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Criminal Law Keyed to Gershowitz
State v. Grissom
Citation:
251 Kan. 851, 840 P.2d 1142Facts
Three women in their early twenties disappeared from Overland Park, Kansas. The three women were Joan Butler, Christine Rusch, and Teresa Brown. They went missing in June of 1989. No remains of the women were ever found. Grissom (defendant) “owned and operated a business that cleaned and painted apartments in the Kansas City area.” Grissom had “pass keys” for all of the missing women’s apartments. Grissom was witnessed operating a car that had been rented by one of the missing women after her own car had been wrecked in an accident. Blood from one of the other women who had not rented the car was found inside the car. “Additional evidence showed large transactions on the women’s bank accounts from ATMs and drive-through lanes, where tellers later described a man fitting the description of the defendant as a passenger in the vehicle.” Other evidence like hair samples tied the defendant to the missing women.
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