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It was
an awfully brutal, cold day.

One of our city workers
was up in a bucket truck
working on a light signal.

And he heard what he thought
was a backfire.

And he noticed a truck
lurching forward

in a very slow
and jerky manner.

And he thought
the driver suffered
some medical emergency.

Bob,
what do you got up there?

10-4,
all right, he's in trouble.

Spotted a truck on location.
Front is stuck in the dirt.

The bullet
went through the windshield

and hit him in the chest.

Rex Harper was
driving his dump truck.

Witnesses report
hearing a single gunshot.

Every town in
Oklahoma had a lawless past.

This was the Indian Territory.
It was lawless.

It had no organized
law enforcement other than

the US Marshal from Fort Smith
and the US Calvary.

In the cowboy culture,
we had a saying.

"Do it alone. Do it at night.

And don't ever
tell anybody about it."

Tommy can
hear everybody in Oklahoma
right now.

To the red, white, and blue
of Old Glory.

Oklahoma's
a cowboy state.

Come on,
make some noise, now!

You can go
any direction

and there's rodeo arenas,

there's horses...

Come on now,
cowboy. Come on now.

...there are cowboys.

How 'bout it,
everybody? Doc Worthington.

Come on, stay with her.
Ride it, now.

Would I trade it?

No. Wouldn't trade it
for nothing in the world.

Everybody knew the Harpers.

You could go on any street
and mention the Harpers

and everybody knew them.

Bobby, Billy,
Ralph, Mark, Rex.

They were Harpers. They grew
up right here in Broken Arrow.

And Ralph Harper,

legendary cowboy.

Tougher than a boot.

Rex was the nephew
to Ralph Harper.

You know I was
talking to Rex before
the race down there.

He's a Broken Arrow boy.

I've known him,
known him all his life.

After Rodeo, you know,
dirt racing is really big
in Oklahoma.

My uncle was a big time racer.
He was one of the good ones.

He was a spring car racer
so we'd go to Tulsa Speedway

and Rujo and Port City.

Rex Harper,
running by himself
in the fourth row.

I was
giving him a hard time

about starting driving
so old last time.

He started in his late
20s or 30s.

Rex was
very passionate about driving.

You know,
he did good for what he had.

But then Rex meet Karie

and he got married, uh,
kind of just out of the blue.

I was shocked, but I'm a guy.

And I wasn't going to
lecture him on, you know,
his decisions.

Rex and I meet
in the spring.

It didn't take much
for the spark to begin
and then fall in love.

And we were married
three months after we meet.

I was very excited
to marry him and to
build a future together.

He was such a kind,
gentle person, very funny.

Anything that he could do
to get you to laugh,

that was
very important to him.

Our wedding was,
um, not a big affair.

And, you know, we were young
and we were on a budget.

But it was very pretty,
very lovely and very romantic.

I went to Rex
and Karie's wedding.

It was beautiful.
A little chapel in the woods.

We were so happy for them.

Rex was ecstatic
when he got married.

He was,
he was so proud of her.

She was beautiful
and she was fun and
the whole family loved her.

They were great until
things started to unravel.

I don't think she realized

what was going on
behind closed doors.

In Broken Arrow, our
crime has been kept fairly low

which I'm proud of.

I can attribute a lot of that
to the policing.

Our insignia is BAPD
on our collar brass.

That stands for
Bad Ass Police Department.

But this particular day
was different.

I had gotten back from lunch.

And I got a call
from dispatch.

And they said, "Come
to the scene immediately.

We've had a homicide
on Main Street."

It was sleeting.
It was very cold.

And, drove to the crime scene.

And, sure enough,
we were confronted with
an horrific crime

of a man, driving
in his dump truck being shot

with a high-powered rifle, uh,
through the chest.

By the time I got here,
he was laying in the grass
right over there.

I climbed up into the truck
and saw the bullet hole

and I thought, "Wow."

It was such
a perfectly aimed shot

that if it had been
a half an inch lower,

it probably
would have hit the hood,

gone through the engine block
and not have hit him.

