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= Slaying victim's brother: 'Nobody deserves to be killed like that' =

Murder defendant to appear in Osage County court Friday
Posted: March 8, 2014 - 1:30pm SUBMITTED
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James Paul Harris has been charged in a cold case homicide.

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 * Osage County judge refuses to move trial in voodoo decapitation case

By Ann Marie Bush

ann.bush@cjonline.com

Topekan James Gerety was reported missing in March 2011. He was 49 years old.

The last day Gerety was seen alive was Marc

= Slaying victim's brother: 'Nobody deserves to be killed like that' =

Murder defendant to appear in Osage County court Friday
Posted: March 8, 2014 - 1:30pm SUBMITTED
 * Photos

James Paul Harris has been charged in a cold case homicide.

Related Stories

 * Osage County judge refuses to move trial in voodoo decapitation case

By Ann Marie Bush

ann.bush@cjonline.com

Topekan James Gerety was reported missing in March 2011. He was 49 years old.

The last day Gerety was seen alive was March 3, 2011, according to the National Missing Person Directory.

More than a year later, a woman hunting for mushroo

= Slaying victim's brother: 'Nobody deserves to be killed like that' =

Murder defendant to appear in Osage County court Friday
Posted: March 8, 2014 - 1:30pm SUBMITTED
 * Photos

James Paul Harris has been charged in a cold case homicide.

Related Stories

 * Osage County judge refuses to move trial in voodoo decapitation case

By Ann Marie Bush

ann.bush@cjonline.com

Topekan James Gerety was reported missing in March 2011. He was 49 years old.

The last day Gerety was seen alive was March 3, 2011, according to the National Missing Person Directory.

More than a year later, a woman hunting for mushrooms behind a shed on her property near W. 118th Court found a human skull on the ground. The property is located northwest of Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka.

Officers from the Northeast Kansas M-Squad, composed of investigators from numerous law enforcement agencies, assisted Osage County law enforcement officers in the search for more body parts.

= Slaying victim's brother: 'Nobody deserves to be killed like that' =

Murder defendant to appear in Osage County court Friday
Posted: March 8, 2014 - 1:30pm SUBMITTED
 * Photos

James Paul Harris has been charged in a cold case homicide.

Related Stories

 * Osage County judge refuses to move trial in voodoo decapitation case

By Ann Marie Bush

ann.bush@cjonline.com

Topekan James Gerety was reported missing in March 2011. He was 49 years old.

The last day Gerety was seen alive was March 3, 2011, according to the National Missing Person Directory.

More than a year later, a woman hunting for mushrooms behind a shed on her property near W. 118th Court found a human skull on the ground. The property is located northwest of Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka.

Officers from the Northeast Kansas M-Squad, composed of investigators from numerous law enforcement agencies, assisted Osage County law enforcement officers in the search for more body parts.

In days of searching in March 2012, officers recovered “numerous bones and bone fragments,” Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said at the time. Searchers drained two ponds and examined a burn pile.

Bones were sent to a morgue to determine whether they were from a human or animal. The skull eventually was sent out of state for testing.

Tom Gerety, James Gerety’s brother who lives in Nortonville, said officials had wanted him to offer a sample of DNA to see if the bones matched James Gerety’s DNA. However, the brothers were adopted and don’t share the same DNA.

“I gave them baby hair out of his baby book,” Tom Gerety said.

As prosecutors announced in October 2013 that an inmate in federal prison in Texas was charged with the premeditated first-degree murder of Gerety, they only referred to a “body part” being discovered.

DNA analysis confirmed the body part belonged to Gerety.

The two boys were adopted by Delores and Ralph Gerety and grew up in Nortonville, Tom Gerety said.

Delores Gerety died in September, just weeks before authorities announced they had made an arrest in her son’s death.

Tom Gerety said the family didn’t learn about the arrest until they heard about it on the news.

James Gerety, the oldest of the Gerety brothers, attended Jefferson County North

In days of searching in March 2012, officers recovered “numerous bones and bone fragments,” Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said at the time. Searchers drained two ponds and examined a burn pile.

Bones were sent to a morgue to determine whether they were from a human or animal. The skull eventually was sent out of state for testing.

Tom Gerety, James Gerety’s brother who lives in Nortonville, said officials had wanted him to offer a sample of DNA to see if the bones matched James Gerety’s DNA. However, the brothers were adopted and don’t share the same DNA.

“I gave them baby hair out of his baby book,” Tom Gerety said.

As prosecutors announced in October 2013 that an inmate in federal prison in Texas was charged with the premeditated first-degree murder of Gerety, they only referred to a “body part” being discovered.

DNA analysis confirmed the body part belonged to Gerety.

The two boys were adopted by Delores and Ralph Gerety and grew up in Nortonville, Tom Gerety said.

Delores Gerety died in September, just weeks before authorities announced they had made an arrest in her son’s death.

