LUTHER, Oklahoma -
It's been six months since the wildfire in Luther
destroyed multiple homes. The case has been turned over to the multi-county
grand jury and that grand jury has been seated. However, the Attorney General
will decide which cases the grand jury will hear.
The people who used to live there still don't have any
answers as to who is responsible.
"We didn't think it was going to get to the house. It
kept looking like it was blowing around, but it just kept getting closer and
closer and eventually it was there," said Casey Strahan.
Once the wildfire reached Strahan's house it took
everything; a lot that can never be replaced.
"We got a lot of pictures off the wall, but you got
tote boxes of pictures, you got albums under beds, scrapbooks, you don't have
time and yeah, we lost all those," Strahan said.
8/9/2012
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Sheriff John Whetsel believes all this was at the
hands of an arsonist and he thinks he knows who. In November he announced
he would turn the case over to the grand jury.
"One of the things that has frustrated us has been the
inability to have people talk to us truthfully. So that is why we have opted to
go to the grand jury," said Whetsel, back in November.
"I feel like me and my family and all the other
families who lost their house, they paid a lot of consequences," said Strahan.
Strahan, who's a coach for the Luther Girls'
basketball team, teaches consequences every day. He believes in them. And that is
why he is hoping the attorney general agrees to send the case to the grand
jury.
8/6/2012
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"I feel like the people who made those actions take
place, they need consequences also. And without an investigation into it, those
may not ever take place," Strahan said.
That
grand jury docket is secret, so News 9 does not know when or if they are
hearing the case, until an indictment is unsealed.
The
grand jury will meet for the next 18 months.
It's been six months since the wildfire in Luther destroyed multiple homes.
