Dozens missing, murdered in rural Oklahoma - Suspected link to white-supremacist prison gangs

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Smith is among a dozen or more people who have disappeared in recent years from the wooded, unincorporated terrain outside the Oklahoma City metro area, a rural haven for drug traffickers. Some families said they’re scared to call police or even to put up “missing person” signs because they suspect the involvement of violent white-supremacist prison gangs.

In April, authorities acting on a tip said they found charred piles of wood and bone on a five-acre patch of Logan County, opening one of the grisliest and most sensitive criminal investigations in Oklahoma’s recent history.

Behind the 10-foot metal walls of a compound with links to the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist prison gang, officers found what they believe to be a body dumping ground where multiple people ended up dismembered and burned, according to four Oklahoma officials with knowledge of the investigation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary security precautions around the case.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, or OSBI, which is leading the multiagency state and federal probe, confirms that remains have been found but will not say how many. An April 29 report in the Oklahoman newspaper — the first news of the discovery — quoted the state medical examiner and other sources as saying agents were investigating “whether a white supremacist prison gang is behind nine or more disappearances” after the discovery of “the comingled remains of possibly three people.” The report said remains also were found at a second site, near an oil well about 18 miles away in the tiny town of Luther.

Four months later, the scope of the case remains murky. A law enforcement official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said they were informed the count was up to “12 different DNA profiles.” One family of a missing person said they were told of eight; another heard about three.

The OSBI has taken significant steps to keep the investigation opaque, including advising families of the missing to stay quiet.

“We’re just trying to keep some people alive at this point,” a second official said, describing the struggle to protect potential witnesses.

That level of danger is a jarring reminder of the unseen threat of white-supremacist prison gangs, whose leaders run crime syndicates from behind bars through a network of “enforcers” on the outside, according to extremism monitors and Justice Department court filings.

Oklahoma is a “problem state,” with at least five significant white-supremacist prison gangs, said Mark Pitcavage, an Anti-Defamation League researcher who has monitored the groups for decades. He co-authored a 2016 study that called prison gangs the fastest-growing and deadliest sector of the U.S. white-supremacist movement, noting that they “combine the criminal intent and know-how of organized crime with the racism and hate of white supremacy, making them twice as dangerous.”


“The investigation is very fluid and very active,” said an OSBI release dated Aug. 8. “Because of that, the volume of rumors and speculation is high. The OSBI will not comment on rumors as that can jeopardize the ongoing investigation.”

The statement said state investigators and sheriff’s offices in three counties “have been working closely with the families of the missing persons,” including collecting DNA samples to help with identification. That work will take time, the release said, because of “the physical condition of the remains recovered.”
 
This is horrific! Why haven’t we heard anything about this? I mean in the main stream media.

I hope they have the resources to have all of these people identified quickly through their DNA.
When this article came out I looked for others to see if there was additional info floating around anywhere. But there's NOTHING.
 
Apparently there has been an arrest in this...case? Situation?
It's behind a paywall though so I have no idea what's happening.

Investigation into Oklahoma Aryan Brotherhood compound leads to arrest
A hush-hush investigation into a white supremacist prison gang and a string of disappearances has resulted in the first arrest of a murder suspect.

Wondering if it's related to these arrests?

Imprisoned White Supremacist Leader Accused of Orchestrating Murders​

A third person is now behind bars for the murder of a man who disappeared in 2021.

New court filings reveal a federal inmate told investigators the victim was burned on a Logan County property that was first raided the same year. The documents also contain disturbing new details and a motive.

Jason Cornett, his wife, and now his nephew are all charged in connection to the murder of David Orr, all arrested over the past week.

Filings now reveal a recognized white supremacist gang leader is accused of ordering the hit from behind bars.


According to court filings, as part of a plea agreement, in Nov. 2021, a federal inmate told investigators David Orr was living with the trio at a trailer home in McLoud when Jason Cornett shot and killed him. He said Orr’s body was burned in “a steel box in the backyard that they used to burn bodies in.”

The inmate alleged Cornett was instructed by his uncle, Mikell Smith AKA “Bulldog,” who owned the home, to “to take care of the debt” Orr owed him. According to court filings,

Smith allegedly then ordered Cornett to move the steel box to a Logan County property that was later raided by state, federal, and county investigators.

According to the federal inmate, Smith also ordered Cornett to kill a Missouri resident who was running drugs for him and was reported missing in 2019.

Smith is serving multiple life sentences for three murders. In 1989, the Department of Corrections dubbed him “the most dangerous man in the penitentiary.”
 
Podcast about this for anyone interested.

The deadly world of white-supremacist prison gangs
Missing people, buried car parts and human remains in Oklahoma: the silent but not so secret influence of white-supremacist prison gangs.

Carol Knight thought she was going to build her dream home in Choctaw, Okla. But when she started renovations, she discovered all kinds of debris buried on her property. Everything from electronics to car parts and motorcycles.

Carol had heard rumors that the previous residents weren’t the most upstanding citizens, so she called her friend Jathan Hunt, a private investigator, to check out the area. His dogs found some bones, which they handed over to authorities. But Jathan continued to search for answers about what may have happened at Carol’s property.

While Jathan was busy working the case, local, state and federal authorities have been looking into a slew of missing person cases in the area. Which led them to a compound with potential ties to a white-supremacist prison gang, the Universal Aryan Brotherhood.

Post reporter Hannah Allam has been following the developments in Oklahoma and tells us what she’s learned about this secretive investigation.
 

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