something
special is the Ozark Greenways Trail of
Tears on the southwest side of Spring-
field. A 1,200-foot section has been
completed, with signs noting the histor-
ic significance of the trail, where thou-
sands of Cherokee Indians walked after
being forced from their southern lands
between 1831-1850.
“This has national historical signifi-
cance, and there’s a meaningful story
with it,” Whaley said. “Very little of that
story is known by our Springfield com-
munity.”
Whaley hopes that trail will eventu-
According to Berrigan,
two of those girls had the
same names as girls in
the sexual fantasy stories
written by Wood.
In one story, a girl is
Craig Wood drugged with sleeping
medications and is sexu-
ally abused, Berrigan said, and in the
other story a girl consents to sexual con-
tact with Wood after a game of truth or
dare.
All four of the girls whose pictures
were in Wood’s purple folder were inter-
viewed by police, Berrigan said, and all
four said Wood had never acted inap-
propriately.
Berrigan argued that Wood had kept
his urges contained, but the day Hailey
was abducted was the day the top final-
ly blew off.
According to Greene County Prose-
cutor Dan Patterson, there was little
about Wood’s actions that were hap-
hazard.
3. Detective testifies about
finding Hailey’s body
Allen Neal, a retired Springfield po-
lice sergeant, testified that he found
Hailey’s body in the basement of
Wood’s home on East Stanford Street
early on Feb. 19, 2014.
Neal said he went to Wood’s house
about 8 p.m. on the day of the abduc-
tion after police identified Wood as a
possible suspect.
Police went into Wood’s house a
short time later to do a “safety sweep”
and see if Hailey was inside, but they
did not find her.
Officers then applied for a search
warrant and went inside to do a more
thorough search a few hours later.
Neal recounted going down the
stairs to Wood’s damp basement,
smelling bleach and inspecting two
plastic tubs that were sitting on top of
one another.
Inside the top tub, Neal said he found
mail and other documents.
When Neal opened the lower tub, he
said he saw a plastic trash bag with a
small human body inside.
the controlled medications they dis-
pense in September and prescribers
could gain access to that data on Oct. 1.
As of last week, 57 local prescribers
have completed the entire registration
process, said Kathryn Wall, spokesper-
son for the Springfield-Greene County
Health Department.
“We are 26 days into this PDMP, and
previously the focus has been on getting
pharmacists signed up so that data col-
lection could begin,” she said in an email.
“Now the focus has shifted to enrolling
prescribers. Our health care partners
have been very involved and supportive
of this effort, so we feel confident that
our numbers of prescribers actively us-
ing this PDMP will increase.”
Dr. Howard Jarvis, medical director of
the emergency department at Cox-
Health, said registering was simple, the
program is easy to use and he has already
had patients that were getting multiple
prescriptions from multiple providers.
“It’s pretty clear in that situation you
don’t want to write a prescription for that
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north.
Abbey Ehlers, president of the Ozark
Greenways board, said Whaley “has
provided not only the vision but also the
backbone of Ozark Greenways for the
past 22 years.”
“His leadership abilities to join pri-
vate and public entities in trail develop-
ment is remarkable,” she said. “He was
the guy whose ear was always on the
ground listening to Public Works, Storm
Water, City Utilities, Planning and Zon-
ing, private developers, etc. Any and all
opportunities to add trails to the con-
versation were pursued.
“The backbone part comes from the
use of his personal truck (currently with
339,000 plus miles on it) for the trail
maintenance of the Frisco Highline
Trail and others. Utilization of his own
tools and manpower. Truly the man has
lived and breathed trails and all the
benefits of them for his tenure.”
There are other greenway projects in
the works that Whaley now hands to
Kromrey.
He said Ozark Greenways has been
talking with Springfield City Utilities
about extending the 2.5-mile hiking
trail at Fellows Lake, either adding an-
other trail on the lake’s south side or
possibly developing a trail around the
Patterson described
the day of Hailey’s ab-
duction moment-by-mo-
ment, explaining how
Wood went from grab-
bing Owens to destroying
Dan and hiding potential evi-
Patterson dence.
A girl’s pink shirt and
blue jeans shorts were found in a dump-
ster by a strip mall near Wood’s home,
Patterson said.
Surveillance footage showed Wood
buying bleach and drain cleaner at a
Walmart, Patterson said, and his
clothes and bedding were found at a
laundromat near Missouri State Univer-
sity.
When police obtained a search war-
rant, they went back inside Wood’s
home, Patterson said, and into the base-
ment where the smell of bleach was the
strongest.
Two blue plastic bins were stacked
atop each other, Patterson said, and in
Hailey’s mother Stacey Barfield was
not in the courtroom during Neal’s tes-
timony.
Barfield said prosecutors are giving
her a warning when graphic evidence
will be shown so that she can avoid be-
ing inside the courtroom.
Barfield said Monday was difficult
but she can see the light at the end of
the tunnel.
4. Cellphone leads to argument
among attorneys
On the day she was abducted, Hailey
had been home sick from school and
took several pictures using her cell-
phone.
When the prosecutors moved to ad-
mit those photos into evidence on Mon-
day, Wood’s attorney objected.
The attorneys then went into a side
room to debate with the judge about
whether the photos should be admit-
ted. After about 7 minutes, the attor-
neys came out of the side room, and the
judge allowed the photos to be shown.
The photos were predominantly sel-
fies that Hailey took that day along with
person,” Jarvis said. “I think it will help
curb the problem we have over prescrib-
ing.”
Jarvis explained that private practi-
tioners often see the same patients year
after year and know their patients well.
ER and urgent care doctors, like himself,
are seeing new patients every day and
can benefit greatly by being able to look
up what prescriptions have already been
prescribed.
“It gives you more confidence in what
you are doing,” Jarvis said. “I wish that
we had the statewide database like the
other 49 states, rather than a patchwork
of certain counties participating
throughout the area.
“It’s definitely an improvement over
nothing,” he added.
Ashley Evans, a clinical pharmacy
specialist at Mercy, agreed.
“It seems to be working,” Evans said.
“But there is a limitation there in the
completeness. It’s going to be a slow
process of getting additional counties on
board or getting a true statewide pro-
perimeter of the lake.
Kromrey said her immediate goal will
be to fill some gaps within the current
trail network, so the trails are more in-
terconnected.
“We’ve also had a lot of questions
about adding a link to the city of Ozark,”
Kromrey said. “There are over 120 miles
of trails identified in the city’s Vision 20⁄20
plan. And there’s upwards of 200 miles
we’d like to eventually see built.”
Finding enough money and acquiring
easement rights to build Ozark Green-
way trails will continue to be a key focus
for the Ozark Greenways staff.
Whaley said Kromrey “has a good
sense of organizational management
and community outreach skills” that
she’ll need to run Ozark Greenways.
Kromrey joined Ozark Greenways in
February of 2016 as Development and
Civic Engagement Specialist. Previous-
ly, she served as a member of the board
of directors. Since her time with Ozark
Greenways, she has successfully exe-
cuted the Trails for Generations funding
initiative that raised $935,000 to fund
trail capital improvement projects.
“Our outdoors are a huge economic
engine for our region,” Kromrey said.
“The work Ozark Greenways does con-
nects new audiences to the outdoors ev-
eryday which will continue to fuel our
economy into the future. How cool is
that?”
the bottom was Hailey’s body wrapped
in plastic.
“She is folded up and stuffed in this
tub,” Patterson said.
According to Patterson, a medical ex-
aminer would later find Hailey had been
bound and sexually assaulted.
There was a bullet wound to the back
of her skull, Patterson said, and there
was a contact wound, meaning Wood
fired from close range.
There were several guns located in
Wood’s home, Patterson said, but it was
a .22-caliber rifle located in a safe that
Wood used to kill Hailey.
Patterson said Wood used the
.22-caliber rifle — the smallest caliber
firearm in the house — because it was
the quietest and would create the least
mess.
After opening arguments were made,
witnesses and police gave testimony
and were questioned. The trial resumes
Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. when
more witnesses will be taking the stand.
a couple of photos of her friend and
some photos of seemingly random
things around the house.
It was not said in open court exactly
why the defense attorneys objected.
5. Video interview shows Wood on
night of abduction
Detective Kevin Shipley testified on
Monday afternoon about his dealings
with Wood on Feb. 18, 2014.
Shipley was the first detective to in-
terview Wood after Wood was taken to
Springfield police headquarters that
night.
During Shipley’s testimony, prose-
cutors admitted into evidence a video
showing that interview.
After asking Wood a few general
questions about his activity that day,
Shipley pleads with Wood to tell him
Hailey’s whereabouts.
“I need to know where she’s at, bro,”
Shipley said in the video. “I got some
parents that are shaken beyond what
you can imagine.”
Wood told Shipley he didn’t know
anything about the abduction.
gram passed. Even Puerto Rico and
Guam have prescription drug monitoring
programs.”
Evans said the program should be
used as a tool to get patients help — not
as a way to get them in trouble with the
law.
“Our goal in using these types of tools
should be to determine when a patient is
in trouble and help them, give them re-
sources to get help and to be able to have
that conversation,” she said. “To say, ‘I
see you are filling this, this, and this.
Here are some resources to get help, how
to safely reduce the amount of medica-
tion you are taking.”
The only area in Greene County that is
not covered by the county and Spring-
field’s drug monitoring program is the
city of Republic.
Republic City Council has not passed
a prescription drug monitoring program
bill.
Other southwest Missouri counties
participating in the program include
Polk, Jasper and McDonald.
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Mom of Hailey Owens testifies
Police say Giacomo Bologna
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child was
kidnapped, The mother of Hailey Owens took
the stand Tuesday and described the
raped, slain last time she spoke with her
10-year-old daughter.
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to address The Springfield school board met
Monday to start creating a new road
pressing needs map to address pressing facility
needs following the failure of the
in new proposal April bond issue.
The nearly four-hour retreat at
for voters Jarrett Middle School resulted, as
planned, in a starting point.
Top district officials agreed that
while final decisions may be months
away, a significant investment is
needed to make a dent in the issues
that exist. For that reason, the board
will develop a bond proposal that
could go to voters as early as August.
Nearly all the details have yet to
be worked out but the board gave a
preliminary nod to the following:
❚ Propose a bond issue that is
John Jungmann smaller than the $189 million re-
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❚ Start developing a list of pro-
jects based on the needs of buildings
in the worst condition.
SPS: Input ❚ Eliminate any talk of combina-
from ‘people tion campuses. Scrap plans to relo-
in the cate a trio of middle schools — Jar-
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key PAGE 4A with elementary schools.
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Hailey had called in the afternoon
to say she was leaving her friend’s
her.
The judge instructed journalists to
house, her mother recalled, but Hailey
never made it home.
turn off their cameras and recording
devices while Stacey Herman — for-
According to police, Owens was
walking along West Lombard Street
merly known as Stacey Barfield —
testified.
in Springfield when Craig Wood kid-
napped her and later raped and killed See TRIAL, Page 10A
Hailey
Owens
Saw saves
one of two
tangled
bucks near
Springfield
One deer was dead, but
other survives with help
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Here’s a tough one: How do you sep-
arate two big bucks with antlers hope-
lessly locked together, when one is dead
and the other still alive and kicking?
That’s what Greene County Conser-
vation Agent Kevin Zielke and state
wildlife damage biologist Josh Wisdom
encountered Monday in a subdivision
about a mile and a half east of Spring-
field on Sunshine Street.
Zielke said he got a call from a land-
owner reporting the two locked bucks.
“I rounded up some rope and a recip-
rocating saw to get their antlers cut off,”
mendations.
❚ Provide specifics, whenever Zielke said. “I didn’t know if the one that
was alive was near death or not, but
possible, of what new and renovated
schools will look like and where they when we got there this one was very
much alive.”
will be located.
❚ Investigate options for raising That posed a problem. The two deer
were big — Zielke estimated they each
private funds to offset the costs of
certain projects. were 10 or 12-point bucks. One was
❚ Sell buildings and land that are clearly dead but the other was very
no longer being used and determine much worth trying to save. They got a
if any schools ought to be closed im- rope around the dead deer and managed
mediately due to shrinking enroll- to cinch it to a tree. There was only one
ment or facility quality issues. way to control the other one.
Superintendent John Jungmann “I got around and was kinda holding
started the discussion Monday by
reminding the board that the district See DEER, Page 8A
spent months studying election
results and seeking input from stu-
dents, parents, employees and tax-
payers.
A year ago, the board endorsed a
new facility master plan that called
for 40 projects to be completed with
funding from two bond issues — and
an annual investment of district
funds — over a 12-year period at a
cost of more than $365 million.
The board signaled strong sup-
port Monday for following the new
plan, noting it provided a compre-
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Jeff Barfield. Barfield was mart and laundromat
indicted in February on a where Wood stopped the
federal child porn charge. day of Hailey’s abduction.
Continued from Page 1A Barfield is accused of The longest testimony
receiving and distributing came from an FBI agent
Herman asked that she
not be photographed or re-
corded while testifying.
She primarily spoke
child porn between 2012
and 2016. A task force in-
vestigator told the News-
Leader that Hailey was not
who was on the stand for
three hours answering
questions about evidence
found at Wood’s home.
Invited!
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daughter’s abduction, and Barfield’s alleged Wednesday morning, with
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stayed home from school. and employees of a Wal- until later this week.
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CRAIG WOOD TRIAL

