A man who was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in June, after DNA evidence connected him to a 2006 double homicide in Tulsa while he was serving a prison term in another state, was brought back to Tulsa on Tuesday to face the charges.
Hilliard Andrew Fulgham, 45, was booked into the Tulsa Jail just before 4:30 p.m., according to jail records.
Fulgham had been serving a seven-year sentence in Louisville, Miss., for burglary.
His wife, Jacqueline Octavia Smith, 36, was arrested in Violet, La., in June. She is charged with two counts of accessory to first-degree murder.
Prosecutors allege that she helped hide the murder weapon, then paid for Fulgham to leave Oklahoma following the stabbing deaths of Linda Wright, 45, and Dorothy Lindley, 60.
Wright's and Lindley's bodies were found in the Warwick Apartments, on 51st Street just east of Lewis Avenue, on Jan. 4, 2006.
An affidavit filed in Tulsa County District Court states that a Mississippi woman told law enforcement officers there that Smith had confessed to her and Fulgham's involvement in the deaths.
The woman said Smith had told her that Fulgham had come home from a drug transaction in Tulsa covered in blood, saying he needed to leave town.
Evidence at the scene suggested that the person responsible for the deaths likely had cut himself.
Blood recovered at the scene provided a DNA profile for an unidentified man, which eventually resulted in a positive match for Fulgham, who had provided DNA to Mississippi authorities when he was convicted there in 2007.
Smith and Fulgham had been living two doors away from where Wright and Lindley were killed, according to court documents.
Fulgham is set to be arraigned Wednesday in Tulsa County District Court.
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