On June 12, 2004, 58-year-old Geraldine Ingram Jones was at home in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, when an intruder forced his way into her residence. During what investigators describe as a home invasion robbery, she was shot and killed after the encounter escalated into lethal violence. Prosecutors in Oklahoma later accused Mickey Thomas of her murder; other reporting says he was charged in Oklahoma in connection with her death.

Two days later Thomas committed two more killings in DeQueen, Arkansas, at a gravestone business; those Arkansas murders were the main focus of the capital prosecution that resulted in a death sentence on September 28, 2005. No additional suspects have been publicly identified in Geraldine Jones’s homicide. If anyone knew Geraldine, her routines, or observed anything unusual around her home in Broken Bow in June 2004, investigators would welcome that information.