She was an organ student at UMKC’s Music Conservatory who lived and died in the house before construction of the in-home organ was complete. It remains to be seen if that history will be ...

His co-defendant, Alonzo D. Ruff, received a 30-year sentence in January for the murder of Aaron Markarian during the robbery. Markarian studied opera at UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance.