Recording of Brake: He told me that if anyone asked me about a .22 rifle, which he might own, to tell them no. On May 14, investigators executed a search warrant at Sanchezs home at 1224 Westlawn Dr. and recovered documents showing he and his wife were receiving Social Security benefits intended for Sandoval. In the coming months, detectives tailed Gilley as he went to work at his various odd jobs. David and Sheryl were each shot at least 10 times, and Davids car had multiple bullet holes through the rear of the car and the trunk. Video source: Dylan Strilko/WEATHER TRAKER /TMX. That was good enough for me to go after him with everything I had.. He told Rick that it would cost us a $20 fine each or he would have to take us down As he was leaning up against the car, he asked me, and this was one of the first things he said, eh asked me if Rick and I had ever gone all the way together or something like that. Frank wanted you to know that he was on top of everything and that he was better than these other guys.. Henslee backed him, saying Gilley wasnt the kind of man to commit any serious crimes, definitely not murder. Every issue theyve had including internal affairs investigations at the current agencies theyre with, talking to officers that they work with those agencies also and friends neighbors and things to see if anything else comes up. He said the politics were too much, that true policing was impossible because of it. DNA testing began right around the time this case was reopened for trial, but when it was discovered that almost all of the evidence had disappeared, it didnt matter. Months went by without a response or a jury. Gilley said he was not guilty. Officers also started looking into Gilleys personal life, interviewing the woman he was married to in the 70s about his whereabouts the night of the murders. Jacobson pointed to the unusual handling of the case and what he considered obstruction that interfered with the investigation. K: Mike Brake, the reporter who covered the case in its earlier days, said the same thing. Investigators called former colleagues and bosses of Gilley, looking for character statements. Maybe Sheryl had been drugged. The car was riddled with bullet holes. Sheryls family started thinking of possibilities of what could have happened. With the information from the previous investigation, the gun turning up and interviews with every single original witnesses, except one that died, detectives decided to try and get a warrant to search Gilleys De Soto residence. He moved to Edmond as an administrator for the Edmond Police Department and died in May 1999. We had talked about wanting to devote resources to an investigative piece, and what unfolded left us determined to tell the stories of not only of those who died, but really about those who spent their lives with the case and how police at the local and state level conduct investigations. Witnesses were dying, people were moving or losing track of them. Thousands gathered for a demonstration on the Kent State University campus in Ohio. K: This is Linda Adams, the older sister of Sheryl Benham. WebForty years ago this month, Oklahoma suffered one of its most horrific murder scenes near the small town of Locust Grove. He called us one night and said Franks agreed to take a polygraph and were going to do it in Lubbock. About 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, the Norman Police Department responded Sunday night to storm damage on the south and eastern sides of Norman. And so were not letting that go. He hoped to become director of the OSBI, Jacobson said, and a mark like this on someones record could derail a rising career. He was taken before a grand jury in Amarillo and indicted, given a suspended sentence and put on probation for an aggravated assault charge, though it was deemed a misdemeanor. I told him we hadnt. Recording of Ken: But we jumped in the car in Oklahoma City and drove out to Lubbock, drove all night. And they said Well Mr. Gilley, Im standing here in your living room and it looks like somebody broke into your house.. The phrase good ol boys was repeated to me several times. The murders of David Sloan and Sheryl Benham remain unsolved. I think thats what happened and the autopsy points to that as well. When police got there, the crime scene had been swept clean. And now I can talk about it without breaking down and crying. K: Next time, on Uncovered: The Lovers Lane Murders. And I think he did use time as an ally to just cast some doubt on the allegations that were made and the accuracy of the allegations and the accuracy of the witness recollection. I think dad was with him for a long time with what was going on He was so honest and wanted justice done. And said something like, You son of a bitch, youre not a real cop, I remember you from Amarillo, you got in trouble up there, Recording of Ken: David had a pool cue, a cut-off pool cue by the drivers door under his seat, and his friends tell us thats the first thing he drug out if there was going to be trouble. There was every bit of circumstantial case you could have wanted to the point of you have to ask, who else in the world could have done it? The place Dave and Sheryl went was popular, though they probably werent expecting to find any company. Linda and Sheryls parents, Ben and Sue Benham, moved around for Bens different jobs until settling their family in Oklahoma City for good. K: The phone call from the Amarillo TV station eventually prompted some case investigators to seriously look into Gilley. WebAllegations of obstruction and cover-ups have plagued the Norman Police Department in the years since the murders, but changes made hope to rectify those concerns. Badge was in a black holder. A Norman man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Wellston woman whose remains were found at Lake Thunderbird, the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation reported Wednesday. And even though the gun turned over by Gilleys landlord wasnt the murder weapon, it gave Pearo a path to officially reopen the case. Investigators located in the basement a 3 feet by 4 feet container heavily wrapped in high density plastic, packing tape, and rope stored under the stairs of the basement. At the end of episode four, police called Frank Gilley at work and told him to hurry home. So got a lot of fire power.. And then he goes on duty and comes back in the police car and finishes them off., Recording of Brake: And you notice there were a couple bullet holes in the fenders of the car. Property Crime Rates In Norman 3,261 Property Crimes 2,578.3 Property Crimes / 100k People 31.67% Above National Average K: Brake and Jacobson had personal theories they shared with me on exactly what happened the night of the murders. After picking Sheryl up at her Oklahoma City home, the pair drove down to Norman to attend a party at Daves fraternity. Who knows.. Now you dont die right away from a wound in the lung unless there is a major artery hit. Now he is not working at this time. Recording of Pearo: Because of the way it was handled back in the 70s and the fact that the main suspect had been a Norman officer. Im Kayla Branch and Ill be your host as we hear stories and first-hand accounts from those involved with the case. When you read Davids autopsy report, you find massive right hemoral thorax. Davids mom raised him and her other children on her own, according to Linda. Sloans was in Amarillo at the First Presbyterian Church that Wednesday. They took the weapons and tried to match them with some of the shell casings from the crime scene, but the tests came back without a ballistics match, Jacobson said. Thats what I wish., Recording of Linda: Oh hey, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, it was so hard for me. Recording of Brake:Sheriff Johnston said he believed Gilley was very much capable of committing the type of crime that is involved in this case, he said in his opinion, GIlley was a very sadistic personality.. It seemed like there was a main theory our sources kept coming back to on why it was so difficult to solve the case, even after the testimonies from other young couples who had also been harassed on lovers lanes in the area and from Butch Green, Gilleys former partner, who told police Gilley had lied about not owning .22 caliber weapons. Hes got a big smile, seems confident. What really happened? He asked me if Id ever had sexual intercourse. Thats when we realized this case was more than a pair of untimely deaths. K: Welcome back to Uncovered: The Lovers Lane Murders. The Benhams were traditional. Officers with assault charges arent usually allowed to continue policing. Hundreds of thousands of college students were protesting the Vietnam War. Not anyone can walk into property custody Everything is labeled and stored and organized at such a different ballgame and so a lot of those concerns about obstruction, evidence, we as an agency have put a lot of safeguards into place to ensure these things are not happening and that there is a trail. So I think that helped cloud their decision was the fact they thought he was guilty by a good percentage that he was guilty, probably enough to convict. Eventually, Jacobson told Ben Benham, Sheryls father, to try writing a letter to Oklahomas attorney general and see if a grand jury could be convened, effectively skipping the need for authorization from heads of local agencies and instead giving officers a way to immediately close in on Gilley. So we called him at work. It was pretty tough. Oklahomas Failure to Protect law treats those who enable child abuse the same as actual abusers. Busken was abducted from her Norman apartment complex parking lot the morning of Dec. 20, 1996. Munoz told investigators he knew nothing about a dead body in the basement and gave them his consent to conduct a search. The Norman Police Department begins investigations into the crime and receives tips on who might have been involved with the killings. But as 1970 wore on, other facts started showing up that were strange, Jacobson told us, describing them as being too many coincidences to not be connected. When we found Lindas phone number and reached out to her, she had reservations about telling her story to another set of reporters, but she became an invaluable source, sharing personal details from a family struck with tragedy. So I wanted to file impersonating an officer and he would tell these kids he was the sheriff and the DA refused to file. Linda, Sheryls older sister by two years, stayed at their family home in Oklahoma City with her mom. Thats where Dave would have walked when he came to pick Sheryl up for their date Saturday night. The OSBI later identified the WebAccording to the most recent data from the FBI, the total crime rate in Norman is 2,867.6 per 100,000 people. Ten years