Less than an hour from K-State’s campus, a new HBO documentary hits remarkably close to home.
“A Killer Story” premiered Sept. 10 and educates the public about the case of Dana Chandler. Convicted in 2011, Chandler was accused of the 2002 double murder of her ex-husband Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness in Topeka.
As prosecutors were building their case against Chandler, citizen sleuth Eileen Umbehr from Alma, Kansas, saw a different narrative unfold. The lack of physical evidence tying Chandler to the scene intrigued Umbehr and her husband, Keen, and they began investigating case records, sparking a multi-year mission to prove Chandler’s innocence — a pursuit that led her to share her knowledge with K-State’s true crime class on Oct. 22…