Gloria Maude Cheshewalla, 60, and her husband Joseph “Buck” Cheshewalla were found shot to death in their Osage County home near Pawhuska. Both victims had been shot twice in the head; Maude had been blindfolded and Joseph was bound with a belt and duct tape. Authorities classified the killings as a robbery that escalated to murder.

Investigators identified two suspects, Billy Gene Harris and Eugene Mervin Sides. Information from one accomplice led to a search warrant at Harris’s home, and Sides implicated Harris during the investigation. Both men were tried and convicted for the Cheshewallas’ murders and received concurrent life-without-parole sentences; Harris, a non-Indian, was also ordered to pay over $11,000 in restitution. Convictions and subsequent appeals, including challenges to federal jurisdiction, were repeatedly rejected and the sentences have been upheld.

Are there readers who knew Maude’s work as a tribal historian or craftswoman, or who have any information about the night of the robbery?