Woman tried twice for 2002 double murder will face third trial, but judge reduces bond
CBSN
A woman accused in the 2002 double murder of her ex-husband and his fiancée is scheduled to face trial for a third time in February, but may be released from incarceration for the first time since her arrest in 2011.
Shawnee County Judge Cheryl Rios reduced Dana Chandler's bond from $1 million to $350,000 on Sept. 29, four weeks after her second trial ended in a hung jury. Chandler would need at least $35,000 in cash and collateral to cover the bond and be released from Shawnee County Jail, where she has been held since the Kansas Supreme Court overturned her first conviction in 2018.
Rios denied a defense motion seeking an acquittal in the case, which stems from the killings of Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness. The pair were found gunned down in Harkness' Topeka home 20 years ago.
