About a year after Joan Meyer’s death, independent prosecutors have said the former police chief will be charged.
Emily Palmer is a Senior Crime Writer at PEOPLE, where she has been a reporter since 2023. Her work has frequently appeared in The New York Times. She has also been published in The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan Magazine and ELLE Magazine.Joan Meyer confronts local law enforcement officers who searched the newspaper matriarch's home on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, following an unpublished investigation into a local businesswoman.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Bennett and Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson, who investigated the case over the last year, both said by email that they could not further comment on the ongoing civil and upcoming criminal proceedings., emailed Cody, who was then the police chief, requesting comment after the newspaper had obtained from a “source” a local businesswoman's driving record, according to the report.
In a statement to PEOPLE, Melissa Underwood of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation – which later handed over the case to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation – said that Cody "did not coordinate the search warrants" with her office "as he claimed," and that as a result "the KBI did not review or approve the warrants executed at the Marion County Record or at the homes of the accused subjects in Marion.
Prosecutors found that while “one could assume that, but for the execution of the warrant and the consequent extreme upset this caused to Mrs. Meyer, that she would not or might not have died on August 12, 2023,” such a presumption was not enough to lead to any sort of conviction connected to her death.
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