Wesley Ira Purkey kidnapped 16-year-old Jennifer Long as she was walking home from East High School in 1998. Purkey raped, tortured and killed Long before dismembering and burning her body, and dumping her ashes in a septic pond south of Wichita, Kansas, nearly 200 miles away from her home. Before admitting to Long’s death, Purkey was convicted of using a claw hammer to kill 80-year-old Mary Ruth Bales, who suffered from polio, in Kansas. Purkey will be one of the first five federal inmates to f