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Long Story Short: Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case

by Oklahoma Watch, Oklahoma Watch
September 30, 2025

					<h1>Long Story Short: Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case</h1>
<p class="byline">by Oklahoma Watch, Oklahoma Watch <br />September 30, 2025</p>
					
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<p class="has-small-font-size">J.C. Hallman and Haley Parsley attended a press conference hosted by the NAACP of Oklahoma on the occasion of a motion by the Innocence Project of Oklahoma in the case of Joshua Christon, who was convicted of murder in 2008. Jake Ramsey recently reported on how the governor’s Operation SAFE displaced hundreds of homeless people in Tulsa and made it harder for them to access resources. María Guinnip and J.C. Hallman investigated a case in which a woman named Nikole Janowski was arrested during an epileptic seizure in Texas County. Ted Strueli hosts.</p>

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