A routine search for a missing cat in February 2023 produced a shocking discovery in a West Tulsa backyard: human remains hidden among the debris of a shed that had burned the previous September. The victim was identified as 55-year-old Steve Wilkins, a man whose family had been waiting for contact and unaware he had been killed months earlier.

Tulsa police say the investigation led to three suspects: Devin Scrivner, Tad Kleiner, and Michael Brummett. According to court documents, Scrivner confessed and described a September 2022 confrontation in which the three accused Wilkins of inappropriate contact with women. Scrivner said he and another suspect beat Wilkins, Kleiner stomped on his head and stabbed him, and the third suspect shot him and set the shed on fire to conceal the crime. All three were charged with first-degree murder.

Wilkins’s family has said they are bewildered and angry that his remains lay undiscovered for nearly five months, asking how the Tulsa Fire Department could have missed a body in that small area. Does anyone have information about Wilkins, the property where the shed burned, or what was seen in that neighborhood in September 2022?