NInvestigators have arrested a man after the discovery of four dismembered bodies in the US state of Oklahoma. The owner of a junkyard is not accused in the case, but is considered a “person of interest,” police said on Tuesday.
He was found in a stolen car in Florida and should now be taken to Oklahoma. The arrest also has to do with a gun incident in 2012.
The bodies of four men missing since October 9 were discovered in a river in Oklahoma last Friday. Investigators believe the four men, aged between 29 and 32, were planning a crime before they disappeared. The police did not give any details. “We don’t know what they have planned,” Police Chief Joe Prentice said. When asked by a journalist whether it might have been about drugs, he said: “We have no idea.” Neither the murder weapon nor the men’s bikes have been found so far.
The junkyard, whose owner has now been arrested, is said to be located next to an area where investigators had discovered traces of “massive violence”.
The four men killed are said to have been close friends, according to investigators. They probably left Okmulgee on the evening of October 9th with their bikes. They were then reported missing by relatives. Attempts to reach her by phone failed. Calls on their mobile phones were answered directly by the answering machine. According to the police chief, the bodies were probably thrown into the river a week ago. Okmulgee has around 11,000 inhabitants and is located about 60 kilometers south of Tulsa in the American Midwest.