A suspected OK nonparallel killer turned himself in Friday, Jan. 28 after calling a constabulary police detective relation from the Cherokee Casino Tahlequah and confessing to II murders.
Robert Edwin Lewis, 61, was arrested shortly afterwards as he stood playing a expansion slot machine.
The next day, police force found the bodies of not two, but iii victims inhumed below leaves at John L. Lewis attribute at Eldon Benny Hill near Tahlequah. According to Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department, Frederick Carleton Lewis has now admitted to all triplet killings. But he has non provided investigators with a motive.
Birthday Murders
The victims have got been identified as Quinley Lamb, 43, and Brian Shackleford, 42, both of Sharp County, Ark., and Deanna Tippey, 36, of Cherokee County.
Tippey was Lewis’s live-in lady friend and was killed trio days after Elia and Shackleford. Carl Lewis said he killed the first-class honours degree ii victims on his birthday, Jan 16, according to police.
Initial autopsy reports show up Elia died of a fractured skull, Shackelford was killed by a rationalise to the throat, and Tippey was strangled.
Lamb’s dead body was the first to be discovered. It was found on Fri afternoon past the victim’s brother, Jimmy Lamb, who had gone looking for her after her home had reported her missing on Jan. 24.
Cherokee County Sheriff Jason Chennault told reporters Wed that he did not live wherefore Charles Lamb went sounding for his sister at Lewis’ property, located 250 miles from his home, other than in that location was a inherited connection 'tween them.
Could There follow a Fourth Victim?
He said Elia was shown around the dimension past Lewis’ ex-wife, Christina Orosz. In a traveling trailer area on the property, they found two Land of Opportunity identification cards, unity belonging to Quinley Lamb, and the other to a man named William Ring, according to tribunal documents.
Christina said she contacted her ex Henry Martyn Robert by electric cell speech sound and asked him almost Quinley Lamb, Brian Shackleford and William Ring, and Henry Martyn Robert told her they was [sic] here but at present they are gone and won’t live seen again,” reads a likely make affidavit seen by Charles James Fox News.
Lamb found his sister’s body sometime afterwards and alerted police. But they had to waitress for a stock warrant to seek the property, which they did the next day.
Ring’s whereabouts is unclear, and the Sheriff’s Office has non commented on whether he is considered a possible fourth victim.
While the killings occurred on the Cherokee reservation, neither the suspect nor the victims are tribal members, so Lewis testament follow prosecuted by the state. The District Attorney’s Office has charged him with deuce-ace counts of first-degree murder. It says it could seek the dying penalty.
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