Deceased/Not Found LA - Kristi O'Pry, 26, Shreveport, 19 July 1996

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So he's admitted to have killed at least two people. I wonder if there are any others out there....
 
Taximom said:
Hi, Meyahna. Welcome to WS!

I went to this link and it's about "Meagan Lynn McCleese", recently found living with a man after she's been missing for 3 years. That's quite a story in itself, especially since she's NOW 17 yrs old and per LE has "several kids". Sheesh. Poor thing.

Anyway, just wanted you to know that about the link. The O'Pry story sounds interesting too.
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Here's another link about Meagan Lynn McCleese
http://www.charleyproject.org/resolved/resolved29.html
 
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/stor...ate-will-set-today-convicted-killer/15763423/

A man who’s been sitting on death row for killing and dismembering a Shreveport businessmen in 2007 will learn his new trial date today. Caddo District Judge Ramona Emanuel will set a new trial date for Eric Mickelson during a 9:30 a.m. hearing.

District Attorney Charles Scott was quick to decide he will retry Mickelson following a ruling Sept. 4 by the Louisiana Supreme Court that found reversible error in the first trial.
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The memorial will be held on July 10th.

Remembering Kristi O'Pry 20-years later

http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/local-news/remembering-kristi-opry-20-years-later

Jordan and the rest of her family are seeking closure.

She says they were never able to find any of her mother's remains.

So, instead of being able to have a funeral, they plan to hold a memorial.

"It's been two decades this year and so we're just now having a memorial because it's always been in the air because she was a missing person," says Jordan.

"This is totally open to the public. Anybody that knew my mom , that loved her, that's followed the story for two decades, they are more than welcome to come to the memorial," says Jordan.
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Family members remember anniversary death of Kristi O'Pry
 
In ID Channell tonight On the case with Paula Zahn will be the Kristi O'Pry case
 
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Kristi Gwen O'Pry Memorial | Shreveport LA

Kristi Gwen O'Pry Memorial, Shreveport, LA, United States. 607 likes · 1 talking about this. Celebrating the life of Kristi Gwen O'Pry
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Sorry this is long, but there is a lot of good info:

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O'Pry, circa 1996
  • Missing Since 07/19/1996
  • Missing From Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Classification Endangered Missing
  • Sex Female
  • Race White
  • Date of Birth 05/08/1970 (53)
  • Age 26 years old
  • Height and Weight 5'7, 120 pounds

  • Clothing/Jewelry Description A short-sleeved or sleeveless black midriff shirt, blue jeans, and possibly brown sandals. Carrying a black denim purse with light pastel-colored stripes.

  • Medical Conditions O'Pry was pregnant at the time of her disappearance.

  • Associated Vehicle(s) White 1971 Chevrolet Fleetside pickup truck
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. O'Pry's ears are double-pierced. She has a scar on the left side of her neck.

Details of Disappearance​

O'Pry needed to run errands on July 19, 1996 in her hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Eric Dale Mickelson, a friend of her boyfriend, agreed to drive O'Pry if she paid for his gasoline costs. Mickelson and O'Pry were riding in his white 1971 Chevrolet Fleetside pickup truck. Photos of Mickelson and his vehicle are posted with this case summary.

O'Pry and Mickelson visited her sister's residence on Meriweather Road and departed at approximately 8:00 p.m. Mickelson told authorities that he and O'Pry stopped at the Circle K store on the corner of Walker Road and Mackey Lane. Mickelson stated that O'Pry used the pay phone at the store. Phone records did not show any indication of any calls O'Pry may have made from the location.

Mickelson claimed that he did not witness O'Pry make a call from the phone; he said that he was repairing his vehicle's stereo speaker wires at the time she was inside the business. Mickelson stated that he proceeded to drop O'Pry off at the El Chico entrance of the South Park Mall on Jewella Avenue in Shreveport at approximately 8:30 p.m. O'Pry has never been seen again. She was reported missing four days after she was last seen.

O'Pry's boyfriend of six years, Jerry "Todd" Dean, told investigators that Mickelson called him between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. on July 20, 1996, the day following O'Pry's disappearance. Dean said that Mickelson told him he dropped O'Pry at the mall the previous evening.

O'Pry lived with Dean and his friend, Wade Burnley, on Linwood Avenue at the time she was last seen. Dean did not inform O'Pry's family that she never returned home until July 23, four days after she initially disappeared. He stated he and O'Pry had a troubled relationship with frequent fights.

O'Pry did not take any personal belongings with her when she vanished. She also left behind her three-year-old daughter, something that her family said was completely uncharacteristic of her behavior. Security guards at the South Park Mall told investigators that they did not observe anyone matching O'Pry's description at the shopping center the night she was last seen. Authorities are not certain if she arrived at the location.

Both Dean and Burnley passed polygraph tests administered by law enforcement shortly after O'Pry's disappearance. Mickelson refused to take a lie detector test, saying that he considers the devices unreliable. He was considered the prime suspect in O'Pry's case, although for many years he maintained his innocence. He and his girlfriend, Susane "Beverly" Arthur, were charged with the unrelated murder of an elderly Shreveport man, Charles Martin, in 2007.

While in prison awaiting trial on that charge, Mickelson confessed to O'Pry's murder. He said he had strangled her and ultimately dismembered her body and threw the parts in dumpsters. Some months later, in August 2007, he was charged with second-degree murder in O'Pry's case. Authorities stated they found unspecified evidence in the pond that corroborated his confession, but her body has not been located.

Some law enforcement officers consider Mickelson to be a serial killer. There were unconfirmed reports that he admitted to involvement in four other homicides, but he has not been charged with any murders besides Martin's and O'Pry's.

Mickelson was convicted of Martin's murder in August 2011 and sentenced to death, but his conviction was later overturned. At a re-trial in Martin's case, he was convicted again and sentenced to life in prison. He is still awaiting trial for O'Pry's murder.

Extensive searches have not yielded any clues as to O'Pry's whereabouts. Foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved in O'Pry's disappearance.

Investigating Agency​

  • Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office
  • 318-929-7977
  • 318-675-2170

Source Information​

Updated 6 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated October 29, 2017; six pictures added, details of disappearance updated
 

<<He told authorities he strangled her to death with his hands, then disposed of her body in a pond on his Woolworth Road property, but later moved the body to a location on Jefferson Paige Road>>


www.shreveporttimes.com

Jury hears Mickelson's past in penalty trial

The jury in Eric Mickelson's retrial heard another horrific account Thursday — the murder of Kristi O'Pry.
www.shreveporttimes.com

<<Though the tragic story is known throughout the community, the jury stared wide-eyed as they heard for the first time how Mickelson strangled O'Pry, sexually defiled her body and placed her in the bottom of a small pond only to come back later and dismember her and scatter her remains in area business dumpsters and a culvert.

Meanwhile, Mickelson sat in plain clothes among his capital defense team, listening to the grotesque retelling with a blank stare and a wry smile.>>


www.findagrave.com

Kristi Gwen O'Pry (1970-1996) - Find a Grave...

Murder Victim. Kristi was the beloved sister of Paige, and lived in Shreveport, Louisiana. She stopped to see her sister with her boyfriend's friend, Eric Mickelson. She had made an agreement that if he would drive her to do some errands, she would purchase the gas. She was not alive again...
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