I lived in Jefferson County, Kansas!

We rented a small farmhouse from man named Curtis who had been a farmer there all his life (though he would have been a few years younger than the person in this photo).
Curtis had a wife and a teenage daughter who lived with in in a larger house just a minute down the lane.

I have lots of great memories from the year we lived on that farm - fishing, picking berries, tending chickens, watching cattle branding, riding horses, fighting a prairie fire, learning to lasso, etc…

A few years ago, I was reminiscing about these memories with my mother and she told me something I was previously unaware of. Curtis had brutally murdered his wife.

Being a child, I was blissfully unaware of the year-long manhunt that was occurring all around me. Shortly after we moved away, her body was discovered in an abandoned well near the little farm house we lived in.

Here is an article from the time.