later, his mother, Sharleen Resor, is finally close to experiencing closure. K: Jacobson left the OSBI almost a year later. The National Guard was called in to contain the crowd, and shots were fired when students wouldnt disperse. Recording of Linda: I would just love to look him straight in the face and say What happened? It was really hard for them when we told them we were reopening the case again because it had been so long and sort of accepted the fact as much as they could. Recording of Brake: Well the second one, the guys at the Norman Police Department really wanted to solve the darn thing. I said my dad has been in Norman all day. Some guy said that to me and I kinda went off on him a little bit.. K: The first full day of the July hearing had testimony from seven witnesses, including Gilleys parents, a former wife and the Norman police chief from the 1970s, Bill Henslee. Decades of investigations followed, creating ripples in the Norman community still felt today. The family was polite and helpful after the murders, but wanted more than anything to just move on. Pearo also testified, noting that almost all the evidence from the crime scene had disappeared, except one bullet casing. Gilleys parents testified he was at his home the night of the murders, but his former wife said she couldnt confirm where he was that night. I didnt really want to, but I thought itll be pretty easy; I live in Midwest City and Ill drive down there and we can process that car in an hour or two. What truly happened to Dave and Sheryl is still and may always be speculation, but some people believe they have a pretty good guess. They patted each other on the back, good to see you, and all that stuff. So I think in this case, at least from what Ive been able to read about it, there were a lot of questions about things disappearing or not being there. Theyd see Gilleys pictures in the papers, on TV Amarillos not that big of a town. WebNorman Cleveland County Oklahoma Arrests, Warrants & Most Wanted. She was just, oh, well-respected, very intelligent, just you know My dad was a very strict father, but he, uh, you just knew what to do and what not to do.. What happens is you have blood seepage into the lung., Recording of Ken: I think he came out of that car and Frank had to shoot him a couple times, I dont think he intended to shoot anybody, he just wanted, you know, to do his thing. Re-reading articles and court documents, its clear he challenged every step of the trial. FOX23 spoke with survivors who are just grateful to be alive following Sundays EF-2 tornado that ripped through Norman at around 9:20 p.m. While Sandoval lived with Sanchez and his wife, there were multiple reports filed with law enforcement and state agencies, investigators said. I mean this guy was a cop and he did this stuff. They felt the options were running slim, until February 1991. Henslee claimed that he had gotten a letter of recommendation from one of Gilleys old bosses, but OSBI agent Ken Jacobson said when case detectives asked him to show them the letter, he couldnt find it. David came to OU as a student from Amarillo, Texas, in 1966. K: Youre listening to Uncovered: The Lovers Lane Murders. He maintained that his wife at the time of the murders was with him before he started his night shift, though she denied it. Police are still investigating the homicides of Elijah Mothershed, his fiancee Carnesha Powell and their daughter Roshawna Stevens. K: Solorzano said protocols for handling evidence have become much more strict in the last 50 years, every step being documented in a complex computer program. He had a .22 caliber rifle in his locker at the Norman Police Department and also has several pistols of this caliber in his residence in Norman. And we started to hear this idea that the Norman police were covering themselves and trying to make up for the public outcry against them 20 years earlier. Recording of Jacobson: David Sloan was from Amarillo, and when they tried Gilley on his aggravated assault out there, they tried it like a murder case because it was a horrible thing for a law enforcement officer to be accused of aggravated assault. As he was leaving the barn about 7 a.m., he saw two men standing next to two parked cars. Once completed, we will present the case to the District Attorneys office, who will review the case and file the appropriate charges., Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. On March 8, 1972, the grand jury met for the first time in Cleveland County to listen to witness testimonies and decide if there were any charges that could be filed against Gilley or if there was mishandling they could hold the local law agencies accountable for. Its seized, its packaged. Did you ever see Gilley with any type of badge other than the one he had? Well we thought that was unusual because Frank lived in Amarillo.. According to newspaper articles in the Norman Transcript from that first week, David was set to graduate the upcoming December with a business administration degree and then be commissioned through the Naval ROTC. Davids fraternity went out to search the field as well, but they didnt find anything helpful. And now youve seen me.. After 20 years, they couldnt see putting a guy to death. When officers are tipped off to start investigating Frank Gilley as a suspect in the double homicide of David Sloan and Sheryl Benham, the Norman police force splits into two