Jurors in tears after seeing photos

Judge warns ahead of graphic testimony Tom Van De Berg
of the Greene
County Medical
Alissa Zhu and Harrison Keegan Before the jury was seated, Judge Examiner’s Office
Springfield News-Leader Thomas Mountjoy warned the contents describes the
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of the third day’s testimonies would be condition of Hailey
graphic. Owens’ body when
A juror clenched a wad of tissues as He asked for anyone in the audience he examined her in
she listened to a medical examiner de- who might have physical or audible re- Craig Wood’s
scribe what he saw after descending actions to the testimonies to leave the basement during
into a bare basement on Feb. 18, 2014. courtroom. the murder trial
Wednesday was an emotionally “There cannot be any emotional out- Wednesday.
charged day in the trial of Craig Wood, bursts, crying, anything that will dis- ANDREW JANSEN/
the Springfield man accused of abduct- tract the jury today,” Mountjoy said. NEWS-LEADER
ing, raping and killing 10-year-old Hai-
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SUICIDE OR
Lisa
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Early on Christmas Day, 2006, Lisa Jennings

went into the bedroom of her Buffalo home, took
a handgun off a closet shelf and ended her life.
At 39, she committed suicide and left behind a
husband of 18 years and three children.
At least, that was the initial finding of the Dal-
las County coroner and the Dallas County Sher-
iff ’s Office.
Records of the investigation show that a coun-
ty deputy sheriff administered a gunshot residue
test that night — standard procedure in law en-
forcement — that indicated Jennings herself had
fired the gun.
Six weeks later, a front-page story in the Buf-
falo Reflex quoted Wayne Rieschel, Dallas Coun-
ty prosecuting attorney, saying the death was, in
fact, a suicide.
“There is zero evidence to show otherwise,”
Rieschel said.
Two months after Lisa Jennings was laid to
rest, records show, her younger sister went to the
Springfield office of the Missouri State Highway
Patrol and met with Sgt. Dan Nash. She suspect-
ed her sister was murdered by Lisa’s husband,
Brad Jennings.
Detective Nash has worked hundreds of
Amanda Jennings holds a photo of her mom and dad. She believes her mother committed suicide and homicide cases, including high-profile cold cases
her father was wrongfully convicted. NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER in the Ozarks such as the 1985 murder of Jackie
Johns.
This case was not nearly as cold.
As a result of that meeting, Nash — whose
About this series
credibility has since been questioned by defense
The stories in this series are based substantially on court documents. A copy of the prosecution’s case attorneys — decided to re-investigate the death
file — as handed over by prosecutors to defense lawyers — was given by defense lawyers to McNiel, a of Lisa Jennings.
private investigator working for the defense. ❚ McNiel, in turn, released it to the News-Leader. ❚ The He pulled the investigative file from the sher-
newspaper independently requested the case file from the Missouri State Highway Patrol through the iff ’s department, including 90 photos from the
state’s open records law. The patrol denied the request on the grounds that an appeal is pending. ❚ In crime scene and autopsy. He studied pictures of
addition, the newspaper reviewed the 915-page transcript of the trial of Brad Jennings; the 225-page blood spatter and focused on a photo of Lisa Jen-
transcript of the appeal of Jennings’ conviction; and conducted multiple interviews with family mem- nings’ right hand; it had a single blood drop on it.
bers, attorneys and others. Nash thought there should be more “blow-back”
from the gunshot.
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behind Cosmic Fish head shop on Glenstone Avenue. He said his job is to determine if bullets can be
❚ At 8:10 p.m., a surveillance camera captured matched to the specific guns that fired them.
The third day of the Craig Wood trial wrapped up a Wood returning to the Walmart Neighborhood Market Jiggetts analyzed a .22-caliber rifle seized from
little before 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Greene County where he bought duct tape and a laundry bag. Wood’s safe and compared that weapon to two things
courthouse. ❚ At about 8:30 p.m., police contacted Wood at his — first some bullet fragments collected from Hailey’s
Both sides rested, meaning no more evidence will home at 1538 E. Stanford St. and took him to police body and also a shell casing found in Wood’s base-
be presented in the guilt phase of the trial. headquarters. ment.
Closing arguments will be held on Thursday morn- ❚ Hours later, police say they found Hailey’s body in It was not conclusive, Jiggetts said, if the bullet
ing, and then the jury will decide whether Craig Wood Wood’s basement. fragments came from that specific .22-caliber rifle.
is guilty of first-degree murder for the Feb. 18, 2014 kill- McAmis said Wood lives 12 minutes away from However, he was able to tell that the fragments were of
ing of Hailey Owens. where Hailey was abducted and 4 minutes away from a .22-caliber copper-coated bullet.
Here are three big moments from the third day of the Walmart. Another bullet matching that description was
the trial. 3. Gun found in Wood’s home matches shell cas- found in front of Wood’s safe.
1. Craig Wood doesn’t testify ing Jiggets said he was able to prove the shell casing
Wood waived his right to testify at the trial on The jury heard testimony Wednesday from several came from Wood’s rifle.
Wednesday afternoon. FBI forensic analysts about things like hair found on “The likelihood of another tool or firearm making
It’s common for murder suspects to not testify at Hailey’s clothes, Wood’s handwriting and DNA evi- these markings (on the shell casing) is practically an
their own trials because going on the stand would dence. impossibility,” Jiggets said.
force them to take questions from the prosecutor.
The jurors will be instructed to not hold it against
Wood that he did not testify.
The defense team did not call any witnesses or pre-
sent any evidence before resting on Wednesday after-
noon.
Wood’s attorney Patrick Berrigan said in his open-
ing statements Monday that he would not dispute that
Wood kidnapped, raped and killed Hailey.
Berrigan’s argument, he told the jury, will be that
Wood’s actions were not planned so first-degree mur-
der is not appropriate.
Since the defense did not call any of its own wit-
nesses, it appears that Berrigan will use the state’s evi-
dence to make his case during closing arguments
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With McAmis on the stand, prosecutors put every-
thing together.
Prosecutors played surveillance video and had
McAmis tape photos on a map at each location where
Wood was spotted that evening.
Here’s a basic timeline described by the prosecu-
tion:
❚ At 4:47 p.m., witnesses saw someone matching
Wood’s description pull Hailey into a gold pickup truck
outside of 3247 W. Lombard St.
❚ At 5:38 p.m., a surveillance camera captured
Wood walking into the Walmart Neighborhood Market
on Glenstone Avenue, where he purchased two bottles
of bleach and a bottle of drain cleaner.

Trial
Continued from Page 1A

Hailey’s mother, Stacey Herman, was not at the trial

on Wednesday. There were other relatives who sat in
the front row.
At least four jurors could be seen crying as they
looked at photos, taken of the scene being described
by Tom Van De Berg with the Greene County Medical
Examiner’s Office.
The photos showed how Hailey’s body was found —
curled up in a storage container, wrapped in plastic
bags.
Earlier in the morning, the defense had renewed ob-
jections to the prosecution’s plan to show the photos of
Hailey’s body. Chief Assistant Prosecutor Todd Myers
argued that the evidence was relevant to the case.
After Van De Berg began testifying, Judge Thomas
Mountjoy allowed for the prosecutors to hand out a
folder of photos to the jury.
The photos were not shown publicly in the court-
room.
Van De Berg said he remembers Wood’s basement
smelled like bleach.
Van De Berg described Hailey’s body as being cold
and wet. Her hair was in tangled disarray. He said he
lifted some of her hair and saw what was an apparent
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Wood guilty of first-degree

Craig Wood stands with his
lawyers as he is found guilty of
first-degree murder on Thursday
in the death of 10-year-old Hailey
Owens. ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER
murder in Hailey’s slaying
Harrison Keegan and Giacomo Bologna
Springfield News-Leader
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A jury found Craig Wood guilty of first-
degree murder Thursday for the February
2014 killing of Springfield 10-year-old
Hailey Owens.
Prosecutors will now pursue the death
penalty against Wood in a separate court
proceeding that is expected to last a week.
Wood, 49, pulled Hailey into his truck
while the girl was walking home along the
3200 block of West Lombard Street on the
afternoon of Feb. 18, 2014, according to
police.
The prosecution and the defense made
closing arguments Thursday morning.
Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patter-
son started by showing selfies that Hailey
Owens had taken with her cellphone as
she walked home, moments before she
was kidnapped.
Patterson then described Craig Wood’s
actions that day, highlighting the deliber-
ation.
See VERDICT, Page 3A

CRAIG WOOD TRIAL

CONVICTED BY BLOOD
THE CASE OF BRAD JENNINGS

JENNINGS TO DETECTIVES:

Stacey Herman, the mother of Hailey

Owens, listens to closing arguments
‘THE EVIDENCE
IS LYING’
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By Blood, continues through Monday. Coming
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Trial tough
for mother
of Hailey
Harrison Keegan Springfield News-Leader
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It was understood among those

who attended the Craig Wood trial
this week at the Greene County court-
house to not sit in the middle of the
front row.
That spot was reserved for Stacey
Herman, the mother of Wood’s vic-
tim, Hailey Owens.
Though, Herman wasn’t always sit-
ting there.
There were times, like when the
medical examiners described Hailey’s
autopsy or when pictures of the girl’s
bloody clothes were shown to the jury, Steve Pokin Springfield News-Leader | USA TODAY NETWORK Lisa and Brad Jennings kept a handgun on a shelf
that Herman felt like she couldn’t be in the master bedroom for security. CASE FILE

present.
But on Thursday morning, when a
jury convicted Wood of first-degree
murder for the February 2014 abduc-
tion, rape and killing of 10-year-old
Hailey, her mom was front and center
in the courtroom.
“Basically a big relief,” said David
Ransin, Herman’s attorney. “It’s been
three and a half years and she’s been
looking for the end of the tunnel. She’s
almost there.”
Herman is uncomfortable speak-
ing in front of TV cameras, but she
asked Ransin to speak to reporters on
her behalf Thursday while she stood
by his side outside of the courthouse.
See TRIAL, Page 3A
S
hawn Powell did not believe her younger
sister Lisa Jennings killed herself in the
early hours of Christmas 2006.
Powell’s suspicion that her brother-
in-law murdered Lisa was so strong that
in late February or early March 2007, she asked the
Missouri State Highway Patrol to review the case.
By then, the Dallas County coroner already had
concluded Lisa, while intoxicated, shot herself in
the head in the couple’s Buffalo home.
In February 2007, Wayne Rieschel, Dallas Coun-
ty prosecuting attorney, told the Buffalo newspa-
per there was “zero evidence” to show it was any-
thing but a suicide.
See JENNINGS, Page 4A
About this series
The stories in this series are based substantially on court
documents. A copy of the prosecution’s case file — as hand-
ed over by prosecutors to defense lawyers — was given by
defense lawyers to McNiel, a private investigator working
for the defense. ❚ McNiel, in turn, released it to the News-
Leader. ❚ The newspaper independently requested the case
file from the Missouri State Highway Patrol through the
state’s open records law. The patrol denied the request on
the grounds that an appeal is pending. ❚ In addition, the
newspaper reviewed the 915-page transcript of the trial of
Brad Jennings; the 225-page transcript of the appeal of
Jennings’ conviction; and conducted multiple interviews
with family members, attorneys and others.
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Verdict cuse for any crime, but they show how a

Continued from Page 1A
Deliberation was the only thing dis-
puted during closing arguments. Both
prosecutors and defense attorneys
agreed that Wood kidnapped, raped and
killed Hailey.
“If you look at the totality of the
crime, you know this was a very deliber-
ate act,” Patterson said.
Patterson said Wood drove around
Hailey’s neighborhood that day, and she
became his target when he saw her
walking alone in the street.
Patterson said Wood snatched Hailey
off the street and then took her back to
his home, where he raped and killed her.
Patterson brought out the alleged
murder weapon during his closing argu-
ments and said the evidence shows Hai-
ley was bound and on her knees when
she was killed.
The motive for the killing, Patterson
said, was because Hailey was a witness
to the kidnapping and sexual assault.
“He deliberately executed her,” Pat-
terson said.
Craig Wood’s defense attorney began
his arguments by acknowledging the
acts Woods committed were inexcus-
able — “horrible, awful, terrible.”
“I can’t even imagine, honestly, the
suffering of this little girl’s mother and
family,” attorney Patrick Berrigan said.
Wood raped, kidnapped and killed
10-year-old Hailey Owens, Berrigan
said, but he did not deliberate before do-
ing so.
This was not a first-degree murder,
Berrigan said.
Berrigan spoke slowly to the jurors,
without the use of notes or any
Defense attorney Patrick Berrigan presents his closing arguments to the jury on
Thursday. Berrigan acknowledged that his client, Craig Wood, had killed Hailey
Owens but said it wasn’t premeditated. PHOTOS BY ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER
visual aids.
A main argument of the prosecutor
was that Wood deliberately picked out
his .22-caliber rifle because it was the
smallest caliber firearm in the house —
it would make the least sound and the
least mess.
That doesn’t make sense, Berrigan
said. If Wood wanted to kill Hailey in the
quietest, cleanest fashion, he would not
have shot her at all.
“If you really wanted to be quiet, why
are you shooting a gun at all?” Berrigan
asked the jurors.
Wood chose the .22-caliber rifle be-
cause it was nearby, Berrigan said.
Berrigan then moved on to the “unbe-
lievably disgusting” stories written by
Wood and found in Wood’s room — the
ones about sexual contact with young
girls.
The stories show a motive for raping
and sodomizing Hailey, Berrigan said,
but no one in the stories is killed.
Berrigan said if Wood truly had a de-
liberate plan to rape, sodomize and kill
Hailey, he would not have driven down a
street five times before snatching Hailey
in daylight with no disguise whatsoever.
And the trips that Wood took to Wal-
mart to buy duct tape and cleaning sup-
plies don’t show he deliberated, Berri-
gan said. He said they show an absence
of any prior deliberation by Wood.
As Berrigan neared the end of his ar-
guments, he brought up the meth found
in Wood’s house.
Drugs, Berrigan said, are not an ex-
crime might be committed — how hid-
den urges could surface.
There was “not one iota of a sugges-
tion” that Wood had an interest in teen-
age girls, Berrigan said, despite years of
daily interaction with children.
“How did we get from this guy who
gets along with everybody at school, ev-
eryone seems to like him,” Berrigan said,
“to this?”
Meth, Berrigan said, brings out
“these demons he’s been suppressing.”
Patterson, the prosecutor, then got
another chance to speak before the ju-
rors left to deliberate.
After Berrigan argued that Wood’s
actions were unplanned and didn’t
qualify as first-degree murder, Patter-
son said planning is not necessary for a
first-degree murder conviction.
“He made the decision to get rid of
Hailey Owens by killing her,” Patterson
said.
Patterson said Wood bound Hailey,
put a rifle to the back of her head and
pulled the trigger, and that qualifies as
deliberation.
“I ask that you find him guilty beyond
a reasonable doubt of murder in the first
degree,” Patterson said.
The jury deliberated for about an
hour before returning with a guilty ver-
dict for first-degree murder shortly be-
fore noon.
Wood’s sentencing begins Friday
morning, when prosecutors will argue
for the death penalty.
There are several aggravating factors
a jury considers when determining if the
death penalty is appropriate, including
whether the murder was “outrageously
or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in
that it involved torture, or depravity of
mind.”

Trial death penalty or life in prison.

Continued from Page 1A
Ransin said the trial was tough for
Herman, especially when prosecutors
showed photos of the plastic tub where
Hailey’s body was found in Wood’s
basement hours after the abduction.
“I prepared Stacey as best as possi-
ble; she has never seen those,” Ransin
said. “We had planned for her to avert
her eyes and close her eyes, but the tes-
timony became too much for her and
she was escorted out.”
Next up in Wood’s case is the penalty
Stacy Herman hugs prosecuting attorney Dan Patterson after Craig Wood was phase, starting Friday morning. Both
found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of Herman’s daughter, sides will present evidence, and a jury
10-year-old Hailey Owens. ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER will decide whether Wood gets the
Asked whether Herman wants Wood
to get the death penalty, Ransin said she
will accept whatever the jury decides.
“Stacey’s position is that she trusts
the jurors to do the right thing,” Ransin
said. “She trusts the system. She has
been patient and asks everyone else to
do the same.”
During the sentencing phase of the
proceedings, Ransin said Herman will
be present when she can, but she will
avoid the more graphic evidence.
Ransin said Herman has to be careful
not to make a scene in front of the jury
because that could give Wood’s defense
attorneys grounds for an appeal.
And more court hearings on this
case, or another trial, is not what Her-
man wants.
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Giacomo Bologna and Harrison Keegan
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After a jury convicted him of first-de-
gree murder Thursday, Craig Wood is now
facing the death penalty in his sentencing,
which began Friday morning.
Wood killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens
on Feb. 2014.
Wood kidnapped and raped Hailey be-
fore shooting her in the head and, accord-
ing to prosecutors, the only appropriate
MORE INSIDE
Group protests death penalty outside
Craig Wood sentencing, Page 5A
sentence is death.
Friday’s sentencing phase began with
opening statements by the prosecution
and defense, followed by testimony from
several witnesses. Testimony will con-
tinue Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
Here are four big moments from Friday:
forgiveness — and justice
Pat Findley, a pastor who has been with
Hailey’s’ family during the grieving proc-
ess, said Hailey’s death had an impact on
the Springfield community.
Findley said a lot of parents no longer
let their children play outside without su- Pastor Pat Findley testifies in
pervision or walk to school in the morning. court during the sentencing phase
of the Craig Wood trial on Friday.
See WOOD, Page 5A ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER

CONVICTED BY BLOOD
THE CASE OF BRAD JENNINGS

Stacey Herman, the mother of Hailey

STUDY: BLOODSTAIN
ANALYSIS FULL OF
Owens, listens while in court for the
trial of Craig Wood on Monday.
NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER

Mother: I’ll be at
peace with life or
death for Wood
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The mother of Hailey Owens said Fri-
day she is looking forward to having clo-
sure.
Over the last three and a half years,
Stacey Herman has attended dozens of
court appearances as the case of her
daughter’s killer, Craig Wood, has
moved through the court system.
Sometime in the next few days, a jury
will sentence Wood.
“We’re very, very close to getting
done with the trial and everything,”
Herman said. “And she’ll finally get her
justice that I have been waiting for.”
The jury has two options — sentence
Wood to the death penalty or give him
life in prison without the possibility of
parole for killing 10-year-old Hailey in
February of 2014.
Herman said Friday she is OK with ei-
ther sentence.
“At least I’ll know what the final say
is,” Herman said.
In early April, Herman had asked
Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patter-
son to accept a plea deal in the case to Steve Pokin Springfield News-Leader A blood-spatter analysis by the Missouri State
avoid a trial. USA TODAY NETWORK Highway Patrol led to the conviction of Brad Jennings
Now that the trial is almost over, Her- in 2009. PHOTO FROM THE CASE FILE

A
man said she trusts the jury. record number of U.S. prisoners
were released in 2016 because they
See MOTHER, Page 5A were wrongly convicted, often after
being locked away for decades based on
false or misleading forensic evidence, ac-
cording to research compiled by the Na-
tional Registry of Exonerations.
Last year,168 people were exonerated.
Daylight saving In 1989, the first year the registry kept a
time ends tomorrow tally, there were 23.
Some are cleared too late.
Turn your clocks back one hour, and Mark Collin Sodersten was exonerated
don’t forget to check the batteries in 2007, a year after he died at age 48 in
in your smoke detectors. Corcoran State Prison in California.
It was discovered that prosecutors and
law enforcement authorities never dis-
closed to defense attorneys that there
were tape-recorded statements from two
key prosecution witnesses that contained
inconsistent statements, as well as ad-
missions of lying and the coercive interro-
gation of a witness.
See JENNINGS, Page 4A
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About this series
The stories in this series are based substantially on
court documents. A copy of the prosecution’s case file
— as handed over by prosecutors to defense lawyers —
was given by defense lawyers to McNiel, a private in-
vestigator working for the defense. ❚ McNiel, in turn,
released it to the News-Leader. ❚ The newspaper in-
dependently requested the case file from the Missouri
State Highway Patrol through the state’s open records
law. The patrol denied the request on the grounds that
an appeal is pending. ❚ In addition, the newspaper
reviewed the 915-page transcript of the trial of Brad
Jennings; the 225-page transcript of the appeal of
Jennings’ conviction; and conducted multiple inter-
views with family members, attorneys and others.
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Group protests death penalty outside sentencing

