Freda Ingrid Johnson was found murdered in Tulsa on January 20, 1999. She was thirty-four years old.

Twenty-four years ago today, at about this time, officers responded to Freda’s home in response to a shooting. The husband of Freda Johnson was on the porch waiting for them, saying that as he arrived home he heard a gunshot, when he entered the home, he found his wife dead. When officers entered the residence, they found Freda shot to death in her living room. She had also been bound with a telephone cord. Her four year old son was hiding underneath her bed when his mother was killed.

The day after Freda was killed, a bloody shirt was found a block away from her home. Blood analysis would show that the blood on the shirt belonged to Freda, but in 2008 when it was submitted for DNA, the results came back as belonging to a man named Tony Patterson. Patterson had been in prison at the time in Colorado on unrelated crimes. He would be charged with Freda’s murder based solely on this DNA evidence, however in March 2013 the case was dismissed as there were issues with the DNA results.

No one else has been charged with the murder of Freda Johnson, and her case remains unsolved. It’s believed that robbery was the motive behind her murder.

If you have any information regarding the murder of Freda Ingrid Johnson, please contact the Tulsa Police Department at 918-586-1357.