Tom Gerety said the family didn’t learn about the arrest until they heard about it on the news.

James Gerety, the oldest of the Gerety brothers, attended Jefferson County North

ms behind a shed on her property near W. 118th Court found a human skull on the ground. The property is located northwest of Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka.

Officers from the Northeast Kansas M-Squad, composed of investigators from numerous law enforcement agencies, assisted Osage County law enforcement officers in the search for more body parts.

In days of searching in March 2012, officers recovered “numerous bones and bone fragments,” Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said at the time. Searchers drained two ponds and examined a burn pile.

Bones were sent to a morgue to determine whether they were from a human or animal. The skull eventually was sent out of state for testing.

Tom Gerety, James Gerety’s brother who lives in Nortonville, said officials had wanted him to offer a sample of DNA to see if the bones matched James Gerety’s DNA. However, the brothers were adopted and don’t share the same DNA.

“I gave them baby hair out of his baby book,” Tom Gerety said.

As prosecutors announced in October 2013 that an inmate in federal prison in Texas was charged with the premeditated first-degree murder of Gerety, they only referred to a “body part” being discovered.

DNA analysis confirmed the body part belonged to Gerety.

The two boys were adopted by Delores and Ralph Gerety and grew up in Nortonville, Tom Gerety said.

Delores Gerety died in September, just weeks before authorities announced they had made an arrest in her son’s death.

Tom Gerety said the family didn’t learn about the arrest until they heard about it on the news.

James Gerety, the oldest of the Gerety brothers, attended Jefferson County North

h 3, 2011, according to the National Missing Person Directory.

More than a year later, a woman hunting for mushrooms behind a shed on her property near W. 118th Court found a human skull on the ground. The property is located northwest of Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka.

Officers from the Northeast Kansas M-Squad, composed of investigators from numerous law enforcement agencies, assisted Osage County law enforcement officers in the search for more body parts.

In days of searching in March 2012, officers recovered “numerous bones and bone fragments,” Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said at the time. Searchers drained two ponds and examined a burn pile.

Bones were sent to a morgue to determine whether they were from a human or animal. The skull eventually was sent out of state for testing.

Tom Gerety, James Gerety’s brother who lives in Nortonville, said officials had wanted him to offer a sample of DNA to see if the bones matched James Gerety’s DNA. However, the brothers were adopted and don’t share the same DNA.

“I gave them baby hair out of his baby book,” Tom Gerety said.

As prosecutors announced in October 2013 that an inmate in federal prison in Texas was charged with the premeditated first-degree murder of Gerety, they only referred to a “body part” being discovered.

DNA analysis confirmed the body part belonged to Gerety.

The two boys were adopted by Delores and Ralph Gerety and grew up in Nortonville, Tom Gerety said.

Delores Gerety died in September, just weeks before authorities announced they had made an arrest in her son’s death.

Tom Gerety said the family didn’t learn about the arrest until they heard about it on the news.

James Gerety, the oldest of the Gerety brothers, attended Jefferson County North

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Slaying victim's brother: 'Nobody deserves to be killed like that'

Murder defendant to appear in Osage County court Friday

Posted: March 8, 2014 - 1:30pm

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By Ann Marie Bush

ann.bush@cjonline.com

Topekan James Gerety was reported missing in March 2011. He was 49 years old.

The last day Gerety was seen alive was March 3, 2011, according to the National Missing Person Directory.

More than a year later, a woman hunting for mushrooms behind a shed on her property near W. 118th Court found a human skull on the ground. The property is located northwest of Carbondale, about 15 miles south of Topeka.

Officers from the Northeast Kansas M-Squad, composed of investigators from numerous law enforcement agencies, assisted Osage County law enforcement officers in the search for more body parts.

In days of searching in March 2012, officers recovered “numerous bones and bone fragments,” Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said at the time. Searchers drained two ponds and examined a burn pile.

Bones were sent to a morgue to determine whether they were from a human or animal. The skull eventually was sent out of state for testing.

Tom Gerety, James Gerety’s brother who lives in Nortonville, said officials had wanted him to offer a sample of DNA to see if the bones matched James Gerety’s DNA. However, the brothers were adopted and don’t share the same DNA.

“I gave them baby hair out of his baby book,” Tom Gerety said.

As prosecutors announced in October 2013 that an inmate in federal prison in Texas was charged with the premeditated first-degree murder of Gerety, they only referred to a “body part” being discovered.

DNA analysis confirmed the body part belonged to Gerety.

The two boys were adopted by Delores and Ralph Gerety and grew up in Nortonville, Tom Gerety said.

Delores Gerety died in September, just weeks before authorities announced they had made an arrest in her son’s death.

Tom Gerety said the family didn’t learn about the arrest until they heard about it on the news.

James Gerety, the oldest of the Gerety brothers, attended Jefferson County North