And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. It's time now for a community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust. I'm Tom Davison. I'm joined by Dale Lewis,
the original Buffalo Dall. How are you doing there, young man? Good
morning, every about it And we have Dana Broncado with us here from the
Weather Channel, right Dana. Hello, Well, I'm from Jupiter entertain hear
me, Yeah, yeah, sure can I'm from from Jupiter Entertainment, which
preaces a show for the Weather Channel. Oh wonderful. Now we've got a
little bit of multimedia going on here today because Dale has been a long time
Dale has been a long time newspaper guy. And also he is h been
writing a book here too called Footprints in the Do And this is something that
well, the folks from the Weather folks have had a little bit of an
interest in is as well as people who've been reading about our local history and
very much a local little mystery. How did you get involved with this?
So? I actually I came across this case. It's only because of the
title of Dale's book. I happened to be searching for cases that involved do
and I came across Dale's title and I was like, Oh, this seems
incredibly interesting. And so I read a little bit more about the Mullendork case
and was just fascinated by the complexity of it and just the mystery of it,
and did a little digging found a way to get ahold of Dale,
And once I talked to Dale, I was like, we have to make
this into a Weather Channel episode. Well, this sounds great. I'm gonna
switch over here to Dale here because I want to bring everybody up to date.
A lot of people listening know about his book Footprints in the Doe,
and you've been with this before on it, but let's take a refresher course.
This happened right here in our own backyard. Dale. Yeah, four
hundred thousand acre rancher family owned the New Orleans Saints professional football team. Shot
between the eyes and the middle of the night on his ranch up by Pahuska.
He held the largest life insurance policy ever written on anyone in the country.
It's quite a story. You couldn't make it up. And I want
to up getting myself subpoenaed over that book really by the Attorney General today,
Multi county grand jury investigation and then they put me under a gag order on
it. Oh my bro, you couldn't make something up like this. Dana
and I have been visiting about it quite a bit, and I'm very excited
that they're coming into town. I think it's great for Bartlesville and they're going
to be shooting out at wool Rock. Well, this is awesome. Now,
Dana, have you ever been up this way and have you ever been
to wool Rock? I have not that I've heard. It's absolutely gorgeous.
The field producer who's coming out there named David Lewis. He saw some photos
of it and was like, I may never want to leave. Well,
it's the way a lot of people are once they get around here. They
just say, hey, say you know there are citizens. You know,
we might have another Lewis here in the community. That would be wonderful.
Yeah. He loved nature and he's thrilled to be coming out there. He's
very excited about about just the story itself and the cattle ranch and just everything
that Barnolsville has. Now a question for you here, you're going to be
set up to do some shooting for the program. I understand you can have
a lot of guests and everything too. How long will you be in our
community? I think we're gonna be there about three days. I believe that
we will fly in on Sunday the ninth, and start interviews on the tenth,
continue on the eleventh, twelfth, possibly thirteenth, and fly out either
the thirteenth or fourteen. And Dale, You've got some people that kind of
lined up here that we'd I like to talk to, wouldn't, don't you.
He's gotta pulls his list out there. I've got Bill Hall, Yeah,
they d a. He was elected and I started serving thirty days after
the murder. H Dana, you tell me if I'm wrong on some of
these people, because she's the one that's been getting Bart Perrier, who was
the cold case investigator when Chubb Anderson was captured in our own Earl says,
or she's going to interview. And a lot of people may not know this
about Earl, but his family has some His dad was the horse manager out
at the Mullendora ranch for years, and I believe Earl lived on the ranch.
I'm heading over to Friday for him from here, and I think Earl
will tell us more about that, and also Ty Cook is going to be
there, and he was the sheriff at the time in o Sage County when
Chubb Anderson was captured. And I think Dana's got a couple more lined up,
don't you. Dana? Who do you have? Dana, I think
you may have covered them all. I'm just going through my list in my
head, but I think you may have covered them all. Hi, Bart,
you most important? Bill an Earl. Well, this is gonna be
nice. We really appreciate you coming out here to our community and to take
an especially taking an interest in this story. There are just so many luc
ends here. And you know Dale's been doing his darkness, doing his research
into this for many, many years. The book is kind of like the
start of it. But you produced a lot of videotapes on this, Dale,
have you nine hundreds of them? On eight years and making of that
book. I was wondering, Dana, do you know when this might be
showing on the channel? Yeah? So it takes It's interesting because it takes
a long time from once we gather the interviews, the b role, you
know, any reports or photographs or facts of the case. It can almost
take up to a year to edit have a legal review of the episode right
the episode, you know, just put it all together and make it as
good as possible. It can take up two year, so it may be
next year before it airs on the Weather Channel, but we will keep you
on the loop. Well, that is great. We really appreciate this.
