In the late summer of 2016, the quiet of a south Kansas City walking trail was broken by a grim discovery. On August 19, the body of 54-year-old John W. Palmer, a white male, was found by a pedestrian in a wooded area near Bannister Road and Lydia Avenue. The Kansas City Police Department was called to the scene, and it was soon determined that Palmer�s death was not of natural causes, launching a homicide investigation into the life and untimely end of a man remembered by his stepson as a cheri
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