Anadarko Church Killing

Anniversary of Anadarko pastor's slaying comes with few leads Updated: Mon, Aug 23, 2010 A year after the Rev. Carol Daniels was slain, there have been no arrests. Authorities say they are hoping for a break in the case. Read More

Anadarko church where pastor slain is torn down; memorial planned Updated: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 The denomination has torn down the Anadarko church where Carol Daniels was slain nearly a year ago. Read More

Anadarko church where Oklahoma City pastor was killed is torn down Updated: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 ANADARKO — The church building where an Oklahoma pastor was killed last August has been torn down and a memorial is planned for the site. Read More

Completed autopsy report released in Anadarko pastor's death Updated: Thu, May 13, 2010 Description of wounds changed in completed autopsy report on Anadarko pastor, who was slain and nearly decapitated Read More

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation defends its record of closing slaying cases Updated: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 Facing the recent scrutiny of a state legislator, the FBI and the media over the handling of the Aja Johnson abduction-murder case, an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman called a news conference Tuesday to defend the agency’s homicide clearance rates. OSBI spokeswoman Jessica Brown served as... Read More

Proposal would keep Oklahoma autopsy files secret Updated: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 | Leave a comment Information on autopsy reports would be confidential under a measure approved by a Senate committee on Thursday. The Senate Health and Human Services Committee approved House Bill 3155 by Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Tuttle, and Sen. Ron Justice, R-Chickasha. The committee, however, removed the bill’s title. A bill... Read More

Bills on slaying details, municipal fees go to Oklahoma House Updated: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 A measure that would allow district attorneys or law enforcement agencies to request the state medical examiner’s office to withhold certain parts of autopsy reports for an indeterminate time passed a House committee Monday. House Bill 3155 was written because of concerns that too much information was released... Read More

Hearings are planned in several 2009 Oklahoma cases Updated: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 The year 2009 seemed to have more than its share of high-profile criminal cases. Here’s where some of them stand entering 2010: El Reno slayingsSummer Rust, 25, her daughters Kirsten Rust, 7, Autumn Rust, 7, and Evynn Garas, 3, and son Teagin Rust, 4, were found strangled Jan. 12 in their El Reno apartment.... Read More

Life goes on in Anadarko Updated: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 ANADARKO — Life seemingly has returned to normal in this small Caddo County town. Merchants greet visitors with a smile, children flock through the neighborhoods after school, and gamblers populate two Indian casinos. Yet in the shadows of this modest community investigators search doggedly for the answers to... Read More

DA criticizes OSBI over Carol Daniels inquiry Updated: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 ANADARKO — Concerns are mounting over the investigation into the death of pastor Carol Daniels. Caddo County District Attorney Bret Burns and Charles Etta Dunlap — the pastor’s mother — spoke publicly for the first time last week about the direction of the case. The overriding theme is one of... Read More

Anadarko still dazed by pastor’s brutal slaying Updated: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 ANADARKO — The silence grows louder in Anadarko. Three months have passed since the Rev. Carol Daniels, 61, was found dead, nude and mutilated behind the altar of her tiny Christ Holy Sanctified Church, yet state investigators have made no arrests. Nor have they held a news conference to update the public on... Read More

Oklahoma Briefs Updated: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 LAWTON Murder trial set in burning Edward Jackson, 45, of Oklahoma City will stand trial in Comanche County on charges of burning a man to death. He’s charged with first-degree murder in the burning death of 75-year-old L.C. Stern of Altus. Authorities say Stern died at a Lawton hospital after gasoline was... Read More

Nothing found in Anadarko pastor's toxicology tests Published: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Medical Examiner's Office says no drugs or alcohol were detected in the system of a pastor who was discovered viciously slain in her church in Anadarko. Spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said Tuesday that nothing was found in toxicology tests done on the Rev. Carol Daniels' blood. The... Read More

Some Oklahoma homicide cases linger, but aren’t cold Updated: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 The clock continues to tick on state investigators trying to solve the homicide of the Rev. Carol Daniels, whose nude and mutilated body was found Aug. 23 inside her small Anadarko church. Authorities have not announced any persons of interest or identified any suspects. Oklahomans have seen such a scenario unfold... Read More

Search warrant sealed in Anadarko slaying Updated: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 ANADARKO — A search warrant served in connection with the investigation of the gruesome killing of Oklahoma City pastor the Rev. Carol Daniels has been sealed by order of Caddo County Special Judge David A. Stephens, court clerk Opal Finch said Wednesday. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman... Read More