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JJ Caldwell

Case from Tulsa, OK dated Nov 12, 1978

Victim Details

JJ Caldwell

December 1, 2022

Male

Tulsa

OK

1978-11-12

1978-11-12

52

JJ

Caldwell

06/20/2026


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James Jesse “J.J.” Caldwell Jr., a 52-year-old man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, had built a modest, working-class life, known as a machinist at Tudor Machine Shop and as a husband and father, before everything ended in a single, unexplained act of violence in the fall of 1978. He lived in a first-floor unit of a multi-unit building at 627 South Peoria Avenue, a routine address in the city where he worked and spent his days. To those around him, there was nothing to suggest that his home would one d ...
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