The Kansas Supreme Court upholds the Wichita couple's murder convictions

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Texas woman convicted in the murders of a Wichita couple who disappeared from the Barton County Fair in 2018.

Kimberly Younger of Aransas Pass, Texas, was convicted in 2021 of organizing and conspiring in the murders of 78-year-old Alfred “Sonny” Carpenter and 79-year-old Pauline Carpenter of Wichita. The Carpenters disappeared from the Barton County Fair in July 2018 and their bodies were later found in northwest Arkansas. Four other people were tried and convicted for the murders.

Younger, 58, alleged errors at her trial in Barton County by allowing a witness to testify remotely and failing to suppress statements she made after her arrest. The court ruled that their statements were admissible and that the decision to allow remote testimony was appropriate given the COVID-19 pandemic at the time.

Younger was sentenced to life in prison without parole for capital murder.