TULSA, OKLA. (KTUL) — “I was constantly afraid for my life,” April Wilkens told NewsChannel 8 about the two years leading up to the night in April 1998 when she shot and killed her former fiancé, Terry Carlton, in his midtown Tulsa home.
The abuse Wilkens described is documented in three protective order filings, more than a dozen calls to police, photographs of her injuries, and pictures showing her home ransacked.
Wilkens, 55, has spent 27 years in prison but could gain her freedom under a new domestic violence law. Through the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act, she was granted a resentencing hearing, scheduled to start Wednesday. The law gives domestic abuse survivors a chance at reduced sentences if their crimes were tied to that abuse…