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Conviction overturned in 1974 Prairie Village murder
By DIANE CARROLL
The Kansas City Star
The Kansas Supreme Court today overturned the conviction of John Henry Horton, who was found guilty in 2004 of murdering Lizabeth Wilson, a 13-year-old Prairie Village girl, in 1974.

In the opinion, the court said that the state failed to present sufficient evidence at Horton’s preliminary hearing. Because of that, Horton should not have been bound over for trial, the ruling said.

Wilson disappeared on July 7, 1974. She was last seen in a parking lot behind Shawnee Mission East High School at 75th Street and Mission Road after leaving the Prairie Village municipal pool. Her skeletal remains were found six months later in a Lenexa field being cleared for construction.

A Johnson County District Court jury found Horton guilty of first-degree felony murder in January 2005. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years in accordance with the law in effect at the time of the murder.

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