Man in prison for killing father is found dead in his Hutchinson cell, officials say

A 57-year-old man — who had been in prison since November 2012 for the killing of his father — was found unresponsive Saturday morning in his cell at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, the Kansas Department of Corrections said.

The cause of death of Lamoine Lynn Wiebe is pending an autopsy.

Wiebe was serving a sentence of more than 19 years for voluntary manslaughter in the March 2011 killing of his father, 78-year-old Richard Wiebe, who was found dead in a fifth-wheel trailer at his home in the 3400 block of Southwest 60th, which is halfway between Newton and Sedgwick.

An autopsy found that he had been shot in the chest with a shotgun, according to Eagle archives.

Lamoine Wiebe had served time in Kansas prisons before this stint for more than a dozen charges, including one that involved the theft of a Wichita police car on Oct. 27, 1994.

Here is what else The Eagle archive says about that theft:

Police, at the time, said Wiebe was arrested on a drug charge at 10th and Ash. He was placed in a patrol car with his hands cuffed behind his back.

The arresting officers were outside of the car talking with their supervisor when Wiebe wiggled the handcuffs under his feet, then climbed into the front seat and took off in the patrol vehicle.

The car was found less than an hour later, abandoned at 19th and Washington.

“Police said Wiebe was arrested the next day after stealing a pickup and leading police on a chase that ended in northern Sedgwick County,” the story says.

This story was originally published March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM.