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    Mikell Patrick Smith - Oklahoma


    Mikell Patrick Smith (2023)


    Original co-defendant for first sentence Roger James Berget executed June 8, 2000.

    Summary of Offense: On October 21, 1985, two hunters discovered the body of Rick Patterson in a wooded area near Interstate 40 and Rockwell. The 33-year-old Patterson, a math teacher at a local middle school, had been killed by a shotgun blast. His car was found burned in a field near Tulsa three days later. In August 1986, Berget was arrested by Del City and Midwest City police on robbery and burglary charges. Berget confessed to police that he and a friend had abducted and killed Patterson. Berget related that he and Mikell Smith decided to steal a car so that they could go riding around on October 19, 1985. They went to an Oklahoma City supermarket where they saw Rick Patterson walking toward a car. When Patterson opened the car, Berget forced him at gunpoint to slide over to the passenger's side. Smith got into the back seat.

    Berget drove the car to a deserted area of town, where the two men tied or taped Patterson's hands and mouth and then put him into the trunk of the car. Berget drove east on I-40 to an isolated place. When Berget and Smith opened the trunk, the men found that Patterson had freed his hands. They tied his hands behind his back, forced him to stand up next to a tree and then shot him. Fearing that Patterson was still alive and could crawl away, another shot was fired. Berget pled guilty to first-degree murder, although he recanted his confession to the extent of blaming his accomplice for actually killing Patterson. Berget also confessed to killing James Meadows in Hughes County. Both Berget and Smith received a death sentence, but Smith was successful on appeal in 1992 and his sentence was reduced to life in prison without parole when he agreed to plead guilty before retrial.


    August 19, 1993

    Inmate Stabbed, Killed in Attack At State Prison

    By Stacy D. Johnson
    The Oklahoman

    A convicted murderer was allegedly stabbed and killed by two fellow inmates who threatened a guard with homemade knives, authorities said.

    George Arwood Stidham died at 7:12 p.m. Tuesday at McAlester Regional Hospital about an hour after he was repeatedly stabbed, Oklahoma Corrections Department spokesman Jerry Massie said.

    Stidham was housed in the administrative segregation "D" unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

    Inmates Earl Neal Garver and Mikell Patrick Smith were placed in strip cells while the stabbing is investigated by the corrections department and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

    Massie said the incident began when Garver held a homemade knife on a corrections officer and forced the guard to release Smith from a shower area.

    Garver and Smith both held weapons on the officer and took keys to gain access to another shower area where Stidham was. Stidham was stabbed multiple times, Massie said.

    After the stabbing, Massie said Garver and Smith came out of the shower area, threw down the knives and keys, returned to their cells and locked themselves inside, Massie said.

    Massie declined to released the name of the guard, who was not injured. He did not know a specific motive for the killing.

    Until last week, Stidham was housed in a Kentucky prison under the interstate compact agreement.

    Massie said he believed Stidham was sent out of state because of security problems and his involvement in the 1985 riot at the penitentiary in McAlester.

    Stidham was convicted of murder in Kentucky for killing another inmate.

    He was returned to Oklahoma for unspecified reasons, Massie said.

    Stidham entered the Oklahoma prison system in 1971.

    He received two life sentences including one for the fatal stabbing of an inmate at the penitentiary in 1972.

    He also received two consecutive 50-year terms for kidnapping and other sentences totaling 30 more years.

    Smith, 27, was given a 500-year sentence for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in 1989 after he stabbed a correctional officer in the heart. The officer recovered.

    Smith was convicted of killing a Moore math teacher in 1985 and received a death sentence. In 1992, the state Court of Criminal Appeals granted Smith a new trial which has not yet been held.

    Garver, 25, was considered a ringleader in the 1988 Stringtown riot at the Mack Alford Correctional Center, officials said.

    He was convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for acts committed during the riot and sentenced to a 30-year term.

    He also received two-year sentences each for second-degree burglary and escape.

