Robert Edwin Lewis the rural, wooded hills of the Eldon area in Cherokee County, Robert Edwin Lewis carried out a brutal triple homicide in January 2022. The crimes, committed on and around his 61st birthday, claimed the lives of three people whose bodies were later concealed in shallow graves on a property featuring wooded land and a travel trailer. The victims were Quinley Lamb, 43, of Ash Flat in Sharp County, Arkansas; Brian Shackelford, reported variously as 51 or 42 yea

John Elward Brown Sr. From the muddy streets of Rogers, where a drumbeat from a Salvation Army band changed the course of his life, to the rolling hills of Siloam Springs where he planted the seeds of a university, John Elward Brown Sr. embodied the American story of self-made faith and relentless vision. A self-educated evangelist, radio pioneer, prohibition crusader, and educator, Brown founded John Brown University (JBU) in 1919 with a simple yet revolutionary idea: provi

Coach Jerry Roy Bailey While wandering through cemeteries, we come across pioneers, heroes, celebrities, and sometimes victims of meaningless tragedy. This is one of those stories. In the quiet corners of Broken Bow Cemetery in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, a headstone honors Jerry Roy Bailey -- born December 18, 1941, and buried January 22, 1976, at just 34 years old. A hometown boy turned championship coach, Bailey embodied the promise of rural Oklahoma athletics: hard work,