![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kothe was a friend of Bird and a classmate at the Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Ill. 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.īird’s story was the focus of a 1987 television miniseries, “Murder Ordained,” and a book published in 2000 titled “Caged Bird,” which maintained his innocence. A year later, Bird was convicted of first-degree murder in his wife’s death.īird was acquitted in 1990 in Geary County of the first-degree murder of Martin Anderson. He was convicted in 1984 of solicitation of first-degree murder for trying to get someone to kill Anderson’s husband, Martin Anderson. The Kansas Parole Board on Friday granted parole to Thomas Bird, who has served 20 years of a life sentence for killing his wife, Sandy, while having an affair with his secretary, Lorna Anderson.īird hadn’t been scheduled for a parole hearing until December, but the board approved a special request to see him Monday after three public comment sessions last month in Topeka. Topeka ? A former Emporia minister who killed his wife in 1983 and solicited the murder of the husband of his church secretary soon will be a free man. ![]()
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