groups working against each other. When Gilley started work for the Norman police, he was described by other officers as just having shown up one day. She was outgoing and fun and their family was close. Recording of Ken: Its my opinion that there were a lot of folks working against us. He had lived in small towns in northern Texas his whole life and spent over a decade in the Amarillo area as a sheriffs deputy for Potter County. youve got this policy thats a lot stronger than some other places. It is like a fairy tale now. Detectives are actively completing a thorough and detailed investigation. The last known report was on April 16, 2018, investigators said. We got several Norman officers lined up and walked across the area to see if we could find anything He told me, I knew that smart punk in Amarillo. At the time, I thought, Boy, thats a cold statement to make, the guy just got taken out of the trunk, he was shot a couple dozen times or so. He came up to me and volunteered that, none of the officers had anything to say, they just did what they had to do. He agreed to give Gilley a polygraph test, unbeknownst to case investigators. K: There were clothes, a bloody blanket, hair and the roughly 30 shell casings that were all missing. Two days later, testimony began. Munoz told detectives he moved into the home in 2019, and allowed a friend, Octavio Sanchez, 34, to store items in the basement. I was taken into his car and handcuffed to be taken to the jail, along with some of the other boys . Police identified the murder suspect as Isis McMullen. He resigned and worked for an amusements company before being hired at the Norman Police Department, according to articles in the Norman Transcript. They had broken up a few months before, but Jacobson said he just wasnt the type to commit a murder. K: For Ken Jacobson, that was his introduction to the murders of Sheryl Benham and David Sloan. He gets the rifle, which is a high capacity rifle, a .22 rifle might have a magazine of 22 rounds or more. They said he had no family, no visitors, I hope he didnt. About 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, the Norman Police Department responded Sunday night to storm damage on the south and eastern sides of Norman. Well start back up with thoughts from Linda, Recording of Kayla: Now what does that mean?, Recording of Pearo: Because of the way it was handled back in the 70s and the fact that the main suspect had been a Norman officer. Back to Brake reading Bodens statement: Recording of Brake: We watched it go down and when it was down, we were still there for a few minutes and a car drove by and I didnt see it but Rick did. Recording of Minty: his job was to cast some kind of doubt on the jurys mind about whether, you know, the validity of those claims. The case becomes exceedingly complicated and twisted from here on out, so be prepared. Believed under the right circumstances, especially if the possibility of discovery were probable, that Gilley would not hesitate to kill a person or persons to help cover an illegal act he was committingThis is also from Sheriff Johnston, Randall County Texas, where Gilley worked at one point. K: We heard this again from Brake, who had a copy of the official police reports Ken filed the day they found the bodies. Well pick back up the day the bodies were found. He says he found the gun in Aug. of 1970,, Recording of Pearo: but kept it for 20 years and didnt know that there was any significance to the fact that it was a .22 rifle and that it may have belonged to Gilley So we didnt know if this was the gun or not, but it sort of caught Gilley in a lie. Except one, a few days later. Most of those who were involved in the case have died, but my team and I were able to track down individuals who remember first-hand what happened all those years ago. WebFOX23 spoke with survivors who are just grateful to be alive following Sundays EF-2 tornado that ripped through Norman at around 9:20 p.m. Munoz told investigators he last saw Sanchez in May of 2020 when Sanchez was trying to get into the house uninvited, according to the search warrant affidavit. Based on a tip, investigators discovered Sandovols decomposing body in a residential basement at 715 W Lindsey St. Detectives interviewed Miguel Munoz at the home, according to an affidavit for a search warrant. The twister tossed vehicles around including one on top of another. Recording of Pearo: There were a bunch of them that sat there and kind of kicked it around and decided that they werent going to go for an arrest warrant but wanted to go for a grand jury, which to me was very disappointing because Im a go get them arrest them kind of guy.. K: A few days in, the couples that identified Gilley in 1970 as the man who harassed them on Lovers Lanes told the grand jury Gilley had mentioned the murders of David and Sheryl to them when he approached their cars. Recording of Linda: I dont know how to explain that. They believe the incident started before Gilleys NPD shift started around midnight Saturday. Ronald Lee McMullen Jr., who hails from Norman, was charged with first-degree murder after Kailee Jo McMullen was found deceased from a single gunshot wound to the face on the morning of June 29, 2017, according to a People Magazine report. A Daily staffer began flipping through pages in our large, dusty archive books. The funnel was just one instance of severe weekend weather in