Two friends go noodling for catfish in a nearby river—one man returns. Noodling is a type of fishing in which a person submerges themself in a body of water and uses their bare hands to catch a fish by sticking their arm into the fish’s mouth.
During their day of fishing, an argument occurred. One man threatened to summon a sasquatch to their location and have him eat the other man. This frightened the one man who went at the other, and a physical fight ensued. The fight ended when the frightened man choked the friend and didn’t let go until he was blue.
Amped up on adrenaline or perhaps drugs, the frightened man returned home alone in the victim’s truck. According to family members, upon his arrival home, the man was talking fast, acted out of it and seemed frantic. He told everyone he had killed his friend because the friend summoned Bigfoot to eat him.
A sheriff deputy who responded to the call said the man appeared to be under the influence of illegal drugs. They arrested the man and took his statement. He drew a map of where they could find his friend’s body.
At the man’s murder trial, a special agent with the Oklahoma State BI testified that the man did not appear to be under the influence of drugs, so they did not drug test him.
At the bench trial, a district attorney said to the judge,
“Yes, there was a monster in the woods that night, but it wasn’t Bigfoot, it was [the accused].”
The judge found the 55-year-old man guilty of the first-degree murder of his 52-year-old friend. He sentenced him to Life in Prison without the possibility of parole.
Source: Oklahoma State BI, The ADA News, Law & Crime, NBC News
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