LIBERAL, Kan. — A Kansas man has been arrested in the 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours apart in an Oklahoma ditch and a Kansas trailer.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that 30-year-old Ralph Thomas Salas Jr., of Liberal, was booked into the Seward County Jail in Kansas on Monday. The KBI said the investigation began when a farmer found 25-year-old Timothy Martin’s body in the ditch on his property in Texas County, Oklahoma, near the state’s border with Kansas.
Later that night, the body of Martin’s former roommate, 31-year-old Erick Salas, was found in a trailer west of Liberal. The KBI said Ralph Salas and Erick Salas weren’t related.
