More questions than answers surround deaths of 4 found dead in an Oklahoma river

The desperate pleas appeared online shortly after the four friends disappeared last week — a man asking if anyone had seen his cousins.

The desperate pleas appeared online shortly after the four friends disappeared last week — a man asking if anyone had seen his cousins. A wife looking for her husband. A mother searching for the father of their four children.

Days later, their families got the devastating news. The dismembered remains of their loved ones had been found in a shallow section of a river at the edge of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, population roughly 11,300. 

Person of interest in custody in slaying of four Oklahoma menOct. 19, 202202:06Now, the victims' families and their community are struggling with a grim mystery: What happened in the hours before Alex Stevens, Mike Sparks and brothers Billy and Mark Chastain vanished — and and who is responsible for their horrific deaths? 

“It doesn’t make sense,” said Dawn Carter, an Okmulgee city council member. “When you’re part of a close-knit community, when minor things take place it gets attention. Something this major? It affects everybody.”

“Tell the folks to pray for us,” she added.

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