Posted on 07/23/2015 7:08:02 AM PDT by Perseverando
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – Police responding to a silent 911 call found five people stabbed to death inside a well-kept suburban Tulsa home, then detained two teenage male relatives of the victims after a police dog tracked them down in nearby woods.
Broken Arrow Police Sgt. Thomas Cooper said Thursday that officers responded to the house near the Indian Springs Country Club after emergency operators received an "open 911 call" -- a call in which no one speaks but the line remains connected. Police traced the number to the home and found a scene so disturbing that police warned that it could take all of Thursday to process evidence.
"It certainly is shocking. I'm shocked," said Patricia Statham, a neighbor. "I feel so bad for everyone who walks into that house. You can see it in the faces of the officers when they come out."
Cooper said nine people were linked to the family home -- the five dead, which included adults and juveniles; the two teenagers in custody; a girl in critical condition with stab wounds; and another child who was unharmed. The child who wasn't wounded has been transferred to state custody, Cooper said.
Police with a dog tracked down the two male relatives, aged 16 and 18, in woods near the neighborhood, Cooper said.
"It appears that the two suspects fled out the door sometime during our arrival. We had a K-9 track and they were apprehended," Cooper said.
Broken Arrow is on the Arkansas River, just southeast of Tulsa, and the home is in a well-established, upper-middle-class neighborhood surrounded on three sides by the country club. Property records showed the home sold for $245,000 in 2007, and Tulsa County tax records show it is among the largest and most expensive homes on the block.
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Might not be an Amish thing here. I’m guessing drugs.
Horrible! So tragic! What a terrible loss! How could anyone be so evil?
wow. That is bizarre.
“Deal gone bad” as if there were deals gone good (well, though, some go LESS bad than others)
The cops will sort it all out, one would suppose...
A 16 and 18 YO relative. What kind of life have they led to have the frame of mind to fatally stab 5 family members.That wouldn’t be an easy thing to do even for a trained adult. Unless they did it while they were sleeping, then maybe, but still.
My bet, relatives from central America where knives and machetes are every day tools.
The open calls don’t work very well with cell phones. This is one of the advantages of a land line, assuming you consider this an advantage. My kids had accidentally called 911 and we got a visit whether we wanted it or not.
Unfortunately, based on other recently reported murder cases involving otherwise affluent teenage males, the cause of the murders may turn out to be something so trivial as an argument over suspending their Game Boy/Xbox playing privileges.
Don't think it was a drug deal. From MSN:
Hoagland said the children used to help decorate the neighborhood's entrance each Christmas, but that they stopped taking part a few years ago."
Sounds like some family members went nuts.
Had a Samsung TracFone that started calling 911 all by itself. Got rid of it after it did this three times and the 911 operators used their system to call/vibrate the phone through the open link. The operators knew nothing was wrong because they had been listening for a few minutes prior to calling the phone and just heard normal conversation going on. Not quite a “butt dial” situation because the cellphone was in a belt case.
Working with TracFone, we finally figured out that when the cellphone lost signal for a period of time (like in an electronically masked deep corner of the mall while doing my daily walk), it would go into emergency mode (which still permits outgoing 911 calls) and, if bumped in its belt carrier during that time, it would dial 911. Resetting the phone to its factory default settings didn’t cure the problem.
Finally concluded that it was the phone and the service provider’s poor network coverage and got an iPhone5 smart phone and a new carrier.
Evil sociopaths.
“It appears that the two suspects fled out the door sometime during our arrival” - Possibly the only reason the child was unharmed?
“Helen Hoagland, who has lived in the subdivision for 42 years, said she would sometimes see the mother walking in the neighborhood with several children whom she described as home schooled and kept on a tight leash.
42 years isn’t a “new money” neighborhood... it is an old one. 250,000 is a lot to some but at 4% interest rates not a big deal.
We may never know the why of this mess.
How many days is the waiting period for a knife? What ever it is, it’s not long enough!
I stand corrected.
Fair enough. Ive driven by this very house in years past.
Broken Arrow used to encompass quite a bit of rural properties, too, though. Has that changed? I moved away 18 years ago, but spent my first 30 years in the Tulsa/Broken Arrow 71st Street area.
Sorry, can’t blame this one on the Hispanics.
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