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Ainsworth, Christopher L. and Swart, Breanna L., both of Wichita.

Asebedo, Edward M. and Veeder, Elizabeth M., both of Wichita.

Barnes, Randy J. and Albright, Ashley E., both of Wichita.

Baron, Robert M. and Sailsbury, Delores D., both of Wichita.

Baumun, Jesse L. and Applegate, Sandra L., both of Wichita.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a photo of the suspect who robbed the Garden Plain State Bank on Friday afternoon.

The robber entered the bank at 1:23 p.m., demanded money and brandished a handgun, but no shots were fired and no injuries were reported, authorities said.

The robber left the bank in downtown Garden Plain on foot. The image released by the FBI came from bank surveillance video.

FBI spokesman Chuck Pritchett said agents are exploring the possibility that the suspect who robbed the bank is Robert D. Abner, who has been identified as a suspect in the abduction of Joyce Patterson of Viola on June 23.

"We're following other leads as well," Pritchett said. "We still haven't determined who's responsible for the bank robbery."

Twenty years before investigators identified Robert D. Abner as the man being sought in the recent armed abduction of a Viola store clerk, he pulled on a ski mask and put a knife to a Wichita woman's throat in a rape attempt, court records say.

In March of 1988, when Abner was 19, prosecutors charged him with attempted rape. The charging document filed in Sedgwick County District Court said he "left his residence looking for a woman to rape, wearing dark clothes, gloves, and a ski mask, armed with a knife" and that he grabbed a woman and put a knife to her throat.

She screamed and struggled, which prevented her from being raped, the document said.

Abner pleaded guilty five months later and received a five-year sentence that was suspended, records show.

On Sunday, a Sedgwick County sheriff's official named Abner as the man being sought by authorities in the June 23 robbery and abduction of Viola convenience store clerk Joyce Patterson.