Robert Wilkinson

Death by Force

On August 27, 1946, Robert Sheldon Wilkinson, a 33-year-old white male war veteran connected with the Miami, Oklahoma area, passed abruptly from the lingering afterglow of wartime into the shadows of a small-town murder mystery that has never been fully resolved. His life intersected fatally with Grand Lake, the wide reservoir northeast of Miami, where the Oklahoma summer drew people to the water even as the country was still settling back into peacetime routines. By the time authorities realize ...Read More