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Mary Motte

Case from Tulsa, OK dated Sep 04, 1991

Victim Details

Mary Motte

December 5, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Tulsa

OK

1991-09-04

1991-09-04

48

Mary

Motte

07/03/2026

1


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In the late summer of 1991, a retired nurse named Mary Ruth Alexander-Motte, a 48-year-old female, was brutally murdered in her Tulsa, Oklahoma home where she had lived for a quarter of a century. On September 4th, she was discovered on the floor of her residence at 5119 N. Frankfort. The scene told a grim story of a violent struggle.

Investigators found that she had been beaten about the head and had sustained five stab wounds. A bloody pillowcase had been placed over her head. Despite t ...
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