The Murder Of Vickie Keane

On the morning of February 18, 1983 in Chickasha, Oklahoma the body of Charles Keene was found in the Washita River, putting a traumatic end to the twenty-seven day search for his body. It was immediately clear that this man had suffered a very drawn out and painful death. His body was pulled from the Washita River along with a cement block that was chained to his body. He was slit open from his throat to his abdomen, he had a broken leg with a bullet hole through his head and another that went through his chest. He also had multiple bruises and abrasions with the main focus of them being on and around his face and head. Keene had been abducted from the trailer that he shared with his ex-wife, Vickie Keene. The two had a very rocky and long roller coaster relationship, considering much of their relationship was built around the more-than-often physical abuse that was aimed toward Vickie and her brother, William. There was not a lack of evidence that linked the four perpetrators to the crime; William

The men went into the trailer to get the keys from Charles when minutes later the men were running out toward the car while Charles was right behind them with a butcher knife in his hand. They left the trailer park without her car and went to the sheriff’s office to report the incident with the hopes of an arrest to be made the car to be returned to Vickie. Instead, they were told that there was nothing that could be done and this was the last straw. It was then that Tony gave the .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, the murder weapon, to Vickie so she could defend herself if things continued to escalate, though Vickie did not try to return home and instead decided to remain at her mother’s house, leaving the gun on the kitchen