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Help Carrody Buchhorn after wrongful conviction

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My name is Kurt Look, I'm a long time resident of Lawrence Kansas and I'm trying to help Carrody and Tim Buchhorn recover from Carrody's wrongful conviction of murder. Carrody was accused of killing a 9-month-old baby that she had cared for and loved. Though Carrody was innocent and had never done anything to harm the child, the Douglas County Coroner made up a crazy story and fake science to trick a jury. Carrody has spent the past 5 years exposing the truth.

Carrody's husband Tim, a US Army Master Sergeant who was on overseas deployment when Carrody was convicted, has been working hard to financially hold the family together in Carrody's absence. Carrody was charged with murder in April 2017 and placed on house arrest. After she was convicted she was in the Douglas County Jail for 16 months and was sent to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Topeka after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She stayed there for 22 months, contracting COVID during the COVID pandemic.

Carrody's murder conviction was reversed when the Kansas Court of Appeals found her lawyers did not do their job. In August 2021 she was released on house arrest while the State appealed to keep her in prison. Her case was finally dismissed on December 16, 2022, and she was exonerated in January 2023 when the Douglas County District Attorney revealed that the State possessed evidence that the child's death was caused by a congenital heart condition unrelated to anything Carrody did. A more complete summary of what happened can be found on the National Registry of Exonerations website. (https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6533).

Carrody has not been able to work since this saga began in September 2016. Because the community was outraged by the false charges, Tim and Carrody had to leave the home in Eudora where they had raised their two children. She has been closely confined under arrest and in jail and prison since April 2017. She no longer has a car or even a driver's license. She badly needs psychological counseling the family cannot afford. Most of the family's assets were spent on the trial in 2018 and what property they had was sold to pay the bills of the lawyers the appeals court found let her down. Their two sons, who had just started college when Carrody was charged, don't have significant financial resources.

Tim and Carrody need help. They need to pay for counseling, to buy a car for Carrody, and a downpayment on a house. At age 50, they find themselves starting-out all over again. Kansas has a statutory claim that Carrody can make against the State for her wrongful conviction. Carrody is pursuing that claim, but it will take time.

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
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  • Anonymous
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Organizer and beneficiary

Kurt Look
Organizer
Lawrence, KS
Carrody Buchhorn
Beneficiary

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