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Catching you up on the Bever murders, the spike in immigration arrests and ‘Tulsa-style’ pizza

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‘We’re going to kill them tonight’

The scoop: Today marks 10 years since a quiet Broken Arrow neighborhood was the scene of a shocking quintuple homicide that made international headlines.

• Brothers Robert Bever, 18, and Michael Bever, 16, were eventually convicted in the brutal stabbing deaths of their parents and three of their younger siblings, Daniel, 12, Christopher, 7, and Victoria, 5.
• A sister, Crystal, 13 at the time, survived the attack, along with the youngest sibling, who was just under 2.
• The brothers’ plan? Annihilate their entire family before embarking on a cross-country murder spree to become famous serial killers and “murder superstars.”

Part 1: What happened when the Bever brothers said ‘we’re going to kill them tonight’

A narrative retelling of the events of the night of July 22, 2015, uses previous reports, trial coverage and available records from the disturbing Broken Arrow familicide case.

Part 2: How officers handled the Bever murders: ‘No human is supposed to see what we saw’

Brandon Tener, now a captain with the Broken Arrow Police Department, has never been able to shake his memories of the night he became the first responder to set foot in the Bever family home.

Part 3: Looking for motive after Bever murders, investigators find ‘just pure evil’

Ten years after the Bever brothers murdered their parents and siblings as part of a planned killing spree, questions linger — Why did this happen? What forces or factors put two Broken Arrow teens on the path to mass murder?

Familicides, the vast majority of which are murder-suicides, going up in Oklahoma

While in some ways in a category of their own, the 2015 Bever murders in Broken Arrow are also representative of a type of homicide known as familicide, in which multiple members of a single family are killed in a single act.

Listen to the Bever murder series on the Tulsa World Podcast

The series is read by Reporter Tim Stanley, who wrote the special report, and includes an interview with him about his thoughts behind the series.

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From 4.3 arrests per day to nearly 10

The scoop: Immigration arrests in Oklahoma have more than doubled since President Donald Trump took office when compared to 2024 rates.

• Immigrants facing criminal charges of some sort: 41% of those detained
• Convicted criminals: 38%
• Those never convicted and not facing charges accounted: 21%
• “Under Presidents Obama and then Trump and then Biden, the focus was always on violent criminals and people who broke the law … and I think everybody was in agreement with that. But now they sort of have maxed out on finding those people, so now in order to hit their quotas they are having to go find the low-hanging fruit and the places where they can find people. Now they are arresting grandmothers and any people who they can find.” — Immigration law attorney James Hacking.
• Reporter Curtis Killman with this report, based on a Tulsa World analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data.

What exactly is ‘Tulsa-style’ pizza?

The scoop: Tulsa pizza aficionados have been beating a path to the ordering window of Matthew West’s’s Two 2’s Pi House.

• It’s in a trailer set up in the parking lot of his other business, 2+2 Dispensary.
• West was in the ninth grade when he was arrested for possession of marijuana and held at the L.E. Rader Juvenile Detention Center. It was there that he discovered he liked cooking when he took part in the center’s home economics program.
• “I came out of the alternative courts — I’m a mental health court graduate, and I cannot emphasize enough that these alternative courts really, truly save people’s lives,” he said.
• James D. Watts Jr. with the 10 food trucks that people are talking about.
• And now that you are hungry, Watts also filed this: Burger may be ‘best in the city’ at libations-forward Maestro in Santa Fe Square

The most popular stories on tulsaworld.com in the past week you may have missed

1. $2 billion Vinita theme park remains in limbo two years after announcement | By Michael Dekker, Mike Simons
2. Durant popping up in second season of ‘Landman’ | By Jimmie Tramel
3. 10 years after the Bever murders in Broken Arrow: A Tulsa World Special Report | By Tim Stanley, Cassidy Martin, Mike Simons
4. Another large south Tulsa apartment complex facing water service cutoff | By Kevin Canfield, Mike Simons
5. Burger may be ‘best in the city’ at libations-forward Maestro in Santa Fe Square | By James D. Watts Jr., Daniel Shular
6. 10 food trucks that people are talking about | By James D. Watts Jr., Daniel Shular, Annie Davenport
7. Vote now in the Tulsa’s Best in the World contest naming the best of everything | By Misti Rinehart
8. County commissioners OK zoning change for data center near Owasso | By Kevin Canfield, Mike Simons
9. Broken Arrow, Owasso school leaders share funding freeze impact | By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton
10. Eskimo Joe’s success story started 50 years ago thanks to a relationship started in Tulsa | By Jason Collington

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Catching you up on a possible future for Utica Square, a lawyer explaining what needs to happen with lawlessness downtown and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is dumping some work onto Tulsa Police

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Pushing back against ‘misinformation’ by Ryan Walters

The scoop: Four large school districts in Oklahoma are pushing back against Ryan Walters’ new claims that administrators are sitting on “surplus” funds within their existing budgets to meet his demands to furnish all 700,000 public school students with free meals.

