Blue Valley Southwest Chris Harris, jr., Andover Brain Hawthorne, jr., St. Andover Central Jordan Dale, sr., Hays Jaikuan Darthard, sr., Leavenworth Sid Duplissis, sr., Salina Central Mason English, so., Pittsburg Trayvon Foster, sr., Kansas City Washington Jaden Gustafson, sr., Maize Sebastian Hamm, sr. Ketraleus Aldridge, jr., Highland Park Xavier Alexander, jr., Topeka West Sincere Austin, jr., Topeka West Dylan Blazer, jr., Mill Valley Kaeden Bonner, jr., Topeka Seaman Mikey Brand, so., Bishop Carroll Skyler Clevenger, sr. Roane, sr., Blue Valley North Garrett Robertson, jr., Hutchinson Brisyn Robinson, sr., Olathe West Joey Robinson, sr., Blue Valley Northwest Jason Rodriquez, jr., Kansas City Harmon Tae Rosales, sr., Garden City Pierce Ross, jr., Shawnee Mission West Cooper Scheck, sr., Dodge City Aidan Sowers, sr., Dodge City Aiden Sullivan, jr., Olathe Northwest Dawson Taylor, sr., Dodge City Terrance Tedder, sr., Junction City Sam Ungashick, sr., Blue Valley West Jaalan Watson, fr., Olathe North Jack Wilson, jr., Manhattan Zion Young, jr., Campus.Ĭoach of the Year -Craig Cox, Topeka Seaman Neal, sr., Wichita South Jack Ratigan, sr., Blue Valley West J.D. Citizens, the media, and law enforcement agencies work hand in hand to solve crime throughout the Wichita/Sedgwick County area.Jack Bachelor, jr., Washburn Rural Kevin Brown, sr., Wichita Northwest Andrell Burton, so., Campus Zeph Clark, jr., Shawnee Mission South Dash Cleveland, sr., Lawrence Free State Corbin Dozier, sr., Olathe South La’Zel Evans, sr., Kansas City Wyandotte Kaeson Fisher-Brown, jr., Derby Chase Harris, sr., Wichita Heights Emmett Hill, sr., Shawnee Mission East Harrison Hughes, sr., Shawnee Mission South Kee’on Hutton, sr., Wichita Northwest Howard Johnson, sr., Junction City Caden Kaberline, sr., Olathe South Brett Kaemmer, sr., Olathe East Dre Kemp, sr., Wichita Heights Pearse Long, sr., Lawrence Geremiah Moore, sr., Wichita Northwest T.J. Today, the program continues to be highly successful with tips leading to numerous arrests every year. was elected as the first Chairman of the Board and Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County was underway. Larry Schauf, former Vice President of Government Relations of Pizza Hut, Inc. Representatives from the Wichita Independent Business Association, Independent Insurance Agents, Insurance Women of Wichita, and others were recruited. An immediate search began for interested citizens to serve on the board. Pizza Hut also contributed $5,000 to the reward account to launch the program. This included obtaining a tax exempt status from the IRS. Bill Kentling, former Public Relations Director of Pizza Hut, provided initial legal assistance required in setting up the program. When the officers returned, efforts in Wichita begun to identify groups that would be interested in starting a program locally. The detectives met with Crime Stoppers founder, Albuquerque Police Detective Greg MacAleese and learned more about the operation. Umansky met with then Wichita Police Chief Richard LaMunyon, and soon after two WPD officers traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He felt that Wichita should have a similar program. Umansky had learned of the successful Crime Stoppers program operating in New Mexico and parts of Texas. Source: WikipediaĮarly in 1980, KAKE-TV President, Martin Umansky returned from a meeting of national television executives with a new public service program suggestion. This system focused on stimulating community involvement and participation, taking advantage of every possible media opportunity, especially electronic media, to publicize unsolved crimes and offering cash rewards for information leading to an arrest and/or conviction. So he helped design a system where the public could anonymously provide details of the events. Detective MacAleese then realized that fear and apathy were the primary reasons why the public tended not to get involved. The person calling said that he did not want to get involved so he had not called earlier. Within 72 hours, a person called in identifying a car leaving the scene at high speed and he had noted its registration. The re-enactment offered a reward of $ 1,000.00 for information leading to the arrest of the killers. After two weeks the police had no information when out of desperation Detective Greg MacAleese approached the local television station requesting a reconstruction of the crime. Crime Stoppers first began in Albuquerque, New Mexico during July 1975 which saw the fatal shooting of a female university student working one night at a local filling station.
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