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Jonna Ruth Gragert

Case from Edmond, OK dated Aug 20, 1986

Victim Details

Jonna Ruth Gragert

Female

White / Caucasian

Edmond

OK

1986-08-20

30

Jonna

Ruth Gragert

07/03/2026

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On an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in Edmond, Oklahoma, the morning of August 20, 1986, turned into a scene of unimaginable horror. Inside the Edmond Post Office, Jonna Ruth Gragert, a 30-year-old female employee, was going about her duties, unaware of the tragedy that was about to unfold and cut her life short. The workplace she knew would soon become a place of violence and remembrance.

The perpetrator, a part-time letter carrier named Patrick Sherrill, who was facing the possibility of ...
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  • Edmond Post Office Massacre | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
  • MAIL CARRIER KILLS 14 IN POST OFFICE, THEN HIMSELF (Published 1986)
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