OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna denied a request Tuesday to exonerate and overturn the conviction of a man convicted in a 1974 Edmond murder, despite the fact courts already declaring his co-defendant innocent.
Don Roberts was convicted alongside Glynn Simmons in 1975 for the 1974 killing of Carolyn Sue Rogers inside an Edmond Liquor store.
Edmond Police detectives interviewed witness Belinda Brown three days after the murder; she was still in the hospital recovering. She had been shot in the back of the head.
Brown was 18 years old at the time. She described two assailants for composite sketch artist, Jim Garr.
“I think she was in a state of shock and just glad to be alive,” said Garr.
According to the record of the police interview, the lead detective, Sergeant Tony Garrett, asked Brown, “If you were given more time, could you remember anything else?”
Brown told police, “If I wait much longer it would get all jumbled up in my mind.”
After that, the case began to run cold for investigators.