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In the late summer of 2016, the quiet of a south Kansas City walking trail was broken by a grim discovery. On August 19, the body of 54-year-old John W. Palmer, a white male, was found by a pedestrian in a wooded area near Bannister Road and Lydia Avenue. The Kansas City Police Department was called to the scene, and it was soon determined that Palmer’s death was not of natural causes, launching a homicide investigation into the life and untimely end of a man remembered by his stepson as a che ...
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