HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Sheriff's Department has released the names of the two victims in a double homicide that occurred Aug. 27.
The victims have been identified as 56-year-old Marion Edward Bates and 58-year-old Phillip Duane Anstine.
Kyle Hardwick is charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and one count of theft. The murder charges carry a life sentence without parole for 50 years. Hardwick was arrested in Maize Sept. 1 after being listed as a person of interest when two bodies were discovered at a property in eastern Reno County.
Deputies were sent to that location for a check welfare call for a missing person. While searching the property, deputies believed they found the missing person, so they got a warrant to search the entire property and found a second man dead.
Other than the names of the victims, no other information was released.
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