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Tuesday, April 23, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Local death remains a mystery
By Lara Gold Korean staff writer
Bv Lara Gold
A year after Chris Bread died there is nothing. No suspects. No motive. No arrests. No answers. No solace. There are only questions and controversy.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Lawrence police and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department have spent 13 months looking into the events that left Bread's head broken and his body tire-marked in a shallow ditch on 15th Street a mile and a half east of Lawrence.
What do they know about the death of 19-year-old Chris Bread, a breast cancer survivor?
- He was born in New York.
- He was born in Manhattan.
Nobody knows how Chris Bread died. The police and the forensic pathologist's reports contradict each other. The pathologist says Bread died of a hit-and-run accident. Police say it could have been an assault.
Mysteries still shroud detective work. Steps that were commonly taken in other cases were not taken in Bread's. People who saw Bread the night of his death were never questioned. Evidence that generally provides answers in hit-and-run cases only seems to raise more in this one.
Nobody knows why Chris Bread died. Skinheads and American Indians in Lawrence scoff at the idea that he might have been a motive in the case.
A year ago, police brought in Kris Sperry, a forensic pathologist from Atlanta to help with the case.
"We are still pretty much where we started a year ago," said Loren Anderson, Douglas County Sheriff.
Sperry concluded that Bread's injuries were typical of a hit-and-run accident. He wrote that that a large truck or a truck, van, killed Bread.
Sperry examined photographs of Bread's body, the ditch where his body was found and the autopsy report.
However, Anderson said Bread's injuries were so extensive that they
Anderson said the police might never be able to determine how Chris Bread died.
The KBI and the Lawrence police have asked questions and answered Anderson.
He said Bread's death had not been classified as an assault or a hit-and-run accident.
No suspects, however, have been found in any of the three possible scenarios.
Bread's death could have been an assault, an intentional hit-and-run or an unintentional hit-and-run, he said.
Zack Smith, a local skinhead, said the police tried to blame the skinheads for Bread's death.
He said the police grilled him for three hours to see whether he would confess something.
Charles Cornelius, a student at Haskell Indian Junior College, thinks blaming the skinheads for the death is ludicrous.
could not be called typical.
"If they are trying to blame the skins, then that's discrimination." he
Matthew Ute, a former Haskell student, agreed.
However, Anderson said there must have been a miscommunication because he said he never told Don Bierling that skinheads were the main suspect.
Don Bread, Chris Bread's father,
said Anderson originally told him that skinheads were the main suspect. He said they were 'bad guys' who'd love to see his son alive.
He said the skinheads and the American Indians did not fight the night Bread died. He said he never bred Bread's death was a hate crime.
Anderson said he was not blaming anyone and had no suspects in the case.
But no one knows whether Bread
Dogs were never taken to track Bread's scent to verify whether he had walked from the Outhouse, about miles east of Lawrence on 15th Street.
was walking home that night or if his body was dumped in the ditch.
Anderson said police had access to dogs and had used them on other
"We didn't realize there was going to be a controversy over how he got there," Anderson said referring to the ditch Bread was found in. "I don't want to make excuses for why we are dogs. No investigation is perfect."
Police also reported they had interviewed everyone who was there that
"We are thinking we have talked to everybody." Anderson said.
However, Cornelius said he saw Bread that night and had never been able to eat it.
The witness problem is one of several threads in the investigation that have simply run out. Evidence that usually answers questions in a hit-and-run case has left investigators clueless.
For instance. Anderson said it was unusual that no skid marks or car parts were found in the area.
Tire tread marks were imprinted across Bread's right leg.
Also, when Bread died, he was wearing a thick, black leather motorcycle jacket. Anderson said the jacket had been lab tested for paint specks, which are vital in most hit-and-run cases to help identify the vehicle. No color or car description has been released by police.
Anderson declined comment on the lab reports.
Anderson also said nothing had been determined from studying photographs of the tread marks on Bread's leg.
He said tread marks usually helped pinpoint the type of vehicle.
Nor has anything been determined from other clues found in the area.
A blue flannel shirt was found in a field near the ditch where the body was found. Don Bread said it was Chris's shirt. However, Anderson said Don Bread had not seen Chris for a few days, so police were not certain the shirt belonged to Chris. Anderson said the shirt was taken into evidence and lab-tested, but he declined to comment on the results.
Miscommunications
VanHoesen declined to comment and referred all questions to the sheriff.
Don Bread said he was told by Sheriff's Detective Bob VanHoesen that he found a depression in the field across from the Outhouse where an assault might have occurred.
Don Bread found a dime in the depression and asked the police to fingerprint it.
Anderson said he could not remember whether the brown pick-up truck had been found.
Two people at the Outhouse that night said they saw a fight between two American Indians. They both said one of the Indians had been driving in a brown pick-up truck One Indian had stopped for the Indians may have been Chris Bread.
Anderson said he could not remember whether lab tests were done on the coin.
In the end, the American Indian community remains upset, even angry, about the Chris Bread investigation.
Anderson said he had not given up. "I really, truly feel someone else knows about what happened to Chris Bread," he said.
Cornelius said that, as a Haskell student, he was disturbed by the many questions that linger a year after Bread's death.
"The police have not come up with anything." he said.
Bv Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
There was drinking, slam dancing and, sometime after 12:30 a.m., a dawn.
Unanswered questions linger in matter of Bread's post-midnight road fatality
What follows is a reconstruction of Chris Bread's last night.
It was supposed to be a night for a good time. Haskell students, local skinheads and punk rockers had gathered at the Outhouse to see the bands Gotic Slam and Laas Rocket.
Bread asked Shawna Lee, a friend from Haskell Indian Junior College, whether she was still going with him to the Outhouse. She was supposed to drive, but she told him she had decided not to go.
Bread was moving his belongings from his cousin's house into his new house near Haskell.
■ 8:30 p.m.
What is known: Bread took a taxi to the Outhouse by himself. He paid the bouncer a $2 cover charge at the gate but appeared hesitant to go
What is not known? Why wouldn't Bread go with other friends to the Outhouse? Whom did he meet? Whom was he talking to?
9:30 p.m.
What is known: Charles Cornelius, a Haskell student who knew Bread, was sitting on his car in the parking lot drinking beer. He saw Bread walk across the lot toward a group of people. He did not see who the people
people? What were they doing?
10:30-11:00 p.m.
What is not known: Who were the
What is known: While Zack Smith, a skinhead, was leaving the Outhouse with Bob Cutler, a punk rocker, they saw two American Indians fighting on the right side of the Outhouse in a barren cornfield. One of the Indians had been driving in a brown pick-up truck. Smith said.
Cutler, who was driving, said he did not pay much attention. But he said it had looked like two drunken friends rough-housing with each other. Smith and Cutler left, not thinking twice about it.
Smith said he recognized Bread from his picture in the newspaper the next day as one of the Indians who had been fighting. No one else has verified that Bread was one of the Indians fighting that night.
What is not known: Was it a fight?
Were they fighting about? What was the outcome? Was one of the easily Bread?
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What is known: Band members told police that they saw Bread leaving the Outhouse. They said that they offered him a ride home but that he refused.
What is not known: Did he walk?
Why would he refuse a ride on a cold March night when it was a two-and-a-half-mile walk home? Did he ait into a fight?
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What is known: A passing motorist found Bread's body in a shallow ditch about a mile and a half down the road. An officer who was injured shorties were notified within minutes.
What is not known: How did Bread die? Was he hit intentionally? Was he assaulted and then dumped in a cave? Are there any witnesses to his death?
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