Giacomo Bologna Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
In a courtroom on the third floor of
the Greene County Justice Center, law-
yers laid out the cases for and against
killing Craig Wood.
On the sidewalk outside the build-
ing, several people holding signs
walked up and down along the street to
protest the death penalty.
Wood kidnapped, raped and killed
10-year-old Hailey Owens on Feb. 18,
2014, and prosecutors say the only just
punishment is the death penalty.
Donna Walmsley, one of the protes-
ters Friday, asked: What good does it do
to kill again?
“This public policy increases victim-
ization,” she said. “It continues the cy-
cle of violence.”
Walmsley said she and the other pro-
testers are part of the Springfield chap-
ter of Missourians for Alternatives to
the Death Penalty.
“We believe that it’s terrible public
policy,” she said.
Studies show, Walmsley said, that
er in April that she would like to avoid a
trial, and she asked Patterson to accept
the plea deal.
If Patterson had accepted the plea
deal, Walmsley said, he could have pre-
vented significant taxpayer expense. A
plea deal would have prevented the
costs of the trial, she said, which in-
cluded paying for bringing in a jury
from Platte County.
A death penalty conviction could
also result in years of appeals and more
court costs that will be shouldered by
taxpayers, Walmsley said.
After a four-day trial, a jury convict-
ed Wood of first-degree murder Thurs-
day. Wood’s sentencing hearing is ex-
pected to last several days.
Maureen Gray with Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty carries a Under Missouri law, there are several
sign in front of the Greene County Courthouse during the sentencing phase of aggravating factors a jury considers
the Craig Wood trial on Friday. ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER when determining if the death penalty
is appropriate, including whether the
murder was “outrageously or wantonly
the death penalty is much costlier to Prosecutor Dan Patterson last year say- vile, horrible or inhuman in that it in-
taxpayers than sentencing someone to ing Wood was willing to plead guilty volved torture, or depravity of mind.”
life in prison without parole. and spend the rest of his life in prison to Walmsley said she and others plan to
Wood’s attorney told the News- avoid the death penalty. protest every day of Wood’s sentenc-
Leader he sent a letter to Greene County Hailey’s mother told the News-Lead- ing.

Wood
Continued from Page 1A

“It’s different now,” Findley said.

The attorneys asked Findley about
Christian views on forgiveness and jus-
tice.
Findley said there is a difference be-
tween spiritual justice and social jus-
tice. He pointed to Romans Chapter 13 to
say that there is a distinction between
how forgiveness and redemption work
for God and what God has tasked the
government to do.

Craig Wood’s father still A text message received by Craig

feels compassion for son
Jim Wood said he and his wife, Genie,
have visited their son at the Greene
County Jail essentially every week over
the last three and a half years.
Jim Wood said he understands that
Craig Wood was convicted of killing
Hailey in February of 2014. He called the
crime “terrible” and “devastating,” but
he said he still has compassion for his
son.
“I think it is bigger than Genie and I,
frankly,” Jim Wood said. “Society has to
have compassion for their children no
matter what they have done.”
Jim Wood said Craig Wood grew up in
a loving home but never fully made the
transition to independent adulthood.
Craig Wood never had a lasting ro-
mantic relationship as an adult, accord-
ing to his father.
Jim Wood described Craig Wood as a
brilliant man who did not apply himself
at school.
Mother of Hailey’s friend
recalls Feb. 18, 2014
Hailey Owens was like a daughter to
Savanah Taylor, Taylor testified.
She is the mother of Mackenzie, the
girl Hailey was playing with on Feb. 18,
2014, the day she was abducted.
Hailey came over to her house about
every other day, Taylor said.
“She was an amazing little girl,” she
said.
Taylor recalled her last interaction
with Hailey. Hailey was playing on the
Jim Wood, the father of Craig Wood, testifies in court during the sentencing
phase of the Craig Wood trial on Friday. PHOTOS BY ANDREW JANSEN/NEWS-LEADER
trampoline with her daughter after
school, Taylor said, when Taylor’s hus-
band came home.
Taylor said she told Hailey she had to
go home so Taylor’s daughters could
clean their room before dinner.
Hailey left for her home, Taylor said.
Hours later, she was made aware of the
Amber Alert.
She made sure her daughters were
inside, Taylor said, then drove around
looking for Hailey but didn’t find her.
Taylor said she was back at home
when she learned that it was Hailey who
had been abducted.
“I fell to the floor and started crying,
and then I ran to my room and locked
the door,” Taylor said.
Taylor broke down in tears multiple
times during her testimony.
“I wish I wouldn’t have sent her
home,” Taylor said.
Dishman: Craig Wood
is still my friend
James Kenneth Dishman said it’s the
least he can do to call his friend Craig
Wood every week.
Dishman said he couldn’t believe it in
February 2014 when he first heard the
accusations that Wood had kidnapped,
raped and killed Hailey.
The two have known each other since
grade school, Dishman said. They were
in Scouts together, they played sports
together, they fished together, and they
partied together, he said.
After graduating from Marshfield
High School, Dishman said he and
Wood moved in together in an apart-
ment in the “big city” — Springfield.
“We were pretty much joined at the
hip,” Dishman said.
One night when Dishman was out of
town, there was a fire that started in an
adjacent apartment, he said.
According to Dishman, when Wood
woke up and saw flames, he ran upstairs
to warn the neighbors.
Wood then went to the apartment
where the fire started, kicked in the door
and carried out the old man from inside,
Dishman said, saving his life.
Dishman said that when Wood was a
senior in high school, Wood started dat-
ing a freshman. When the girl went to
college, they broke up, Dishman said.
Since then, Wood has had “one-night
flings” and dated from time to time,
Wood from a friend was shown in court
during the sentencing phase of Wood’s
trial on Friday.
Dishman said, but never had a steady
girlfriend.
When asked if he thought that was
strange, Dishman said no, adding that
he himself has never married and
doesn’t consider himself strange.
Throughout their 20s, Dishman said
he and Wood drank beer and sometimes
did drugs — mostly marijuana, occa-
sionally meth, acid or mushrooms.
Once they hit 30, Dishman said, they
slowed down on doing drugs and only
did meth two or three times since then,
though they still kept drinking.
“We like our beer,” Dishman said,
then turned to the jury. “I mean, come
on, it’s beer.”
When asked if Wood was unhappy or
depressed, Dishman said yes, and that
he and Wood would cheer each other up.
“That’s what friends do,” he said.
Dishman said he currently owns a
few funeral homes.
At the time of Hailey’s abduction,
Dishman said he would see Wood every
two weeks or so.
Now, Dishman said he calls Wood
once a week and they speak about half
an hour. He said it costs him about $60 a
month.
Dishman said regardless of the jury’s
decision, he will continue to call his
friend each week.
“I’ve always been taught to hate the
sin, love the sinner,” Dishman said.

Mother
Continued from Page 1A
The jury, which traveled to Spring-
field from Platte County, convicted
Wood of first-degree murder on
Thursday.
On Friday, the penalty phase of the
trial began. After opening statements,
prosecutors called several of Hailey’s
family members to the stand in addition
to the girl’s fourth-grade teacher.
Herman skipped that testimony. She
said she feared it would be too difficult
for her to sit through.
In the afternoon, Herman was in the
courtroom as the defense began calling
witnesses, including Wood’s father and
a close friend.
The penalty phase of the trial will
continue Saturday and is expected to
wrap up early next week.
Herman said she is looking forward
to not being in court anymore. She said
she wants to honor Hailey’s memory
throughout her life, but she also has to
move forward.
“I am not going to forget about her,”
Herman said. “I want to keep her memo-
ry alive.”

Continued from previous page
Horinek said he was innocent and
told police his wife killed herself. She
died from a gunshot to the chest.
According to a 2010 article in the Tex-
as Observer, Horinek said the flecks of
his wife’s blood found on his white T-
shirt came from chest compressions he
administered doing CPR while trying to
save her life.
Like in the Jennings case, the couple
had been drinking. Horinek had
downed at least 11 Coors Lights and he
sounded intoxicated when he called 911.
On the tape, he can be heard applying
CPR.
The police, medical examiner and
prosecutor believed he was innocent for
various reasons.
Horinek initially was not charged, ac-
A blood-spatter analysis by the
Missouri State Highway Patrol led to
the conviction of Brad Jennings in
2009. FROM THE CASE FILE
cording to the Texas Observer story.
The parents of Horinek’s wife were
convinced she would not have killed
herself, in part because she was a suc-
cessful attorney with a budding career.
They used a little known Texas law that
allows private citizens to bring evidence
to a grand jury.
They did that and Horinek was in-
dicted.
The local prosecutor refused to pur-
sue the case, so the judge ordered two
private attorneys to act as special prose-
cutors. The dead woman’s parents hired
Bevel.
In a bizarre role reversal, the regular
prosecutor, the police investigator and
the medical examiner testified for the
defendant.
According to the Texas Observer,
Bevel testified — as Nash did at Jen-
nings’ trial — that the specks of blood
must have come from a “high velocity
occurrence” such as a gunshot.
Jurors believed Bevel; Horinek was
sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Jim Varnon, one of the officers who
responded that night, was convinced an
innocent man went to prison because of
a misinterpreted blood stain that car-
ried far too much weight.
Varnon enlisted the help of two
blood-spatter analysts who signed affi-
davits that CPR on someone with a col-
lapsed lung — due to a gunshot — could
also have caused the misty blood on the
T-shirt. One of the analysts had been
Bevel’s teacher.
At the appeals hearing, the jury fore-
man said he and fellow jurors were in-
clined to find Horinek not guilty — until
they heard from Bevel.
The appeal failed.
Horinek remains in prison, according
to Dave Mann, who wrote the story and
is now with Texas Monthly.
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CRAIG WOOD’S SENTENCING — DAY 2

Friends, family take stand

Harrison Keegan and Giacomo Bologna
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
The penalty phase of the Craig Wood
trial continued Saturday at the Greene
County Courthouse.
A jury convicted Wood of first-degree
murder Thursday for the February 2014
abduction and killing of Springfield 10-
year-old Hailey Owens.
Now, jurors are hearing evidence for
and against the death penalty.
On Saturday, Wood’s defense attor-
neys called several witnesses to the
stand. Here are three big moments.
Wood’s mother takes the stand
Craig Wood’s mother, Genie Wood,
testified Saturday morning.
Genie Wood talked about raising
Craig Wood and her son’s love for coach-
ing football and spending time with the
animals on her farm.
Genie Wood said it was heartbreaking
to learn that Craig Wood was accused of
killing Hailey in February 2014, but she
still loves her son. Genie Wood, the mother of Craig
“He’s been loving and I love him,” Ge- Wood, testifies Saturday during the
nie Wood said. “I don’t know what else to sentencing phase of Wood’s murder
trial. She said she speaks with her son
See WOOD, Page 8A almost daily. NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER

CONVICTED BY BLOOD
THE CASE OF BRAD JENNINGS

DEFENSE MADE NO
OPENING STATEMENT
The News-Leader’s five-day series, Convicted By Blood, continues through Monday. Coming tomorrow: Missing evidence is key to a last-chance hearing for Brad Jennings.
To read previous installments, go online to News-Leader.com/ConvictedByBlood.

