On the evening of January 9, 2007, 38-year old Corey Duane Hamilton died in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was executed for the August 17, 1992 massacre of four young people; Joseph Gooch, Theodore Kindley, Steven Williams and Senaida Lara, during a robbery at the Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken Restaurant on South [...]
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Case Updates – October, 2006:
Undersheriff Irene Perske is reportedly doing well in her recovery from her recent brush with death, an incident wherein she somehow managed to shoot herself in the neck with a .40 caliber Glock.
Richard Coy Cochran Jr., a state’s witness in the Elks Lodge gambling case, was arrested on an old ‘poaching [...]
Donald D. Thompson, as District Judge, was the highest ranking judge in Creek County, Oklahoma. From his bench in the Creek County Courthouse in Sapulpa, Thompson held in his hands the power to sentence to prison or to the death chamber those that appeared before him.
He also at times held in his hands a [...]
The above pictures of former Creek County, Oklahoma District Judge Donald D. Thompson document his journey from the bench to being an accused criminal, to becoming a convicted felon and lastly to becoming an inmate in the Oklahoma prison system.
On the left is his official picture, while still a judge. The second is Thompson’s [...]