• Tara Thompson, chief communications officer at Broken Arrow Public Schools, said it is demonstrably untrue that the district has a $109 million surplus.
• “It appears this alleged ‘surplus’ can only be derived by illegally adding all funds. Bond funds, debt service funds, student-raised funds, scholarship funds, workers’ comp funds — these cannot legally be added together and used except for their intended purpose,” she said.
• Projects Reporter Andrea Eger received responses from all four districts to this latest message from the state superintendent.

A possible future for Utica Square that is for sale?

The scoop: Tulsa developer who established a $250 million multi-use area in Oklahoma City wants to bring the same to Tulsa — possibly to transform Utica Square.

• Ryan McNeill is the developer of OAK, a nearly 1 million-square-foot area near Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City.
• It includes a hotel, apartments, several retailers and restaurants, office space, and a newly opened RH (formerly Restoration Hardware), which looks more like a mansion than a store.
• Michael Dekker with an interview with McNeill and what he would do to the iconic shopping center in Tulsa, which for the first time in decades is for sale.

‘It’s just absolutely astounding the types of criminal activity that occurs on a daily basis’

The scoop: An attorney representing business owners concerned about homelessness and associated crime downtown met with Mayor Monroe Nichols to urge the city to enforce the laws related to nuisances.

• In a recent interview with the Tulsa World, Joel Wohlgemuth said the city is selectively enforcing the city’s nuisance ordinances downtown at the expense of all those who live, work and recreate there.
• An open records request of 911 call data made by Wohlgemuth shows that from April 2022 to April 2025, Tulsa police received 1,391 calls for service related to the downtown bus station. That’s more than one a week on average.
• Reporter Kevin Canfield also talked to the mayor about what he thought of the meeting and what’s next.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol withdrawing patrol of interstate highways in Tulsa, OKC

The scoop: The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said effective Nov. 1 it is handing over its jurisdiction on metropolitan-area interstate highways to local law enforcement in an attempt to reallocate its resources to other areas of the state.

• The OHP currently handles calls on Interstates 44, 244 and the Inner Dispersal Loop within the city of Tulsa, as well as the turnpikes.
• “On the downside it’s an unanticipated burden to the department so we will have to reallocate resources from other things that we didn’t have to before,” a police spokesman said.
• Reporter Curtis Killman gets into what this might mean for Tulsans.
• Follow up: The impact of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s plans to pull out of Tulsa and the Oklahoma City area in November is beginning to take shape, and some are already voicing opposition to it. Drunken driving, highway crashes are top concerns.

The most popular stories on tulsaworld.com in the past week you may have missed

1. Chemistry problems of Oklahoma Joes led to Castiglione retirement? | By Berry Tramel
2. Ann Coulter tweet draws rebuke from Cherokee Nation chief | By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton
3. Rising valuations of NBA franchises will prompt Thunder ownership to sell | By Berry Tramel
4. Large mixed-use development planned for Riverside Parkway near River Spirit Casino | By Kevin Canfield
5. Tulsan behind unique OKC development now eying Utica Square | By Michael Dekker
6. New CEO takes charge of Williams, a $73 billion company with a long history in Tulsa | By Michael Dekker, Daniel Shular
7. Cops led fatal chase over car’s paper tag. Body cam raises questions about why. | By Corey Jones, Daniel Shular, Mike Simons
8. Whatever happened to the Oklahoma Teacher of the Year who left for Texas? | By Andrea Eger
9. Ryan Walters issues school lunch demands, threatens audits to force admin cost cutting | By Andrea Eger, Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton
10. Attorney for downtown Tulsa business owners urges city to enforce nuisance laws | By Kevin Canfield

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Catching you up on a lawsuit about the death that became rallying cry for LGBTQ+ advocates and the possible loss of up to 17 hospitals in Oklahoma with the estimated Medicaid cuts.

The scoop: 883 illegal guns seized, 21 dead by gun violence in last six months in Tulsa

This came out during a press conference with Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols about tightening the city’s curfew downtown.