Steve Pokin Springfield News-Leader

USA TODAY NETWORK
A
s Brad Jennings’ trial be-
gan, his sister’s heart
sank when the defense
lawyer declined to give
an opening statement — a linch-
pin in a criminal defense.
Attorney Darrell Deputy re-
served the right to make one later.
He never did.
Jennings, who would be con-
victed and sent to prison, later al-
leged that Deputy was incompe-
tent, which led to the guilty ver-
dict. But an appellate court dis-
agreed.
“He did not prepare,” said Mar-
sha Iler, the only sibling of Jen-
nings, who was charged with
murdering his wife on Christmas
Day 2006. Iler attended the trial.
She said she suspected early
on that her brother’s attorney was
not ready.
“I was just sick because I felt
like that he was ignoring the fact
that we were going to trial,” she
said. “And I felt like he was wasn’t
preparing to go to trial, and I
made the statement one time,
you know, don’t you need to pre-
pare like it’s going to trial?”
Jurors never
knew Lisa
attempted
suicide in
high school
Steve Pokin Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
A Dallas County jury decided in
2009 that Lisa Jennings, 39, did
not commit suicide — and, in-
stead, was murdered by her hus-
band — without hearing a word
about her prior suicide attempt, or
The News-Leader reviewed the five-volume, 915-page trial transcript. STEVE POKIN/NEWS-LEADER that her father took his own life.
Darrell Deputy Jr., now 75
years old and retired, represented
Brad Jennings at trial. He declined
About this series to discuss why he did not bring up
the suicide history in court.
The stories in this series are based substantially on court documents. A copy of the prose- Not only did Deputy fail to
cution’s case file — as handed over by prosecutors to defense lawyers — was given by defense mention this at trial, according to
lawyers to McNiel, a private investigator working for the defense. ❚ McNiel, in turn, released it Jennings’ new lawyer, but the
to the News-Leader. ❚ The newspaper independently requested the case file from the Missouri state’s star witness in the case,
State Highway Patrol through the state’s open records law. The patrol denied the request on Sgt. Dan Nash, never considered
the grounds that an appeal is pending. ❚ In addition, the newspaper reviewed the 915-page the suicide history in coming to
transcript of the trial of Brad Jennings; the 225-page transcript of the appeal of Jennings’ the conclusion Lisa Jennings’
conviction; and conducted multiple interviews with family members, attorneys and others. death was a murder.

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Wampler wants charges dismissed for former auditor

Will Schmitt Wampler argued. “... There If Hart were convicted cial statement.” In ac- wording of the statute” taining to the duties of
Springfield News-Leader is no requirement in Mis- on these charges, Wam- knowledging those words that Hart was “implicitly certified public accoun-
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Several charges against prepare a ‘monthly finan- would be violated. ment included useless dence, whether it be a A hearing scheduled
former Christian County cial statement.’ The crimi- Special prosecuting at- words while defending the statement, a letter or testi- for Friday was canceled
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for actual crimes and be dismissed for failing to mits the state law doesn’t on those nine charges. mission,” Brown retorted. scheduled for later this
should be dismissed, local state a crime.” refer to a “monthly finan- “It is clear from the Six other charges per- year.
defense attorney Dee
Wampler claims.
In motions filed
Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Wampler and an at-
torney for the prosecution
debated nine of the
charges against Hart, who
faces 15 counts of criminal
wrongdoing total.
At issue is a state law
requiring county auditors
to “strike a balance” each
month showing revenues
and liabilities.
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Hart accused her of break-
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“There is no such law,”

Wood
Continued from Page 1A

say about that.”

Genie Wood said she
talks with her son on the
phone almost daily.

Jurors hear from

Wood’s friends

A pair of Craig Wood’s

childhood friends were
also called to testify Sat-
urday.
Doran Morris and Will
Kilburn each said they
were completely shocked
when they learned that
Wood had been arrested
in connection with Hai-
ley’s abduction and kill-
ing.
Over the last three and
a half years, both men
said they have had some
contact with Wood, but it
has been difficult to proc-
ess everything.
The men said Wood
liked to play music and
watch football, and he
was always talking about
the middle school teams
that he coached.
Kilburn described
Wood as a “functioning
alcoholic” who would
drink eight to 12 beers a
day and regularly smoke
marijuana.

Priest says Wood is

remorseful

Father Mike McDevitt,

a Catholic priest, also tes-
tified Saturday.
McDevitt said he met
with Wood’s parents
shortly after Hailey’s
death, and they asked
him to meet with Wood.
Going forward, McDe-
vitt said he regularly met
with Wood at the Greene
County Jail.
McDevitt said Wood
never broke down crying,
but he had tears in his
eyes. The priest said he
could see remorse.
Wood told McDevitt
that his first few months
in the jail were horrible
and he had planned to kill
himself, according to the
priest.
Another conversation
McDevitt recalled was af-
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Jury hung on Wood’s sentencing

Craig Wood listens to witness
testimony during the sentencing
phase of his trial on Saturday.
NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER
Giacomo Bologna and Harrison Keegan
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
A jury could not come to a unanimous
decision Monday on whether Craig Wood,
who killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens in
2014, should be sentenced to death.
The jury’s decision was announced af-
ter more than four hours of deliberation.
A motion for a new trial will be heard on
Jan. 11. Judge Thomas Mountjoy said that
if the motion is dismissed, he will proceed
to sentence Wood.
MORE INSIDE: Jury delays
closure for Hailey’s mother, Page 3A
Prosecutors had argued Wood deserved
the death penalty for kidnapping and rap-
ing Hailey, then taking her down to his
basement and shooting her in the head.
A 12-0 decision was needed from the
Platte County jurors for Wood to get the
death penalty.
The jury found Wood guilty of first-de-
gree murder last week. Under state law,
the only punishments allowed for a first-
degree murder conviction are life in prison
and the death penalty.
Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patter-
son gave his closing argument, asking the
jurors to give Craig Wood the death penal-
ty for murdering Springfield 10-year-old
Hailey Owens.
“This is it,” Patterson said. “This is the
case. This is the case that calls for strict
enforcement of the law and the ultimate
penalty, the death penalty.”
Patterson reminded jurors of the details
See JURY, Page 3A

‘RIGHT-TO-WORK’ LAW
WHERE HAILEY OWENS WAS MURDERED
McCaskill may
A garden thrives be hindered by
moving vote
Will Schmitt Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK

Republicans in the statehouse could

affect next year’s U.S. Senate race by
changing when Missourians vote on a
labor issue.
The so-called “right-to-work” law,
which bans mandatory union dues, has
been a flashpoint in Missouri politics.
Gov. Eric Greitens campaigned in sup-
port of the law and signed it in February
after his fellow Republican politicians
hustled a bill through the General As-
sembly.
MORE Not to be denied,
and fighting the per-
INSIDE ception that Missou-
Will Missouri rians endorsed “right-
repeal its new to-work” by electing
‘right-to-work’ Greitens, union sup-
law? Page 6A porters collected
more than 300,000
signatures to try to put the issue before
voters.
The date of the election on whether
Jean Ackley poses for a portrait at the Delaware Community Garden in Springfield on Feb. 23. to undo the new labor law is set for Nov.
NEWS-LEADER FILE PHOTO 6, 2018, the same day that Missourians
will vote to keep or replace Sen. Claire
McCaskill and Auditor Nicole Galloway,
Alissa Zhu Springfield News-Leader | USA TODAY NETWORK the two Democratic statewide officials.
Unless, of course, lawmakers take

