Do you know who murdered Christen? In the late hours of a September night in 2014, emergency services in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were dispatched to a house fire on West Easton Street. Firefighters worked to control the blaze, and upon entering the charred residence, they made a grim discovery. Inside the home, which was known in the neighborhood as a place for illicit drug activity, they found the body of a woman.
The victim was later identified as 35-year-old Christen Marie Welch, a female resident of Tulsa.
An autopsy would later reveal the fire was not the cause of her death. Instead, the medical examiner determined that Welch had sustained blunt force trauma to her head and that her death was a homicide. The fire, it appeared, was an attempt to conceal the violent crime that had taken place.
In the years following Christen Welch's death, her case has remained unsolved, with no arrests made and no specific suspects publicly identified. The Tulsa Police Department continues to list her case among its unsolved crimes. One theory that investigators considered was the possibility that a group of juveniles may have broken into the house, leading to a fatal confrontation with Welch, and then set the fire to destroy any evidence. However, this line of inquiry has not led to a resolution, and the investigation into who is responsible for her death remains open.
