Investigators now believe the four men planned to "commit some type of criminal act," citing a witness who told investigators they had been invited to join and to "hit a lick big enough for all of them."
A person of interest in a homicide investigation in Oklahoma, where four friends went missing and were later found shot and severely dismembered in a river, was arrested in Central Florida Tuesday, according to police.
five days later, parts of their bodies started emerging from this river south of tulsa. each victim suffered gunshot wounds. all four bodies were dismembered before being placed in the river, and that is what caused difficulty in determining identity. reporter: authorities say the victims are alex stevens, mike sparks, and brothers billy and mark chastain. john chastain is an uncle of the two brothers. he says the men were good fathers who leave six children behind. we re all horribly hurt over it. i mean, it s just not something that we ever see coming. our family never seen them doing anything to deserve this. reporter: but how and why these men were killed remains a mystery. their cell phones were last tracked in two salvage yards on the edge of town. near one of those yards, investigators say they found evidence of a, quote, violent
A person of interest in a murder investigation in Oklahoma, where four friends went missing and were later found shot and severely dismembered in a river, was found and arrested in Florida on Tuesday, police said.