Beverly Logan (10 of Clubs, Kansas)

[tense music] It was around 3:30 in the afternoon on Monday, January 21st, 2008, when the Salina Police Department received a call from some employees at a senior living community called the Presbyterian Manor.

They were concerned about their coworker, Beverly Logan, who'd been a no-call, no-show.

Within, like, an hour of her not showing up for work, they immediately called because of the fact that it was just very uncharacteristic of her to not be at work on time.

That's Melissa Short, who at the time was a detective with the Salina PD.

She told us Beverly was supposed to arrive at work at 2:00 PM, and it was more than just her being late that was cause for concern.

Beverly didn't drive, so she normally scheduled a local rideshare bus to get her to work.

Well, that bus arrived at her home at around 1:18 PM.

But by 1:35 PM she hadn't come out, so the driver left.

She was so routine that the bus driver called her work to see if she'd gotten there some other way.

But of course, she hadn't.

After getting that call and being unable to reach Beverly on her home phone, her coworkers knew that something must be very wrong.

So Salina PD sent a patrol officer out to Beverly's small bungalow house that sat on a corner near a convenience store.

The officer walked up to the front porch, but when he knocked on her door, he found that it was ajar.

When you enter into the residence, you're immediately in what's considered the living room and dining room area.

It's one large room.

If you go to the left off of that, there's bedroom number one, and then I believe there's another bedroom back behind that, and then a bathroom.

Straight back from the living room and then dining room is the kitchen.

Beverly was in the kitchen, lying motionless on the floor.

The officer knew that what he was seeing was no accident and that Beverly was beyond saving.

The first detective to arrive that day, just before 4:00 PM, was Detective Short.

This would be her very first homicide investigation.

It was very surreal to me that I was walking into a scene where someone had been murdered fairly recently.

When she first stepped into Beverly's house, something immediately stood out.

All of the curtains in the home were drawn, as well as it being the Midwest, very gray January, super cold day.

So the house was extremely dark inside.