• The new curfew: 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. within the Inner Dispersal Loop for people younger than 18 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
• The curfew was voted on days after one person was killed and seven others were wounded during the Juneteenth Festival in the Greenwood District.
• It was the second fatal shooting in the city’s downtown entertainment district in less than two months.
• But: The Tulsa police chief says the city’s shooting-with-intent-to-kill numbers have dropped by 50% over the last three years.
• “While I am pleased that we’ve started to see some of our violent crimes go in the right direction, the pockets of juvenile crime are incredibly startling. We’re also seeing an uptick in trespassing and nuisance crimes,” the mayor said.
• Kevin Canfield and Mike Simons with this report.
• “We know what youth need — guidance, after-school activities, mentorships and to be heard. The question is whether Tulsa is ready to provide that,” writes Columnist Ginnie Graham.
• The Tulsa World Editorial Board offers the community a list of things to do to combat gun violence, including “Do you have the Tulsa Crime Stoppers number in your phone yet? It’s 918-596-COPS. And remember that callers can remain anonymous.”

Nex Benedict’s death was felt around the world. It’s now the center of a lawsuit

A lawsuit alleges deliberate indifference on the part of Owasso Public Schools to known bullying and sexual harassment that caused a school sophomore’s suicide in 2024.

• The lawsuit filed in Tulsa federal court on behalf of Nex Benedict’s mother, Sue Benedict, and her child’s estate.
• The Owasso High School sophomore, who identified as nonbinary and preferred masculine or gender-neutral pronouns, died in 2024, one day after a fight in a school restroom. Benedict’s death became a rallying cry for LGBTQ+ advocates who thought the student might have been the victim of a hate crime.
• Curtis Killman digs into the details of the lawsuit.

The possible Oklahoma impact of Medicaid changes wanted by President Trump

The president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association estimates:

• Oklahoma hospitals expect to lose $873 million a year in revenue.
• As many as 17 will close if changes to Medicaid contemplated by congressional leaders and the Trump administration are enacted.
• “That’s $8.7 billion in hospital reimbursements over 10 years,” said Rich Rasmussen. “There’s not a hospital in the state that wouldn’t be impacted.”
• Steve Metzer with more.

The most popular stories on tulsaworld.com in the past week you may have missed

1. Cops led fatal chase over car’s paper tag. Body cam raises questions about why | By Corey Jones, Daniel Shular and Mike Simons
2. Update: Police ID man killed in shooting at Tulsa’s Juneteenth Festival | From Staff Reports
3. Thousands attend Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour Saturday in Tulsa | By Ismael Lele, Daniel Shular, Annie Davenport and Cassidy Martin
4. Oklahoma State Board of Education members request more review time before votes | By Lenzy Krehbiel-burton and Mike Simons
5. I’m more confused than ever where money in higher education is going | By Ginnie Graham
6. Tulsa officials move to change downtown curfew hours after shootings | By Kevin Canfield and Mike Simons
7. Blue Heaven in Game 7: Thunder tops Pacers for NBA championship | By Berry Tramel
8. More concerts coming to TU’s Chapman Stadium through Oak View Group partnership | By Jimmie Tramel
9. Gov. Stitt lashes out at still-secret consent decree involving Tulsa, Muscogee Nation | By Curtis Killman
10. New Oklahoma education laws: More school time, teacher raises, incentives to become a teacher | By Steve Metzer

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Catching you up on what’s happening after midnight in Tulsa, the best baker in all the land, just how great paying people to move to Tulsa is going, and just how high can higher education cost?

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Tulsa Police say ‘Please, please, please talk to your children’ after fatal shootings among groups of young people

The scoop: Tulsa Police keep having to show up to disperse young people in recent shootings in Tulsa.

• One on Saturday night ended in the death of a 22 year old with seven others injured.
• Last Thursday, police said a late-night gathering of young people near Cry Baby Hill left four injured after a shooting.
• Afterward there was a disturbance that broke out at nearby OSU Medical Center where people injured in the shooting were being treated.
• “Please, please, please talk to your children and try to keep them from getting caught up in situations like this,” police say.
• Anna Codutti has all the details.
• The incidents made Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols says this: “These events are showing a pattern of brazen lawlessness by individuals who don’t respect the lives of others or the authority of those tasked to keep people safe.” Read the latest on this shooting.

Tulsa is home to the best baker in the country

The scoop: Cat Cox opened Tulsa’s Country Bird Bakery in 2022. Less than three years later, she is the first Tulsan to win a James Beard Award when she was named the country’s Outstanding Baker or Pastry Chef.

