Cold Cases in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

ColdCaseIndex documents 4 cases in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, dated 1990 to 2014. 1 is recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Suzanne Sevakis (1990) and the most recent is Daniel Holtzclaw Victims (2014).

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Status of the 4 cases
  • Unsolved 1 (25%)
  • Charges or trial pending 1 (25%)
  • Solved or convicted 2 (50%)
Oklahoma City cases by decade
Decade of the incident or disappearance. Select a column to see every case from that decade.
012341990s: 3 cases31990s2000s2010s: 1 case2010s
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1990s3
2010s1

By type

2 Homicides1 Multiple Homicides1 Sexual Violence Cases

All 4 cases

Conviction 2014

Daniel Holtzclaw Victims

Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted on December 10, 2015, of 18 of 36 counts, including four of first-degree rape, for sexually assaulting eight Black women while on patrol.

Oklahoma City Sexual Violence
Pending Trial 1997

Richard Glossip (case)

Motel owner Barry Van Treese was beaten to death at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City in January 1997 by Justin Sneed, who testified that Richard Glossip put him up to it. Glossip was twice convicted and sentenced to death.

Oklahoma City Homicide
Conviction 1995

Oklahoma City Bombing Victims

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted; McVeigh was executed in 2001 and Nichols is serving life without parole.

Oklahoma City Multiple Homicide
Unsolved 1990

Suzanne Sevakis

Suzanne Sevakis, 20, died in April 1990 five days after an apparent hit-and-run in Oklahoma City, where she was known as Tonya Hughes.

Oklahoma City Homicide Age 20

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