Sammy Gene Pack In the foothills of the Ozarks, where tight-knit communities dot the landscape of eastern Oklahoma’s Adair County, violence can strike with sudden and lasting impact. On November 17, 1998, in the small rural settlement of Piney near Stilwell, 47-year-old Robert Dale Christie was found dead from gunshot wounds. What followed was a case that moved swiftly through the justice system, marked by a dramatic jail escape, yet left behind remarkably few public details