I can’t reveal details yet — in fact, it may be some time before I can — but there has been a major break in one of the unsolved homicide cases featured on the Cold Case Oklahoma website. I don’t think I’m violating any confidences to say that a suspect has been identified, and there seems to be substantial [...]

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is trying to close a number of unsolved cases, including one — the death of Mary Pewitt — that was featured on the Cold Case Oklahoma site. You can check out the OSBI cases here: www.ok.gov/osbi/Investigative/Unsolved_Cases Here’s what they posted about the Pewitt slaying: On June 4, 1988, the body of twenty [...]

The Black Muslim case is still on its way. It’s proven a little more complicated than most of the Cold Cases, so it’s taken more time than the others. Hopefully, it’ll be worth the wait. In the meantime … please take this opportunity to review some of our past cases and explore the revamped site. This [...]

If you haven’t had a chance yet, check out Augie Frost’s story in today’s Oklahoman about the unsolved slaying of businesswoman Denise Stice back in November. Did anyone here know her? Anybody have any theories? We want to hear ‘em. ———– New clues in Tinker worker’s killing By Augie Frost Staff Writer A prominent small-business leader was beaten and shot in [...]

CNN posted this story on Friday, but I’ve been out of town at a writers conference and just found it today. One of the feet that has washed up on Canadian shores has been linked by DNA to a missing man. The man, who is described only as depressed, went missing a while back. Now authorities [...]

Verna Stafford is the only surviving participant in the Sirloin Stockade and Lorenz family murders. In 1978, when the killings occurred, she was married to Roger Dale Stafford. Her brother-in-law was Harold Stafford, who died in a motorcycle accident a week after the steakhouse slayings. Verna Stafford pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for helping [...]

They’re not a cold case, but the Sirloin Stockade murders are among the most infamous crimes in Oklahoma history. I’m not a native Oklahoman. I grew up in the northeast and moved around the world a few times before getting hired by The Oklahoman as a crime writer about nine years ago. I think I heard about [...]

The sixth foot found in British Columbia does not belong to a human, a Canadian newspaper is reporting. Instead, someone stuffed an animal’s skeletonized foot into a sock, slipped it into a black shoe and apparently planted it near the shore. It’s a sick practical joke that’s light years away from funny. Officials still don’t know where the [...]

But ANOTHER foot has been found in British Columbia. This is the second one this week and the sixth foot overall. The story below is a good one with more description of the foot than other stories. It suggests the foot was severed, rather than simply coming loose due to decomposition. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=597081

Someone out there has a foot fetish … of the worst kind. A fifth foot has washed up on Canadian shores, this time in Metro Vancouver. The previous four were all right feet; this one’s a left foot. No word on if it matches any of the others. Are all of these feet linked somehow? Or is [...]