I wasn't here
20 seconds before I was
contacting the chief

and telling him,
"You need to come down here."

He was incredulous and said,

"Aw, come on, we don't have
murderers in Broken Arrow."

And I said, "I know."

Our victim's name
was Rex Wayne Harper.

I knew some,
some Harpers myself, so...

Good people, hard-working.

I was working there
in Broken Arrow and, uh...

And, you know, my dad,
he walked up to me and said,

"Hey, they've,
they've killed your uncle.
You know, we need to go."

So, we drove straight down
to Main Street.

I remember pulling up and

Rex's dump truck
was sitting there,

kind of over on the curb.

And there was,
there was a body lying there.

It was major shocking.

You know, you don't ever think
of stuff like that happens
to you until it does.

When we went down
to Casey's Mattress World

where Rex's wife Karie worked,

I was a little surprised
by her response.

She fake teared.

I could not process
what was going on.

I was just face to face with
him just a few minutes ago.

When you tell me
that he has been killed,

I didn't, I couldn't
understand what that meant.

And I just kept saying,
"I don't understand."

I cannot say that she seemed
overly shocked.

Uh, I cannot say
that initially she

broke down in any way.

But I also know that people
respond to that kind of news

in very different ways.

But I will say that
it gave me some pause.

And it was something
that I wanted to ponder.

My very first
assignment was to canvas
the residential area

near where
the vehicle ended up.

We knocked on doors
and tried to find out

if anybody saw
or heard anything.

There were people
that heard the shot.

I found nobody
that had seen anything.

This was one of
the most bizarre murders.

The very fact that someone
had the gall, the audacity,

to stand in broad daylight
on Main Street.

We had zero eyewitnesses.

And we had no real clues

except his body, his truck,
and the bullet hole.

I was
born here about
three blocks up the street.

Broken Arrow was a great place
to grow up.

We'd run around town
when we were kids,

barefoot, seeing what kind of
trouble we could get in.

There really wasn't nothing.

I never had any real problems
with anybody.

Got along pretty good
with most folks.

You're going to run into
an idiot every now and then

no matter where you are.

Everybody was devastated.

My grandparents
were just all in shock.

We just couldn't believe
that something like this
could happen.

Rex was the good one.
Just excellent man.

So we all kind of gathered
at my grandpa's house

where everybody tried to talk
and cried and mourned and

tried to figure out, you know,
what had happened.

We didn't really
see Karie much.

We would try
to reach out to her,

but I don't recall her
ever getting in touch with us.

Our biggest question
was how did the shooter know

how to be in that location

at that strip mall
in Broken Arrow

at that time
to be able to pull the trigger

and kill Rex Harper?

The first thing
we needed to do was find out
why Rex was shot.

What might have been
the motive?

This area is where
the business,

Casey's Mattress World
was located

that Karie worked at.

Rex would have parked
his dump truck

somewhere in this vicinity
to visit with her that day.

And as he pulled out,
he would have turned

to go out the exit
in this direction.

After the shot was fired
and Rex was struck,

he slumped over in his truck
and his foot hit the gas.

Rex's truck ended up right
across the street over there.

Shooting through a windshield
in broad daylight

from a hidden position,
one shot to kill Rex Harper?

To me that sounded like
a professional hit.

But why take out Rex Harper?

We wanted to know if
there was any kind of grudge

or any kind of disgruntled
situation going on.

We needed to find out
who would want this man dead.

We knew that Rex was
involved in car racing.

It's a competitive sport.

You know, people drive to win.

And you never know
if somebody's going to
get bowed up

about maybe him cutting
him off and winning a race.

Maybe there was
a race car driver

who had issues with Rex.

Rex was not one of the bigger
names in the racing community.

Uh, but he was
a very well-liked guy.

A lot of fun to be around.

He knew a lot of people.

I do not think that there was
anybody at the races

that would have
anything against Rex.

That theory
didn't last too long.

My partner and I went out
to where Rex was working

to see if there'd been
any kind of altercations
at his place of business.

The boss had nothing
but good things to say.

In talking to some
of the other employees,

they all seemed to like him.