A
white bungalow at 1538 E. Stanford St. is
where Craig Wood took 10-year-old Hailey
Owens after snatching her off the street in
February 2014. There, she was raped and
murdered.
Wood’s house was razed to the ground. It’s been re-
placed with planters full of onions, radishes and spin-
ach. The community garden is outfitted with a minia-
ture goldfish pond and a new greenhouse, where vol-
unteers will cultivate herbs throughout the winter.
On Thursday, Wood was found guilty of first-degree
murder. After four hours of deliberation Monday, the
jury could not come to a unanimous decision on
whether he should be sentenced to death. Now a judge
will decide Wood’s fate on Jan. 11.
Jean Ackley, the driving force behind the Delaware
Community Garden, told the News-Leader she looks
forward to the end of the trial.
“I’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” Ackley
said. “It’s been in the news, it’s a constant reminder.
We can all get over it now and go on.”
Ackley knew Hailey through her granddaughter. She
said her granddaughter still can’t visit the garden be-
cause that’s where her friend died.
Ackley hopes that association will change with
time.
“Some people still think of it as: ‘That’s where Craig
Wood’s house is.’ More and more are thinking of it as a
place where we can forget what’s there — a place where
families can be happy.”
See GARDEN, Page 2A
“Some people still think advantage of legal fine print that allows
the General Assembly to designate a
of it as: ‘That’s where
different day for the vote.
Craig Wood’s house is.’ There’s no obvious plan, but it’s pos-
More and more are think- sible that the Missouri legislature — es-
sentially the same body that passed
ing of it as a place where “right-to-work” earlier this year —
we can forget what’s could move the repeal vote to Aug. 7, the
date of next year’s primary.
there — a place where
families can be happy.” See RIGHT-TO-WORK, Page 5A
Jean Ackley, the driving force behind the
Delaware Community Garden
Sen. Claire McCaskill answers
questions during a town hall meeting
at the Ozark Community Center on
Aug. 22. Missourians will vote Nov. 6,
Craig Wood's former house was 2018, on whether to keep or replace
demolished and the parcel donated McCaskill. The election on whether to
to Springfield Community Gardens. undo Missouri’s new right-to-work
ALISSA ZHU/NEWS-LEADER law is currently set for the same date.
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Today Tonight Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Garden He was glad to see Wood’s house go.
Gone now, Garton said, are the black
balloons and wooden crucifixes which
Continued from Page 1A appeared in the front yard. People no
longer slowly drive up and down the
46 32 51/30 57/29 56/41 57/38 Since February 2016, Ackley and street just to catch a glimpse of the
Mainly cloudy Cloudy with a Partly sunny and Partly sunny Partly sunny Clouds and sun other volunteers have constructed crime scene.
with a passing shower in places cool with spotty more than a dozen garden beds, for For the most part, he said, things are
shower showers nurturing fruits and vegetables. back to normal. Parents aren’t as hes-
Prosecutors were building too — a itant to let their kids walk around out-
REGIONAL FORECAST LAKE LEVELS In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday
case for Wood’s death. side.
Springfield Elevation Chg Full Pool
Falls City St. Joseph Kirksville
51/31 Bull Shoals 654.31 -0.10 659 Last week, jurors cried as they heard Garton said he’s purposefully avoid-
45/23 44/26 testimonies from prosecutors’ witness- ed paying attention to news about the
45/25 Beaver Lake 1119.14 -0.03 1121
Kansas City St. Louis
Table Rock 915.98 none 915 es. A medical examiner described find- ongoing trial.
Topeka Stockton 864.80 none 867
44/25 44/25 50/34 ing Hailey’s body in Wood’s bare base- “It makes me feel sick all over again,”
Pomme de Terre 839.27 -0.01 839
Cape Truman 707.83 +0.05 706
ment. She was wrapped in garbage he said. “Queasy and anxious ... I don’t
Sedalia
43/28 Girardeau Lake of the Ozarks 657.57 -0.06 660 bags and stuffed into a plastic storage want to know any of the details.”
53/39 container. Garton said he does not believe in
Joplin
SPRINGFIELD
46/32
RIVERS LEVELS The jury deliberated a little more capital punishment. However, Wood’s
43/32 In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday Stage Chg Fld Stg than an hour before convicting Wood. case has given him pause.
Buffalo National River
Tulsa
Mountain at Ponca 2.01 +0.08 6 Bob Atchley lives a few houses down “Cases like that, it makes you think
48/36 Kennett
Home
57/44 James River from the garden. He and his daughter twice about being opposed to the death
53/40 east of Springfield 4.38 -0.02 12 were raking leaves on Sunday’s unsea- penalty.”
Jacks Fork sonably warm afternoon. Garton said he sees the garden vol-
ALMANAC Springfield through 5 p.m. Mon. Mountain View 2.38 +0.01 11
Atchley said he was not surprised by unteers are trying to do a good thing for
Temperatures Precipitation WEATHER HISTORY the guilty verdict. the neighborhood. Though, the stigma
High/low 50°/46° Monday 0.01” On Nov. 7, 1940, 31-mph winds hit the Tacoma “After all these years, it didn’t seem associated with that parcel will never
Normal high/low 61°/40° Month to date 0.01” Narrows Bridge over Puget Sound, Wash. The sus- like there’s a whole lot of defense fade in his own mind, he said.
Record high 80° (1999) Year to date 45.67” pension bridge swayed, then collapsed.
Record low 15° (1959) Normal year to date 39.13”
there,” he said. Joey agreed: “If you know why it’s
Atchley said it was a shock to come there, then you know what happened.”
Sun & Moon Last quarter, Nov 10 WEATHER TRIVIA™ home to a street full of police cars in The garden has received a lot of
Sunrise today 6:44 a.m. New moon, Nov 18 Q: What is solar winter in the northern hemisphere? what he described as a “really quiet lit- community support, Ackley said.
Sunset tonight 5:09 p.m. tle neighborhood” on the night of Hai- The new greenhouse was donated by
Moonrise today 8:41 p.m. First quarter, Nov 26 through early Feb.
ley’s murder. Vatterott College. A teacher from
Moonset today 10:21 a.m. Full moon, Dec 3
A: The 1/4 year with the least sunlight; early Nov.
Atchley said he never met Wood, but Ozarks Technical Community College
NATIONAL FORECAST saw him regularly while going to work. has volunteered to do the electrical
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. For a while, Atchley said, it makes work. Wood for picnic tables, a fire pit
him “kind of sick” to think that Wood and other garden features were donat-
-10s Seattle was driving past his daughter, who ed by Westlake Ace Hardware, where
48/40
-0s would walk to the bus stop at a nearby Ackley works.
0s Billings Minneapolis intersection, every day. “It’s just so wonderful that people do
32/19
10s
35/23 “You see those terrible things on the this for us and it’s amazing to me, the
20s news, but it really hits you much harder generosity of people. Just when we
30s Chicago
Detroit
47/30
New York when it happens four, five houses up need something, someone comes and
52/40
San Francisco
65/52 Denver 46/28
Washington
your street.” helps us out.”
40s 34/21
Kansas City
49/43 Atchley said he was relieved to see About 15 people regularly work with
50s 44/25 Wood’s house come down after it sat the garden, and they’re always looking
60s Los Angeles
unsold for years. for more volunteers, Ackley said.
73/57
Atlanta
70s 79/58 He said Hailey’s murder changed the Ackley has big plans for the future.
80s El Paso
80/56
Delaware neighborhood. She plans to start selling herbs to lo-
90s “People are a lot more cautious in cal restaurants to make the garden
100s Houston
86/60
general,” he said. Parents stopped let- more self-sustainable. Two old trees in
Forecasts and graphics provided Miami ting their kids go outside alone. the back will be taken out to make room
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It also helped bring people together, for a new mushroom-growing station.
Precipitation Fronts Pressure Atchley said. Delaware now has an offi- She hopes the garden will host more
Rain Showers T-storms Flurries Snow Ice Cold Warm Stationary High Low cial neighborhood association, regis- training classes — teaching people to
Monday Today Wednesday Monday Today Wednesday tered with the city, he said. cook with native plants or helping kids
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Mike Garton also lived a few houses build birdhouses.
Anchorage 34 21 0.00 30 23 s 29 20 pc New Orleans 83 65 0.00 83 65 s 77 57 pc down from Wood. He met him once. Anyone who works with the garden
Baltimore 71 40 0.14 49 39 r 50 36 r Oklahoma City 51 38 0.00 50 34 c 45 28 r “It was really scary actually,” he said. or lives in the neighborhood can take
Boston 64 42 0.18 49 40 pc 48 38 pc Philadelphia 69 42 0.16 51 41 r 53 40 c
Cheyenne 49 19 0.04 31 18 sn 50 22 s Phoenix 81 63 0.00 82 60 pc 83 61 s
“It almost came to blows outside his produce home, Ackley said. About 600
Cincinnati 51 41 0.95 47 36 r 50 30 pc Reno 55 26 0.00 56 29 s 62 43 c truck.” pounds of produce have been donated
El Paso 81 56 0.00 80 56 pc 73 45 pc Salt Lake City 50 32 0.09 47 26 pc 53 34 pc Garton had approached Wood, ask- to community organizations.
Fargo 28 8 0.03 29 12 s 26 6 pc Spokane 33 16 0.04 34 27 pc 41 33 c
Honolulu 88 74 0.00 86 75 c 87 74 pc Tampa 83 67 0.00 85 67 pc 84 67 s ing if he knew anything about a missing “It’s all part of the healing process,”
Las Vegas 74 53 0.00 73 48 pc 71 50 s Tucson 81 59 0.00 82 56 pc 82 57 s refrigerator. Ackley said. “The way we — the volun-
Little Rock 61 53 0.05 64 45 t 52 38 c Wichita 46 35 0.00 45 28 c 49 27 pc “He was very angry, very defensive. teers — look at it, anything we can do to
Prc=precipitation, W=weather, s=sunny, c= cloudy, i=ice, pc=partly cloudy, r=rain, sf=snow flurries, sh=showers, sn=snow t=thunderstorms, tr=trace
He called me some four-letter words,” help that and to help provide good nu-
Garton said. tritious food for the neighborhood and
Garton’s son, Joey, said he once any organization we donate to.”
bought an airsoft gun from a garage The work they do, Ackley said, is for
COMMODITIES Dec 18 118.22 118.90 117.85
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118.87 +.50
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HOGS-LEAN sale Wood was hosting. Garton’s two Hailey. The site is not meant to be a me-
Apr 19 118.00 118.47 117.72 118.00 +.03 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.
FUTURES TRADING ON CHICAGO Frisales 84874 Dec 17 65.07 65.15 64.42 64.62 -.48 boys were 11 and 7 years old at the time morial to the girl, and so they don’t
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Friopen int 376129 up+6,677.00
Apr 18 75.25 75.67 75.07 75.60 +.15
of the murder. dwell on what happened on that spot
Open High Low Settle Chg. FEEDER CATTLE
50,000 lbs.- cents per lb. May 18 79.85 80.55 79.85 80.52 +.40 Garton said after Wood was arrest- nearly four years ago.
Nov 17 160.87 161.05 159.00 160.15 -.72 Jun 18 82.85 83.82 82.72 83.65 +.58
Jan 18 161.55 161.80 159.27 160.87 -.65 Jul 18 82.65 83.75 82.52 83.65 +.78 ed, some neighbors moved out of the “A lot of things grow so well there,
CATTLE Aug 18 81.10 82.55 81.00 82.32 +1.02
40,000 lbs.- cents per lb. Mar 18 158.35 158.62 156.40
Apr 18 158.00 158.55 156.35
158.07
158.32
-.28
+.10 Oct 18 69.17 69.82 69.05 69.77 +.40
area. that wouldn’t in my own yard,” she
Dec 17 127.25 127.62 124.82 125.32 -1.98
Feb 18 131.65 131.92 129.82 130.65 -1.10 May 18 157.30 157.85 155.47 157.60 +.30 Dec 18 63.52 64.00 63.42 63.97 +.25 “There were some panicked folks,” said. “We always think Hailey’s helping
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Jun 18 121.02 121.30 120.30 121.17 Sep 18 156.50 157.35 156.50 157.12 -.15 Apr 19 70.17 +.10 Garton said. us out there a little bit.”
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Jury someone to death. State jury also found that none
law outlines several ag- of the mitigating circum-
gravating factors, and stances outweighed the
In Loving Memory Continued from Page 1A prosecutors said several aggravating factors.
apply to Wood’s killing of Ultimately, though, the
of the crime — Wood Hailey, including that: jury passed the decision
snatched Hailey off the ❚ Wood killed Hailey to sentence Wood to
street, took the girl while committing three Judge Mountjoy.
back to his home, sexu- other crimes: rape, sodo- Hailey’s mother, Sta-
ally assaulted her and my and kidnapping, cey Herman, told report-
shot her to death. ❚ Wood killed Hailey ers she trusts Mountjoy to
“I’m at a loss for because she was a wit- make a fair decision.
Stacey Herman, Hailey’s mother, looks downward words how to accurate- ness to the crimes Wood For at least two more
after the jury could not come to a unanimous ly and adequately de- committed, months, Greene County
decision Monday. NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER scribe what Hailey ❚ Hailey was a random residents will have to wait
went through on that victim, to hear whether Wood
day,” Patterson said. “I ❚ Wood killed Hailey to dies of natural causes or

