Quadruple homicides in Wichita aren’t common, but there have been a few of them in the city’s history. Sunday’s shootings that killed five men — including the shooter — are just the latest.

Wichita police said the five men were all related to or known to the shooter. They identified the victims as Anthony Stickney, 67; Donald Dodge, 66; Terry Meyer, 55; and Alan Young, 39, of Wichita. Police believe Joshua Stickney, 42, shot the other four before killing himself.

No motive has been released for the shootings.

The circumstances behind the shooting are not known. Anthony and Joshua were father and son, Dodge was Joshua’s friend and neighbor, Meyer was Joshua’s stepfather and Young was another neighbor of Joshua’s, WPD Capt. Aaron Moses said. The bodies were found in three separate homes in south Wichita.

“The preliminary ballistics examination provided the presumptive conclusion that the firearm located next to Joshua is the firearm used in all of the shootings,” Moses said.

Here’s a look at other Wichita quadruple murders over the past half-century:

The Carr Brothers

On December 15, 2000, brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr invaded a home in east Wichita. For hours, they terrorized the five people inside before taking them to a field in northeast Wichita.

The Carrs were convicted of robbing, sexually assaulting and killing Aaron Sander, 29, Brad Heyka, 27, Jason Befort, 26, and Heather Muller, aged 25, and for wounding a fifth victim. execution-style shootings on a snow-covered football field at 29th North and Greenwich. Around the same time, they robbed and robbed a 23-year-old man and shot and killed Wichita Symphony cellist Linda “Ann” Walenta, 55.

The brothers were found guilty of capital murder, among other charges and received the death penalty.

In 2014, The Kansas Supreme Court reversed the death sentences of the Carr brothers, in which they would instead serve life in prison without parole. two years later, The US Supreme Court was restored the death penalty of the brothers.

But for years, the brothers have continued to challenge the sentences. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett previously said the brothers would continue to appeal various aspects of the case for years to come.

In April 2024, a Sedgwick County judge denied a request by Jonathan Carr, now 44, and Reginald Carr, now 46, to be convicted of the murders.

“The Forgotten Four”

Just eight days before the Carr brothers were killed, another tragedy occurred in Wichita.

On December 7, 2000, Cornelius Oliver shot and killed four people in an east Wichita duplex. Relatives found the victims’ bodies, and Oliver was arrested at his brother’s house later that day with blood still on his shoes.

The victims include his estranged girlfriend, Raeshawnda Wheaton, 18; Wheaton’s roommate, 17-year-old Odessa Ford; Ford’s cousin Quincy Williams, 17; and another man, 19-year-old Jermaine Levy.

Oliver, then 19, was dating Wheaton. They apparently had a violent relationship.

According to news reports at the time, Oliver shot and killed Wheaton as she clutched a pillow and huddled in a bedroom, begging for her life and saying “I love you. I love you.”

Three of her friends were killed before that. Ford was shot while trying to escape; Williams and Levy were each shot in the back of the head while sitting on a couch playing a video game.

Oliver confessed to the crimes and was convicted four counts of first degree murder. He is currently incarcerated at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, serving a life sentence with no chance of parole until 2140.

Oliver’s victims have been named “Forgotten Four” by some in Wichita because about a week after the shootings attention turned to the Carr brothers’ murders.

Dayton Street Murders

An attempt to recover $27.50 resulted in four people being fatally injured in 1974 in Wichita.

Beth Kuschnereit, 21, and three others were killed by James Eddie Bell on July 6, 1974. Gary Duvaul assisted Bell in the murder and was convicted.

On the day of the murders, Kuschnereit had visited her parents’ home in south Wichita. He later met with a group of friends, including Bell and Duvaul.

The group drove to a house on Dayton Avenue near Kellogg and Seneca to retrieve $27.50 that one of the friends said had been stolen. Kuschnereit waited in the car while everyone else went into the house.

Inside the home, Bell shot James Waltrip, 22; Oma Ray King Jr., 23; and Patricia Gindlesberger, 21.

Gindlesberger was still alive after being shot, so Duvaul cut his throat, police said. Kuschnereit was still in the car and didn’t know what had just happened.

She was taken to an abandoned livestock shed on a nearby Butler County farm. Kuschnereit knelt and prayed for two minutes before Bell shot him in the head. Her body was found three months later.

Bell was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to five consecutive life terms. The murders took place two years after the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty.

He has been denied parole at every hearing since he became eligible in 1989. He died in prison on July 16, 2019, at the age of 74, Kansas Department of Corrections records show.

Duvaul was convicted and paroled in 1989 in Oklahoma, where he died in 2017.

The Otero family and BTK

Dennis Rader, known as BTK serial killerterrorized Wichita from 1974 to 1991. He was convicted in August 2005 of 10 counts of first-degree murder.

Rader was 28 when he killed his first victims, the Oteros, in their northeast Wichita home on January 15, 1974. The victims included parents Joseph and Julie Otero, 38 and 34, and two of their children, Josephine, age 11. and Joseph II, aged 9.

The bodies of the victims were discovered by the family’s three older children, who had been at school.

Rader killed six more people – all women – from 1974 to 1991. He was arrested on February 26, 2005, in Park City after resurfaces in March 2004.

Retired, he was about to “quietly slip off the face of the earth,” as he put it, never to be heard from again until he saw a story in The Wichita Eagle on Jan. 11, 2004, about the 30th anniversary of the Otero family crimes. He was “kind of bored” now that his kids were grown and gone, Rader said, and he couldn’t help it.

“That really stirred it,” Rader told a psychologist hired to determine whether the man who confessed to 10 murders as Wichita’s serial killer was insane.

In the notes left behind, Rader gave himself the name BTK, which stands for “Bind Them, Torture Them, Kill Them.”

Today, Rader, 79, is serving 10 consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility with no chance of parole until February 2180, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records.

Contributing: Wichita Eagle archives