Star Rainbow Dancer, 69, was found dead inside her Tulsa apartment near 32nd and South Sheridan after a welfare check on April 3, 2022. Responding officers discovered she had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Neighbors and acquaintances had noticed she’d fallen out of touch, prompting the check that revealed the scene of violence.

Investigators learned Dancer had recently been sheltering a homeless man in her home. That man, 22-year-old Terryl Brooks, became the primary suspect. Evidence at Dancer’s apartment linked her killing to another homicide: Elizabeth Brooks, found dead on March 27 in Turley. Detectives later connected the case to the disappearance and murder of 24-year-old Tyra Whitaker, who had been missing since January.

Terryl Brooks was arrested on April 5 and charged in the deaths of Star Rainbow Dancer and Elizabeth Brooks; he was later charged in Whitaker’s death and pleaded guilty to all three murders. Did anyone in Tulsa know Star Rainbow Dancer or have information about who visited her apartment that spring?