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news...n/62450887007/


    October 31, 1995

    "Most Dangerous" Inmate Pleads Guilty to Murder

    By Ed Godfrey
    The Oklahoman

    Heavily guarded and away from public view, "the most dangerous man" in the state prison system admitted Monday in Oklahoma County District Court to killing a Moore math teacher 10 years ago.

    In exchange for his guilty plea to first-degree murder, Oklahoma County prosecutors agreed to a sentence of life without parole for Mikell Patrick Smith.

    An Oklahoma County jury had found Smith, 30, guilty in the Oct. 20, 1985 shotgun slaying of Rick Lee Patterson.

    Patterson was abducted at random from an Oklahoma City grocery store and killed for his car. The jury sentenced Smith to death in the murder.

    However, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 1992 overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial, ruling the jury should not have been allowed to hear a tape recording of a co-defendant's interview with police.

    The co-defendant, Robert Berget, pleaded guilty and received the death penalty. In the tape-recorded interview, he blamed Smith for the murder. During the trial, Berget testified Smith wasn't involved.

    Assistant District Attorney Ray Elliott said a plea agreement was reached with Smith because the tape recording was "very critical" to the first conviction. The tape recording would not have been allowed in the retrial.

    Smith pleaded guilty before Oklahoma County District Judge Nancy Coats, who barred all spectators from the courtroom, including the media and family members of the victim and defendant.

    Coats sealed the courtroom at the request of the state Department of Corrections. There were guards armed with assault rifles in the courtroom and county sheriff deputies were stationed at exits on the floor.

    There were approximately 20 prison guards and deputies either inside or outside the courtroom during the sentencing, Elliott said. Smith was shackled and in belly chains when he appeared before the judge after arriving from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Monday.

    Jerry Massie, spokesman for the corrections department, said prison officials asked that the courtroom be closed to the public for security and safety reasons.

    "He creates a great concern for us," Massie said of Smith. "He's an escape risk. He's a cold-blooded killer. He's a definite threat to anybody he comes in contact with. " Smith already is serving a sentence of life without parole for the August 1993 slaying of fellow death row inmate George Stidham.

    That jury was deliberating a death sentence when Smith and another inmate, Earl Garver, pleaded guilty in exchange for life without parole.

    Smith also received 500 years in prison for the near-fatal stabbing of a prison guard in April 1989. He also stabbed an inmate in 1987.

    Smith has attempted escape several times. In March, he escaped from the Oklahoma County Jail but was recaptured the same day. He escaped once from his prison cell but did not get out of the institution, Massie said.

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news...r/62374898007/
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    Juy 25, 2013

    OSP, one found dead, another placed on 'super-maximum' custody

    By James Beaty
    McAlester News Captial

    An Oklahoma State Penitentiary inmate with a long history of violence has been placed in “super-maximum” custody while Oklahoma Department of Corrections investigators probe the death of his cell-mate, who also had a violent history.

    Both of the inmates have previously been convicted in Pittsburg County District Court of murdering other prisoners at the maximum-security prison in McAlester. One of them, Mikell Smith, once had a special $5,000 cell built to hold him at the facility.

    OSP correctional officers found Timothy Hale unresponsive in the cell at 4:20 p.m. Friday, according to Warden’s Assistant Terry Crenshaw. He said Smith gave correctional officers no problems when they entered the cell.

    “The two were housed together on the H Unit,” Crenshaw said of Smith and Hale.

    A member of OSP’s medical staff pronounced Hale dead, Crenshaw said.

    Hale had obvious signs of injury, said Crenshaw, who would not elaborate further.

    When DOC investigators complete their probe into the death, the report is expected to be turned over to District 18 District Attorney Farley Ward’s office, according to Crenshaw.

    Smith, who is also known behind the walls as “Bulldog” Smith, has a number of previous convictions, including two murder convictions for which he is serving sentences of life without parole.

    He was also previously convicted of stabbing an OSP correctional officer in the heart in 1989. The officer survived. Smith was sentenced to an additional 500 years in prison on that conviction in 1992.

    Under an interstate compact agreement in which states can exchange trouble-making offenders to get them out of their element, the DOC sent Smith to Washington state in 1996.

    Two years later, Washington sent Smith back to OSP.

    Smith had originally been sentenced to death in the 1985 shotgun murder of Rick Patterson, a math teacher in Moore, who had been kidnapped from a grocery store in Oklahoma City and murdered for his car.

    However, in 1992, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overturned that conviction and ordered a new trial, determining that jurors should not have been allowed to hear a recording of another defendant’s police interview.

    While back in the Oklahoma County Jail awaiting re-trial, Smith escaped after sawing through a metal screen window with a hacksaw blade, and shimmying to the ground using sheets he had tied together.

    Following a foot and car chase, law enforcement officers apprehended Smith after about 15 minutes of freedom.

    In a plea agreement, Smith escaped facing the death penalty again when he pleaded guilty in the Moore slaying and was sentenced to life without parole.

    In 1993, Smith was charged in the stabbing death of OSP inmate George Stidham. He and another inmate were accused of stabbing Stidham to death after the other inmate used a homemade knife to force a correctional officer to release Smith. The two took keys that opened to a shower area where Stidham was, with the result that they both attacked and stabbed Stidham.

    Smith was sentenced to a second term of life without parole in that case following a trial and first-degree murder conviction in Pittsburg County District Court.

    Hale was also serving a sentence of life without parole, for a 1996 Pittsburg County murder conviction, according to DOC records.

    Hale was convicted of killing his cell-mate Clifford Parsons at OSP in 1995 following an argument about the top bunk on a bunk bed, that was wet from a leaking roof.

    During the trial, Hale claimed to have killed Parsons in self-defense after Parsons attacked him with a knife.

    Prosecutors said Hale had earlier said he had tortured Parsons for several hours, then slashed his throat and stuck a mop handle in his eye.

    Hale had responded that he had lied in his previous statements, because he had been under the misapprehension OSP’s death row would be a better place to live than the segregation unit at the prison.

    Hale’s record contains approximately 19 felony charges, including convictions for kidnapping, escape, burglary and armed robbery.

    https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/l...feaf4e4f9.html


    January 30, 2014

    An inmate already serving a life sentence for a murder conviction was charged this week with the strangulation of a cellmate last year.

    By John Yates
    The Oklahoman

    Mikell P. Smith, 48, was charged in Pittsburg County District Court with second-degree murder in the July 19 death of Timothy Hale, 43. Hale was strangled with a sheet.

    The information filed in the case accuses Smith of improper conduct and “contemptuous and reckless disregard for the life and safety of Hale.”

    Hale and Smith were cellmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Both were serving sentences of life without parole for first-degree murder convictions. Smith also is serving a second life sentence for murder in the death of another inmate and a 500-year sentence for the near-fatal stabbing of a corrections officer.

    The investigation initially pointed to a struggle between the two men, warden's assistant Terry Crenshaw said.

    Smith was transferred in the 1990s to a Washington state prison. He was on death row at one point, but that sentence was overturned on appeal.

    Smith's original sentence was for the murder of a Moore math teacher in 1985.

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news...r/60848721007/

    I can't find a story for the sentencing but he got another 50 years on 3/28/2014 for the murder of Hale.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    September 16, 2022

    Police investigating whether white-supremacist prison gang behind bodies found in Oklahoma

    By JOSH MARCUS
    The Independent

    Oklahoma police are investigating whether a group of human remains found earlier this year in a heavily secured, rural compound is linked to a murderous white supremacist prison gang.

    Officials have largely kept quiet about the search, which is probing the potential involvement of the violent Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) group, for fear that members could attack those connected to the investigation.

    “We’re just trying to keep some people alive at this point,” an anonymous Oklahoma official told the Washington Post this week.

    The gang, which was founded in 1993 in Oklahoma prisons and modeled after California’s Nazi prison gangs, has been linked to meth trafficking, murder, kidnapping, torture and witness intimidation. In August, nine people with suspected ties to the UAB were charged with torturing a rival gang member and dumping him in a ditch.

    The group is thought to be connected to a rash of disappearances in rural Oklahoma, where it is a major player in the meth trade. Local residents are reportedly afraid to contact police or put up missing person signs, for fear of reprisals.

    In April, county and state police discovered highly degraded human remains thought to belong to between nine and a dozen people. The bodies were discovered at two sites, a walled-off compound in rural Logan County, with numerous caged pitbulls on-site, and another location near an oil well in Luther.

    "They were associated with burned wood and other material. … We’ve got our work cut out for us,” the state’s chief medical examiner, Dr Eric Pfeifer, said at the time of the discovery, which has yielded 500 pounds of dirt to analyse for remains.

    One of leaders of the white supremacist gang, 57-year-old Mikell “Bulldog” Smith, currently serving a life sentence for a 1985 murder-robbery, owns land at one of the sites where the remains were found.

    Last month, officials from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) provided one of the sparse updates on the investigation.

    The investigation now involves a search for missing people from three Oklahoma counties: Logan, Potawatomi and Oklahoma County.

    Officials have collected DNA samples from family members and are trying to match them to the bone fragments and other pieces of evidence found earlier this year, KOCO reports.

    The Independent has contacted OSBI for comment.

    The agency has acknowledged its investigation but said little more in public.

    “The investigation is very fluid and very active,” OSBI wrote in a August release. “Because of that, the volume of rumors and speculation is high. The OSBI will not comment on rumors as that can jeopardize the ongoing investigation.”

    LaVonne Harris told the Post she suspects her son, who has been missing for over two years, is among those discovered in April. She said she and a friend searched through her son Nathan Smith’s social media and saw him associating with people who may have been making Aryan Brotherhood gang signs.

    ‘They’re Aryan Brotherhood, look! All these people — a lot of them — are doing the signal,’ ” Ms Harris told the paper. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, what has my son got into?’ ”

    https://sports.yahoo.com/police-inve...200241153.html


    Imprisoned White Supremacist Leader Accused of Orchestrating Murders

    A third person is now behind bars for the murder of a man who disappeared in 2021.

    New court filings reveal a federal inmate told investigators the victim was burned on a Logan County property that was first raided the same year. The documents also contain disturbing new details and a motive.

    Jason Cornett, his wife, and now his nephew are all charged in connection to the murder of David Orr, all arrested over the past week.

    Filings now reveal a recognized white supremacist gang leader is accused of ordering the hit from behind bars.

    Deputies approached Jason Cornett and arrested him while he was parked outside an Oklahoma County business.

    Cornett then called his wife Elizabeth to retrieve his car, but when Elizabeth arrived, she was arrested too.

    Five days later, Cornett’s 18-year-old nephew, Jordan Treaster, was also arrested.

    According to court filings, as part of a plea agreement, in Nov. 2021, a federal inmate told investigators David Orr was living with the trio at a trailer home in McLoud when Jason Cornett shot and killed him. He said Orr’s body was burned in “a steel box in the backyard that they used to burn bodies in.”

    The inmate alleged Cornett was instructed by his uncle, Mikell Smith AKA “Bulldog,” who owned the home, to “to take care of the debt” Orr owed him. According to court filings,

    Smith allegedly then ordered Cornett to move the steel box to a Logan County property that was later raided by state, federal, and county investigators.

    According to the federal inmate, Smith also ordered Cornett to kill a Missouri resident who was running drugs for him and was reported missing in 2019.

    Smith is serving multiple life sentences for three murders. In 1989, the Department of Corrections dubbed him “the most dangerous man in the penitentiary.”

    https://www.poncacitynow.com/impriso...ating-murders/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Amazing that this guy can kill two people with his bare hands in prison, after being sentenced to death. Then order the murder of at least 9 more. He also stabbed numerous people over the past four decades.

    If he doesn't get a death sentence here, then the Death Penalty is truly dead in the USA how the hell hasn't he been strapped to a gurney already?
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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