Tom Bird denied killing anyone and was acquitted in Geary County District Court of first-degree murder in the slaying of Martin Anderson.īut Bird was convicted in 1984 of criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder and in August 1985 of the first-degree murder of his wife. She had been a state prison inmate since September 1985 after pleading guilty the previous month to soliciting the murders of her husband and of Sandra Bird. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading guilty in November 1988 to second-degree murder in Martin Anderson’s slaying. Lorna Anderson later confessed to her role in her husband’s murder and said Tom Bird killed him. Martin Anderson was shot by a masked gunman while looking for the keys. She got out of the family’s van, said she couldn’t find her keys, and asked her husband to help find them. Lorna Anderson’s husband, Martin Anderson, was fatally shot in November 1983 after he, his wife and their four daughters - who ranged in age from 21/2 to 8 - pulled to the side of a highway in Geary County after Lorna Anderson complained of feeling ill. Her death initially was ruled an accident. Tom Bird in July 1983 killed his wife, Sandra Bird, pushed her car over an embankment near Emporia, then placed her body in the car, authorities said. 17 from parole supervision, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections website.Īnderson, 61, had most recently been under supervision in Reno County, the site said. Lorna Anderson, who authorities said teamed with her lover - Lutheran minister Tom Bird - to murder their spouses in 1983, was released Feb.
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