
Carol Daniels
Date Found: August 23, 2009
Location: Anadarko, Oklahoma
Investigating Agency: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
(800)522-8017
Someone found Reverend Carol Daniels murdered in her Anadarko church on August 23, 2009. She was sixty-one years old.
Her murder remains shrouded in rumor and mystery, and it deeply affected the town of Anadarko. This is mostly due to how vicious the murder was.
An elderly couple called the police after they saw Carol’s car parked out front but found the doors of Christ Holy Sanctified Church locked. Police then found Carol’s body behind the altar, laid out in a “crucifix” position. She was completely naked, but had not been sexually assaulted and her throat was cut so deeply, she was nearly decapitated. It’s clear that she had tried to fight off her attacker, as she had defensive wounds on her hands. Her hair had been burnt as well.
What the public doesn’t widely know is that Carol’s purse and briefcase were missing from the scene. The killer also took her clothes and sprayed some kind of solution around her body, likely to destroy any DNA evidence they left behind. There have been very few leads in the case since the beginning, and now nearly eleven years later, this still remains to be an issue.
Following Carol’s senseless murder, the community demolished her church and built a memorial in her honor.
People describe Carol as a lovely woman who was very caring and soft-spoken. Someone who cared a great deal for people. For someone who cared so much about people and her community, this is a truly horrendous fashion to have died.
If you have any information about the murder of Reverend Carol Daniels, please contact the OSBI at (800) 522-8017 or the Anadarko Police Department at (405) 247-2411.