The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced the sentencing of three individuals from Fort Towson, Oklahoma, involved in a 2020 double homicide. The sentences were handed down in federal district court.
Ashlie Nicole Rose Martin, aged 22, received a sentence of 456 months for conspiracy to commit murder. Chad Jon’Dale Voyles, aged 23, was sentenced to 420 months for murder in Indian Country. Bryson Noel Miller, aged 19, was sentenced to 300 months for murder in Indian Country.
The investigation leading to these charges was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators reported that on December 22, 2020, Martin recruited Voyles and Miller to kill her parents. Martin allowed them into her house through a rear window. They found Martin’s mother asleep on a couch and killed her. The trio then buried her body in a shallow grave in the backyard and disposed of evidence.
Later that night, they awaited Martin’s father at home. When he arrived, Voyles attempted to attack him with a compound bow but missed. A struggle ensued until Miller incapacitated him with a dumbbell blow to the head. The two then set him and the house on fire after dousing him with gasoline.
These crimes took place within Choctaw County’s boundaries on the Choctaw Nation Reservation and within the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
“In December 2020, two lives were tragically cut short,” said FBI Oklahoma City Acting Special Agent Joe Ogden. “The ruthless violence displayed by all three defendants proves they belong behind prison walls.”
United States Attorney Christopher J. Wilson stated: “The defendants’ actions were brutal and horrifying.” He added that while nothing can erase these crimes’ effects or ease families’ agony, these sentences remove dangerous individuals from society.
U.S. District Judge David C. Joseph presided over this case by appointment from Louisiana’s Western District Court. The defendants remain under U.S Marshals Service custody pending transfer to designated federal prisons for non-paroleable terms.
Assistant U.S Attorney Benjamin D Traster represented prosecution efforts during proceedings.
