“Sociopathic” Birth Mom Murders Adoptive Parents with Son: “Angry And Wanted Revenge”

In 2013, a shocking tragedy happened in Valley Center, Kansas.

Roger and Melissa Bluml’s 16-year-old adopted son, Chris, called 911 at 9:17 p.m. on Nov. 15 and said he’d come home from a high school athletic event to find his parents incapacitated in their vehicle, in the driveway of their home.

“Oh my god, there’s blood everywhere!” he told dispatchers.

Both Roger and Melissa had bullet holes in the right side of their head, as if they’d been shot from the passenger side of the vehicle. Melissa’s purse and cell phone were missing. Someone had forced their way into their home — pulling out drawers and rifling through their belongings.

Police quickly narrowed their suspect list to the Blumls' adopted son 20-year-old Anthony “Tony” Bluml, who had known conflict with his parents. They also turned their focus to Tony and Chris Bluml’s biological mother: Kisha Schaberg.

“Tony was upset that his parents had kicked him out,” Amy Renee Leiker, a reporter with the Wichita Eagle, said on A Plan To Kill, airing Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen. “He felt that was unfair, and Kisha resented the Blumls because she thought that they were keeping her boys away from her.”

When Roger and Melissa Bluml adopted two boys, Tony was 6 years old, and Chris was 4 years old.

“When they were younger, Roger and Melissa wanted children, but they were not able to have their own children,” Det. Lori Werlein with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said on A Plan To Kill. “They chose to adopt and they had found Tony and Chris through an adoption agency, and they’re biological brothers to each other.”

The brothers had had a difficult life with their mother, Kisha Schaberg.

“Roger and Melissa’s family had told me that part of the reason that the boys were adopted is because there was physical abuse by Dad or the boyfriends in Kisha’s life towards the boys,” Werlein said. “They at one point in time spent a little bit of time homeless, and Kisha just wasn’t really able to take care of the boys the way she needed to.”

Schaberg also had issues with drug use.

Kisha Schaberg. Photo: Oxygen

“They agreed to adopt these little boys and try and give them a better life than they had started out with, and they were successful at that,” Werlein said.

But as the boys got older, the Blumls began to have difficulty raising Tony, and he began using drugs in high school.

“I knew Roger and Melissa had a little fear for Tony at times,” Capt. Greg Pollock with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, and a family friend, said on A Plan To Kill. “They felt that he had a violent tendency. When they would have conversations, they would end up in a yelling/screaming match.”

Five or six years after Tony and Chris were adopted, their biological mother reached out to the Blumls and asked to see her children, but Melissa and Roger declined. Then in 2012, when Tony was 17 years old, Kisha Schaberg contacted him on Facebook.

“Melissa didn’t forbid it. She just said, ‘This is probably not the best thing for you, but I can’t tell you no,’” Mary Ann Berry, Melissa’s friend, said on A Plan To Kill. “Tony had tried to convince Chris that this would be the best thing for them, to go back to their biological mother, and Chris was very adamant that he would have no part of it.”

When Tony was kicked out of the Bluml home in August 2013 by his parents, Tony and his friend, Braden Smith, drove out to California and stayed with Schaberg. They returned to Kansas on November 1 together and stayed at a hotel in Tony’s hometown.

On Nov. 17, 2013, two days after Roger and Melissa Bluml were murdered, police got a tip from a neighboring police department that someone had come forward with information. The man identified himself as “Dalton,” and said he was a schoolmate of Tony Bluml.

“He had received a text message a couple of days before the Blumls were shot, by a friend of his, another 18-year-old named Braden Smith, saying he needed a gun for a job,” Leiker said.

“The text message was quoted as, ‘It’s for me and Tony’s mom to do a job,’” Werlein added.

Braden Smith was a known friend of Tony Bluml from school.

“So somebody associated with Tony Bluml, asking for a gun, two days before the shooting, obviously kicked the door down in the investigation,” Marc Bennett, Sedgwick County District Attorney, said on A Plan To Kill.

Police also learned that Tony Bluml was the last known person to see his adoptive parents alive. He went to dinner with them the night of the shooting, and they dropped him back off at his hotel — both facts confirmed by surveillance video.

“Melissa had become afraid of Tony. But Melissa said, ‘Fine, your dad and I will go to dinner with you,’” Berry said.

When police interrogated Tony Bluml’s friend Braden Smith, he broke down and admitted the plan to murder Melissa and Roger Bluml started when Tony and Smith met up with Tony’s biological mother in California.

“There was this sort of Pollyanna thought that they could run off and start a new life together,” Bennett said. “And in Kisha’s wildest dream, perhaps she could get Chris to tag along as well. And they start talking about, ‘Things would be great if the Blumls were just gone. We could have our family back and we’d have money too.’”

Tony believed he was named as a recipient in Melissa and Roger Bluml’s will and would receive an inheritance upon their deaths.

“Tony’s motive was more monetary,” Werlein said. “Kisha’s goal for this whole thing was she was angry and wanted revenge, and she wanted her family back together. That was her whole motive for this.”

Smith admitted the murders were planned for two weeks while the group stayed at the hotel. But then he claimed he got cold feet, and backed out — recruiting his friend, Andrew Ellington to help instead. They carried it out on Nov. 15 after learning Chris would be away from the house for a high school wrestling event. While Tony was at dinner with his parents, Ellington and Schaberg went to the Bluml home and staged the burglary.

“They waited in the bushes in front of the house for a long time,” Pollock said. “And eventually they see the vehicle pull up. Drew went to Roger’s side of the vehicle, and then Kisha goes over to Melissa’s side of the vehicle.”

Smith alleged that after Schaberg shot Melissa, Ellington was supposed to shoot Roger, but he hesitated — and Schaberg also shot Roger.

“This was her mastermind plan, and she was going to do it at any cost,” Pollock said.

Andrew Ellington was sentenced to life in prison but has eligibility for parole after 25 years. Tony Bluml confessed, and he and Kisha Schaberg pled no contest to capital murder and aggravated robbery, taking the death penalty off the table. Both were sentenced to life in prison.

Braden Smith pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison.

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