Kevin Sweat, charged with slaying two Weleetka girls, bound over for trial in death of girlfriend

OKEMAH - A man charged in the slayings of two girls in Weleetka was bound over for trial on Tuesday on another charge of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.

 
By JERRY WOFFORD - Tulsa World | Modified: May 23, 2012 at 7:28 am | Published: May 23, 2012   

OKEMAH - A man charged in the slayings of two girls in Weleetka was bound over for trial on Tuesday on another charge of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.

photo - Kevin Sweat (left) is escorted by a sheriff into the Okfuskee County Courthouse, in Okemah, before his preliminary hearing, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Kevin Sweat (left) is escorted by a sheriff into the Okfuskee County Courthouse, in Okemah, before his preliminary hearing, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World

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Kevin Sweat is charged in the death of Ashley Taylor, 23. District Judge David Martin judge ordered him to stand trial following a preliminary hearing in Okfuskee County on Tuesday.

Sweat, 26, was charged Aug. 12 with first-degree murder in the death of Taylor. He was charged four months later with the deaths of two girls found along a rural road near Weleetka in 2008, Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11.

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