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Oklahoma County DA Comments On Decision To Re-File Charges In 40-Year-Old Murder​

A metro man is now charged in a 1984 murder and rape case. But this isn’t the first time he’s facing these charges.
Thursday, November 30th 2023, 5:39 pm


By: News 9, Jennifer Pierce

A metro man was charged this month in an Oklahoma City murder and rape case nearly 40 years old. However, this was not the first time John Washington, 69, has been charged for the same crimes. He was even convicted and sentenced to death.

The conviction was overturned by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals because Washington did not receive a psychiatric evaluation during his trial. He was eventually found incompetent to stand trial.
The 69-year-old man was arrested on a warrant two weeks ago after leaving Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman.

“We feel that he is dangerous enough to the community that we didn’t want to leave him out there,” said Vicki Behenna, Oklahoma County District Attorney.

Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna said Washington spent years at the state mental hospital in Vinita before going to Norman. Her office re-filed first-degree murder and rape charges against Washington. “There is not statute of limitations on murder,” said Behenna.

The case dates back to 1984. Police were called to an apartment complex in southeast Oklahoma City to investigate the murder of a Tinker Airman and the rape of the man's wife. The murder victim’s body was found in a dumpster near the couples' apartment. Police at the time described what a witness told investigators.

“The man asked for help, the husband apparently took the man for help,” said David McBride, Oklahoma City Police Department Public Information Officer. “The man then killed the husband. Apparently came back, attacked the wife, and raped her.”

It was not the first time Washington was accused of a violent crime. He was convicted of murder in 1979 and served a short prison sentence. He is currently in custody at the Oklahoma County Detention Center.

Behenna said her office has enough evidence from 1984 to go to trial but does not expect that to be the outcome. “I assume what’s going to happen is his defense team is going to find Mr. Washington is incompetent to proceed and we’ll go through the whole thing all over again,” said Behenna.

Police said Washington’s DNA was tied to a 1982 murder and rape of an Oklahoma City woman. However, he was never charged due to his mental health status. Behenna said police must submit the case to her office for her to consider charging Washington.

 

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murder of a Tinker Airman and the rape of the man's wife

 

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metro man was charged this month in an Oklahoma City murder and rape case nearly 40 years old. However, this was not the first time John Washington, 69, has been charged for the same crimes. He was even convicted and sentenced to death.

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City Jury Sentences Killer-Rapist to Death Plus 500 Years​

Ray Robinson


Published October 16, 1984


An Oklahoma County jury deliberated for less than an hour Monday before sentencing John Paul Washington to death plus 500 years in prison for killing an Air Force security officer, then raping the dead man's wife.
Washington, 29, showed no emotion as Oklahoma County District Judge Leamon Freeman read the sentence, which was exactly what District Attorney Robert Macy had requested in his closing argument.
The three-man, nine-woman panel deliberated for only 55 minutes after being told by Macy: "Until he reaches Death Row ... nobody's safe."

After sheriff's deputies escorted him from the courtroom, Washington charged that authorities had planted evidence against him. "It wasn't no fair trial," he said. "Set up all the way."

Last week, the jury found Washington guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree rape in the slaying of 19-year-old airman Arlie "Buddy" Newsome and a three-hour sexual assault on his wife. The couple had been married nine months.
Newsome's body was found Feb. 12 near his apartment at 431 Tinker Diagonal, shortly after his wife reported the rape.

In testimony during the trial, Mrs. Newsome said Washington, who lived in the same apartment complex, returned after leaving with her husband and raped her four times, telling her that her husband was dead. She said Washington told her he intended to take her to California and put her to work as a prostitute.
During the sentencing stage of the trial, prosecutors alleged that Washington would constitute a threat to society if allowed to live, and told the jury that he had a previous conviction for manslaughter in connection with a 1979 shooting death.
The prosecution presented two women witnesses who said they also were attacked by Washington, one in 1982 and the other eight days before the Newsome slaying.

Defense attorney Larry Tedder pointed out that the 1979 slaying victim was a man who had made racially derogatory remarks to Washington. In the 1982 case, he said, the district attorney's office "thought so little of it" that it was reduced to a misdemeanor, with Washington serving a brief sentence in the county jail.
"Is that beyond reasonable doubt?" Tedder asked. "Is that the kind of evidence upon which, in the United States of America, we take a man's life?"
Macy said the prosecutor involved in the 1982 plea bargain "is no longer in my office ... but I have to accept it. I'm the district attorney."
He reminded the jury that after crushing Newsome to the point of asphyxiation, Washington was apparently so sexually aroused that he returned to the couple's apartment and raped the airman's wife. "What could be more selfish, more vile, more inhuman, than to kill a man to rape his wife?" the prosecutor asked.

 

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He reminded the jury that after crushing Newsome to the point of asphyxiation, Washington was apparently so sexually aroused that he returned to the couple's apartment and raped the airman's wife.

In many stories about blacks who kill they often become sexually aroused during their kill, but my theory is early stage of sexual arousal includes a primitive need to kill, especially to kill those the killer perceived to be enemies [via media].

As of yet, this black male is an unidentified BSK, black serial killer.