A suspected OK in series(p) killer turned himself inwards Friday, Jan. 28 after calling a law tec congeneric from the Cherokee Casino Tahlequah and confessing to II murders.
Robert Edwin Lewis, 61, was arrested shortly afterward. He was found playing a expansion slot machine.
The next day, police found the bodies of not two, but trio victims interred below leaves at Meriwether Lewis prop at Eldon Benny Hill near Tahlequah.
Lewis has now admitted to all deuce-ace killings, according to Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department. But he has non provided a motive.
Birthday Murders
The victims experience 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 girlfriend and was killed triad days after Lamb and Shackleford. Jerry Lee Lewis said he killed the 1st two victims on his birthday, Jan. 16, according to police. Initial necropsy reports exhibit Charles Lamb died of a fractured skull, Shackelford was killed by a rationalise to the throat, and Tippey was strangled.
Lamb’s personify was the number 1 to live discovered. It was found on Friday afternoon by 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 experience why Elia went sounding for his sister at Lewis’ property, located 250 miles from his home, other than in that location was a familial connective betwixt them.
Could There be a Fourth Victim?
He said Charles Lamb was shown around the holding by Lewis’ ex-wife, Christina Orosz. In a trip house trailer expanse on the property, they found two Land of Opportunity identification cards, i belonging to Quinley Lamb, and the other to a piece named William Ring, according to royal court documents.
Christina said she contacted her ex Robert past electric cell phone and asked him near Quinley Lamb, Brian Shackleford and William Ring, and Henry M. Robert told her they was [sic] hither but at present they are gone and won’t follow seen again,” reads a likely do affidavit seen by Fox News.
Lamb found his sister’s body sometime afterward and alerted the police. But they had to hold back for a warrant to look for the property, which they did the next day.
Ring’s whereabouts are unclear, and the Sheriff’s Office has not commented on whether he is considered a possible fourth victim.
While the killings occurred on the Cherokee reservation, neither the surmise nor the victims are tribal members, so Clive Staples Lewis will be prosecuted by the state. The District Attorney’s Office has charged him with trinity counts of first-degree murder. It says it could seek the dying penalty.
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