OK OK - Sarah Ida Cox, 20, Oklahoma City, 6 April 2001

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Sarah Ida Cox

Sarah Cox was reported missing on 4/6/2001 and was last seen leaving her job at the 7-11 at S.W. 119 and May Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK. Her car was found the next day abandoned in Earlywine Park, which is across the street from the 7-11 where she worked. Sarah was found dead in a creek bed next to a country road in the 1200 block of Frisco Rd in Tuttle, OK on 4/11/2001. Sarah was found dressed, but her clothing was disarranged and the Medical Examiner advised she had been suffocated.

Sarah Ida Cox | Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

 

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APR 12, 2001
Body found may be missing Newcastle woman
A Tuttle resident hunting for mushrooms Wednesday found a body that may turn a missing person case into a homicide investigation for Oklahoma City police.

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Cummins said DM called Tuttle police about 10:45 a.m. to report he found a body about two miles north of State Highway 37 near Frisco Road.

Police said DM saw the body near a creek about 10 feet west of Frisco Road. The creek is obscured from the road by trees and brush.

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Cummins said officers arriving at the scene in Tuttle were unable to make a positive identification. Police will wait for a medical examiner's report, which is expected to identify the body and give a cause of death.

APR 13, 2001
Woman's death ruled homicide
The death of a woman believed to be a missing Newcastle mother was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation, the state medical examiner's office said Thursday. Authorities still have not positively identified the body.

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Officers found no obvious signs of trauma or struggle. The body was clothed.

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Cox's car was found abandoned across the street from the 7-Eleven about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Police found no signs of forced entry or marks of a fight or struggle.

Police planned to talk with Cox's ex-husband, who they said contacted her parents Sunday claiming the body might be found in a pond near SW 104 near MacArthur Boulevard. Police found only an abandoned car that had been reported stolen.

The medical examiner's office may identify the body today.

 

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APR 14, 2001
Identity of body confirmed
A woman found dead Wednesday has been identified as Sarah Ida Cox, 20, of Newcastle.

She had been missing since April 6.

Cox's death was ruled a homicide Thursday. The medical examiner ruled she died of suffocation.

Police said they will talk with her ex-husband, Russell Cox, who police said contacted her family Sunday claiming the body might be found in a pond at SW 104 near MacArthur Boulevard. Police only found an abandoned car that had been reported stolen.

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APR 20, 2001
https://newsok.com/article/2738279/ex-spouse-questioned-in-womans-death
Oklahoma City police on Thursday questioned the ex-husband of a Newcastle woman found dead April 11.

RC, ex-spouse of Sarah Ida Cox, 20, was questioned at police headquarters for more than five hours about her death. Police did not arrest Cox after the interview.

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Police said Russell Cox called the woman's family Sunday and said her body might be found in a pond at SW 104 and MacArthur Boulevard. Police found an abandoned car there that had been reported stolen.

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DEC 31, 2001
Midnight to mark worst unsolved homicide rate in years

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Twelve of the other 13 unsolved cases pose similar problems, Cunningham said. Six are believed to be drug-related, four involve transients, one was an apparent robbery, and another appears to be a revenge killing.

In the final case - the April 5 asphyxiation death of Sarah Ida Cox, 20 - evidence is being presented to a grand jury, which is expected to issue an indictment in January.

In the others, the clock keeps ticking.

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APR 19, 2019
Newcastle family still desperate for answers in daughter’s 2001 murder
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"I do miss her hugs," said William Killian. He was just 2-years-old when his mother, Sarah Cox, was killed.

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18 years later, he's seeing the spot where her body was found for the first time.

"Of course, I can say I miss her but she's not here," Killian said.

Cox's parents, Jim and Carolyn Killian, raised William and his little sister.

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"It was way up to two in the morning when the officer of Oklahoma City said, `You gotta stop, you gotta stop,'" said Carolyn.

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"We know there's more than one person involved," Joe Killian said.

18 years later, as the holidays and milestones without this beloved mother passed, there's never been a conviction.

Now the family is begging anyone who knows something to come forward.

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[Reasonable & Just]

How awful for her son, who was only 2 at the time...he misses her hugs Those hugs are everything for the little tots. I can't imagine what it's like to have that snatched away. Praying for answers.

 

[PommyMommy]

Sarah has been missing for over 20 years now.

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