Sentence wraps up decades-old cold case

More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbour has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her.

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The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23, of Great Bend, had gone cold until 2022, when a detective persuaded Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir to reopen the case and use technology and techniques that weren’t available at the time.