May 2014

Vol. 5 N o. 5

Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office

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DRuG EvALuATiOn & CLAssiFiCATiOn FFFFF program training FFFFF The Tulsa County sheriff’s Office has a long standing history of participation with the Drug Evaluation and Classification Program. This program requires selected deputies to attend the annual training in Oklahoma City. This year, unlike training in past years, our office was asked to conduct an annual training in Tulsa for the northeast Oklahoma area. Detective Marshall Eldridge and Captain Rob Lillard were honored to be chosen to manage the course. Over the course of the next six months, they along with several other instructors, will ensure that selected students will achieve the title of Drug Recognition Expert. This is no easy task as the course work demands a two week classroom session, followed by practical applications of the knowledge learned, and finally culminates into an eight hour exam in september - all of which the student must achieve an 80% rating on each part of the course work to continue throughout the certification process.

DRE (Drug Recognition Expert) The candidate DRE is an officer who already has some very special knowledge and skills, and a very definite commitment to Dui and drug

What will the students get out of this course?

Captain Rob Lillard and Officer Tyler Brown, GRDA, instruct DRE class

enforcement. The candidate must work for a department that has taken pains to provide the command and logistics support needed to allow the DRE to function at maximum effectiveness; and the department has concrete proof of its commitment to deterring impaired driving. Finally, that department does not serve just any community or state, instead, it operates in a jurisdiction that has a legal and political framework that is consistent with effective enforcement of drug-impaired driving violations.

What are the purposes of the course? The ultimate goal of this course is to help prevent crashes, deaths and injuries by improving enforcement of drug-impaired driving violations.

The classroom training course is designed to help the students achieve three broad goals, and eight specific learning objectives. The student who successfully completes this phase of DRE training will be able to... • distinguish if an individual is under the influence of a drug or drugs other than alcohol, or under the combined influence of alcohol and other drugs, or suffering from some injury or illness that produces signs similar to alcohol/drug impairment; • identify the broad category or categories of drugs inducing the observable signs of impairment; and, • progress to the Certification Phase of the training. in order to pass this course, the student must be able to... • describe the involvement of drugs in impaired driving incidents; ... name the seven categories of drugs and recognize their effects; • describe and properly administer the psychophysical and physiologic evaluations used in the drug evaluation and classification procedures; • document the results of the drug evaluation and classification examination; • properly interpret the results of the examination; • prepare a narrative drug influence report; • discuss appropriate procedures for testifying in typical Drug Evaluation and Classification cases; and, Continued on Page 2

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Sheriff’s Corner by Sheriff Stanley glanz

it is with sincere gratitude that i thank all of you who helped in getting both public safety initiatives passed on April 1. it is obvious that the citizens of Tulsa County understood the importance of these improvements. The jail improvements passed with a 66 percent approval and the juvenile justice received a 70 percent approval. Out of 263 precincts in Tulsa County, the jail won all but 20 and the juvenile projects won all but eight. now that the citizens have responded with a resounding YEs!, we will begin the planning process to deliver on what was promised. i am truly excited to be able to provide our employees with the new additions to our state of the art facility to work in and be

proud of as well as give the raises you deserve. This past month, DO Heather Byrd once again donned the Easter Bunny suit and made surprise visits to the many sick children in area hospitals. This is a wonderful program and not only do i thank D.O. Byrd, but also sgt. Paula Hite and Deputy Justin Green for organizing the event. There was a promotion ceremony held on May 1, 2014, in which Deputies John Harris, Tracy McCall, Darian Whitaker and David Kerpon were promoted to Corporal. The 2014 Annual Report is in circulation and i hope you enjoy reading about all the divisions and units that create the framework for

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Trai ni ng G oals The goals of the classroom training, from the viewpoint of the law enforcement agencies participating in it, are three fold: 1. To help police officers acquire the knowledge and skills needed to distinguish individuals under the influence of: • Alcohol • Other drugs • Combinations of alcohol and other drugs -or• Who are suffering from an injury or illness Captain Lillard and Detective Eldridge were honored to have been chosen for this task which would not have been possible without the commitment from our office to this program. ~ Captain Rob Lillard

PriN TiN g D ireCT D ePOS iT S TaT eM eN T S in case you have forgotten the website address for Benefit information... Direct deposit payroll statements and other benefit information are available on the Tulsa County Employee self service (“Ess”) system.

this great office. You will discover interesting facts and statistics throughout the book that might give you new perspective on the variety of duties involved in our daily routines. i want to thank everyone who worked on the book, you did a great job. i also want to thank Administrative services for their support and professionalism during the entire project.

TEARs OF A COP i have been where you fear to be. i have seen what you fear to see. i have done what you fear to do. All these things i've done for you. i am the one you lean upon. The one you cast your scorn upon. The one you bring your troubles to, All these people i've been for you. The one you ask to stand apart. The one you feel should have no heart. The one you call the officer in blue. But i am human, just like you. And through the years i've come to see That i am not what you ask of me. so take this badge and take this gun. Will you take it? Will anyone? And when you watch a person die, And hear a battered baby cry. Then so you think that you can be All those things you ask of me? ~ AuTHOR unKnOWn

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• • • Ou r h ist o r y • • • TCSO history

By retired Sgt. lyndall Cole TCSO historian

3 days of Terror The MOSSer FaMily MurderS Part iv in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on sunday, January 14, 1951, Carl Mosser’s bloodstained wallet was discovered by W. L. Lawson near the location where the Mosser family’s sedan was found. Carl’s money was missing; Cook had taken it and left numerous identification papers inside the wallet. Lawson turned the wallet and its contents over to Tulsa County sheriff George Blaine. On that same day, Javier Gonzales, a Mexican mine paymaster, was driving near the small fishing village of santa Rosalia, Mexico, when he had a chance encounter with three men in a maroon studebaker. Javier knew this was the same type of car driven by two missing American fishermen who had reportedly been kidnapped by a murderer named Cook. Javier contacted Police Chief Francisco Kraus Morales in the nearby City of Tijuana and informed him about seeing the three men near the town. Cook and his two captives were staying in an abandoned onyx mine near santa Rosalia. Cook was unaware of Javier Gonzales’s discovery on sunday, and on the following Monday, the captives convinced Cook to go into town to get something to eat. Cook did not want to go, but was convinced to make the trip when the captives reminded him they might be able to find some of those native oranges Cook liked so well. By the time Cook and his two victims arrived in town and sat down at a local café, Chief Morales, accompanied by other police officers and Mexican soldiers, had flown to a nearby airstrip and was already in town.

Billy “Killer” Cook leaves his j ail cell

As the three men sat at their table, Cook positioned himself with his back to the door. They all ordered fried chicken, and almost immediately after ordering, Chief Morales entered the café and stuck his gun in Cook’s back. He took him into custody without incident. After eight days, Forrest Damron and Jim Burke’s maddening and tormented trip across Mexico with “Killer Cook” was over. Cook was immediately flown back to Tijuana after his arrest and placed in the city jail. He was turned over to American authorities at the border and transported to the san Diego County Jail. infamous FBi Agent Deff “Jelly” Bryce had already filed federal charges including violation of the “Lindbergh Act,” passed after the Lindbergh kidnapping. violation of the this act enables a jury to hand down a death penalty, after finding an individual guilty of kidnapping if the victim was harmed. When Billy Cook was arrested, he was wearing Carl Mosser’s jacket, and

