Once upon a crime: Nude, crazy, Christian violence is nothing new to Kansas City

A great story on a longtime ago, local religious shootout from a newspaper in Canada: "A gun battle on the streets of Kansas City, Missouri left a 13-year-old girl, two-police officers dead, two other officers badly wounded and the leader of a fanatical religious sect with six bullet wounds.

The gunfire erupted Dec. 8, 1908, when a probation officer told the leader of the sect, James Sharpe, that several children in the group known as Adamites, should be attending school and not partaking in an illegal street church."