The Jekyll & Hyde Murders

[Kristopher]

February 5, 1975 was a cold night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At about 7:30 that
evening, Geraldine Martin ducked out early from her art class at Tulsa Junior
College downtown. She headed out of the building for her Volkswagen parked
nearby at 9th and Cincinnati. She never made it.
Nineteen days later, workers at the Osage Hills Apartments just northwest
of downtown, made a shocking discovery. Stuffed inside a closet in a
second-floor unit was Geraldine Martin. Her clothes were nearby, though her
tan overcoat was missing. She had been raped, strangled, and raped again.
But most strangely, her nipples were missing. The autopsy revealed one of
her nipples was still with her - it had been forced inside her vagina. The
other was never found.
It was a brutal crime, to be sure, a random crime that never occured in
Tulsa. A random crime until April 24. On that sunny morning, a man
travelling to work along the Old Sapulpa Road southwest of Tulsa spotted
something unusual. Just off the road, across a barbed-wire fence was a body.
Within minutes, Creek County Sheriffs descended upon the scene. They found
a young woman, stabbed 65 times, her head barely still attached to her body.
Looking over the body the suburban deputies noticed something that sent a
call out for Tulsa homicide detectives - her nipples were missing.
She was Marian Hope Rosenbaum and was a dancer at Satan's Club at 15th and
Sheridan, the heart Tulsa's notorious "Strip." Early in the morning of April
23, she had been dropped of by co-workers at a Safeway store at 3rd and
Utica, a mere two blocks from her home. She wasn't seen alive again.
August 27, 1975 sent Tulsa into a panic. That morning, Suzanne Oakley was
found trampled, raped, and strangled with her bra less than 200 yards off
Riverside Drive southeast of downtown. She had been pulled off the jogging
trail she frequented along the Arkansas River, she died around 7:30 a.m.,
just as traffic built up along Riverside, one of Tulsa's primary arteries
in to and out of downtown.
To this day, the cases are unsolved. They have been the subject of a book
- Charles W. Sasser's HOMICIDE! (Sasser was the lead investigator on the
case following Oakley's death.) Does anyone have any info on this case?
Please post or e-mail.

Kristopher

[GinaMic...@yahoo.com]

On Tuesday, May 14, 1996 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Kristopher wrote:
> February 5, 1975 was a cold night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At about 7:30 that
> evening, Geraldine Martin ducked out early from her art class at Tulsa Junior
> College downtown. She headed out of the building for her Volkswagen parked
> nearby at 9th and Cincinnati. She never made it.
> Nineteen days later, workers at the Osage Hills Apartments just northwest
> of downtown, made a shocking discovery. Stuffed inside a closet in a
> second-floor unit was Geraldine Martin. Her clothes were nearby, though her
> tan overcoat was missing. She had been raped, strangled, and raped again.
> But most strangely, her nipples were missing. The autopsy revealed one of
> her nipples was still with her - it had been forced inside her vagina. The
> other was never found.
> It was a brutal crime, to be sure, a random crime that never occured in
> Tulsa. A random crime until April 24. On that sunny morning, a man
> travelling to work along the Old Sapulpa Road southwest of Tulsa spotted
> something unusual. Just off the road, across a barbed-wire fence was a body.
> Within minutes, Creek County Sheriffs descended upon the scene. They found
> a young woman, stabbed 65 times, her head barely still attached to her body.
> Looking over the body the suburban deputies noticed something that sent a
> call out for Tulsa homicide detectives - her nipples were missing.

> She was Marian Hope Rosenbaum and was a dancer at Satan's Club at 15th and
> Sheridan, the heart Tulsa's notorious "Strip." Early in the morning of April

> 23, she had been dropped of by co-workers at a Safeway store at 3rd and

> Utica, a mere two blocks from her home. She wasn't seen alive again.

> August 27, 1975 sent Tulsa into a panic. That morning, Suzanne Oakley was
> found trampled, raped, and strangled with her bra less than 200 yards off
> Riverside Drive southeast of downtown. She had been pulled off the jogging
> trail she frequented along the Arkansas River, she died around 7:30 a.m.,

> just as traffic built up along Riverside, one of Tulsa's primary arteries

> in to and out of downtown.
> To this day, the cases are unsolved. They have been the subject of a book

> - Charles W. Sasser's HOMICIDE! (Sasser was the lead investigator on the
> case following Oakley's death.) Does anyone have any info on this case?

> Please post or e-mail.
>
> Kristopher

Marian Hope Rosenbaum was my aunt. I never knew her, but one day I hope her murder is solved.

[buffy...@gmail.com]

This case is also available in a True Detective magazine issue for September 1980 in a double length feature written by Sasser.

[ilne...@gmail.com]

I lived on the 1100 blk of North elwood which happend do be directly behind the apartment she was found in