Edward Jefferson Large was a 40-year-old white man from rural Choctaw County, Oklahoma, whose body was found on December 14, 1987. His death was treated as a homicide and he was buried in Yarnaby Cemetery in Bryan County. Investigators later connected his killing to Michael Dale St. Clair, an itinerant offender born in 1957, whose crime spree across multiple states eventually included other murders.

By 1994 St. Clair had been tried and convicted in Choctaw County on two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Large and Mary Louise Smith; a local jury returned guilty verdicts and the court imposed two life sentences without the possibility of parole to be added to his existing murder convictions from other jurisdictions. No other suspects in Large’s death have been publicly named.

Does anyone have memories of Edward Large, his family, or details about the community in southeastern Oklahoma that might shed light on his life before December 1987?