In the late summer of 2023, the quiet community of Newton, Kansas, was disturbed by a grim discovery. On September 17, the body of 31-year-old Tyler Lee Ford, a Native American male from the nearby city of Hutchinson, was found by someone passing by in the Sunset Ridge area of East Park. The specific location was a dried-out portion of the lake bed, a stark consequence of the ongoing drought conditions that had left much of the lake without water. The discovery immediately prompted a homicide in
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