Kansas City News Blog

Danial Rinehart's daughters -- the ones he didn't impregnate -- told their story in this morning's Kansas City Star. It's a sad, sick story of moving from town to town to keep their father's dirty secret -- police accuse Danial Rinehart of knocking up one of his daughters four times. Only one of the children -- a 3-year-old boy who is in the custody of the state -- survived. Rinehart allegedly hid the bodies of two children in coolers. The girls talked because they wanted to send their sister -- the one their father did impregnate -- a message: "We love and we miss you."

"Our dad told us if we ever told, he would kill us," Hayley Rinehart told the Star. "But I got so tired of seeing my sister go through all that and us living the way we all were.

"So when I could, I finally got away from there and spilled my guts."

Hayley Rinehart ran away to a Wal-Mart in Harrisonville and told on her father. The girls also had a message fro their mother, who knew and looked the other way: "She can rot in jail for all I care," Hayley said.

Fox 4 also interviewed the daughters.

 

Fox 4 also talked with Rinehart's sister, who says she has disowned her brother. After this, she's probably really feeling her T-shirt slogan.

Danial Rinehart will be in court tomorrow on charges of second-degree murder, child endangerment, two counts of incest and two counts of abandonment of a corpse.