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On a summer evening in 1999, 45-year-old Paul Howell was shot in the head and killed as he pulled into his parents’ driveway in Edmond, Oklahoma, after a shopping trip with his two young daughters and his sister. An assailant wearing a red bandana over his face approached the family’s Suburban, shot Howell, then stole the vehicle. Howell’s sister witnessed the attack and described the attacker as wearing a red bandana, a white shirt, and a stocking cap.

Investigators traced the stolen Suburban to an auto body shop where two men had tried to sell it. That lead, and a tip from an acquaintance, tied the case to Julius Jones and Christopher Jordan. Police recovered a .25 caliber handgun wrapped in a red bandana in the attic above Jones’ bedroom; ballistics testing linked that gun to the murder. Jordan agreed to a plea deal and testified that Jones was the triggerman; Jones was arrested July 31, 1999, convicted of first-degree murder in 2002 and sentenced to death.

People who were jailed with Jordan later said Jordan confessed to the killing and to framing Jones, while Jordan, released in 2014, has continued to say his trial testimony was true and that he was an accomplice. Does anyone have additional information about the events that night or the people involved?