Remains found in Oklahoma identified as 4 missing men and police say they were shot and dismembered
Four Oklahoma men who disappeared on a bicycle ride were shot and their dismembered bodies were discarded into a river, police said Monday.
Four Oklahoma men who disappeared on a bicycle ride were shot and their dismembered bodies were discarded into a river, police said Monday.
Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29, were reported missing last week before human remains were found in a shallow part of the Deep Fork River, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said.
The remains were found outside Okmulgee, which is about 40 miles south of Tulsa.
Clockwise from top left, Mike Sparks, Billy Chastain, Mark Chastain and Alex Stevens.Okmulgee Police Dept. All four had been shot, and identifying them was slowed because their bodies had been dismembered, Prentice said.
"We believe the men planned to commit some type of criminal act," Prentice told reporters. “We do not know what they planned or where they planned to do it.”
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