LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS An inside look at the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Task Force
TIM LANDES
BY TIM LANDES
The intersection of North 19th and West Union streets in Collinsville. It was in this area where Rebekah Barrett was found unconscious in the street on April 23, 1995.
It’s dark outside the radius of the streetlight at North 19th and West Union streets in Collinsville. A couple hundred yards to the east, another light: from the orange steeple of a church that sits just off the road. A row of lights illuminates the parking spots near the church entrance; then it’s darkness to the street. “It was right in here that her body was found,” says Rick Lawrence, a Tulsa County Sheriff Office’s Cold Case Task Force investigator. He sits in the passenger seat of an unmarked TCSO SUV as it rolls into the light. Sgt. Tressi Mizell, Task Force supervisor, brakes. “The suspect lived a block from here?” “Just right up there on the corner,” responds Lawrence as the vehicle resumes rolling north back into the dark. TulsaPeople.com
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