The Carnival Mafia

This episode of Small Town Murder Express is set in Great Bend, Kansas, a town of 14,864 people in the middle of the state. The median household income is 48,465, below the national average, and the median home price is $99,000, far below it. The first settlers from the states arrived in 1870 and lived in sod houses and dugouts, working as buffalo hunters. The town takes its name from the point where the Arkansas River turns eastward. It suffered a downtown fire in 1878 and a smallpox outbreak in 1882, and oil exploration from 1886 brought more than three thousand producing wells by the 1930s. James also describes the Barton County Fair, which matters to the case.

Alfred Charles Carpenter Jr., known as Sunny, was 78 in 2018. His wife Pauline Marie, born Richard, was 79. They married on May 17th, 1986 in Kansas, had six children and many grandchildren, and both retired from Boeing. In retirement they travelled the Kansas county fair circuit in a camper and trailer, selling small goods as vendors. Their grandson said that 2018 was to be their last year. In July 2018 they were working the Barton County Fair.

The fair's rides were run by carnival workers. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed They dragged Alfred into the trailer, where Pauline lay asleep, and shot him in the chest. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

The group put the bodies in the camper and drove about 300 miles to Van Buren, Arkansas. They buried the bodies shallowly beside a creek in woods off Star Road, covered with bedding, rocks and limbs. details of the account remain covered until revealed Frank replied, good job, now get out, and told him to take deep breaths and that the war was over.

The Carpenters' daughter reported them missing. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Officers found the group at the Vista Hills apartments with the Carpenters' camper, which had a bullet hole. Outside were trash bags holding bloody clothing, two spent nine millimetre casings and a blood-spattered sleep apnea machine. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed He called it an initiation into the carnival mafia and led police to the bodies. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it No carnival mafia exists. The real Frank Zitschick, who owns Wade Shows Inc. in Michigan, told the Washington Post he had never heard of them.

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