The widow of a Board of Public Utilities executive and Wyandotte County attorney are suing a Kansas Bureau of Investigation detective for allegedly making statements to a grand jury that linked them to the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a political boss.
The Kansas City Star reported that Jill Conklin, the widow of ex-BPU chief administrative officer Marc Conklin, and Rod Turner, a former Wyandotte County counselor who did work for the utility, claim that KBI special agent Bill Delaney falsely implicated the two men in the killing of Wyandotte County Democratic Party Chairman Chuck Thompson.
From the Star:
Both actions allege that Delaney falsely implicated the men in theIn October 2008, a grand jury indicted Conklin and Turner for allegedly stealing more than $400,000 from the utility. Conklin allegedly approved payment of phony bills for legal services that TurnerThompson murder during his testimony before a grand jury looking into
irregularities at the utilities board. Both similarly claim that Delaney
made repeated statements before the grand jury that Turner, Conklin and
others either were responsible for Thompson's killing or had knowledge
that might help solve the case.
Those statements were prejudicial, Conklin claims, and influenced thegrand jury's decision to bring the indictments.
had submitted between September 1, 2003, and April 30, 2008.
In March 2009, Conklin committed suicide. A judge later threw out the charges against Turner, citing "prejudicial statements" made by Delaney to the grand jury.
The WyCo DA is appealing the judge's ruling in the Kansas Court of Appeals.
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Delaney knows about a lot of coverup and is himself invovled with some coverups; involving other law enforcement. Have him take a lie-detector about Randy and Harold Leach case and the people he has threatened with death if they talk. Even Harolds law-enforcement brother thugs are invovled in things that go back many years. Delaney gives our judicial system a bad name.
kudos to justin kendall for his original reporting on the topic of the stolen fees more than a year ago.it was great investigative reporting,too bad no one else has really checked into this scandal,especially the bpu board,the ug,and the da
Just some guessing... I do not see a 40 or 50 something doing the hit.
It was probably a 25-35 something... a nephew.. or cousin.. who knows the area well... knew how to scoot out of there, the dynamics of the area... etc.
I also don't see the North End (Italian MOB)doing it on a paid hit... WYCO has always done their own rackets, gambling etc.. A North ender will tell you they always stayed away from Strawberry Hill.
And... the North Enders are too smart to be calling the house two or three times for the meeting. Even in the old days.
My guess is that an inexperienced hitman has been largely lucky thus far... going undetected. (but i think delaney knows)
This was a passion killing... hit money was not the motive for the killer.. and a code of silence was established prior to the hit.
The hit man is probably doing reasonably well now financially...beyond his intelligence.. right here in KCK... People owe him.
WYCO has no smart hitmen but they are smart on code of silence stuff.
Delaney is onto something and he used the indictment to rattle a few cages... and get to the truth. He knows.
Based on Conklin's age alone... he was a college student when the murder happened..But... that does not mean he wasn't directly or indirectly connected to who did it. I belive that Conklin probably had no clue. I have no clue... but I would not be surprised if I have not met or know the killer myself.
where did the money they stole go?the actual figure is probably closer to 3/4 of a million.they passed a lot of it on to others-daggett,scherzer,lynch,bpu board members,politicians,and others.the bpu board is certainly not trying to recover the rate payers money!
Jill Conklin's attorney is a partner with Graves, Marcus, Bartle & Garrett. It is a firm chock full of former US Attorneys...including Todd Graves. My guess is they don't accept weak cases.
Justin, thanks for picking up the story,Your readers might want to check out my piece from way in June detailing how the KBI guy has been at this since the day of the murder:
http://bit.ly/9eMvqO
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