The Chanda Turner Reform Act (SB250) has been signed into law, and will go into effect Nov. 1, 2011! Families can now appeal their loved-ones' death certificates!

SHEILA DEVINEY lived the quiet, unassuming life of a college student with her two lovely children, next door to her parents in Maysville. Just minutes after dropping the children off at school, on a cold January morning in 2004, Sheila was set upon, incapacitated and burned alive in her trailer home. In spite of the fact that Sheila had detectable amounts of accelerants on her body and clothing, and further that three fires had started simultaneously inside the trailer, her death was ruled an accidental house fire by the State Fire Marshals office.

 Undeterred, Sheila’s parents, David and Susan Deviney continued to seek answers amid a year’s worth of administrative finger pointing between the State Fire Marshal, the Medical Examiner's Office and the OSBI.  Finally the necessary changes in Sheila’s death certificate facilitated a real investigation into her death, but the delay allowed the case to grow cold. Armed with a homicide classification, the Devineys sought a Grand Jury which upheld the homicide notion but could not identify a suspect. Sheila Deviney’s death is now a cold case that no agency is actively working, due in large part to the length of time it took the ME's Office to correctly rule her death a homicide.

  There is a $50,000 REWARD for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible forSheila's murder.

 Now, six years after Sheila’s death, the Office of the State Medical Examiner is threatening to incinerate portions of Sheila’s remains kept following her autopsy for potential future forensic tests, citing storage space concerns. These remains amount to small samples of tissue and blood roughly the size of a deck of playing cards or smaller.

 The Devineys have joined other families from all over the state in demanding our tax dollars be spent wisely in reforming the Medical Examiner’s Office into the kind of separate, capable and forthright agency that Sheila Deviney, and all Oklahomans, deserve.

Susan Murphy-Milano in Garvin County with Susan Deviney and Donna Turner. October 2010.

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

www.sheiladeviney.org

www.theeleventhcommandment.org

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-For-Sheila-Deviney/137013713003946?ref=ts

October 6, 2010: The murders of Sheila Deviney, Chanda Turner and Tom Horton: http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2010/10/murders-of-sheila-deviney-chanda-turner.html

September 13, 2010 Intimate Partner Homicide (nationally syndicated):  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susanmurphymilano/2010/09/14/intimate-partner-homicide-investigation

September 13, 2010 news stories on ME's Office charging victim's family to store tissue samples!http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_2140.shtml?sms_ss=email

http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_2141.shtml?sms_ss=email

Sept 6, 2010 news stories on Reward being offered in Sheila's case:  http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_2093.shtml?sms_ss=email

http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=13108121

On Sept 2, 2010, Nationally syndicated domestic violence expert, Susan Murphy Milano, who has appeared on Oprah and The Justice Files, writes about Sheila Deviney's and Chanda Turner's homicides on Women In Crime Ink: 

http://womenincrimeink.blogspot.com/2010/09/oklahoma-where-crime-blows-like-wind.html

And read Murphy-Milano's August 12, 2010 "Time's Up! Justice Exists for All: Minus the State of Oklahoma" here:

http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/justice-exists-for-all-minus-state-of.html

Sheila's homicide was also featured on Nationally syndicated Intimate Partner Homicide on August 3, 2010: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susanmurphymilano/2010/08/03/intimate-partner-homicide-investigation-debuts-hos

Click to listen to CRIMEWIRE on BlogTalkRadio, another nationally syndicated show that featured Sheila's case on July 13, 2010.  

Visit Sheila Deviney's  WEBPAGE by clicking this link, or follow her family's fight for justice on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-For-Sheila-Deviney/137013713003946?ref=ts

And click on this link www.theeleventhcommandment.org for more information on this and other Garvin County deaths. 

Channel 9 reports on Sheila's homicide on September 6, 2010: http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=13108121

Fox 25 reports on the REWARD for information on this homicide on Sept 6, 2010: http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_2093.shtml?sms_ss=facebook

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You can also follow the efforts to Reform the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office on Facebook by clicking here.