Bessie Virginia Sanders

Bessie Virginia Sanders

Date Found: February 17, 1976

Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Investigating Agency: Tulsa Police Department

(918) 596-9222

Sixty-two year old Bessie Virginia Sanders was found murdered in her Tulsa apartment on February 17, 1976. Bessie had been strangled with an electrical cord, but there were no signs of a significant struggle, she had not been sexually assaulted and there wasn’t anything missing from her apartment.

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