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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