Rex had no enemies
that we knew of.

I mean,
he was just a good guy.

I could not
come to a conclusion

of how the shooter would have
been in the right place

at the right time
in front of Karie's business

with Rex being there
and him being able
to pull the trigger.

And the only thing
that I could determine is that

Karie probably had
something to do with it.

I decided to go and see Karie.

I took her to a cafe

and just asked her
if she had any idea

who might be responsible
for killing him.

She seemed distracted.

And there were many times
in the interview

where she made the statement,
"I didn't kill Rex."

It just seemed very odd that
she would continue to say,

"I didn't kill Rex. I didn't
kill him. I didn't kill him."

I found it out of place
because we knew that.

She was working in the store.

There was no way
she could have done it.

Now, there's a lot
of rumors in the barber shop.

You never know which ones to
believe and which ones not to.

And I take them all
with a grain of salt.

The rumor I heard his wife
was seeing some guy and

Rex confronted him.

And as he was leaving
Rex got shot.

It seems like that guy got him
from quite a distance.

Maybe 100 yards or so.

We had no idea that Karie
had someone else in her life,

um, until I was with her
at the shop one time

and a man came in.

Very angry, throwing
all of her stuff around.

And I could hear him yelling
and fighting in the back.

I was only, like, 11, so I
didn't know what was going on.

And then I find out
that was Stan Williamson.

I meet Stan
four years prior to
my relationship with Rex.

And it was not
a good relationship
between Stan and I.

Um, he was very controlling.

Um, narcissistic tendencies.

Very manipulative

in the sense that what
I could and could not do,

where I could
and could not go,

the people that I spoke with.

It wasn't a relationship
that I wanted to remain in.

And it took me
three years to leave.

Stan was enraged with me
for leaving.

And he wanted me to come back.

Stanley Claude Williamson

was quite the icon
in rodeo circles.

I mean, he was a hero.

Come on, people.
Make some noise.
Let me hear you.

Because Stan is
a two-time world champion
steer wrestler.

The best way
to describe steer wrestling

is running down
the football field

about 25, 30 miles an hour

and jump off.

And wrestle that steer
right down to the ground.

Stanley was a very
polished steer wrestler.

If you was at a rodeo
competing against Stan,

one of you gonna lose

and it probably
wasn't gonna be Stan.

And when
you have a champion
rodeo hero like Stan,

a lot of people are gonna want
to be in his inner circle.

So, it was a daunting task,

finding people
willing to talk.

It was like trying to get
an interview with a celebrity.

No one would tell us
where he was.

I mean,
you're either in or you're out
of that community.

And, if you're an outsider,
you're going to be shunned.

"Stan who? I don't know Stan."

He was a good cowboy.
He was a brother.

That cowboy bond.
That's how that works.

"I didn't see nothing.
I didn't hear nothing.

And I don't know nothing."

Ultimately, we were
able to establish that

at the time Rex was shot,

Stan Williamson
wasn't in Broken Arrow.

He was in Oklahoma City
in a rodeo competition.

And, so, he was
unable to actually
pull the trigger that day.

So, who pulled the trigger
and killed this

man so loved by his family?

We were honestly all scared

because they didn't find
the shooter.

So who knows who's next?

It could've been my dad,
it could've been
my other uncles,

we didn't know what
was gonna happen.

Could've been my grandparents.

We talked to Rex's
family members,
his mom and dad.

And without fail,

they said that he
was being harassed
by Stan Williamson.

So obviously all eyes
are focused on him again.

We had no shortage
of people

who told us that they
had seen Karie

with Stan Williamson
on numerous occasions.

And so I decided to take
another run at Karie.

I really went at her
pretty hard.

I asked her really
hard questions.

Initially she tried
the whole, "No,
I broke it off with Stan,"

until we confronted
her with the names

of people who actually
had seen her with Stan.

We basically said,
"We know that's a lie."

And we finally got her
to admit

that she was still seeing him.

But she insisted that
she didn't kill him.

And that she didn't know...

...she didn't know
that it was gonna happen.

They kept me
in an interrogation room
for four hours.

