A jury convicted Kansas brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr of four counts of capital murder Monday in the kidnapping, sexual assault and slaying of friends who had gathered at an apartment.

The Carrs face the death penalty and will be sentenced Tuesday.

Reginald Carr, 23, and Jonathan Carr, 20, were expressionless as guilty verdicts were read on all but four of 97 counts, which included charges of aggrevated rape, kidnapping and robbery and stemed from a nine-day crime spree in Kansas in December 2000.

They were also found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of a woman three days before the quadruple-homicide and guilty of attempted first-degree murder against a woman who survived being raped, shot and run over by a car at the hands of the brothers. 

Reginald Carr was also found guilty of kidnapping and robbery in an armed abduction that began the Dec. 11 spree known locally as the "Wichita Horror."

"You have four people frozen in time bullets that thrashed through their brains and drew the life out of them," District Attorney Nola Foulston told jurors before they began deliberating.  "They died by criminal means and they died together at the hands of two brothers, Jonathan and Reginald Carr."

The capital murder convictions stem from a Dec. 14 attack which began at the Wichita apartment of Brad Heyka, 27, Aaron Sander, 29 and Jason Befort, 26.  The trio were joined by Heather Muller, 25, and Befort's 25-year-old girlfriend.

The armed Carr brothers entered the apartment around 11 p.m., repeatedly raped the two women and forced the whole group to engage in sex acts.  Over the next two hours each of the victims were driven separately to nearby ATMs to withdraw a total of $1,600.

The brothers then took the five friends to a soccer field where all five were shot and run over by a car.  Befort's girlfriend referred to in court by her initials "H.G." to protect her anonymity survived and ran a mile to find help.  She became the prosecution's star witness, identifying the Carr brothers as her attacker.

The Carrs were also convicted in the Dec. 11 shooting of 55-year-old cellist Ann Walenta, who later died on Jan. 2, 2001.  Reginald was found guilty of kidnapping and robbery in the Dec. 7 abduction of 23-year-old Andrew Schreiber who was left in his car on a dirt road after being forced to withdraw $800 from an ATM.

During the trial, lawyers for the brothers sought to blame the other for the crimes. 

Reginald Carr's attorney John Van Wachtel told jurors that DNA evidence linked Jonathan Carr to one of the crime scenes.  He also tried to point out discrepancies in H.G.'s description of his client.

Mark Manna, Jonathan Carr's attorney, said no evidence linked his client to the robbery of Schreiber or the shooting of Walenta.  He said the gun belonged to Reginald Carr and that both Schreiber and Walenta before her death identified only Reginald Carr.

In 2001, the Kansas prison system revealed that Reginald Carr should have been in prison at the time of the murders but was mistakenly released.