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Chelsea Brooks
Chelsea Brooks, 14 and nine months pregnant, was strangled to death and left in a wheat field in Butler County, Kansas near Wichita on June 9, 2006.
Brooks had just completed the eight grade and had been warned by her parents to stop seeing her 19-year-old boyfriend, Elgin Ray Robinson, Jr.
Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.
Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. met Brooks when he was 19 and she was 14 at Riverfest in Wichita, Kansas. Brooks parents and friends reportedly warned her not to see Robinson because of the age difference.
When Brooks became pregnant, Robinson feared he would be prosecuted for statutory rape, so he allegedly planned her murder with Ted Burnett, then 49, and Everett Gentry, then 17. Robinson is currently on trial for the murder and could receive the death penalty of convicted.
Everett Gentry
Everett Gentry, 17 at the time of the murder, pleaded guilty July 14, 2006 to murder. He was not eligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time. He was the key witness in the trial of accomplice Ted Burnett and will also be the key witness in the tiral of Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.
Ted Burnett
Ted Burnett, 49 at the time of the murder, was convicted May 23, 2008 for his part in the murder of Chelsea Brooks. Burnett is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Chelsea Brooks, 14 and nine months pregnant, was strangled to death and left in a wheat field in Butler County, Kansas near Wichita on June 9, 2006.
Brooks had just completed the eight grade and had been warned by her parents to stop seeing her 19-year-old boyfriend, Elgin Ray Robinson, Jr.
Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.
Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. met Brooks when he was 19 and she was 14 at Riverfest in Wichita, Kansas. Brooks parents and friends reportedly warned her not to see Robinson because of the age difference.
When Brooks became pregnant, Robinson feared he would be prosecuted for statutory rape, so he allegedly planned her murder with Ted Burnett, then 49, and Everett Gentry, then 17. Robinson is currently on trial for the murder and could receive the death penalty of convicted.
Everett Gentry
Everett Gentry, 17 at the time of the murder, pleaded guilty July 14, 2006 to murder. He was not eligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time. He was the key witness in the trial of accomplice Ted Burnett and will also be the key witness in the tiral of Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.
Ted Burnett
Ted Burnett, 49 at the time of the murder, was convicted May 23, 2008 for his part in the murder of Chelsea Brooks. Burnett is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the capital murder conviction of a Wichita man who was paid to kill 14-year-old Chelsea Brooks.In appealing his conviction, Ted Burnett argued, in part, that prosecutors improperly showed gruesome autopsy photographs to the jury and misstated the states aiding and abetting law in closing arguments. The Supreme Court disagreed.Evidence at Burnetts trial showed that Brooks was nine months pregnant when...
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Ted Burnett (born c. 1957) was convicted of participating in the murder of Chelsea Brooks, who was 14 and pregnant at the time of her murder in June of 2006 in Wichita, KS. Brooks' boyfriend, Elgin Ray Robinson, Jr. (then 19) is accused of orchestrating the murder with Burnett and Everett Gentry (then 17).
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