This article is about the murder of a mother her four children. The prime suspect of this case is Joshua Steven Durcho of El Reno. He is 25 years old and has a previous record of car theft as a juvenile and was sentenced to four years in prison in 2003 for unlawful possession of marijuana. He was released in February 2007, records show. El Reno is about 25 miles west of Oklahoma City, where this incident happened. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said, "The victims' bodies were found Monday by an officer who went to the apartment in this central Oklahoma community to check on the welfare of the occupants." The victims of this horrible murder are Summer Garas, 25; daughters Kirsten Rust, 7; Autumn Rust, 6; and Evynn Garas, 3; and son Teagin Rust, 4. The neighbors in the apartment complex said they heard a loud bang and that the police came around 4:00 p.m. Their kids used to play with the girls and boy who were wrongfully murdered but now can't.I don't understand what this guy was thinking... I don't think anyone can justify what he did. No one should be able to and if they can... watch your back around them. The stories that I have been reading about are now beginning to worsen and not only disgust me but disappoint me. This guy was obviously a messed up person and because of his mistakes 5 people are dead and 4 of them hadn't even lived past the age of 7 yet. What a shame. I truly hope he is caught and pays the consequences of his stupid actions. When something like this happens I don't know if the killer knows that it just doesn't affect the person or people that they kill but all surrounding people as well. It also ruins the killers life too... don't they know that with technology where it is today that it is dang near impossible to slip one by the criminal investigators? I wonder how this Durcho guy can sleep at night and if so... when will the realization of what he has done hit him? This isn't the movies people can't just go around killing people. People like Joshua Steven Durcho need to be stopped and taught a lesson... I am not sure how to teach someone like him a lesson but nonetheless I still believe that it needs happen. I believe this is my last blog... and I am sad to say it. I can no longer say until next time, but instead thanks for listening.
~Charlie~


According to this article, Danny Platt confessed, told police where to find the child's body and will be booked with first-degree murder of Ja' Shawn Powell, his son. This man was angry over having to pay child support for Ja' Shawn Powell. "He had said he would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support," which he recently had been ordered to do, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said. Riley said he did not know the amount of child support and would not describe how the boy was killed, saying the coroner would do that after the autopsy was complete. The coroner's spokesman did not immediately return a call. Platt's story never really added up according to the police making him a suspect from the very beginning. His story went like this: three men with dreadlocks and AK-47 rifles had piled out of an SUV and kidnapped Ja' Shawn shortly before midnight Friday. Personally I think the story is not believable at all and supposedly so did the police. Eventually Platt confessed and told the police where to find the body of his two and a half year old son. Riley said that the mother is in a safe place and it seems like everything in this case is finally figured out.