Cold Cases in Oklahoma
ColdCaseIndex documents 10 cases in Oklahoma, dated 1974 to 2014. 5 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Karen Silkwood (1974) and the most recent is Daniel Holtzclaw Victims (2014).
- Unsolved 5 (50%)
- Partly resolved 1 (10%)
- Charges or trial pending 1 (10%)
- Solved or convicted 2 (20%)
- Closed without conviction 1 (10%)
Homicide clearance in Oklahoma, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
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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.
Jamison Family
Bobby Jamison, 44, his wife Sherilynn, 40, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson vanished on October 8, 2009, after traveling from their Eufaula home to look at rural land near Red Oak, Oklahoma.
Brittany Phillips
Brittany Phillips, an 18-year-old who had recently returned home to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was raped and strangled in her apartment in September 2004.
Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
Best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, both 16, disappeared from the Freeman family home near Welch, Oklahoma, on the night Ashley's parents were shot dead and the house was set on fire.
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 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.
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.
Linda Lee Mack
Linda Lee Mack, a 35-year-old hospital nurse, was killed on the night of October 12, 1982, after leaving work and driving home along State Highway 34 south of Elk City in Beckham County, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders (Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, Doris Milner)
Three Girl Scouts — Lori Lee Farmer, 8, Michele Heather Guse, 9, and Doris Denise Milner, 10 — were sexually assaulted and murdered during the first night of summer camp at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma, on June 13, 1977.
Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood, 28, a technician and union activist at Kerr-McGee's plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a single-car crash on November 13, 1974, while driving to meet a New York Times reporter.