Anthony J. Standifer, Nicholas J. Krejci and two others charged with killing Beverly Crowl

Beverly Crowl might still be alive today if the people who killed her were good at crime. But based on police reports, Crowl’s murder late last month was allegedly the result of a series of bad decisions made by incompetent robbers who planned to hit a drug dealer for thousands of dollars in weed and cash but ended up killing an old woman for her purse.

Jackson County prosecutors filed murder charges today against Darrin E. Jefferson, Melissa P. Farris-Visnich, Nicholas J. Krejci and Anthony J. Standifer in the death of Crowl, a former Independence Police Department employee found dead in a home at 14608 East 37th Street on March 19.