• The James Beard Awards are considered the most prestigious culinary awards in the United States.
• Cox has a degree in textiles but said she “had always been a home baker.”
• Tulsa chef Lisa Becklund was a finalist for the Outstanding Chef award for her work at FarmBar, and Oklahoma City’s Nonesuch was a finalist for Outstanding Restaurant.
• Andrew Black in Oklahoma City was the first Oklahoman to win a James Beard Award when he was named Best Chef-Southwest at the 2023 awards.
• James D. Watts Jr. with this report.

What’s it like to wait in line?

The scoop: Mr. Watts spent some time in line when Cat Cox’s bakery opens one or two days a week.

This is what he discovered.

Paying people $10,000 to move to Tulsa is working

The scoop: Actually, a study finds that the payment is worth four times the investment.

• More than 3,600 participants and their families have moved here as part of Tulsa Remote, which is funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
• “Remote worker attraction is a relatively cheap way of bringing jobs to your city because remote workers are more footloose than the average business,” the study’s author told Bloomberg.
• Since 2019, when Tulsa Remote was launched
  • 96% of participants stayed for the year duration of the program
  • 70% still remain today
  • Many also bring spouses, partners, kids and even their parents with them. Some have started businesses and nonprofits after deciding to stay.
• Business reporter Michael Dekker offers all the numbers and also introduces you to a new business started in Tulsa thanks to Remoters getting together.

The higher cost of higher education in Oklahoma

Columnist Ginnie Graham writes: “After a year of going through the college and financial aid application processes, I’m more confused than ever about where higher education money is going.”

• “It wasn’t a good look recently for the University of Oklahoma to raise tuition by 3% at the same meeting that its president was given a $75,000 raise and $200,000 bonus.”
• “But Oklahoma State University can’t brag about keeping tuition steady when the Legislature had to bail out its veterinary college with $250 million, and questionable spending led to a president change.”
• Her question: “Why does it cost $9,900 a year for housing and meal plan at a private school in upstate New York, but the equivalent at OSU is $11,000, and at OU it’s about $14,000?”
• What’s changed a lot: In the 1980s, OU and OSU received about 40% of their budget from state taxpayer funds. It’s at less than 10% now.
• Ginnie Graham gets into this debate.

The most popular stories on tulsaworld.com in the past week you may have missed

1. Tulsa actor and longtime ‘Hee Haw’ cast member Gailard Sartain dies | By Jimmie Tramel
2. Berryhill wrestling coach Jonce Blaylock fighting rare form of cancer | By Michael Peters and Annie Davenport
3. 27-year-old woman from Tahlequah drowns on Illinois River | By Anna Codutti
4. Discoveryland’s new owners plan to bring back ‘Oklahoma!’ production | |By James D. Watts Jr. and Stephen Pingry
5. Tulsa police lieutenant sues city, claiming retaliation after he called out racism | By Curtis Killman
6. Thousands attend Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour Saturday in Tulsa | By Ismael Lele, Daniel Shular, Annie Davenport and Cassidy Martin
7. Zink Lake closed until further notice due to unsafe water conditions | By Anna Codutti and Mike Simons
8. Tulsa-area travelers stranded in Israel during Iran conflict have returned home | By Randy Krehbiel and Mike Simons
9. Cat Cox of Tulsa’s Country Bird Bakery wins James Beard Award | By James D. Watts Jr.
10. Another superbolt recorded in Tulsa area during overnight storms | By Anna Codutti Mike Simons

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Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Oklahoma social studies standards

By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton
The state board approved the standards at its Feb. 27 meeting, although several members have since publicly said they were misled by Ryan Walters about the standards’ content and the timing of the vote.

Tulsa police lieutenant sues city, claiming retaliation after he called out racism

By Curtis Killman
Lt. Marcus Harper spoke out in 2020 about “systemic racist practices of certain officers” at the Tulsa Police Department. He’s now suing on grounds of malicious prosecution and abuse of process.

Zink Lake closed until further notice due to unsafe water conditions

By Anna Codutti and Mike Simons
Zink Lake is closed to the public until further notice due to unsafe water conditions, the city of Tulsa has announced.

University of Tulsa to reinstate men’s golf program after nine-year absence

By Michael Peters

A national search for a new coach will begin immediately, and the team is scheduled to begin competition in the fall of 2026.

Catching you up on the ‘No Kings’ protests, Tulsa high school football’s highest-paid coach, clawing back tax credits for private schools and why shoplifting in Oklahoma is up 89%

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Tulsa anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ rallies attract several thousand. No serious incidents reported

The scoop: The three protests in Tulsa and across the country were against President Donald Trump and what many perceive as his authoritarian if not monarchical administration.

