Katherine Rutan, also known as Katherine Rutan Pollard, was today sentenced to life in prison without parole. Rutan was found guilty in a jury trial in August of the murder of her son Logan Tucker, age 6, who has not been seen in five years and whose body has yet to be found. Sentencing for [...]
This is a Broken Arrow Police sketch of a possible suspect in a recent abduction and rape of a 5-year-old girl. This sketch was put together after speaking with multiple witnesses who saw the man. He was reportedly wearing a yellow short-sleeve T-shirt with the word “CAT” on the front and red shorts and was [...]
Raye Dawn Smith, 27, was yesterday formally sentenced to 27 years in prison following her conviction by a Creek County jury on charges of enabling child abuse. Rather than ask for mercy, Smith used her court appearance to speak to her former mother-in-law. At sentencing Smith looked at her former mother-in-law Kathie Briggs and said, [...]
A horror story played out this weekend in Yukon and Mustang, Oklahoma. This horror story did not start this past weekend but rather three years ago. It ended in tragedy on this Labor Day weekend when Robert Paul Roberson, age 32, murdered his “ex-girlfriend”, Bailey Rian Thrasher, age 16. As if the age difference between [...]
The first-degree murder trial of Katherine Rutan, also known as Katherine Rutan Pollard, is underway at the Woods County Courthouse, in Alva, Oklahoma after having been moved from Woodward County on a change of venue. She is being tried for the murder of her son Logan Tucker back in 2002, when he was 6-years-old. In [...]
Here we go again. The feds, in the form of the U.S. Justice Department, are taking Oklahoma to federal court over civil rights violations. This time the problem centers on the L.E. Rader Center, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma’s only maximum security juvenile facility. The latest action was filed last year in U.S. District Court for [...]
