Elderly Couple Attacked in Home Invasion, Leaving Wife Dead - Oklahoma

[Cumulonimbus]

No legal punishment is sufficient for this disgusting little maggot.

An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun.

Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, who was nearly blind, died from her injuries.

Mr Strait, who served in the 101st Airborne Division in World War II, suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs and severe bleeding. He is in a serious condition in hospital.

Police have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork in connection with the case.

The Straits' distraught family today paid tribute to the pair, who grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

They met each other on a blind date on Thanksgiving 1946, married a month later and went on to have six children, 18 grandchildren and about 50 great and great-great grandchildren. They had recently welcomed a great-great-great grandchild.

Their daughters Lanora and Andra told Tulsa World that the couple were loving and generous people who would do anything for anyone.

'Dad never talked, and Mama never quit talking,' Lanora said.

'Whatever she did, it came from the heart,' Andra added.

The pair could be found sitting on their porch singing and playing the guitar during warmer summer evenings.

Mr Strait, who had worked for the oil derrick supply company Lee C. Moore before retirement, enjoyed woodwork while his wife loved making quilts and baking.

They had both been struggling with health problems before the attack. Mr Strait had been diagnosed with a terminal kidney illness but had outlived the doctor's prognosis.

'He was living because Mother was alive,' Andra told Tulsa World.

The couple had had food poisoning the week before the attack.

'There is no one else who has been through what he's been through who is still alive,' Lanora said of her father.

'We pray he doesn't remember.'

Tulsa police believe burglars broke into the Straits' home either late Tuesday or early Wednesday last week. They were not found until the Wednesday evening.

The home invaders made off with their Dodge Neon, a television and $200.

Woodfork was later found hiding in a nearby house after a witness spotted the stolen vehicle being driven down the road.

He is being held at Tulsa Jail without bail accused of first-degree murder, burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of armed robbery.

'This investigation is far from over,' Officer Jason Willingham of the Tulsa police department told Tulsa World. 'We've still got a lot of questions that we still need answered.'

Mrs Strait's funeral will be on Friday. The family has set up a fund the Nancy Strait and Bob Strait Support Trust to help pay for the service and her husband's medical care.

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[kellyhound]

Hope somebody stomps and kicks his ugly head down the cell's toilet bowl till it cracks wide open like a ripe melon.

[icheerthebull]

things like this really make it hard for me to have faith in the human race. I try and think of all the people I care about, all the great people I meet and have met but then I read stuff like this and I just feel so much hatred

[ices]

Definite druggie.

Something tells me it will be a double murder. I doubt the guy will live once he knows his wife has died.

Died of a broken heart, but murdered.

[gatagato]

Sad and disgusting, and i agree, no legal punishment is sufficient for the bastard

[Faline]

[Bastet]

I just hate violence toward the elderly! Cases like this make my blood pressure rise dangerously

[Flaka]

Poor guy has to live life now without his companion. He'll probably die from a broken heart :(

This shit makes me sad

[bigmikeymike]

This shit just fortifies the racist side of me, albeit small... but because of creatures like this, it's there.


My dad always told me, "Son, there's a difference between n****rs and black people. Black people have self-respect and respect for others."

I never want to believe that statement... it goes the same for white trash and white people.

[Blu]

I don't care what color he is, he's just an evil person is all. Druggie or not, he chose to do drugs if he is, still his fault, still evil. I hope this one gets shanked and they fuck the wound till he bleeds to death. Violence of that level against anyone much less two people that, c'mon- are pretty much entirely defenseless against you, is completely inexcusable. Rot in hell you son of a bitch. (wow this story made me really mad!)