Even though Webster County has seen its share of homicide, something about the Buckner tragedy was especially disturbing. Neighbors who knew Kirk well could not imagine him carrying out so hideous a crime. A sweet-tempered, outgoing kid who toiled long hours on his family's struggling dairy farm, he wasn't the sort to harbor demons. A week after Kirk and his family were buried in the cemetery at Timber Ridge Baptist Church, Jim Schnick confessed that he had killed his wife, her brother and his family and tried to pin the murder on his nephew Kirk. Though the crime itself was appalling, Schnick's attempt to traduce the dead child seemed, to many, particularly cruel. The boy had gone to his grave in disgrace.
Even though Webster County has seen its share of homicide, something about the Buckner tragedy was especially disturbing. Neighbors who knew Kirk well could not imagine him carrying out so hideous a crime. A sweet-tempered, outgoing kid who toiled long hours on his family's struggling dairy farm, he wasn't the sort to harbor demons. A week after Kirk and his family were buried in the cemetery at Timber Ridge Baptist Church, Jim Schnick confessed that he had killed his wife, her brother and his family and tried to pin the murder on his nephew Kirk. Though the crime itself was appalling, Schnick's attempt to traduce the dead child seemed, to many, particularly cruel. The boy had gone to his grave in disgrace.
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Daughter of Alfred Lee and Elizabeth Jean Beadleston Buckner
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