And of course, you know, it's an ongoing story, as they say,
and Dale has been following it, you know, ever since, and
it's really nice that you've taken an interest in this. And like you said,
you know it ties in nicely with the Weather Channel. Who who knew
that you know, your group, the Weather Channel and Dale Lewis would all
get together to forensically solve a murder. That's amazing how weather can play a
role in an investigation. And it's we're on our fifth season here, and
each season has about twenty two episodes. So I think the weather plays a
more important role in some criminal investigations than people may realize. And that's what
this show does. It dives into how that weather aspect helped or hurt an
investigation. Well, Dale has been playing these videotapes every now and then over
there at Pahuska, at the theater, at the Constantine theater, and I
understand you're gonna be using some of these, uh, these videotapes to kind
of intermash into what's the stories being told when it finally hits television. Is
that is that true? Yes? And we are so thrilled that Dale is
going to share them with us because he has interviews with people who may not
be around anymore, um, you know, and they talk about to do
in some of these videos. So the fact that he's you know, going
to share these in the episode is absolutely amazing and will help so the reading,
so the viewers, you know, exactly how do did play role?
This is really going to be amazing. Now Dale and I have known each
other for a few years now, and uh and Dale has been busy over
there hanging out by the mercan Deal in Pahuska and telling people about the story
and then the folks going into the mercantal they buy the book. By The
thing is is that we've heard the story and everybody really wants that conclusion.
And I think probably the family more than anybody else does too. And I
think a project like this we just might unearth a few things, I hope,
So I think it would be really fascinating if though, and you know,
I know Chubb was never technically arrested or charged. But I think with
Dale's health and Bart's help, you know, we can we can bring viewers
to a conclusion that everyone agrees on. This is gonna make a great episode.
It really is. But I maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but
I really think this would be something that might have a Hollywood flavored to it
before too long, I hope. So I think that you know, David
Lewis and I were talking, he's the field producer, and you know,
he said, we would love to see this case get more national coverage because,
like Dale, like Dale, Lewis said, I mean, it has
so much to the story. I mean, the mystery to it, just
the high profile victim, and there's just there's just so much to it that's
intriguing to people. And that's why it caught our eye. And that's why,
you know, even though it's a case from nineteen seventy, which is
rare that we ever do a case from that long ago because it's just so
difficult to do. Even though it's from nineteen seventy, Dale has helped put
together visuals and help tell the story in a way that viewers can still understand
what's happening. He's done a very great job, in my estimation, of
preserving the facts and preserving the story and keeping the interest going. And one
of the time, you know, a case from nineteen seventy, photos,
reports, all that stuff that gets lost over time, you know, it
gets some files get misplaced, But miraculously for this one, there are still
people around who have records and photographs and videos, and without that stuff,
we wouldn't be able to tell the story as well as it will be told.
And I'm gonna so, what's what We're here to jail here because you
know, doing the footwork on this, this wasn't just a lark. This
wasn't just a weekend project. This this took a lot of time, eight
years. But Jove's the one that contacted me. I of course had heard
of the murder, but I'd never met job Anderson before. But he started
calling and writing me from Lansing prison. He could only have one guest,
and he put my name down, and everyone in the country wanted to see
him. Bill Curtis from any television was especially after him. But he just
put my name down. It was just kind of a something. It's pretty
special for a writer to fall into into that. But I wanted to ask
Dana's is there a particular story, whether related story, that sticks out to
you that you guys have done. Real quick, we're about to run out
of time, but is there anything special that you've done. You know,
we've done some very interesting ones. There's one that's gonna be airing in season
five as well, where it surprisingly no weather helps the person commit the crime
and it involved an airplane and you know that they're gonna being pushed out of
the airplane. But because there was no weather and no wind and no rain
and no haze, he was able to do this, and he chose his
stay specifically because of those weather relates the reasons, and it's it's it's just
very fascinating to me. You know, even something as little as no weather
is weather. Indeed, you know when you're going to go out on something
as devious as that, and you don't want to get caught, I guess,
so you're gonna leave no stone unturned. Yeah, yep, flight paths
were changed. It's a very interesting story. We'll be airing it in season
five. That I hope you'll get to see as well. All right,
hey, Dana, we'd like to maybe a sync up with you here sometime
early next week. Hopefully we can get to one of our reporters to possibly
just kind of observe how this is put together, not getting away, because
we have rule one here at the radio station. We report the news,
we don't become the news. So when you get into town then would be
great. We would you like to have that done. And Dale is always
you always have an open door policy here. Whenever you got something, we
always open the door. And they say, dal come on in, dog
on it. I'll talk to David and see if see if maybe David or
one of the folks that's what they would like to come down and maybe for
an early morning interviewers. Something that'd be good now is that David Lewis,
Dale Lewis, is there a relation? Is there nepotism going on here?
I don't think so, you know, we don't know that yet, so
we don't know the answer yet. David Lewis was going to look into his
genealogy and see if there was any connection because he says he does have family
in Oklahoma. Well, very good, you know, Dana, thank you
very much for being with us. Dale, thank you very much. This
has really been something and welcome to Bartlesville. We look forward to the visit
here from the camera cruise and from the reporters on the scene. And thank
you to all of you at the Jupiter Entertainment for first of all finding the
story and be willing to take take a gander on it. Thank you so
much for having us. The crew is so excited to come to Bartlesviil next
week. All right, we'll see you Dale, take off. You gotta
go there, Dana. I'll call you back on about five minutes. All
righty, Thank you books and you've been you've been listening to our community connection