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Mystery Deepened When Four Male Bodies Found

Identification hasn’t been made official but a sparse update notes that “four male bodies” were recovered. The mystery of four missing cyclists in Oklahoma deepened with the discovery of “multiple objects in the water that appear to be human remains.” They were found in the Deep Fork River.

Bodies under investigation

On October 14, police in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, announced the discovery of “multiple objects in the water that appear to be human remains.” The bodies are being examined on a rush basis.

For days, everyone in the vicinity has been searching frantically for the cyclists. The previous Monday, Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29, of Okmulgee, were reported missing by Mark Chastain’s wife, Jessica, and Alex Stevens’ mother.

According to the Police Chief Joe Prentice, bodies were found but no bicycles. At the time, the remains hadn’t yet been recovered from the water.

At this time, we cannot make an identification, but out of respect we let the families know before it was officially announced.

If it turns out that these four missing men are the remains in the river then the focus of our investigation will shift from finding them to what happened to them.

Everyone on the force really hopes these bodies belong to the cyclists. If not, they have a real problem on their hands. “If it is determined that it is not them, then we will have a separate investigation.” It’s probably them.

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Calls straight to voicemail

From what investigators know, so far, these four “close friends” left Billy Chastain’s home “on the city’s west side for a bike ride on Sunday evening.

Only two of them had phones with them and “attempts to call them went straight to voicemail.” Chief Prentice notes that “Mark Chastain was last heard from on the phone after 5 p.m. Sunday.

Jessica Chastain explained previously that “it was typical of her husband and his friends to go on bike rides.” He wouldn’t have simply vanished without a trace on his own. “He was supposed to watch their two children on Monday morning, when she started a new job.

While it has been known for men to simply split, four of them dropping entirely off the face of the Earth at the same time is highly suspicious of foul play.

Cops have lots of leads. A suspiciously high number of false sightings. The only solid tip came from a passerby who saw something “suspicious” in the water and called police. After the men were reported missing, investigators “gathered video and GPS evidence and followed up on potential sightings of the men — including one witness who reported seeing all four men walking down the street at 2 a.m. Tuesday.

Another witness “claimed to have spotted Stevens by himself on Sunday around 4 p.m. outside the Okmulgee Indian Community Smoke Shop.” Yet a third “claimed to have spotted Mark and Billy Chastain on Monday near a YMCA.

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