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Cold Case Files: A prosecutorial “housecleaning” in 2003 denied justice to families in double homicide of brothers
On a quiet March morning in 2001, a grandfather’s routine visit to pick up his granddaughter turned into a nightmare that still haunts Adair County and Eastern Oklahoma more than 25 years later. Around 6 a.m. on March 14, 2001, the father of Jason Dewayne White and Jamie Dale White arrived at their mobile home in Westville to collect the young child. Instead, he discovered his two sons -- Jason, 23, and Jamie, 27 -- shot to death inside. A 9-month-old granddaughter, who had b
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True Crime Chronicles: Respected neighbors turned into combatants in 1890 over the death of a wandering hog
In the summer of 1890, the quiet community of Black Springs in Montgomery County was shaken by a violent quarrel that began over a trespassing hog. On July 24 of that year, John T. Middleton confronted Nat Thornton after one of Thornton's hogs had wandered into Middleton's field and been killed. Middleton demanded compensation for his loss, and the two men, both well-regarded local figures, initially reached an amicable settlement. Their agreement unraveled, however, when a
Dennis McCaslin
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