The secrets of the brotherhood

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More than a dozen people have disappeared in recent years from the wooded, unincorporated terrain outside the Oklahoma City metro area, a rural haven for drug traffickers. Some families say they’re scared to call police or even to put up “missing person” signs because they suspect the involvement of violent white supremacist prison gangs.

Behind the 10-foot metal walls of a compound in Oklahoma with links to the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist prison gang, officers found what they believe to be a body dumping ground where multiple people ended up dismembered and burned, according to four Oklahoma officials with knowledge of the investigation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary security precautions around the case.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, or OSBI, which is leading the multi-agency state and federal probe, confirms that remains have been found but will not say how many. A report in 2022 in the Oklahoman newspaper, the first news of the discovery, quoted the state medical examiner and other sources as saying agents were investigating “whether a white supremacist prison gang is behind nine or more disappearances” after the discovery of “the comingled remains of ossibly three people.” The report said remains also were found at a second site, near an oil well about 18 miles away in the tiny town of Luther.