I think I was in
so much shock...

...and terror.

I cried for four solid hours.

I couldn't comprehend
what was going on.

I don't know if I felt
that they thought I was
a part of it,

or if they were...

...looking for me
to provide additional
information that I didn't...

...give them.

But I also believe that

I didn't have whatever it is
that they were looking for,

and I just kept telling
them that.

"I have no information
for you.

I don't know what
it is that you need

or what you're looking for.

I don't have the answers."

Feelings changed
for Karie when we started
realizing that

she took every bit
of his belongings.

She didn't try to get
with the family
and talk about Rex

or talk about what
had happened.

It was just...

she was... took his stuff
and she was gone.

I do believe that
the Harper family think
that I didn't care.

And that I was heartless.

And that I didn't
care about Rex and...

...it was completely
the opposite.

I don't know what I could
have done to make them less...

...sad or angry.

One of the things
that we found when
checking our records

was that Rex had actually
filed a Destruction
of Private Property Report...

...and listed Stan Williamson
as the suspect.

We had a shop
that had the dump
trucks in it

and my Uncle Rex's
rent car was there.

Nice classic cars,

that my brothers and Dad
and grandpa had worked
so hard for,

and he burned it all down.

We knew he was
very jealous.

Very possessive.

And probably very...

...angry that someone
would actually have
the nerve...

...to break up with him.

We began to suspect
that Stan...

...had coordinated
some type of murder
for hire.

So my partner and I
went back to Oklahoma City.

We figured if he
was gonna get someone

to commit a crime
of this magnitude

it'd probably be
somebody in the rodeo circuit.

We knew we had to find
the actual person who
pulled the trigger.

As a kid growing up...

...get some rope
and, you know,
rode some bulls.

So I was familiar
with the community.

The rodeo community
like many cultures

is pretty
closed off.

You're not going to just...

...you know, walk
into a bar and say,

"Hey, is there anybody here
knows about a shooting on Main
Street in Broken Arrow?"

We had to kinda seek out

some of the cowboys there
to find out if they knew Stan,

and if they'd seen him around.

We kept going
because we knew,
that eventually,

we would get
to the bottom of it
if we just stayed with it.

And we actually found
someone that said

that they heard Stan
Williamson talking

to people about
who would be willing

to... kill a man
that lived in Broken Arrow.

And so we were finally
able to make the headway
that we needed.

It was through subpoenaing
Stan's Williamson's
cellphone records.

that we found a series
of calls

ending abruptly
the day of the murder.

These were all
people who were part
of Stan's circle.

There was a man
named Bubby Hayes...

...Spider Gibbs...

...and Alton Gibson.

It seemed as though Stan
may have solicited all of them
at one time or another...

...to commit the crime
of murder against Rex Harper.

They were all
well-known crooks...

...low lives...

...thieves.

They were pretty much
the known...

...thugs in that area.

And then Bubby Hayes
went on the run.

So we reached out
to the U.S. Marshals.

I became
an expert marksman
while with the U.S. Marshals.

I do cowboy action shooting.

The Broken Arrow
Police Department
had contacted me

and said that it may have been
a murder for hire.

Stan Williamson
was the primary suspect.

And he had many contacts
who were rugged and tough

and dangerous enough
to pull this off.

But one of them...

...was on the run.

And that was Bubby Hayes.

This was the last known
location of Bubby Hayes.

Right over here there's
a, uh, house

that he was reportedly
living in before he fled.

The file said there
was an individual there
named Hans Marshal...

He and Bubby Hayes
lived together.

Hans Marshall was
a known bad guy,
he was a dangerous guy.

So my team of marshals
approached this house,
knocked on the door...

...and Hans Marshall
said, "Come in."

So, in we went.

It was fairly dark,

the only light was coming
from a lamp and a chair

where Hans Marshall sat
quietly, all by himself.

And next to him
on a side table...

...is a semi-automatic pistol.

It's pointed right at us.

I step over to him and say...

..."Hans, I'm gonna
pick this pistol up

and we're gonna move
it outta the way.

