Mary Louise Smith was a 39-year-old white woman from Choctaw County, Oklahoma, whose life ended by force in January 1994. Court and appellate documents later identified her killing as one of the first-degree murder convictions tied to Michael Dale St. Clair. Those same records show St. Clair already had life sentences from Murray County for two earlier murders and that prosecutors linked Smith’s death with another Choctaw County victim, 40-year-old Edward Jefferson Large, whose 1987 killing was also attributed to St. Clair.

Her name survives in county and appellate filings as part of the record used to establish St. Clair’s prior convictions while he faced additional capital cases in other states. Does anyone have memories of Mary, her family, or details about her life in Choctaw County that could add to the picture?