Category: Neil and Christy Edgar

The Kansas City Star, Apr. 18, 2003 http://www.kansascity.com/ By TONY RIZZO, The Kansas City Star The parents and baby sitter of 9-year-old Brian Edgar were charged together with killing him in December. But today, the day after a judge ordered their trial on first-degree murder charges, their lawyers made it clear there will be no common defense. “There’s no question there will be antagonistic defenses,” said Carl Cornwell, attorney for the boy’s father, Neil Edgar Sr. Cornwell began staking out his position during Thursday’s preliminary hearing in Johnson County District Court when he sought to distance his client’s actions from

The Kansas City Star, Apr. 18, 2003 http://www.kansascity.com/ By TONY RIZZO, The Kansas City Star They were the last words spoken to 9-year-old Brian Edgar as he lay wrapped in a head-to-toe cocoon of duct tape. “Try to get out of that one,” baby sitter Chasity Boyd allegedly told him. He couldn’t. The next morning, his father carried the boy’s body, already stiffened with rigor mortis, into a hospital emergency room. Police investigators were soon called. After an all-day preliminary hearing Thursday in Johnson County District Court, a judge ordered Boyd and Brian’s parents, Neil Edgar Sr. and Christy Edgar,

The Kansas City Star, Feb. 6, 2003 http://www.kansascity.com/ By TONY RIZZO, The Kansas City Star A two-day preliminary hearing in April was scheduled today for the Kansas City, Kan., church leaders charged with killing their son. Johnson County District Judge John Bennett set the hearing for April 17 and 18 for Chasity Boyd. All three are charged with first-degree felony murder in the death of 9-year-old Brian Edgar, whom the Edgars had adopted. Brian died of asphyxiation after being bound and gagged the night of Dec. 29, according to autopsy reports. Prosecutors will present evidence at the preliminary hearing. If

KCTV5, Feb. 4, 2003 http://www.kctv5.com/ KANSAS CITY, KS — There’s a new development in the case of a Kansas City, Kan., couple charged with killing their adopted son. KCTV5 has learned that a minister close to Neil and Christy Edgar is being forced to appear before prosecutors. Now that the Edgars are in jail and charged with murder, the reverend who supervises their church has now been summoned to the Johnson County Courthouse to explain what he knows about the case. Reverend Clifford Jackson was served with the subpoena Tuesday morning as he sat in a Wyandotte County courtroom. Jackson

The Kansas City Star, Jan. 27, 2003 http://www.kansascity.com/ By ROBERT A. CRONKLETON, The Kansas City Star Four members of a Kansas City, Kan., church wanted in a child-abuse investigation stemming from the death of Brian Edgar have surrendered to authorities. Idella A. Horton, 22; Renita D. Allen-Jackson, 40; Patricia A. Walker, 44; and Barbara Clark, 45, all from Kansas City, Kan., turned themselves in late Friday. They were released early Saturday after posting $25,000 bond each, a Wyandotte County jail spokesman said. They should make their first appearances today in Wyandotte County District Court. The four women were charged Jan.

AP, Jan. 24, 2003 http://www.kctv5.com/ OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has refused to lower a $250,000 bond for a Kansas City woman charged with helping destroy evidence connected to the death of 9-year-old Brian Edgar. Chauntel Williams, 29, is charged in Johnson County with one count of aiding a felon. Brian’s parents, Neil Edgar Sr. and Christy Edgar, and baby sitter

KSHB, Jan. 21, 2003 http://www.kshb.com/ NBC Action News has learned