I don't think we want
this to end up in a gunfight."

Never said a word.

Never moved a muscle.

Just completely quiet.

And when I moved the pistol
to the kitchen table,

I saw there were some
belongings on the kitchen table.

And sitting at the very top
is a map, an old paper map

with the area of downtown
Broken Arrow facing out.

And I look at it
and there's a tiny
pencil circle

drawn right in the area
where Rex Harper was killed.

And I turned to Hans
and said, "Is this your map?"

And he said, "No,
that's Bubby's stuff."

That he was gonna come
back and get it,
he just never did.

We tracked down...

...Bubby Hayes' girlfriend.

And she was a handful
to say the least.

She was as mean as a snake.

We interviewed her
multiple times.

And she would just rail
at the marshals.

Slam the doors at us,
uh, just curse us.

But then she called
the marshals office...

...and gave us...

...a tag number.

It was just a change
of the winds.

Never knew why.

We ran this tag number...

...it came back to a light
blue Ford Bronco.

We put out a BOLO,
Be On the Look Out.

And within two days...

...an off-duty police
officer working
security at a casino...

...found that vehicle sitting
in the parking lot
in Northern Texas.

Yet, minutes before
we got there...

...Bubby Hayes had walked
out of that casino...

...got into that Ford Bronco.

And as we are pulling
into the parking lot
of that casino,

he takes off.

And the police
take him down
right in front of us.

We polygraphy Bubby Hayes...

...three times.

The first two...

...were inconclusive.

And the third polygraph
we came to the conclusion
that he was telling the truth.

He was asked
some difficult questions.

The problem is that
we just didn't have enough

to prove that
Bubby Hayes was...

...actually actively involved
in this conspiracy.

We kept pushing.

The more we started digging
into the possibility
of a crime of solicitation,

the more names came up.

And as we began to...
to pull the thread of that...

...we found David Gibson.

This call
is to an incarcerated individual

at Lexington Assessment
and Reception Center.

This call
is to an incarcerated individual

at Lexington Assessment
and Reception Center.

This call will be recorded
and may be monitored.

You may start
the conversation now.

David Gibson's
name came up

because he was a good
friend of Stan

and they ran around
a lot together.

He was a marksman.

And in all the people
that we talked to,

he was one that could likely
have pulled off the shot

that killed Rex Harper
that day.

Nevertheless, we had
multiple witnesses

who testified that David
Alton Gibson asked them...

...uh, if they could
take care of Rex Harper.

Ultimately we decided
to proceed to trial

with conspiracy to commit murder

and solicitation to commit
first degree murder
against Stanley Williamson...

...and David Alton
Gibson Junior.

We made the decision

not to proceed
on the murder charge...

...because we wanted to ensure
that double jeopardy
did not attach.

Which basically means

that if additional evidence, uh...

...even today...

...is brought forward that
can confirm the guilt of one
or more individuals

in the actual murder,

we may still be able
to proceed,

uh, to ensure that those
people are charged
and convicted.

Our family felt
like we never really
got justice,

because three or four years
for taking my uncle's life?

That's not...
that's not enough.

He deserves more.

It's interesting
that during the trial

neither Stan nor anyone
else ever suggested that

Karie Harper was complicit
in this.

In spite
of all my suspicions,

in the eyes of the law,
Karie Harper, Rex's wife,
is innocent.

Remaining
anonymous is important
to me...

...to protect my identity.

I don't wanna be scared
of what could happen.

After Rex died,
I was fearful that...

...my life would be taken
as well.

Still, today, I feel
responsible for Rex's death.

I feel, had it not been
for me, that Rex would
still be here.

There's not a day goes by
that I don't think about it.

I think about him
every single day.

If I had a chance
to say anything
to the Harper family,

it would be to express
my sincere condolences again...

...and that I'm sorry
for the loss of Rex.

There was never justice
served for... for this, uh,
what had happened.

We feel very let down
with Broken Arrow
Police Department.

We still don't know who
the guy was that actually
pulled the trigger.

We know it wasn't Stan.

Um, we'd just like to know
who it was that pulled
the trigger.