Kansas and Virginia: Badges, Betrayal, and Frontier Justice

Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary — fifty states, fifty crimes, two hundred and fifty years. This double--

feature episode covers Kansas and Virginia.

A city marshal with a gold-engraved Winchester and a secret past as a wanted killer. A mountain doctor who

preached Sunday sermons and planned a massacre on a mountain road. Two men who wore badges. Two

communities that trusted them. Two moments when the authority collapsed and the man underneath it was

exposed. This is the story of Henry Newton Brown and Marshall Benton "Doc" Taylor — and the people they

killed.

The Victims

**E.W. Wylie Payne** was the president of the Medicine Valley Bank in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. He was a

Missouri-born businessman, married to Susan, and the father of nine children. He was shot during a robbery on

April 30, 1884, and died the following day — May 1, 1884. **George Geppert**, the bank's chief cashier, was

shot twice during the same robbery. Dying, he sealed the bank vault with his own hands. The robbers escaped