Around Midnight, Saturday, June 29th, 1974. Rural Gray County, Western, Kansas.

Gray County Sheriff Marvin Kramer, nicknamed “Squirt,” is out on patrol when he hears a call for the Ensign, Kansas, volunteer fire department to respond to a fire at the farm of Richard and Clara Ann Anton. Sheriff Kramer rushes to the scene. By 12:40 a. m., Sunday morning, the Anton farmhouse is engulfed in flames. When the blaze is extinguished, the home is burned to the ground. In the ashes of the basement, two bodies are found, presumably Richard and Clara Ann.

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“Harvest of Hate” by Kermit Jaedeker in The New York Daily News, February 1, 1976.

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Truman Capote: In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons, Answered Prayers

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TIPS: kbi.ks.gov and 1-800-KS-CRIME.