Meyer, who passed away shortly after the raid, was a co-owner of the Marion County Record along with her son, Eric. Some, including Joan’s own son, blamed her death on the police, with reports saying she died due to being “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief.” The Record wrote that Meyer was not “able to eat after police showed up at the door of her home Friday with a search warrant in hand,” nor could she sleep that same night. Meyer died the very next day.
“Don’t you touch that stuff! This is my house. You a**holes,” Meyer yelled at the police. “Get ’em out of here! They’re here.” "What are you doing over there going through my things?” Meyer asked police. “Get out of my way! I want to see what they’re doing. I don’t care what they’re doing. What are you doing? Those are personal things.”
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, who led the raid, faced scrutiny in his own community.
“As far as Chief Cody goes, he can take his high horse he brought into this community and giddy-up on out of town,” Darvin Markley, a Marion resident, proclaimed at a previous City Council meeting. “The man needs to go. He needs to be fired.”
Joan Meyer’s son, Eric, reportedly compared the police raid to the Gestapo.
Since that fateful day, a prosecutor has stated that there was insufficient evidence to justify the searches and seizures, and that some of the previously confiscated computers and cell phones have already been returned.
A probe by The Kansas Bureau of Investigation remains ongoing.
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