This case has haunted me ever since it occurred. Especially since they hadn't caught the perp. Somehow, I just knew he either had done it before or would kill someone else. This case of Kevin Joe Sweat and his arrest for the murder of his fiance, Ashley Taylor, is what might have cracked this cold case.
I'm not privvy to any inside info, but after snooping around the internet, I think I might have figured out, at least part of why LE is now looking at him. Plus, it appears a poster here on WS may have sent in a tip that brought the FBI's interest onto this suspect.
Kevin Joe Sweat is now 25, and he would have been 22 when this crime occurred. The perp was described as 6', with long dark-brown hair in a pony-tail down the back. He was said to be in mid 30's or something like that. With this description you wouldn't really look at this guy. PLUS,he MAY NOT have actually lived in the area at the time. I don't know.
You look at his picture from his recent arrest, and you wouldn't connect him because of that appearance. Here's a link with his mug shot:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20110804_12_0_OKMULG302259
...and he's only 25, not in mid 30's as originally reported. But I've seen the description be wayyy off, ie the Joseph Duncan case for Anthony Martinez, years ago here in Cali. (the description said 6', and IIRC, he was only 5'9", but little boys gave the eye-witness account) Eyewitness testimony is more inaccurate than not, imho.
Here's a link to photos taken of him previously. They were on his website 'deviant art' or something like that.
http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/...view¤t=KevenJoeSweat-fromDeviantArt.jpg
Now, compare it to the sketch of the perp in the murders:
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He's also 6'. His parents and I believe his grandparents, or step grandparents have property, so I read from a commentor on a news article on or by County Road 5425 in Weleetka, which this poster said, and I'm not SURE, is close to where the girls were found. One news article said the girls were found on "County Line Road."
IIRCC, Ashley's burned remains and some id'ing items were located on his grandparent's property, close to where Taylor and Skyla were located. The photo of KS on his 'diviant art' link shows him with at least two guns, a rifle, or is it a shot gun? and a hand-gun. Is that a 'glock?'
LE has the serial # of the 'glock,' 40 caliber. LE knew early on this was a 40 caliber and they had around 25 or so out of 40 people in the area registered with 40 caliber glocks come in for testing to compare id'ing marks. They then had to find the others. As they know the serial # I'm thinking either this guy or his family MAY have had a 40 caliber glock and sold it at a gun show. LE is now looking for it and asking anyone who bought it at a gun show to please bring it in. They want to compare the marks. The person in possession of the gun is not under suspicion, imho, but Kevin Joe Sweat is!
This guy fits EXACTLY the type of person I thought may have done this horrible thing to these two sweet young girls. I think he MAY have done it, if not him someone else, just to see what it was like. I believe it was just a random act and the opportunity.
JMHO
fran
PS...here's a link to them looking for the gun. They say the person may have it "UNKNOWINGLY."
http://www.fox23.com/mostpopular/st...der-still-missing/ZwYKR8C0nEa1_-nv5ZyHuw.cspx
Gun used in Weleetka girls' murder still missing
"I know somebody has it out there," says Whitaker. "All you got to do is open that gun cabinet and look at the serial number."
But that's what state investigators are saying. Someone in Tulsa might unknowingly have the murder weapon in their gun cabinet. For those in Weleetka who are trying so hard to heal that weapon can't be found soon enough
pps
http://www.iclassifiedsnetwork.com/v2/content.aspx?ID=35610&MemberID=1991
Murder case files reveal gruesome details
OSBI agent believes remains found in burn pile are Ashley Taylor
On August 5th and August 6th, 2011, OSBI Agents along with Okmulgee Police Officers conducted a search at
Pat Sweat's property near Weleetka, Oklahoma. OSBI Agents recovered several fragmented pieces of adult human bones. pieces of prescription eye glasses, and pieces of female clothing from a burn pile on the north side of the house. The glasses were consistent as being the prescription glasses of Ashley Taylor.
Agent Titsworth believes that the human bones along with other items that were found in the burn pile are consistent to be evidence of Ashley Taylor's body.