• How many showed up? By one actual count, at least 3,000.
• Good line: At 41st and Yale, protesters said motorists offered a few thumbs down and middle fingers up, but otherwise responded with honks and waves. One white-haired passenger in a car going past wore regal-looking robes and a crown, looking a little like Queen Elizabeth II as she waved to the protesters.
• Read the story: More observations and quotes from protestors by Politics Reporter Randy Krehbiel and photos and video by Photojournalist Daniel Shular.

How much should a high school football coach make after winning 10 championships in 11 seasons?

The scoop: Bixby’s Loren Montgomery has become the most accomplished large-school prep football coach in state history. Now he’s being paid like it. For the first time, if you can believe that.

• The previous highest paid coach? Union’s Kirk Fridrich. His total compensation was $172,052.
• Read the story: Sports Columnist Bill Haisten has all the details.
• Go deeper with a Coach Salary Scoreboard: Here is how much Tulsa-area football coaches make, according to the latest numbers out in January.
• What is Loren Montgomery’s secret to success? One secret Sports Columnist Bill Haisten found among several? These championship teams start playing together in first grade.

Parents who took tax credits to pay for their kids’ private school owe taxpayers $2.4 million

The scoop: The state of Oklahoma has collected just 8% of the millions of dollars owed back by parents who received private school tax credits for children who did not attend the schools.

What are we talking about? The Parental Choice Tax Credit program:

• Gives state income tax credits of $5,000 to $7,500, depending on household income, for parents of private school students.
• Gives $1,000 per home-schooler to parents who register for the program.
• The state allocated $150 million of taxpayer money for the program’s first year.
• About 36,000 Oklahomans applied for the credits.
• The amount on taxpayer money available to parents goes up $50 million for next school year.
• Projects Reporter Andrea Eger with this latest exclusive on how the state hopes to recoup that outstanding balance with parents.

Speaking of education in Oklahoma: The state agency that sponsors Epic Charter Schools is:

• Investigating the “fiscal integrity” and compliance of Oklahoma’s third-largest school system.
• Comes after budget slashing that has left many students without an in-person school to return to when summer break ends.
• Andrea Eger goes way beyond the press release other news outlets gave you.
• My favorite line: “Not mentioned in any press release was the departure of Jeanise Wynn, deputy superintendent of finance.” That’s who Eger reports “promptly raised red flags to Epic’s school board about Epic’s co-founders overpaying themselves by at least $8 million.”
• Read the story: Two top administrators over Epic Charter Schools’ budget have resigned in the wake of a fiscal year that has seen at least 500 employees lose their jobs and the shuttering of in-person learning centers.

Shoplifting in Oklahoma is up 89% in four years

The scoop: Shoplifting in Oklahoma is up because many, including QuikTrip, point to State Question 780, passed by Oklahoma voters in 2016, that raised the felony threshold for conviction of property theft, including theft from a retailer, from $500 to $1,000.

• The goal with that law was to reduce Oklahoma’s prison population.
• The most recent Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation data says: In 2020 (including about 93% of law enforcement agencies representing 70% of the population) there were 9,022 incidents of shoplifting. That number was 17,017 in 2024, up 89% in four years.
• This quote: “I think people are bolder than they used to be,” said Angelene Ripley Wright, the owner of Ida Red and Oklahoma’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
• Most stolen items? Clothes, accessories and shoes.
• Read the story: Business Reporter Michael Dekker with this report.

The most popular stories on tulsaworld.com in the past week you may have missed

1. New Oklahoma education laws: More school time, teacher raises, incentives to become a teacher | By Steve Metzer
2. Epic Charter Schools under investigation by state agency as two top administrators resign | by Andrea Eger
3. Bixby’s Loren Montgomery is now highest-paid coach in Tulsa area | By Bill Haisten
4. 5 way-too-early predictions for OU softball’s 2026 season | By Mason Young
5. Bernie Sanders stopping in Tulsa for ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour | By Anna Codutti
6. Ex-OSU president Kayse Shrum announced as Chickasaw Nation chief health officer | By Tim Stanley
7. From QuikTrip to Ida Red, how retailers are addressing the rise in shoplifting since law change | By Michael Dekker
8. State collects just $200K of millions owed by ineligible private school tax credit recipients | By Andrea Eger
9. Stitt, city leaders dismayed, disappointed, sad about Drummond’s refugee remarks | By Kevin Canfield
10. Top-tier trauma center coming to Saint Francis in partnership with OSU Medical Authority | By Steve Metzer

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