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10/02/1937- 11/07/2013
We Love and Miss You,
Your Loving Family
Thomas Fulton
Mallicoat
Thomas F. Mallicoat
was born September 25,
1932 and passed away
in his home November
4, 2017. He was the son
of Alva and Bessie Mal-
licoat.
As a young adult, Mr.
Mallicoat served time in
the U.S. Navy. He grad-
uated from SMS (MSU)
with a teaching degree
and earned his Master’s
degree from Drury Col-
lege (Univ.). He loved
golfing and fishing and
time spent with his fam-
ily and friends.
He is survived by his
wife Carolyn of 60 years;
two daughters, Jill Nor-
ment, Lenoir, NC and
Julie Banasik and spouse
Mike, Springfield, MO;
two grandchildren, Tay-
lor Banasik, Chicago,
IL and Will Norment,
Jury delays closure
for Hailey’s mother
Harrison Keegan
Springfield News-Leader
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Stacey Herman has
learned over the last three
and a half years the justice
system moves slowly.
Herman, the mother of
slain Springfield 10-year-
old Hailey Owens, was
hoping her daughter’s
killer would finally be sen-
tenced on Monday.
Instead, she will have
to keep waiting.
The jury announced
Monday afternoon it
could not come to a unan-
imous decision on wheth-
er to sentence Craig Wood
to the death penalty or life
in prison for abducting,
raping and killing Hailey
in February 2014.
The decision now falls
to Judge Thomas Mount-
joy who will sentence
Wood after a hearing on
Jan. 11.
“I have to push on,”
Herman said.
The jurors convicted
Wood of first-degree mur-
der after about an hour of
deliberation on Thursday,
but they could not come to
an agreement on sentenc-
ing Monday despite four
hours of debate.
Wood convicted, but she’ll
remain anxious until she
knows his sentence.
Herman said she ap-
preciated the jurors and
prosecutor for their hard
work during Wood’s trial
and she trusts Mountjoy
to make a fair decision on
sentencing.
Herman has said she
will be at peace with ei-
ther the death penalty or a
life sentence.
David Ransin, Her-
man’s attorney, stood
with her as she addressed
reporters Monday eve-
ning.
Ransin said the years
of court proceedings have
been difficult for Herman
but the end is in sight.
“All of this has been
very difficult for three and
a half years,” Ransin said.
“She’s looking forward to
the end so she can get on
with her life.”
Ransin said the hear-
ing in January will be full
of technical arguments
and not as emotional as
the trial.
“Stacey understands
that this is just one more
step in our long judicial
process, but it’s neces-
sary,” Ransin said. “She’s
being patient and asks ev-
just don’t have the avoid lawful arrest,
words to describe it.” ❚ And Wood’s actions
at the hands of the state.
Berrigan previously
In his closing argu- were wantonly vile or in- said that Wood was will-
ments, Wood’s attor- human.
ney Patrick Berrigan
ing to plead guilty and
The jury found that all spend the rest of his life in
urged the jurors to con- of those were acceptable prison to avoid the death
sider mercy. aggravating factors. The penalty.
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yourself because each
one of you is going to be
living the rest of your
life with this decision,
too,” Berrigan told the
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Graveside service will be
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2017 at 2:00 PM, under
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John F. Hart
John F. Hart, 69, Cam-
denton, Missouri, for-
merly of Marshfield,
Missouri, son of Oliver
Montrose and Hester
(Garrett) Hart, was born
June 22, 1948 in Spring-
field, Missouri and de-
parted this life November
4, 2017 at Mercy Hospital
in Springfield, Missouri.
He is preceded in death
by his parents; and
brother, David Hart.
John is survived by his
three sons, Doug Hart
of Springfield, Missouri,
Rodney Hart and Travis
Hart both of Marshfield,
Missouri; one grandson,
Justin Hart and wife,
Tara of Marshfield, Mis-
souri; and the mother of
his three sons, Judy Hart,
Marshfield, Missouri;
and numerous nieces
and nephews, along with
many other relatives and
friends.
Funeral services for
John F. Hart will be
Wednesday, November 8,
2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Day
Funeral Home, Marsh-
field, Missouri. Visitation
will be 6 to 7 p.m. Tues-
day, November 7, 2017 at
the funeral home. Memo-
rial contributions may be
made to American Can-
cer Society and left in
care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may
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enue sales tax hike Tuesday.
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Juror in Wood murder trial describes deliberations
Foreman says ‘the images
are seared into your mind’
Giacomo Bologna
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
The 12 people chosen to decide
whether Craig Wood should live or die
went into a room Monday, sat around a
table and tried to determine what jus-
tice is.
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of the proposal.
Presiding Commis-
sioner Bob Cirtin said he
was “thrilled” by that
Bob Cirtin margin of approval.
“This was a huge vic-
tory for the people of Greene County,”
Cirtin said. “That’s one thing that we
always remember — that it’s not just
Wood kidnapped, raped and killed
10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014.
The jurors unanimously agreed last
week that Wood was guilty of first-de-
gree murder.
Next, it was their job to sentence him.
The jurors had listened to six days of
emotional testimony, read Wood’s
handwritten stories about having sex
with girls, and looked at pictures of Hai-
ley’s lifeless body stuffed in a plastic
bin.
“It’s something that you’re going to
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death ‘clearly a
suicide’: Expert
Steve Pokin
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
A blood spatter analyst finally took
the witness stand Tuesday morning in
Rolla on behalf of Brad Jennings, for-
merly of Buffalo — eight years after Jen-
nings was convicted in 2009 of murder-
ing his wife.
“This is clearly a suicide,” said Jo-
seph Slemko, a 31-year police officer in
Edmonton, Canada, who also works as a
blood spatter consultant. He took his
first course 23 years ago and has taken
31 more since.
Slemko reviewed crime scene and
autopsy photos and came to a different
conclusion than investigators with the
Missouri State Highway Patrol.
First, he pointed out, there is a blood
spatter pattern radiating out 180 de-
grees from the bedroom closet where Li-
sa Jennings was found dead in the early
hours of Christmas Day 2006.
If Brad Jennings, or anyone else, had
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Lisa and Brad Jennings were married
18 years when Lisa died from a
gunshot wound to the head in 2006.
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carry to your death,” said Andy Meyer-
hofer, the foreman of the jury. “The im-
ages are seared into your mind.”
Meyerhofer described Monday’s jury
deliberations to the News-Leader. It
grew heated at times, he said, as some
jury members attempted to sway others.
The jury — faced with deciding be-
tween life in prison or the death penalty
— could not make a unanimous choice. Craig Wood, who killed 10-year-old
The decision now rests in the hands of Hailey Owens in 2014, was found guilty
of first-degree murder last week.
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at Kansas City museum
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A small grass-
hopper has been found embedded in a
Vincent van Gogh painting at a Kansas
City museum.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
said in a news release that the insect
was stuck in the thick paint in the lower
foreground of the famed artist’s “Olive
Trees.” Van Gogh was known for paint-
ing outdoors and mused in an 1885 letter
A small grasshopper has been found embedded in the thick paint in the lower
foreground of Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Olive Trees.” Paintings Conservator
Mary Schafer made the grasshopper discovery while examining the painting
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Juror
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Judge Thomas Mountjoy, who could
sentence Wood as early as Jan. 11, when
Wood has his next hearing.
The jury was brought in from Platte
County, north of Kansas City.
Meyerhofer said he moved to Mis-
souri about two years ago and was not
familiar with the case at all.
All the potential jurors had to fill out a
lengthy questionnaire with answers
about their views on the death penalty,
religion and politics, Meyerhofer said.
Meyerhofer was told he was a juror
on a Friday and sequestered on Sunday,
he said, and that’s when it really hit him.
“This is a very important case,” Mey-
erhofer recalled thinking.
At that point, he still had very few de-
tails about the case and said he was
ready to do his civic duty.
Then came the horrific photos.
“(By the end of the trial), you’ve seen
the body of a 10-year-old girl that’s been
shot in the head, sprayed with water
that likely contained dog feces, put into
a box after she’s been raped and sodom-
ized,” Meyerhofer said.
Jurors were also given two handwrit-
ten stories about sex with girls that had
been found in Wood’s bedroom.
Meyerhofer said the first story was
about a girl who was given medication
and then raped.
The second, he said, was about a girl
who played truth or dare and then will-
ingly had sex.
The girl in the story was “nervous” at
first,” Meyerhofer said, but excited by
the end.
To Meyerhofer, the stories showed a
progression in Wood’s mind: from a fic-
tional forced rape to a fictional willing
After days of emotional testimony, 12 jurors deliberated in this room and
unanimously agreed that Craig Wood was guilty of first-degree murder. Days
later the same jury was unable to unanimously agree on whether he should be
sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER
to his brother that “I must have picked
up a good hundred flies and more off the
4 canvases that you’ll be getting.”
Paintings Conservator Mary Schafer
made the grasshopper discovery while
examining the painting under magnifi-
cation. The bug isn’t visible through ca-
sual observation.
The close study of the painting is part
of an effort to create an online catalogue
of the 104 French paintings and pastels
at the museum.
participant to the real abduction and
rape of Hailey.
Meyerhofer said a unanimous deci-
sion to convict Wood of first-degree
murder was swift.
“I really was impressed with how
thorough this prosecu-
tion did in terms of gath-
ering evidence and not
cutting any corners,”
Meyerhofer said. “It was
never slanted one way or
another ... We were
Hailey forced to process what
Owens that meant.”
The penalty phase of
Wood’s trial lasted three days. On Mon-
day, the jurors heard closing arguments
and went to deliberate.
For a jury to sentence someone to
death for murder, it must find there was
at least one “aggravating factor” as out-
lined in state law. The prosecutors pre-
sented several aggravating factors, in-
cluding that the murder was “wantonly
vile” and that Hailey was a random vic-
tim.
The jury decided “fairly rapidly,”
Meyerhofer said, that all the aggravat-
ing factors applied.
Then came the hard part: A secret
poll about whether Wood should be put
to death.
According to Meyerhofer, eight jurors
voted for the death penalty, one for life
in prison and three were undecided.
Jurors were passionate as they ar-
gued their opinion, Meyerhofer said, but
always respectful.
At times, he said, pauses were taken
so jurors could cool down.
“A significant amount of time was
then spent on discussing — ‘moral com-
pass,’ I think is the phrase that comes to
mind,” Meyerhofer said. “What was
your personal, moral compass telling
you to do?”
Former lawmaker fights
campaign violation costs
Summer Ballentine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
sues meant some campaign money
“wasn’t disclosed in time for voters to
take it into consideration” for the 2012
JEFFERSON CITY – A former state election.
lawmaker’s attorney argued to Mis- An independent administrative
souri Supreme Court judges Tuesday panel later said Wright-Jones only had
that the former candidate shouldn’t to pay 10 percent of that cost as long as
have to pay $230,000 for alleged cam- she did so quickly, filed any additional
paign finance violations. campaign reports and didn’t violate
Former St. Louis Democratic Sen. any other campaign finance laws for
Robin Wright-Jones’ attorney, Bernard two years.
Edwards, Jr., told Supreme Court But her attorney told judges that the
judges during arguments that the Missouri Constitution bans the com-
charges amount to an excessive fine by mission from giving out fines as pun-
the Missouri Ethics Commission, ishment for violating commission-
which is responsible for checking created rules, and Edwards said the
compliance with campaign finance U.S. Constitution “prohibits fines that
laws. are unreasonable and fines that would
He also said the complaint against chill free speech under the First
her ultimately cost her the 2012 elec- Amendment.”
tion. Edwards argued the Missouri Eth-
An attorney for the commission ics Commission should have charged
said the fee issued was reasonable the former lawmaker at most $1,000
based on the amount of donations and per violation.
spending Wright-Jones failed to time- Some judges appeared skeptical.
ly report. A 2013 commission decision Judge Laura Denvir Stith said state
said that Wright-Jones failed to accu- law allows for a $1,000 fee or fees as
rately report a couple hundred thou- much as double the amount of the
sand dollars of expenditures and con- money involved in the violation.
tributions by state deadlines, received Attorney General’s Office lawyer
a double reimbursement for vehicle Joshua Divine, who represented the
mileage from both the state and her commission, said a $1,000-per-viola-
campaign fund, and made more cash tion fee would have meant an even
expenditures than allowed by law. higher fee of closer to $800,000.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Zel Supreme Court judges did not indi-
Fischer said in court that reporting is- cate when they might rule.
After more than four hours of deliber-
ation, Meyerhofer said it was apparent
jury hardens me a bit,” he said. “Human
life is very important and that is not an
the jury was deadlocked. easy decision to make. And it changes
Ten were in favor of death, Meyerhof- you — it changes how you’re going to ap-
er said, and two were for life in prison. proach the world with your own chil-
The mood, he said, was mixed. dren.”
“Clearly there were those that felt like Meyerhofer is a father of three
justice had not been done for Hailey daughters.
Owens,” he said, but others put a lot of “The world I wanna live in,” he said,
weight in the mitigating factors. “my kids walk home without being
Wood’s attorneys said the mitigating afraid of being picked up randomly by
factors were a family history of depres- someone to be murdered.”
sion, a loving relationship with his par- Meyerhofer said he was able to com-
ents and that Wood could have a posi- partmentalize this case — to not com-
tive impact on his friends’ lives — even pare Hailey to his daughters.
from behind bars. “This whole thing for us was always
Meyerhofer said he voted for death. about Hailey Owens losing her life,” he
“To a degree, I think serving on that said.
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END OF Witnesses
question
detective’s
AN ERA credibility
Steve Pokin
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A hearing to determine whether Brad

