In July 1983, Bird killed his wife, pushed her car over an embankment of a river near Emporia, then placed her body in the car, authorities said.įour months later, Anderson, her husband and their children pulled to the side of a highway in Geary County, after she complained of feeling ill. “There isn’t any justifiable reason I can find for their action,” her attorney, Tom Haney, of Topeka, said of the members of the Kansas Parole Board. He also was convicted of solicitation of first-degree murder for the earlier attempt on Martin Anderson’s life.Īnderson’s attorney said his client also should be free. She also was convicted in 1984 of soliciting the murders of her husband and the wife of former Emporia minister Tom Bird in an earlier, failed plot.īird was released from prison in June 2004, after serving 20 years of a life sentence imposed after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder for killing his wife, Sandra. Lorna Anderson, 53, has been passed over for parole until next year, Kansas Parole Board Administrator Colene Fischli said Monday.Īnderson pleaded guilty in 1988 to second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Martin, and was sentenced to 15 years to life. Topeka ? A former Emporia church secretary who admitted having her husband killed in 1983, while she was having an affair with the church’s minister, has been denied parole for a fifth time.
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