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!

 TOM HORTON had been a beloved and respected Vo/AG teacher for twenty five years in Wynnewood, before he was killed by a shotgun blast in his home on December 10th, 2008.  Numerous family members sounded the alarm of foul play: they pointed out obvious evidence of a homicide to local authorities which fell on deaf ears.

  ME Death Investigator John Miller (who is not a physician and who also obstructed the performance of an autopsy in Chanda Turner's case) classified the death a suicide.  No autopsy was perfomed despite Tom Horton dying of an unattended, violent death by firearm.  The family's repeated requests for an autopsy were denied. Without benefit of an autopsy or other direct scrutiny by any pathologist, Horton’s death remains  incorrectly classified as a suicide. The famiy called attention to physical evidence in other areas of the dwelling corroborating homicide, all of which the ME's Office met with hostility.

 Faced with an overwhelming number of inconsistencies and physical evidence, five individuals from Wynnewood, including two of Horton’s sons, two family friends and a former student began the arduous task of seeking justice in Garvin County, up to and including the petitioning for a Grand Jury—the same Grand Jury which refused to hear Chanda Turner’s case even after she was exhumed and her cause of death found to be in error.

 Those who loved Tom Horton have brought the fight to the capitol and are joining in efforts to reform the Medical Examiner’s Office and bring oversight and accountability back where it belongs. 

Please visit www.theeleventhcommandment.org for more information.

Click this link:  theeleventhcommandment.org for more information on this Garvin County death. 

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

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