HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — A former suspect in several Kansas City killings has been charged with misdemeanor sexual misconduct in Cass County for allegedly urinating in public and in view of children.
In the probable cause statement related to the October 7th arrest, a police officer reports he was called out to a residential area on a report that a man exposed himself while urinating outside.
The neighbor who called police said he saw Breeden working on a van in front of his house, and then saw him walk toward the back of the van
“But I looked again and he had his penis out and he was peeing and facing towards all of us,” said the neighbor who wished to remain anonymous.
Gregory W. Breeden was then arrested by Cass County sheriff’s deputies. As of Wednesday, he was being held in the Cass County Jail with bond set at $2,500.
When police arrived, the sergeant found a mini-van with its hood up and tools around, and a large wet area behind the mini-van. When the officer asked Breeden about the allegations that he had exposed himself, Breeden denied it and told him, “People are always calling and saying things about me.”
Breeden, 67, was investigated in the mid-1990s by authorities who suspected him in the deaths of seven women. Their bodies were found in the Missouri River over a period of 12 years. Police said some of the women were prostitutes and some of the bodies had been mutilated.
Breeden was charged in the 1996 murder of Viola McCoy. McCoy’s body was found in the river in September of 1994. She had been stabbed and her legs had been cut off. However, the case was dropped three years later when a witness wouldn’t testify and prosecutors did not have enough evidence against him.
“You’d think you’d want to lay low and not give people a reason (to call police)” said one neighbor, “but apparently that doesn’t make sense to him.”
While Breeden was never prosecuted for the river-body killings, he spent 10 years in a Missouri prison for bad check convictions.