ironically, in Joplin, Missouri, on that same Monday, a tip led authorities to the bodies of Carl Mosser and his family. After their last stop in Arkansas, Cook had Carl Mosser drive him to Joplin, Missouri. it was the night of January 2nd, as they were nearing Joplin, Thelma Mosser reached her limit. After having been exposed to three days of sleepless nights, worry and concern for her family, three days of true terror, Thelma broke down, and became hysterical. As their mother broke down, Ronald Dean, Gary Carl and Pamela sue all began crying. They too were probably at their wits end. Cook had Carl pulled the car over and Cook bound Thelma and the children. Carl was left free because Cook needed him to drive. Cook even used string from Ronald Dean’s new cowboy hat, the one he so proudly wanted to show uncle Chris. After tying Thelma and the children up, the determined Cook had Carl drive on. Just outside of Joplin, a police car pulled up beside the Mosser sedan and took a long look at them. The officers then drove on only to turn around and drive by the Mosser sedan once again to take another long look. Cook got nervous, but the two officers drove on once again. Thelma had had enough, when she saw the patrol car drive on for the second time, she started screaming and the children began to cry. Cook lost control and shot Thelma. When Carl heard the gunshot he hit the brakes, Cook turned and shot Carl next. Cook then turned the gun on the children. One of the children was shot when a bullet passed through Thelma. Cook held the Continued on Pg. 4

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Family Murders, Continued Continued from Pg. 3 other children tightly and shot them. Ronald Dean, the oldest, was shot three times. Cook shot and killed the entire family and then drove the Mosser’s car to some abandoned mine shafts near his father’s home and dumped the bodies in one of those shafts. Cook then headed for Tulsa. The next day, January 3, 1951, the Mosser car was discovered by Osage County Deputy Warren smith, and the young Joplin boy who was known as “Cockeyed Cook,” would now become known as “Killer Cook.” From his jail cell in san Diego, Cook waived his extradition to Oklahoma and would be transported to the Oklahoma County Jail, arriving there late sunday afternoon, January 21st. At first, Cook pleaded innocent to his charges. He then reversed his plea to guilty, for kidnapping the Mosser family under the Lindbergh Act and a sanity hearing was ordered. Opinions to his sanity differed. Four out of the seven doctors who examined Cook, felt he was insane, however, he was ruled sane. On March 21st, 1951, during the sanity hearing, u. s. District Judge stephen Chandler interrupted the hearing and accepted Cook’s plea of guilty. Judge Chandler sentenced Cook to 300 years in prison, 60 years for each kidnapping count. The sentences were to run consecutively, Cook would never be eligible for parole. The treatment that Cook had or had not received as a child, played a part in the Judge’s decision. Judge Chandler’s decision was final and a lengthy trial scheduled for the following Monday was averted. The courts were not done with him yet. Just four hours after Judge Chandler’s decision, the u. s. Justice Department ordered Oklahoma to turn Cook over to the state of California for transport to Alcatraz state Prison. California wanted to charge Cook with the murder of Robert Dewey, the oil salesman from seattle, Washington. On saturday, March 24th, William E. (Billy) Cook was handcuffed to Oklahoma County Chief Criminal Deputy salty Burks and u. s. Deputy Marshal Mike

McGrew. The two officers accompanied by u. s. Deputy Marshal Rex Hawks, left the Oklahoma County Jail at 9:00 p.m. and drove Cook to the union station in Oklahoma City where they left by train for Oakland, California, where Cook would be transferred to Alcatraz state Prison. Cook was indicted by an imperial County Grand Jury in El Centro, California, on september 19, 1951, for the murder of seattle oil salesman Robert Hilton Dewey. On november 16th Cook plead guilty to Dewey’s murder by reason of insanity. The jury did not go for it and on november 24th, they found him sane at the time he shot Robert Dewey. Thus, he was found guilty of murder. The jury returned their verdict in just fifty minutes, one of the quickest verdicts in imperial County history. On november 28th Cook was sentenced to die in the gas chamber at san Quentin Prison by superior Judge Luray Mouser. On December 1, 1951, Cook was transported by imperial County Deputies Bob Jensen and Wayne Lewis to san Quentin state Prison. They were accompanied by u.s. Marshal Ray Waldron. William Cook would sit on death row just over a year while his automatic appeals process worked its way through the California court system. He would gain considerable weight while waiting. His small 5’4” frame was attempting to handle the 180 pounds he now weighed. By October of 1952, Cook’s appeals had run out and on the 11th of that month his execution date was set for December 12, 1952. san Quentin’s Warden Harley Teets, expressed how Cook would not speak to anyone, he was angry and hated everybody. William E. (Billy) Cook died in the gas chamber at san Quentin Prison at 10:13 a.m. December 12, 1952. He was buried in Peace Cemetery near his hometown of Joplin, Missouri. “Killer Cook” had robbed the Mosser family of their family vacation, some of their clothing, their money and eventually their lives. The only thing Cook was unable to take from the Mosser family was one dollar, six dimes and 15 pennies, the contents of a “Hop-a-long Cassidy” wallet belonging to young 8year-old Ronald Dean Mosser, the young boy Cook shot three times.

