A man who spent nearly eight years walking free after strangling 19-year-old Kyli Molloy in her Edmond apartment will not get a chance at parole, an Oklahoma County judge ruled this week. Judge Cindy Truong denied Joseph Tyler Beck’s request for possible future release, telling the court that granting parole would not be in the best interest of justice.
Molloy was found murdered in her Wayne Street apartment near the University of Central Oklahoma campus in October 2016, according to CBS News. She was just 19 and living in her first apartment. Edmond police canvassed the area and interviewed neighbors, but the case went cold because investigators exhausted every lead and suspect without ever identifying Beck, per KFOR.
Beck and Molloy had known each other since childhood and had worked together at an Edmond-area Subway before the killing, according to the same CBS News report. He went to her apartment in 2016 as a family friend, but prosecutors said he attempted to have sex with her, and he killed her after she denied his advances. Prosecutors described the case with a chilling phrase, telling the court it amounted to, “If I can’t have you, no one can.”
A Roadside Confession Eight Years Later
The case sat unsolved until May 2024, when an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper responded to a call about a man sitting alone on the side of Interstate 40 near the Reno/Scott Street exit in Oklahoma City. That trooper, identified as Matt Snyder, was conducting what began as a routine welfare check, the CBS News report states. During that roadside conversation, authorities said, Beck confessed to killing Molloy…