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
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