Epilogue Billy Cook kidnapped the Mosser family on December 30th, 1951, the day he turned 23. b b b b b Ronald Dean turned 8 during the three day terror ride. Cook was either jealous of the life Ronald had, or it was believed that Ronald Dean had struggled against Cook, and was shot three times, twice in the heart and once in the head. b b b b b it was a former cellmate of Cook’s that tipped authorities to where Cook might have possibly dumped the Mosser family’s bodies. After Cook’s capture, the cellmate contacted Joplin authorities and told them how Cook, after his release from prison, had threatened to kill him and dump his body in the same mine shaft when he refused to go along with Cook’s plans to commit numerous hijackings. b b b b b The mine shaft where the Mosser family bodies were discovered was just a few hundred feet away from a childhood home of Cook’s and not far from the same mine shaft where his father had abandoned him and his siblings. b b b b b The Mosser family was buried on January 18th, 1951, in the Hammond Cemetery near Atwood, illinois. The Chapel in Atwood overflowed with attendees. b b b b b in 1953, “The Hitch-Hiker,” a film directed by female director ida Lupino, was released based on the story of William Cook. it mentioned, but did incorporate the Mosser family murders. This film was largely regarded as one of the first mainstream films by a woman and in 1998 was selected for preservation in the u.s. Film Registry.

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Congratulations!

The following Tulsa County sheriff ’s Office employees were promoted to the Rank of Corporal on May 1, 2014: Left to Right: sheriff Glanz, Corporal John Harris, Corporal Darian Whitakker, Corporal David Kerpon, Corporal Tracy McCall and undersheriff Tim Albin.

aPril reTireMeNTS F Captain Larry Merchant

April 30, 2014 (Detention Division)

F Deputy Denise Corley

April 30, 2014 (Court Operations Division)

F Deputy Ed Pierce

April 30, 2014 (Court Operations Division

Oklahoma highway Safety award On April 22, 2014, Jeff Brown received the Oklahoma Highway safety Office Project Directors’ Award for Excellence. The Award Luncheon was held at the Oklahoma Highway safety Office Annual Forum and impaired Driving Prevention summit in norman, Oklahoma. Jeff was only one of three people in the state of Oklahoma to receive this award. Jeff was commended for his attention to budget, grant regulations, grant paperwork and grant coordination. Garry Thomas, Director of the Oklahoma Highway safety Office, also stated that Tulsa County’s entire Dui Task Force should be commended, noting that last grant period and so far this year, they have made a Dui arrest every 7 hours. Congratulations and thank you to all of you for making a difference!

Ca Lea aCCrediTaTiON FaCTS • May 2014 •

Public a cclaim Deputy Justin Green received accolades from Reserve Deputy David Jobe for his

Calea STaNdard 31.1.1 The agency actively conducts, or participates in its recruitment program.

outstanding representation of our office at the community policing event at the Crystal

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City Carnival. Deputy Jobe mentioned that he observed Deputy Green work and

Youthful offenders in the specialized unit for youthful inmates have no more than incidental sight or sound contact with adult inmates from outside the unit in living, program, dining, or other common areas of the facility. Any other sight or sound contact is minimized, brief, and in conformance with applicable legal requirements.

interact with those in attendance and conduct himself in a courteous and professional manner. He said that he was particularly impressed to see how he enjoyed spending time with the children and young people. Deputy Green made the parents feel comfortable as they appreciated the fact that TCsO was there to assist them. He was able to pass out plenty of coloring books and show the patrol vehicle to all who were interested.