Jennings’ murder conviction will stand
continued Wednesday, with witness
testimony focusing on the credibility of
the detective who built
the case against him.
The former sixth-
grade teacher of Brad
Jennings’ son testified
Wednesday that she
complained to her state
representative about Brad
Missouri State Highway Jennings
Patrol Sgt. Dan Nash.
In other testimony, a former super-
vising Greene County assistant prose-
cutor said she cautioned fellow prose-
cutors about Nash’s lack of trustworthi-
ness.
Brigitte Maddux testified that Nash
attributed information to her in a report
he made — but which was never dis-
closed to defense attorneys until weeks
ago — that she never said.
Maddux was Dallas Jennings’ teach-

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Michael Vincent, the store manager of CD Warehouse, holds one of his favorite records, “Let it Be,” by rock
band The Replacements Tuesday. After 25 years in business, the store on south Glenstone Avenue is closing
its doors. PHOTOS BY NATHAN PAPES/NEWS-LEADER

CD Warehouse, a 25-year hub for

Springfield music fans, to close
Gregory J. Holman Springfield News-Leader | USA TODAY NETWORK
A few minutes after CD Warehouse opened Tuesday morning, a half-dozen customers had already
passed through the doors.
They browsed the 25-year-old shop’s tabletop bins of CDs and vinyl records; its shelves of DVDs; its
locked glass cabinets of costly box sets.
Each customer had hair flecked with gray.
That is part of the reason why CD Warehouse expects to close in the next few months, its store
manager acknowledged.
The store began liquidating its stock of more than 80,000 items Monday, Michael Vincent said.
About 400 people attended; one guy drove down from Kansas City.
It’s a long-anticipated ending: Historically, Vincent said, as music lovers entered their 30s, 40s and
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Store manager Michael Vincent
said that the closing sale in-
cludes discounts of 20 percent
off new items; 50 percent off
used items. He estimates it will
take three to five months to
clear out the store.
AT LEFT: Brent Boudle sorts
through CDs at CD Warehouse
on Tuesday.
A bailiff hands Judge Thomas
Mountjoy the jury’s decision after the
jury deliberated for more than four
hours on the fate of Craig Wood. The
jury could not come to a unanimous
decision on whether he should be
sentenced to death.
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What does hung
jury mean for
Craig Wood’s fate?
It’s complicated
Harrison Keegan
Springfield News-Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
When Judge Thomas Mountjoy an-
nounced Monday afternoon the jury
was deadlocked in the Craig Wood sen-
tencing, there was a collective confu-
sion in the courtroom.
As the jury was excused and the at-
torneys ducked into a side room, many
were left wondering what happens next.
The answer is both rare and contro-
versial.
Since the jury could not decide unan-
imously whether Wood should get the
death penalty or life in prison for ab-
ducting and murdering Springfield 10-

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Newman , Gary, 61, morial Chapels and Cre- sity of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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GALENA the Dean of the College ban the use of an herbicide for part of can easily evaporate after being applied,
WILLARD of Arts and Sciences. next year after the weed killer drew the chemical sometimes settles on
Johnson, Jeremiah, 40, Kauffmann, Glenn, 88, Services will be held complaints from farmers across several neighboring fields. The state earlier this
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p.m. Thursday, Nov 9. The Arkansas Plant Board on ceived nearly 1,000 complaints this year
Funeral Mass will begin Wednesday approved prohibiting the about dicamba.
Charlotte F. at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov 10. use of dicamba in the state between Monsanto, which last month sued
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Charlotte was born in Home of Springfield. tures and home use, and now heads to a for the latest restriction and said the
Kansas City, KS and grew Arrangements under legislative panel. move will deprive farmers of a needed
up in Bonner Springs, KS. the direction of Gorman-
Scharpf. Dicamba has been around for dec- tool to protect crops.
She met the love of her
life, Robert J Earhart, in
Mill City, OR while visiting
her sister. She graduated doing?” Dunham asked. the impasse. venting the will of the the judge-imposed death
from High School on May If Judge Mountjoy Dunham said Missouri public,” Dunham said. sentence procedure.
26, 1961 and was married gives Wood the death jurors have not imposed a “Especially in a state “For anyone who is
on May 27, 1961. Charlotte penalty, Dunham said the death sentence since where no jury has sen- concerned about ques-
and Bob settled in Spring-
field, MO, which became constitutionality of the 2013, but the state’s hung tenced anyone to death tionable death penalty
home. process will “unquestion- jury procedure has al- for five years.” practices in the United
Charlotte was saved at age 8 and served faithfully ably” be challenged by lowed judges to put a few Dunham said Missouri States, Missouri is al-
in her church until she was physically unable to do Wood’s attorneys during men on death row in re- has a reputation nation- ready on their map,” Dun-
so. She also worked for many years at Baptist Bi-
ble College and Baptist Bible Fellowship. Because the appeal process. And, cent years. wide for its “question- ham said. “This practice
of this, she became “Mom” to so many “kids”! It he said, they could have a “It raises very serious able” use of the death only attracts more atten-
wasn’t unusual for her phone to ring and when she strong argument. questions about circum- penalty, especially with tion.”
answered (it could be from anywhere in the world), Wood’s attorney Pat-
someone said “Hi, Mom!” rick Berrigan declined to
Charlotte and Bob had two children, Cheryl and
Ron. Her family was the most important thing in her comment on the specifics
life. Her family dinners were legendary! If you went of his legal strategy, but
home hungry, it was your own fault. Christmas was he did acknowledge that
her favorite time of year. There were times when situations like this are
it took hours to open gifts. Her philosophy was that
every child should have multiple gifts to open...and rare.
stockings were the best! Berrigan is a public de-
Charlotte was preceded in death by her parents, fender who handles only
Melvin and Jennie Dale. She is survived by her hus- death penalty cases.
band of 56 years, Robert, daughter Cheryl Donnel- Berrigan said the last
ly (Tim), son Ron Earhart (Dianna), 2 grandsons,
Justin Earhart (Jessica), Tyler Earhart (Kayla) time he had a death pen-
and three great-grandchildren, Marina Earhart, alty sentence decided by
Christian “Wild-Man” Earhart and her namesake, a judge was more than 20
Charlotte (Charlee) Earhart, all of Springfield, MO. years ago. His counter-
She is also survived by Kathy Bradley, (Mark), AR
daughter of her heart, 4 sisters; Patty Smith, MO, part in that trial was Sen.
Sandy Blancarte (Frank) KS, Jan Witte (Dick) CO, Claire McCaskill, then a
and Pam Quinlan (John) Philippines; 1 brother, Jackson County prosecu-
Mickey Dale (Joan) KS; too many cousins, nieces tor.
and nephews to mention, all of her “adopted” kids
and a host of friends. “It’s unusual,” Berri-
A memorial service will be held at Greenlawn gan said. “But it hap-
North Funeral Home, on November 11, 2017 at 10:00 pens.”
am. In lieu of flowers, Charlotte asked that dona- In August, a jury in St.
tions in her memory be sent to Baptist Bible Fellow- Charles could not come to
ship International PO Box 191, Springfield, MO 65801.
a unanimous decision on
sentencing Marvin Rice
for the murder of his ex-
girlfriend.
In that case, 11 of the 12
jurors reportedly voted

Wood for life, but a judge gave

Rice the death penalty.
“For anyone who Dunham, with the
Continued from Page 1A Death Penalty Informa-
is concerned tion Center, said he did
year-old Hailey Owens in about question- not have any statistics for
2014, Judge Mountjoy how often Missouri
will choose on Jan. 11. able death penal- judges choose the death
Missouri and Indiana penalty in cases where
are the only states where
ty practices in the the jury is deadlocked.
a judge can give a death United States, In a 1995 Supreme
sentence when the jury Court case, Justice John
deadlocks, and there’s Missouri is al- Paul Stevens wrote that
debate about whether ready on their “judges are far more likely
those death sentences than juries to impose the
are constitutional. map. This practice death penalty,” citing the
Most states with the political pressures judges
death penalty follow the
only attracts more face.
federal procedure that attention.” Dunham said studies
when the jury can’t reach show that elected judges
Robert Dunham
a unanimous decision on Death Penalty Information are more likely to impose
sentencing, the defen- Center executive director death sentences or up-
dant is automatically hold death sentences
sentenced to life in pris- In Hurst vs. Florida, than appointed judges.
on. the Supreme Court decid- Judge Mountjoy did
Robert Dunham, exec- ed “the Sixth Amend- not respond to News-
utive director of the non- ment requires a jury, not a Leader requests asking if
profit Death Penalty In- judge, to find each fact he has ever been in this
formation Center, said necessary to impose a situation before.
the practice of giving sentence of death.” In Wood’s case, the ju-
death sentences without Dunham said judge- ry foreman told the
a jury has been called into imposed sentences might News-Leader that 10 peo-
question in recent years, contradict this ruling. ple voted for death and
and a U.S. Supreme Court “If the judge (in two people voted for life.
decision from 2016 could Wood’s case) is not en- After four hours of delib-
be relevant if Wood is gaging in independent eration, the jury returned SL-0000406686
sentenced to death. fact-finding, what’s he to the courtroom to report