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European explorers were in the area as early as 1541.
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They lived in Mustang, Oklahoma, had raised two sons and, by the summer of 2009, looked like a settled and successful couple. There she met Mark Holbrook, another married student. They met again weeks later in Tulsa for the licensing examination and had lunch, and by December 2009 they had begun an affair.
Holbrook moved out of the house he shared with his wife and told her he wanted a divorce, although he never filed. She rented a cabin at Broken Bow for a weekend with Holbrook, the longest time they had spent together. Over that weekend Holbrook decided that she was not the person he had thought. He said she had become manipulative and was pressing him to divorce his wife sooner than he intended. He ended the affair.
She telephoned Holbrook's wife, his parents and his son, and a month later left him a message saying she was pregnant. He did not believe her and did not reply. She continued to appear at his home in Hugo and at his office, in March 2010 with a man in her car and again in February 2011.
Meanwhile she and Keith were apparently reconciling. Keith told friends the marriage was improving and made conspicuous efforts. He took her to the firefighters' ball in Oklahoma City, pulled out her chair and built a brick wall around a new hot tub in the garden, a job he insisted on doing perfectly. A friend of theirs thought the couple seemed awkward together, as though they were trying too hard.
In September 2011 a neighbour, Randy Dunbar, was approached in his garden by a stranger, a white man of medium build, who asked whether he needed yard work and whether his neighbours did. Dunbar was uneasy and sent him away.
Procter left at about 9.30 p.m., saying nothing had seemed unusual. She said a young man of about 25 or 26, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, had come through the garage door she had left open, shot her husband in the head and run out. She said the man had told her he was sorry but her husband should have hired him, and that he had driven away west in a small dark pickup. Rather than take him to her husband, she began talking about an old burglary. Keith was still alive on the couch, breathing with difficulty. He was taken to OU Medical Center, where he died at about 6 a.m. the next morning, aged 52.
On the drive to the hospital she showed friends photographs of her lover's penis and talked about the affair. At the hospital she was calm, laughed at crime scene investigators because their work reminded her of the television programme CSI, and asked about their examination of the evidence. The medical examiner, Dr Eric Fifer, later testified that Keith had a close-contact gunshot wound, with the bullet entering the left side of his head and leaving the right, and that fibres in the wound could have come from a blanket held over the muzzle.
In the dryer in the utility room they found the pistol, a spent casing, a rubber glove and a flame-patterned throw blanket from the back of the couch, which had several round holes in it. The glove carried her DNA, and the serial number on the gun matched the box.
Her telephone records showed ten messages to Holbrook on the evening of the shooting, beginning at 7.23 p.m. In them she said she still loved him, asked how he had stopped loving her, begged him to call, mentioned an inheritance and claimed she had never had a hundred orgasms in two years with Keith. Less than three hours before the shooting she left him a voicemail saying she expected a large inheritance and planned to buy a house near him in Hugo. She had also told him a month after the affair ended that she was pregnant, and a friend testified that she had talked about faking a pregnancy to win him back.
Other men came forward. Wesley Hubert, a real estate client, said she had stopped at his home in McCloud on her way back from Tulsa, changed into a fishnet outfit and had sex with him on the day of the shooting. Carl Ulterman, another agent, said she sent him explicit photographs and messages out of the blue. Will Whitestarber, a Tulsa agent, said she invited him to her hotel room during a conference and sent naked pictures; he replied that the messages were inappropriate because his fiancee was with him. Witnesses also said she had sex with several strangers at the conference and at a wedding in Dallas four days earlier, and boasted about it.
The prosecution did not seek the death penalty. He also said she carried a small .380 Ruger in her purse. Paramedic James McClung and EMT Michael Ward described her as calm and collected, and said she never asked about her husband's condition or to ride in the ambulance. A friend, Pamela Woodward, testified about the pregnancy plan.
The defence argued that the investigation had been rushed. Agents had not changed gloves, had not fingerprinted the dryer, had not photographed the shell casing, and had not tested many items. There were other guns in the house, including a Glock .40 whose box was found in the bedroom. The Ruger had been given to the couple's son Kent and stolen from his house six months earlier, along with $100 in cash.
Her son Trent said in a victim impact statement that he had been torn between protecting his mother and seeking justice for his father, and that his five-year-old son asked questions he could not answer.