Cherokee Casino Tahlequah Arrest Adds New Details on Suspected Serial Killer

A suspected Oklahoma in series(p) killer turned himself inward Friday, Jan. 28 after calling a police detective congener from the Cherokee Casino Tahlequah and confessing to 2 murders.

Robert Edwin Lewis, 61, was arrested shortly afterwards as he stood playing a expansion slot machine.

The next day, law found the bodies of non two, but trio victims interred under leaves at Clive Staples Lewis prop at Eldon James Jerome Hill near Tahlequah. According to Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department, Lewis has now admitted to all leash killings. But he has not provided investigators with a motive.

Birthday Murders

The victims experience been identified as Quinley Lamb, 43, and Brian Shackleford, 42, both of Sharp County, Ark., and Deanna Tippey, 36, of Cherokee County.

Tippey was Lewis’s live-in lady friend and was killed trinity days after Elia and Shackleford. Frederick Carleton Lewis said he killed the number one 2 victims on his birthday, Jan 16, according to police.

Initial postmortem reports show Elia died of a fractured skull, Shackelford was killed past a cutting off to the throat, and Tippey was strangled.

Lamb’s dead body was the number one to follow discovered. It was found on Fri afternoon by the victim’s brother, Jimmy Lamb, who had gone sounding for her after her fellowship had reported her missing on Jan. 24.

Cherokee County Sheriff Jason Chennault told reporters Wed that he did non live wherefore Lamb went looking for for his sister at Lewis’ property, located 250 miles from his home, other than in that location was a hereditary connective 'tween them.

Could There live a Fourth Victim?

He said Lamb was shown around the attribute past Lewis’ ex-wife, Christina Orosz. In a jaunt trailer region on the property, they found 2 Arkansas River identification cards, I belonging to Quinley Lamb, and the other to a piece named William Ring, according to lawcourt documents.

Christina said she contacted her ex-husband Henry M. Robert by electric cell phone and asked him about Quinley Lamb, Brian Shackleford and William Ring, and Henry Martyn Robert told her they was [sic] hither but now they are gone and won’t live seen again,” reads a probable grounds affidavit seen past Fox News.

Lamb found his sister’s personify sometime afterwards and alerted police. But they had to hold back for a stock-purchase warrant to hunt the property, which they did the followers day.

Ring’s whereabouts is unclear, and the Sheriff’s Office has not commented on whether he is considered a possible fourth victim.

While the killings occurred on the Cherokee reservation, neither the suspect nor the victims are tribal members, so Clive Staples Lewis testament live prosecuted past the state. The District Attorney’s Office has supercharged him with III counts of first-degree murder. It says it could seek the expiry penalty.