By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Dana Chandler took the witness stand again on Monday to testify in her own defense. She is being tried for the double-homicide of her ex-husband Michael Sisco and his fiancée, Karen Harkness.

The trial for the July 6, 2002, murders is taking place in Pottawatomie County, after concerns about influence from media coverage in Shawnee County. Chandler is defending herself in the trial, and it is it the third time she is being tried for the crimes.

Chandler said she initially decided to become a pro se defendant so that she could personally get access to all of the evidence in the case. A pro se defendant is someone who declines counsel.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Dana Chandler took the witness stand again on Monday to testify in her own defense. She is being tried for the double-homicide of her ex-husband Michael Sisco and his fiancée, Karen Harkness.

The trial for the July 6, 2002, murders is taking place in Pottawatomie County, after concerns about influence from media coverage in Shawnee County. Chandler is defending herself in the trial, and it is it the third time she is being tried for the crimes.

Chandler said she initially decided to become a pro se defendant so that she could personally get access to all of the evidence in the case. A pro se defendant is someone who declines counsel.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Dana Chandler took the witness stand again on Monday to testify in her own defense. She is being tried for the double-homicide of her ex-husband Michael Sisco and his fiancée, Karen Harkness.

The trial for the July 6, 2002, murders is taking place in Pottawatomie County, after concerns about influence from media coverage in Shawnee County. Chandler is defending herself in the trial, and it is it the third time she is being tried for the crimes.

Chandler said she initially decided to become a pro se defendant so that she could personally get access to all of the evidence in the case. A pro se defendant is someone who declines counsel.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Former coworkers of a woman charged with murdering her ex-husband and his fiancee said she was difficult to work with, according to court testimony Wednesday.

Former Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Raymond Lundeen on Wednesday said he visited the place Dana Chandler used to work after he was brought on to investigate the 2002 killings of Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness.

Chandler is charged with killing Sisco and Harkness in Topeka, but she’s in court in Pottawatomie County with local jurors after a Shawnee County District Court judge granted a change of venue for her third trial. Chandler, who is representing herself after firing her defense attorneys before opening statements, was convicted in 2012, but an appeals court overturned it in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Former coworkers of a woman charged with murdering her ex-husband and his fiancee said she was difficult to work with, according to court testimony Wednesday.

Former Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Raymond Lundeen on Wednesday said he visited the place Dana Chandler used to work after he was brought on to investigate the 2002 killings of Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness.

Chandler is charged with killing Sisco and Harkness in Topeka, but she’s in court in Pottawatomie County with local jurors after a Shawnee County District Court judge granted a change of venue for her third trial. Chandler, who is representing herself after firing her defense attorneys before opening statements, was convicted in 2012, but an appeals court overturned it in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — A woman accused of murdering her ex-husband and his fiancée watched the victims’ houses and confronted them before their deaths, according to her daughter.

Hailey Seel, the adult daughter of Michael Sisco and Dana Chandler, continued her testimony Friday in Chandlers trial for the double-murder of Sisco and his fiancée, Karen Harkness, in July 2002.

Chandler is charged with killing Sisco and Harkness in Topeka, but she’s in court in Pottawatomie County with local jurors after a Shawnee County District Court judge granted a change of venue for her third trial. Chandler, who is representing herself after firing her defense attorneys before opening statements, was convicted in 2012, but an appeals court overturned it in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — The adult children of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his fiancee in 2002 testified Thursday to their interactions with their mother before and after the murders.

Dana Chandler is charged with murdering Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness in July 2002 in Topeka, but she’s in court in Pottawatomie County with local jurors after a Shawnee County District Court judge granted a change of venue for her third trial. Chandler, who is representing herself after firing her defense attorneys before opening statements, was convicted in 2012, but the Kansas Supreme Court overturned it in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

Michael Sisco’s sister, Cathy Boots, and brother-in-law, Mark Boots, also testified Thursday along with Dustin Sisco and Hailey Seel, the children Chandler and Michael Sisco had together.

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By Rose Gruenbacher

WESTMORELAND — Testimony from material witnesses continued Tuesday in Pottawatomie County for a trial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband and his fiancée in Topeka in 2002.

Dana Chandler was originally convicted in 2012 of the murder of Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness, but her convictions were overturned in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

She is now representing herself and being tried for a third time.

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A murder trial garnering national attention continued Friday in Westmoreland after pausing Tuesday when the defendant’s sisters were involved in a fatal car crash.

Dana Chandler is charged with murdering her ex-husband and his fiancée in 2002 in Topeka. This will be the third time Chandler has been tried for the alleged crimes. She was convicted in 2012, her convictions were overturned in 2018, and her second trial ended in a hung jury in 2022.

A Shawnee County District Court judge granted a change of venue for the third trial, which is in Pottawatomie County with local jurors.

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