In Oklahoma, a 32-year-old man has been arrested over a month after he allegedly killed his 30-year-old wife. He's accused of fatally shooting her in the head and then wrapping her body in a borrowed carpet, which he later dumped in a ditch near their home. Frank Alan Cole Byers was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder, unauthorized removal of a dead body, and desecration of a human corpse in connection with the death of Makayla Fay Meave.
According to the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office's Facebook post, deputies, in collaboration with the El Reno Police Department, arrested Byers early in the morning on the mentioned charges, all related to Makayla Fay Meave's death.
Meave was last seen alive around 5:30 p.m. on September 15, 2023, at her home in Macomb, which is approximately 40 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. She was a kindergarten teacher's aide and was wearing a Macomb Public School t-shirt, blue jeans shorts, and carrying a multicolored quilted pattern backpack.
Authorities reported that she had left voluntarily in a white Chevy extended cab pickup with tinted windows, driven by a tall male with a dark beard.
Tragically, on September 20, authorities discovered the body of an adult female wrapped in a carpet and discarded in a drainage ditch just south of Oklahoma Highway 59B and Hamilton Road, about 2,000 feet from the couple's home. The county medical examiner confirmed her identity as Meave on September 22 and determined that she had been shot twice in the head.
After weeks of collecting evidence, investigators found enough probable cause to arrest Byers for his alleged involvement in his wife's death.
Undersheriff Travis Dinwiddie of Pottawatomie County stated, "We got some results back on some evidence we had been waiting for. We executed the search warrant on the house. Frank Byers was inside, and he was taken into custody for a probable cause affidavit for first-degree murder." Among the evidence found was a pair of work boots with a substance resembling blood that tested positive for Meave's DNA.
In an interview with Oklahoma City's Fox affiliate KOKH, Byers claimed he and Meave had an open marriage because she "wanted to experiment." He said this upset him but agreed because he didn't want to lose her. He also mentioned that on the night she disappeared, Meave went on a date with another man whom he didn't know.
Meave's family disputed Byers' claims about their open marriage and her date with another man, expressing skepticism about his involvement in her disappearance.
Byers is scheduled to appear in court again on November 8.
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