Do you know who murdered Docras?
On a cold February day in 1988, the body of a woman named Dorcas Sue Hilton was discovered in the frigid waters of the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was at 5:32 p.m. on February 22nd, near the 3100 block of South Riverside Drive, that the grim finding was made amongst the rocks at the northern end of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma property. The female victim had been bound and her life taken by means of blunt force trauma, a brutal end to a life lived on the margins of society.
Dorcas was known to be a woman without a permanent home, often seeking refuge in various shelters or beneath the city's bridges. She was also known to have struggled with mental illness. The last time she was seen alive was on the very day her body was found, sometime between the hours of noon and 2 p.m. The circumstances of her final hours and the identity of her killer remain a mystery, a silent testament to the dangers faced by the most vulnerable members of the community.
In the years that have passed since Dorcas Sue Hilton's murder, her case has grown cold. Despite the efforts of law enforcement, no arrests have ever been made, and no suspects have been publicly identified. The investigation into her death remains open, a lingering question in the files of the Tulsa Police Department's Cold Case Unit. Her story is a somber reminder of a life cut short and of a justice that has yet to be served.
