The following are the newspaper articles that
appeared in The Kansas City Star, the Olathe Daily News, and the Independence
Examiner in the days immediately following the tragedy, and more that have recently
appeared in the Examiner, the Star in the year that followed.
It should be noted that many of the early stories are contradictory of each other, and that some contain outright inaccuracies. We are only printing what the newspapers have printed, and with one exception have made little effort to correct most of their errors. Click here to read accounts of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Anastasia's killer.