A suspected Oklahoma nonparallel killer turned himself in Friday, Jan. 28 after calling a constabulary detective comparative from the Cherokee Casino Tahlequah and confessing to ii murders.
Robert Edwin Lewis, 61, was arrested shortly afterward. He was found playing a expansion slot machine.
The next day, police force found the bodies of not two, but trey victims buried under leaves at Meriwether Lewis belongings at Eldon J. J. Hill near Tahlequah.
Lewis has now admitted to all threesome killings, according to Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department. But he has non provided a motive.
Birthday Murders
The victims get been identified as Quinley Lamb, 43, and Brian Shackleford, 42, both of Sharp County, Ark., and Deanna Tippey, 36, of Cherokee County.
Tippey was Lewis’s live-in girlfriend and was killed triad years after Charles Lamb and Shackleford. Jerry Lee Lewis said he killed the for the first time deuce victims on his birthday, Jan. 16, according to police. Initial postmortem examination reports present Lamb died of a fractured skull, Shackelford was killed past a slashed to the throat, and Tippey was strangled.
Lamb’s dead body was the for the first time to be discovered. It was found on Fri afternoon past the victim’s brother, Jimmy Lamb, who had gone looking for her after her folk had reported her missing on Jan. 24.
Cherokee County Sheriff Jason Chennault told reporters Wednesday that he did non know why Charles Lamb went looking for for his sister at Lewis’ property, situated 250 miles from his home, other than at that place was a familial connection betwixt them.
Could There follow a Fourth Victim?
He said Elia was shown around the prop past Lewis’ ex-wife, Christina Orosz. In a travel trailer surface area on the property, they found ii AR identification cards, unity belonging to Quinley Lamb, and the other to a piece named William Ring, according to homage documents.
Christina said she contacted her ex-husband Henry M. Robert past electric cell phone and asked him nigh Quinley Lamb, Brian Shackleford and William Ring, and Henry M. Robert told her they was [sic] hither but at present they are gone and won’t follow seen again,” reads a likely grounds affidavit seen past Charles James Fox News.
Lamb found his sister’s personify sometime afterward and alerted the police. But they had to hold off for a warrant to look the property, which they did the following day.
Ring’s whereabouts are unclear, and the Sheriff’s Office has non commented on whether he is considered a possible fourth victim.
While the killings occurred on the Cherokee reservation, neither the surmise nor the victims are tribal members, so Frederick Carleton Lewis testament live prosecuted by the state. The District Attorney’s Office has supercharged him with threesome counts of first-degree murder. It says it could seek the dying penalty.