Nolan Clay

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Nolan Clay

A person of interest in a high-profile 2010 Oklahoma City murder investigation fatally shot himself in the head during a virtual meeting with a police detective, police and his attorney said. Michael Wayne Thomas, 54, committed suicide Saturday, May 31, in a wooded area outside a Kansas casino after rambling for about 45 minutes, attorney Ed Blau said. "The phone landed right by his head so we got to hear him die, hear the death rattle," the attorney said Tuesday.

3 days ago | oklahoman.com | Nolan Clay

• Michael Wayne Thomas, a person of interest in the 2010 slaying of Julie Mitchell, died by suicide during a virtual meeting with police. • Thomas shot himself after telling a police detective, "I really hope you solve the case."• Thomas had previously denied involvement in Mitchell's death, despite his checkbook being found at the crime scene.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nolan Clay

The death penalty is still being sought in Oklahoma but no one new has been sentenced to that punishment in the state in over three years. It is the longest gap in more than 50 years in a state known for having the highest per capita execution rate in the country. Oklahoma last saw no new death sentences in a year in 2011, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. "That's consistent with a nationwide trend," said the Rev.

1 week ago | oklahoman.com | Nolan Clay

• McVeigh used a fake name to rent the bomb truck but his real name for a motel room and then ordered food under the alias. • Nichols kept a receipt for the fertilizer used in the bomb. Bomber Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice Terry Nichols made stupid mistakes that ended up linking them to the 1995 attack on the Oklahoma City federal building, the two lead investigators say. "I like dumb criminals.

3 weeks ago | oklahoman.com | Nolan Clay

• Orenzo Anthony Byrd has been charged with first-degree murder, while fired jail phone operator Debbie Binkley faces second-degree manslaughter charge. • The latest jail inmate death, a suicide, occurred on Monday, May 12. • A yearlong investigation in 2023 found the jail to be one of the deadliest in the nation. An Oklahoma County jail inmate confessed to beating his cellmate to death in April and said afterward he was proud of himself, a jail trust investigator reported in a court affidavit.