various parts of the U.S. Norman violent crime is 14.7. She talked about Sheryl like this every time we had a phone call. Pearo said investigators were discouraged by how the case was previously handled, but when they met up with original case detectives like Ken Jacobson, it was a new opportunity for collaboration. What became the most important, Jacobson told us, was finding the murder weapon. Investigators said Sandoval at one time was placed in Griffin Memorial Hospital for mental health treatment, and on Feb. 17, 2018 she filed a report with Norman police stating Sanchez and his wife were abusing her. Grady. K: Frank Gilley lived in Texas working odd jobs until he died in March 2002, according to the Amarillo Globe-News. Theres a large backyard shaded by multiple trees. They walked up and down the field, finding a few things more bullets, mostly. He was only on the force for three years, mostly focused on this one case. She did have a couple of chest wounds, but there was not a lot of bleeding internally in that. Splashed along the front pages of newspapers and TV station headlines were two words: not guilty. Just after 3 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a A reporter there had a tip about someone on Normans police force. We still do polygraph examinations. Sherry and I, yes. Lets go! Well, they did find her. Sanchez was charged with possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction. After the test, Henslee told reporters Gilley was innocent, that the polygraph proved it, and then Gilley packed his bags and resigned from the force that same day. But it was one that, it was kind of a taboo subject., Recording of Kayla: Why? They checked his police car, finding that on an average night, he would drive well over 100 miles on patrol. The sawed-off shotgun allowed them to arrest him for an illegal weapons charge, but eventually he was released to go home in Desoto, Texas. Mr. Gilley asked him another question and the boy answered it. Recording of Ken: Well Frank and Henslee and the sheriff were all buddies from out there and so we asked Henslee if we could take a look at that letter and he couldnt produce it. It was us that broke into your house and youre under arrest. So he started looking around and he looked at me and he said, Where are you from? and I said Norman, Oklahoma. And he said I thought so.. Before Green died, Gilley had come back to investigators claiming that Green had something to do with the murders of Sheryl and David. K: Police had starting investigating where Sheryl and David could have been after Sheryls dad filed the missing persons report. The police department brought in dozens of suspects, potential witnesses, family members and friends to interview. He spoke of how Gilley admitted to him he did know David before the murders, though Gilley previously testified he had never met David. When the OSBI, along with the Norman Police Department and the Cleveland County Sheriffs Office, found the bodies on Monday, May 11, Sheryl and David had been missing for just over 24 hours. Munoz said he had to call police to get Sanchez to leave. The K: But investigators did find .22 caliber weapons in the house, however they were technically owned by Gilleys father. A woman who was a clerk for NPD in 1970, said Gilley was in the office around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, within a few hours of the murders, and acted unusual. And my mother still to this day, Why did she give that to me? Was there a premonition, I dont know, no one will ever know.. Of course Gilley passed the polygraph and we didnt get to talk to him or anything.. She was 19. Yeah we should do that. What we think happened is Sloan and Benham were up on the lovers lane and Gilley approached them, probably came up to David Sloan, his side of the car, and said Im the sheriff of Cleveland County, probably made David get out and talk to him. K: By this point, it had been over a year since the murders and the small group of dedicated investigators had spent hundreds of hours on the case. Alex Murdaugh speaks with his attorney during his double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. They took in Sheryls ex-boyfriend for questioning. K: Sheryls dad, Ben Benham, testified, answering questions on what it was like to file a missing persons report for his daughter. And they did a good job, far as cleaning it up and everything.. Hogue is now charged with first-degree murder in her sons death. Enhanced Cost of Living Calculator Now includes childcare, taxes, health, housing for home owners vs renters, insurance costs and more when you upgrade to premium. The medical examiner said Byron But the DA at that time was adamant that the case was going to go to trial with what we had because, you know, the case wasnt improving. Sheryl graduated from Putnam City High School in 1969 and was living in Oklahoma City with her parents, her older sister Linda and Lindas oldest son. Recording of Minty: He just sat there quietly at the defense table the entire time. Sloans ex-girlfriend, who helped find the car after Ben Benham reported his daughter missing, told the jury she drove to the lovers lane area and happened upon the car, but left and reported it to police when she realized there was blood in the front seat and she smelled what she described in news articles as the smell of death. 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