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Betty Jo Martin

Case from Tulsa, OK dated Jan 12, 1999

Victim Details

Betty Jo Martin

March 18, 2023

Female

White / Caucasian

Tulsa

OK

1999-01-12

1999-01-12

79

Betty Jo Martin

Betty Jo

Martin

07/17/2026


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In the quiet city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a seventy-nine-year-old woman named Betty Jo Martin, who was legally blind, lived a life that was tragically cut short on January 12, 1999. On that day, a sound from her daughter's house next door drew her attention. Unbeknownst to her, she was about to walk into a perilous situation.

Believing something was amiss, she went to investigate, only to interrupt a burglary in progress. The intruder, caught in the act, turned on the vulnerable elderly woman ...
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