![]() ![]() Pastor Smith recalled that each person then stated what they thought the best way to kill themselves would be when there was insurance available. Carolyn Smith replied, "Well, I'd have to be very careful of how," and everyone laughed. Pastor Smith made a joking remark to his wife that he would now have to watch out for her because she would "do him in" for the insurance money. She told Carolyn and Pat about a time when a preschool teacher in Bird's church told her she used to wish Sandra would die in a car wreck so she would have Pastor Bird.Īt another time during the conference, the Smiths and the Birds were sitting around relaxing and having drinks when the talk turned in a joking manner to new life insurance policies the couples had obtained through the Lutheran Church. Sandra had lost weight and appeared to be depressed about her husband's relationships with other women. Their wives, Pat Boison and Carolyn Smith, were alone with Sandra one afternoon when Sandra cried and said she was upset because Bird was spending too much time with his church secretary, Lorna Anderson. Al Boison and Charles Smith, along with Bird, were ministers. Bird now claims newly discovered evidence shows Sandra committed suicide by purposefully driving the car over the embankment.Ī week before her death, Sandra and Thomas Bird were at a church conference with two couples who were friends of theirs. The jury refused to accept Bird's theory at trial that Sandra died as a result of a car accident. Further investigation indicated, however, that she had been killed first and the car had been pushed down the embankment as a coverup. Her car was rolled over an embankment so that it first appeared she missed the bridge and was thrown into the water when her car door was torn loose. The State's theory of the murder was that Bird fatally beat Sandra and threw her body off a bridge. Bird was convicted of the July 17, 1983, murder of his wife, Sandra Bird. We upheld Bird's jury conviction of first-degree premeditated murder, K.S.A. ![]() This is a criminal action wherein appellant Thomas Bird appeals the district court's denial of his motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. The opinion of the court was delivered by ![]()
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