Four Adult Pals Missing for Days After Evening Bike Ride

[notoriousmkg]

It sounds like a real-life, but more ominous, version of "The Hangover".  Four adult guys missing since last Sunday?  I don't think I've ever seen a case like this in the US.

www.thedailybeast.com/four-adult-pals-missing-for-days-after-evening-bike-ride?ref=home


Four adult pals in Oklahoma who went off on an evening bike ride together on Sunday night haven’t been heard from since, police said. The four friends—Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Mike Sparks, 32; and Alex Stevens, 29—set off in Okmulgee around 8 p.m. Sunday. Their families reported them missing on Monday evening, after all calls to their phones went directly to voicemail. Police have yet confirm a report that the friends were spotted walking together at 2 a.m. on Tuesday. “This evening and tomorrow we will begin the long and tedious process of sifting through the hours of video as well as the GPS data,” police said in an update on Facebook. So far, police said there’s been no indication their disappearance involves foul play. “They don’t go far—never,” Mark Chastain’s wife told a local news station.

[faithanne]

I was just reading about this, apparently their late night bike ride was to a junkyard, so there's speculation they stumbled on/were involved in something drug related going down.

[dilligaf]

This is so crazy!

[notoriousmkg]

At first, I assumed they were bicyclist, but who would go bicycling at that time of night. And their pictures do not look like people who are bicyclist. So, I guess they are motorcycle enthusiasts? But how do these guys go missing without leaving their motorcycles behind?

[brookie]

Four Bodies Have Been Found


I can't copy and paste this coherently today, but four bodies have been located. No identities have been determined, and no bicycles were found.

Sad.

[notoriousmkg]

Wow, according to the story, they really were on bicycles. So strange...

[trixie]

Very odd. Obviously there is more to this story.

[beeyotch]

Bicycles? Four people? All dead. So weird.

[mrsfawlty]

OKMULGEE, Okla. — The Medical Examiner’s Office is working to confirm the identity of four bodies found in a river in rural Okmulgee on Friday.

On Friday, Okmulgee Police announced that the bodies of four men were recovered from Deep Fork River, just southwest of Okmulgee.

Four male bodies recovered from river near Okmulgee, police say

This announcement came days after four men disappeared in Okmulgee.

For the families of those men, the wait continues as experts work to identify the remains.

Jessica Chastain is desperately waiting for news about her husband Mark Chastain.

“I hope and pray maybe it’s not them. I don’t know but right now it’s just not looking good,” she said.

Mark, along with his brother, Billy Chastain, and their friends, Alex Stevens and Mike Sparks, all disappeared on Sunday, October 9.

Okmulgee Police said remains were spotted in the water Friday by a passerby.

“My understanding is the passerby saw something in the water that he thought was suspicious and felt compelled to report it,” said Police Chief Joe Prentice.

“We don’t know that this is our missing men yet, so I want to make sure that I’m clear about that,” Chief Prentice said.

Chief Prentice said they have to be extra meticulous because the remains were found in the water.

“We’re meticulous at every crime scene but when you have water, spotting evidence is much more difficult, so the evidence search process in the immediate area of any item of evidence that you do find, and in this case we’re talking about human remains, you have to be extra meticulous, you have to go that extra step to make sure you don’t miss anything,” he said.

In a statement on their Facebook page on Saturday, Okmulgee Police said they’re still waiting for the Medical Examiner’s Office to identify the bodies.

The statement also said officers are continuing to sift through digital evidence and await phone records from search warrants.

Meanwhile on Saturday, Police and FBI were seen searching a salvage yard around a mile away from where the bodies were found.

The Mayor of Okmulgee, Mickey Baldwin, said the community is trying to come to terms with the events of the last week, a rarity for his town.

“It’s not like us, these are not things that happen every day, every week, every month. We have some crime and those kind of things, but usually it’s petty crime for the most part...I believe that many were shocked and just amazed that this would happen in our community,” Mayor Baldwin said.

Mayor Baldwin also called for unity and asked for the community to support each other.

“Let’s do this together, let’s pray for these families, let’s keep supporting,” he said.
www.krmg.com/news/medical-examiners-office-working-identify-bodies-found-river-near-okmulgee/IHWHBZSZHVDOZOUFME4WVAYOWQ/
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Looks like it's the missing men. What the Hell happened?

[brookie]

Remains Have Been Positively Identified

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — Four Oklahoma men who were last seen riding their bicycles more than a week ago were shot and dismembered, police said Monday, and a man considered a person of interest has since disappeared.



Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said the bodies found late last week in the Deep Fork River are those of the four missing friends: Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29.



The men were believed to have left a house in Okmulgee on bicycles the evening of Oct. 9. The police chief said that the official cause of death was pending but that all four men had gunshot wounds and that their bodies had been dismembered.

Police interviewed a man Friday who owns a scrap yard in the area, but that man has since been reported missing and may be suicidal, Prentice said. No charges have been filed.



The bodies were discovered Friday after a passerby saw something suspicious in the river near a bridge, police said. The bicycles have not yet been found, Prentice said.



The men were all from Okmulgee, which has a population of around 11,000 and is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Tulsa.