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Richard Dewayne Chambers, 42, of Oklahoma City, was taken to the Pontotoc County jail in connection with the death of two senior citizens and one woman (Hughes County Sheriff's Office)
It was later proven that he was mentally ill and therefore was unfit to have been tried or sentenced to death in the first place. The State of Oklahoma, the city of Ada, and Pontotoc County officials never admitted any errors and threatened to re-arrest him. Another man from Ada, Glen Gore, was eventually convicted of the crime on June 24, 2003.
Inmates sleep in a cell in the medium custody section of the Ada County Jail, Oct. 17, 2023. The jail’s infrastructure is from 1995, even as the number of its inmates has doubled.
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Pontotoc County is a county in the south central part of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,065. [1] Its county seat is Ada. [2] The county was created at statehood from part of the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory. It was named for a historic Chickasaw tribal area in Mississippi.
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census . The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. [ 5 ]
Wilson was arrested for alleged indecent exposure, and violation of suspended sentence on a previous convicted case, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office. Jail or Agency: Oklahoma County Jail; State: Oklahoma; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/20/2016; Age at death: 30; Sources: www.koco.com, Oklahoma County ...
Apr. 6—Longtime Pontotoc County Sheriff John Christian announced Friday that he will not seek reelection. Although Christian had been with the office previously, he was elected as sheriff in ...