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Until 1990 ended with 60 homicides, the year 1981 held record for the highest homicide count at end of year.
Note: Tulsa Homicide Database only goes back to 1989, so this is not the full list of homicides, only a partial list. Homicide Count: 57-68
Unsolved Homicides: 7/57-68
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Tulsa Homicide Victims 1981 (Incomplete list); This list is ordered from the date the fatal homicidal injury occurred.
(For example, a victim that is beaten 1/1, but dies 1/5, would still be ordered before any victim on the list that is killed 1/2 - 1/4).
(Abbreviation key: OIS = Officer-Involved Shooting, IB = Innocent Bystander, CA = Child Abuse)
| Order | Date | Victim | Age | Area | Motive | Weapon | Ruling |
| #1 | 1/1 | Blaine Shatto | 26 | South | Argument | Gun | Murder charges |
| #2 | 1/5 | John Crooke | 33 | South | Road rage | Knife | Murder charges |
| #3 | 1/11 | Henry Clifford Bechtold | 56 | Midtown | Burglary | Knife | Murder charges |
| #4 | 1/23 | Eddie Chatman | 32 | North | Unclear | Gun | Unsolved |
| #5 | 1/24 | Stephen Renti | 19 | North Transition | Argument | Gun | Charges dropped |
| #5 | 2/6 | Dwight Pitts | 28 | Northish | OIS (cause: wanted criminal) | Gun | Charges dropped |
| #6 | 2/15 | James Bockman | 33 | West | Domestic | Gun | Murder charges |
| #7 | 2/22 | Edward Joe King | 35 | North | Justified (rape attempt) | Gun | No charges filed |
| #8 | 2/22 | Paul Cotton | 17 | Northish | Justified (robbery attempt) | Gun | Charges dropped |
| #9 | 3/6 | Johnny Fortenberry | 23 | North | Unclear | Knife | Unsolved |
| #10 | 3/6 | Dennis Rowland | 26 | South | Drugs | Gun | Charges dropped |
| #11 | 3/15 | Val Gene Rex | 22 | Northish | Unclear | Gun | Murder charges |
| #12 | 3/19 | Wayne Jacobsen | 34 | South | Domestic | Gun | Suspect died |
| #13 | 3/22 | Steven Bell | 25 | Northish | Unclear | Gun | Murder charges |
| #14 | 3/26 | Alma Zabienski | 82 | Downtown | Unclear | Brick | Murder charges |
| #15 | 3/29 | Tim Miles Hatfield | 25 | South | OIS (rape attempt) | Gun | Charges dropped |
| #16 | 4/1 | Hazel Mary Walker | 23 | Downtown | Unclear | Hands | No charges filed |
| #17 | 4/3 | L.C. Hurt | 23 | North | Fight | Gun | Guilty |
| #18 | 4/7 [injured 1/17/1980] | Keisha Boxsley | 2 | North | Domestic | Fire | Guilty of lesser charge |
| #19 | 4/8 | Mark Lowry | 20 | North | Justified (rape attempt) | Gun | No charges filed |
| #21 | 4/17 | Billy Dean Haley | 19 | Midtown | Unclear | Unknown (beaten) | Unsolved |
| # | 5/27 | Roger Wheeler | 55 | South | Convoluted | Gun | Solved years later |
| # | 7/18 | William Jo Kennedy | 71 | Midtown | Unclear | Knife | Unsolved |
| # | 10/13 | Gertrude Blakey | 73 | Midtown | Unclear | Metal pipe(?) | Unsolved |
| # | 10/26 | Robin Anderson | 16 | Northish | Fight [IB] (cause: gambling) | Gun | Murder charges |
| # | 11/17 | Patricia Palmer | 19 | Midtown | Rape | Hands, water | Unsolved |
| # | 12/10 | Ronald Shelley | 32 | Midtown | Unclear | Unknown | Unsolved |
| #56 | 12/23 | Edward Franks | 33 | North | Domestic | Steak knife | No charges filed |
| #57 | 12/27 | David Smith | 19 | Midtown | OIS (cause: burglary) | Gun | Charges dropped |