Do you know who murdered Kasey? In the spring of 1989, a devastating fire at the Woodcreek Apartment complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma, led to a grim discovery and a heart-wrenching mystery that remains unsolved decades later. On March 29th, first responders were called to a blaze at one of the residences. Inside the smoke-filled apartment, they found the bodies of 17-month-old Kasey Wald, a female, and her mother, Carol Sue Pittman.
The initial assumption was that both had tragically succumbed to smoke inhalation from the fire.
However, the subsequent investigation by authorities uncovered a more sinister truth. While the medical examiner determined that young Kasey had indeed died from smoke inhalation, her mother's death was ruled a homicide. Carol Sue Pittman had been strangled before the fire was intentionally set, transforming the case from a tragic accident into a double homicide investigation. The fire, it appeared, was a deliberate attempt to conceal the violent crime that had taken place within the apartment's walls.
Despite the efforts of the Tulsa Police Department, the case grew cold over the years. Investigators have been unable to publicly identify any suspects in the murder of Carol Pittman and the subsequent death of her daughter, Kasey. No arrests have ever been made in connection with the double homicide. The case remains an open and unsolved file within the Tulsa Police Department's Cold Case Unit, a silent testament to a mother and child whose lives were cut short in a brutal act of violence that has yet to see justice.
