Jeannette LaRue Perry

Date Found: October 25, 1991

Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Investigating Agency: Tulsa Police Department Cold Case Unit

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Jeannette LaRue Perry was murdered in Tulsa on October 25, 1991. She was forty-six years old.

At the time of her death, Jeannette worked at Lucky Seven Liquor store on East Admiral Place in Tulsa. Around 9pm, Jeannette’s mother had come to the store to help her daughter with closing. When she arrived, she saw three men inside the store, but didn’t see Jeannette. Her mother sat in her vehicle until the men had left the store and the parking lot, only then going inside. She found Jeannette in the back room shot to death.

Authorities believe the killing was robbery motivated, as the cash register showed signs of someone trying unsuccessfully to open it. However, it didn’t appear as if they were successfully able to take anything from the store. Her mother and another witness who had been in the store prior to the incident described the men as two of them being in their late teens or early twenties and the other being in his thirties or forties. All were African American. In December of the same year, police would say they believed that another killing of a convenience store clerk in Sapulpa was committed by the same men who killed Jeannette. However, two men would later be tried in the Sapulpa case, one of them would be convicted- but neither could apparently be connected to Jeannette’s murder as no one has ever been charged.

Jeannette left behind two children, and one grandchild. She had only lived in the area for four months when she was murdered. It’s time that someone faces justice for her murder.