four missing chums found shot, dismembered in Oklahoma river; grownup of pastime in custody - big apple each day information

someone of pastime within the homicide and dismemberment of 4 Oklahoma friends was arrested Tuesday on an unrelated charge, police noted.

The seek the 4 guys who vanished after taking off together on their bicycles came to a grisly end when their physique materials have been found in a river over the weekend, police officials referred to.

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The adult of interest, Joe Kennedy, 67, turned into pulled over in a stolen car in Daytona beach Shores, Fla. He had been sought with the aid of police after the victims — Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Mike Sparks, 32; and Alex Stevens, 29 — turned up riddled with bullets and their bodies dismembered after having been reported lacking with the aid of family members to the Okmulgee Police department final week. They have been ultimate considered alive leaving Billy Chastain's house on bicycles pulling trailers on Oct. 9 around eight p.m.

"I've worked over eighty murders in my career," Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said. "I even have worked murders involving dissimilar victims. I have worked dismemberments, but this case comprises the highest number of victims, and it's a very violent adventure."

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Authorities now believe the group, described as close chums, intended to commit "some type of criminal act" once they left the house, Prentice referred to, citing assistance supplied through a witness who became invited to be part of them. The witness advised investigators the men were planning "to 'hit a lick' huge sufficient for all of them," the police chief mentioned.

(L-R) Billy Chastain, Mark Chastain, Alex Stevens, Mike Sparks have been said lacking in Oklahoma. (Okmulgee Police department)

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whereas it's still doubtful what exactly the victims were planning, authorities have been able to track their actions to a salvage yard after which a native gasoline station with records gathered from an app on Mark Chastain's wife's mobile. From there, they visited a 2d scrapyard south of Okmulgee after which an adjoining property, the place authorities trust they had been killed.

Kennedy was the proprietor of each salvage yards visited through the victims.

On Friday, someone touring by using Deep Fork River known as police, alerting them to whatever suspicious in the waters. When authorities arrived on the scene, they noticed body materials peeking through the floor and at last recovered the is still of all four men.

"youngsters the legitimate trigger and method of death remains pending, every sufferer suffered gunshot wounds," Prentice said. "All 4 our bodies were dismembered before being positioned within the river and that is what caused issue in picking identities."

Authorities have not recovered any of their bicycles or the gun used within the slayings.