Documents detail timeline leading up to discovery of missing Harrah man's body
Over the weekend, a man reported missing out of Harrah was found dead
Over the weekend, a man reported missing out of Harrah was found dead
Over the weekend, a man reported missing out of Harrah was found dead
Court documents detailed the timeline leading up to the discovery of a missing Harrah man's body.
Over the weekend, a man reported missing out of Harrah was found dead. The Harrah Police Department called the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to help assist after 59-year-old Terry Len Hause was reported missing.
On Saturday, state agents found his body in a rural area of Lincoln County. Court documents detailed the timeline of what happened leading up to the discovery of Hause's body.
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Hause was found nearly 10 miles away from where the murder happened.
"An Okfuskee County deputy/pastor had called and reported the homicide, that something serious had happened, and they were worried that Terry was involved," said Chief Marty Burns, with the Harrah Police Department.
On Thursday, Oct. 19, a family member of Hause noticed a pool of blood on the floor of an apartment complex where Hause and 30-year-old Chuck White had been living. According to the affidavit, a relative of Hause admitted to investigators that Hause and White argued constantly.
Hause and White were also related. When the relative asked White where Hause was after spotting the blood, White said, "The problem is gone."
"When we arrived, we couldn't determine what had happened. We just know that something did happen, so, at the time, he was listed as a missing and endangered person," Burns said.
The affidavit revealed someone had attempted to clean up the blood before investigators arrived. The next day, investigators tracked Hause and White's phones to a dead-end road in Lincoln County, where Hause's body was discovered.
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"We believe that the suspect, after murdering the victim, dumped his body in that area there in rural Lincoln County," said Hunter McKee, the public information officer at OSBI.
A traffic stop later led to White's arrest, where he was taken in for questioning. White admitted to police he got in a fight with Hause and hit him in the face with a baseball bat multiple times.
"Even though there was an arrest made, the victim was found, there's still more pieces we’re trying to put together with this investigation," McKee said.
White is in the Oklahoma County Jail facing charges of first-degree murder and desecration of a human corpse.
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