Oklahoma man charged with murdering dismembering four friends

An Oklahoma man accused of killing four friends whose dismembered stays had been discovered submerged in a river has been hit with four counts of first-degree homicide.

Okmulgee County District Attorney Carol Iski introduced the costs towards 67-year-old Joseph Kennedy at a news convention on Monday. They stem from the slayings of Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29.

“This was a very lengthy investigation, and it continues as we speak,” Iski stated. “Countless man-hours have been invested and dedicated to this investigation, and I applaud the District 25 Violent Crime Task Force for (its) tireless efforts to bring this case to justice.”

The four males had been final seen alive in Okmulgee, leaving Billy Chastain’s dwelling on bicycles pulling trailers on Oct. 9 round 8 p.m. From threre, authorities tracked the lads’s actions to a salvage yard west of Okmulgee after which to a fuel station through knowledge collected from an app on a cellphone belonging to Mark Chastain’s spouse.

Just earlier than the cellular phone misplaced energy, it pinged at a second salvage yard after which at an adjoining property, the place authorities found blood and private objects, together with a damaged set of dentures in addition to 7.62-caliber shell casings.

Kennedy owns both salvage yards visited by the victims. He was arrested Oct. 17 in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., whereas driving a stolen car, and he has since been extradited to Oklahoma.

Iski stated video from a close-by enterprise locations Kennedy at his Okmulgee scrap yard the evening authorities suspect all four males had been shot and killed. His cellular phone additionally pinged close to a bridge not removed from the place the sufferer’s bullet-ridden stays had been present in Deep Fork River, days after they had been initially reported lacking.

According to an affidavit filed on Monday, Kennedy allegedly instructed a buddy the victims “were stealing from him,” so he killed them and minimize up their our bodies. He is being held within the Okmulgee County Detention Center with out bond and faces the loss of life penalty or life imprisonment with or with out the opportunity of parole.

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