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Shannon Martin Case - One Year Later

	See 6News reporter Karen Palmero Bledsoe's TV stories on her trip to Costa Rica during the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on May 9, May 10 and May 13 on Sunflower Broadband's Channel 6. Her dispatches back to the News Center are listed at left. Photos from Golfito. See more stories about this tragedy.

Reward almost raised for help in murder case
Friday, February 11, 2005
The mother of a Kansas University student murdered in Costa Rica nearly four years ago has managed to raise most of the reward money she promised to pay witnesses who helped convict her daughter's killers.

Witness: Slaying suspect confessed
Friday, November 14, 2003
A woman who called herself a friend of defendant Kattia Cruz testified Thursday that Cruz confessed to a role in the May 2001 slaying of Kansas University student Shannon Martin. The witness claimed she had spoken to Cruz, 29, a week after the crime at a bus station in the capital city of San José. The witness said Cruz confessed involvement in the crime and told her that she had been threatened by her two co-defendants, Luis Alberto Castro Carrillo, 33, and Rafael Zumbado Quesada, 52.

Testimony details fierce attack
Thursday, November 13, 2003
After almost two weeks of delays, the trial for suspects accused of killing Kansas University student Shannon Martin resumed Wednesday in this impoverished Pacific port town. Testimony from a forensic expert outlined a fierce struggle between Martin and her attackers. And in an unorthodox move, the judges moved their proceedings from the courtroom to the street where Martin was slain.

6News video: The trial in Shannon Martin's killing will begin soon
Thursday, November 13, 2003
The trial was delayed because of legal technicalities.

Trial date set in Costa Rica killing
Friday, September 26, 2003
A Costa Rican court has set a tentative trial date for suspects accused of killing a Kansas University student in 2001, but an attorney for the victim's family says he'll seek a delay.

Charges pile up in slaying of student
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
The push by Topekan Jeanette Stauffer for justice in the unresolved stabbing death of her daughter Shannon Martin advanced Tuesday when the three suspects fingered for the brutal slaying of the Kansas University student were presented with a second set of murder charges.

6News video: Shannon Martin murder case goes to trial
Friday, February 7, 2003
The trial will begin in six weeks.

3 suspects to be tried in slaying of student
Friday, February 7, 2003
A trial will begin within six weeks for a woman and two men accused in the stabbing death of Kansas University student Shannon Martin. Costa Rican prosecutor Erick Martinez announced the trial time frame nearly two years after the young Kansan was killed outside a Golfito, Costa Rica, nightclub and one week after Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway wrote that country's president urging authorities to seek justice in the case.

Host family erects memorial to slain KU student
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Kansas University student Shannon Martin called O'dette and Marciel Porras her Costa Rica "mama" and "papa."
"She loved them dearly," said Jeanette Stauffer, mother of Martin, who was stabbed to death May 13, 2001, during a research trip to Golfito, Costa Rica. She was staying with the Porrases, who had been her host family during a KU Study Abroad program the previous spring.

6News video report: After one year, only one arrested in connection with murder
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
6News reports from Gulfito, Costa Rica, on Jeanette Stauffer's visit. She is checking on the progress of the murder investigation into her daughter's death.

6News video report: As one year anniversary draws closer, case still unsolved
Saturday, May 11, 2002
6News reports on the ongoing investigation in the murder of Shannon Martin.

6News video report: Shannon Martin is remembered on KU's campus
Friday, May 10, 2002
It has been a year since Martin's death, and Karen Bledsoe was in Costa Rica with Shannon's mother while she tried to find answers about the murder.

Lawyer visits with Costa Rican suspect; parent returns
Saturday, May 4, 2002
By Karen Palermo Bledsoe

When Pedro Irigonegaray went Friday to talk with Katia Vanessa Cruz, he was going to ask her about the earrings. Cruz, jailed since November in connection with the slaying of Shannon Martin, may know something about how a pair of gold, pear-shaped earrings that belonged to Martin wound up at a Golfito pawn shop the day after the Kansas University student was killed there.

6News video report: Stauffer's visit winding down
Saturday, May 4, 2002
6News reports on Jeanette Stauffer's visit to Costa Rica.

Costa Rica: Witnesses recall night of Martin's death
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
By Karen Palermo Bledsoe

When Jeanette Stauffer walked the road where her daughter was slain, it was much different from the scene where Shannon Martin died. In August, new lights were placed along the service road Martin walked the May 2001 night the Kansas University senior was killed on the way to her host family's house.

6News video report: Mother of slain student can finally relax
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
6News reports on Jeanette Stauffer's visit to Costa Rica and the ongoing investigation into the murder of her daughter, Shannon Martin.

Slain daughter provides 'strength' for journey
Sunday, April 28, 2002
By Karen Palermo Bledsoe

Jeanette Stauffer today will face the hardest part of her quest for justice in the slaying of her daughter.With her husband, Brad Stauffer, and lawyer Pedro Irigonegaray, Stauffer is in Golfito, a rural port town on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.

6News video report: Shannon Martin's mother heads back to Costa Rica
Saturday, April 27, 2002
6News reports on Janette Staufer's second visit to Costa Rica.

Answers, justice on mother's itinerary
Friday, April 26, 2002
By Karen Palermo Bledsoe

Jeanette Stauffer is going to Costa Rica in search of justice.
Almost a year after her daughter was slain there, Stauffer is returning today to Costa Rica, carrying her message that more must be done to bring Shannon Martin's killer to justice.