Main source Tulsa Homicide Tracker.
The purpose of these reports is to provide as much info publicly available as possible, that other news reports might miss and TPD might not divulge on.
Cases that I dug up and researched, and think back to or re-research often
10/23/1951, Beulah Miller (48).
7/12/1967, George Felker (52).
12/26/1979, Bodley Spears (61).
1/29/1987, Velma Wilson (73).
5/4/1994, Preston Simmons Jr (44).
6/5/2020, Mitchell Bab (29).
1/31/2012, Kade'Jah Davis (12).
8/10/1987, MILLERSTOWN PA Carl Jarvis (42).
2/9/2012, AFTON OK Ethan Lee Jack (16).
Homicides in which the person killed had a criminal history / had been in the commission of a crime, yet the perpetrator of the murder was never caught nor identified themselves to police.
*DAYTON, OHIO 2/25/1980 James Rutledge (23).
*WILBURTON, OKLAHOMA 8/1/1997 William "Red" Killion (AKA Billy Jay Killion, 55).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 11/1/2004 Vincent Williams (21). +++
*HARTLEY, DELAWARE 3/6/2013 Gregory Keiser Sr (54).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 12/5/2016 Deangelo Hinds (37-38).
*ATLANTA, GEORGIA 10/27/2017 Justin Hill (21).
*BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 3/5/2020 Ahmed Muhammad (25).
*OMAHA, NEBRASKA 9/27/2020 Terrell Taylor (26).
*HOUSTON, TEXAS 10/19/2020 Cardell Taylor (40).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 12/20/2022 Dione Prince (32).
Homicides never clearly resolved, and victims lost in the statistics...Most of these cases only have 1 initial newsreport and never any followup on arrests or suspects.
My goal is to add any unsolved Tulsa homicides that are missing from the TPD cold case database, and cases on the list but with 0 updates. (and unsolved, little-info homicides I find of that in other cities.)
Additional info is always welcome.
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 1/4/1954 Gladys Coots (41), & son W. Norvell Coots Jr(12).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/20/1959 Vance "Skip" Blevins (72).
*TBA
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 12/25/1971 Billy Joe Calloway (27). +++
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 7/30/1972 UNKNOWN IF RESOLVED, SKULL OF UNKNOWN WOMAN.
*FOREST PARK, OKLAHOMA (OKC) 4/8/1974 Walter Roy Power (66).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 3/11/1979 Bertha Nathan (59).
*TULSA COUNTY OK 2/20/1980 Carl Ruff I (38).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 4/19/1982 Neoma Fern Hickson (41).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/3/1983 Brandon Bruce Riedel (29). +++
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 11/4/1988 Jeffrey Gourd (19).
*DAYTON, OHIO 12/12/1989 Robert Ward (55).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/7/1992 James Allen Woods (32).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 5/4/1994 Preston Simmons Jr (44).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/10/1994 Patti Olive Wilson (45).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 3/28/1997 Shannon Justin Prim (17).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 8/11/1999 Gary Jackson Jr (18).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 5/22/2001 Gloria Cook (61).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 12/25/2003? Richard Edwards (22). WAS FOUND DEAD 12/31
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 1/30/2004 Bobbie Lee King (50).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/23/2004 Norma Jean Johnson (43).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 12/3/2005 Leroy Stephenson III (29). +++
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 7/16/2006 Ervin Dwight Tolon (41) (CASE RECENTLY SOLVED).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 5/12/2007 Michelle Eileen Snyder (37).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 3/14/2009 John Sango (30).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 1/26/2010 Deandre Burrell (20).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 7/23/2010 Terrace Dwayne Billingsley III (49).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 10/22/2010 Richard Markham (38).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 12/31/2010 Clarence Williams (56).
*SIOUX CITY, IOWA 3/7/2011 Manuel Ramirez (6).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 8/8/2011 Delano Jackson (34).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/4/2011 James Edward Knapper II (43). +++
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 10/23/2011 Terrance Jamond Jones (36).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 7/6/2015 Lontonio Tykese Isaac (26).
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 12/31/2016 Jamal Barkus (41).
*TULSA, OKLAHOMA 9/23/2021 Jimmie Fuller (60). +++
*OKC, OKLAHOMA 12/10/2021 Slater Taylor (27).
Indianapolis has so many unsolved and unupdated homicides that I've created this list separately
Additional info / requests to add cases are always welcome.
*TBA
*TBA
*TBA
*TBA
*1/23/1997, MORDECAI MAYHEW (22).
*TBA
*10/24/2016, JOSEPH CAPPS (23).
*5/15/2022, Bobby Joe Dodson (32).
When a victim fights back against their would-be killer (Ordered by city in alphabetical)
*TBA
*TBA
*DETROIT, MICHIGAN
4355 KENSINGTON AVE, 7/11/1976*TULSA, OKLAHOMA
1243 E 31st CT, 10/25/1970 1615 N MAIN ST, 7/1/1979*INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
4068 WINTHROP AVE, 7/11/1983*TBA
*INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
4356 NORWALDO AVE, 3/1/2003*KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
8736 HIGHLAND CIR, 7/24/2010*FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
3009 BLUFF AVE, 1/8/2020*INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
3715 MARSEILLE RD, 1/2/2024
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If you've spent years looking up all sorts of different homicides and still work with the mindset of making fun of the murdered or targeting suspects / seeking cases based on race / status / other irrelevant factors, I'm just going to keep it real with you - that you suck donkey ass at your job. If you had any semblance of skill or logic associated with your homicide research you would know the #1 rule of murder is it can happen to absolutely anybody. There is no predictability to it. AND if you are also one of those privileged enough to not experience a murder in your own personal life, that it leaves you so ignorant to the world you find your freetime in making fun of people you view as being "deserved" of being murdered, genuinely take your greedy candy ass outside and do something with your life while you got one. You are wasting your life making fun of people whose lives were wasted, and you don't see the irony in it. This has to be said because it is GENUINELY BAFFLING to see so many internet homicide researchers who spend years looking up cases and still have absolutely zero empathy. Homicide is one of the most eye-opening subjects to research if you aren't wearing foggy classes condensed with racism or discontent for anyone not white and straight. Sick of seeing cornballs posting about 'HeReS anOtHer BlAcK oN BlAcK HomIcIdE thE mEdIa WoNt RePoRt!1!!1' because the absolute most they can do is surface-level research to justify their disgusting brainrotted racism. As a general point, your own life gets better when you stop jumping up and hollering like a monkey at people you view as 'inferior' to you based on insignificant factors such as race or gender preference. Summary for toddlers; Your own life gets better when you stop being obsessed with other people's lives. Open your eyes and grow up.