Tulsa milk company offers big reward for serial rapist capture

Tulsa's Borden Dairy has put up a $10,000 reward for the person who helps get the serial rapist arrested and charged.<br/><br/>The reward is good for the next six months.<br/><br/>This is the second

Monday, October 17th 2005, 6:22 pm

By: News On 6

Tulsa's Borden Dairy has put up a $10,000 reward for the person who helps get the serial rapist arrested and charged.

The reward is good for the next six months.

This is the second time the dairy has posted such a reward for a high-profile crime.

News on 6 anchor Lori Fullbright says the serial rapist has seven confirmed victims, ranging in age from 4 to 20-years-old and there could be more.

Borden Dairy has a program that offers a $10,000 reward to help solve some of the city's most heinous crimes and it felt this case fits that bill.

Bill Witt, Borden Dairy General Manager: "These horrible, unthinkable crimes need to be sopped. We need to give peace to the famililes aftected and this individual needs to be brought to justice."

Borden last offered a $10,000 reward in 2002 after 53-year-old Mohammad Zubar, the owner of the U-Stop convenience store, was murdered during a robbery on Christmas Eve.

Tulsa Police arrested three people a few months later. All three were convicted and Borden paid the reward.

Detectives hope money will provide an incentive in this case, too.

Sgt Gary Stansill, Tulsa Sex Crimes Unit: "I would encourage peope if they have a suspect in mind, please call and give us a name and remember, you are not accusing anyone, you are just telling us to check this person out."

Because this reward money is not going through the Crimestoppers program, the citizens need to know, the identity of the caller is not protected.

They could be subpeoned and called into court to testify. It's not likely, but, it is a possibility.

That's different than money given through the Crimestoppers program.

A state law protects those people which means no one, not police or lawyers, can learn their name when they call in a tip.

A second Green Country company, Submersible Pumps in Cushing, has donated $1,000 dollars to the Crimestoppers reward fund to go to the person who helps police arrest the serial rapist.

That doubles the Crimestoppers reward.

Sumbersible Pumps' owner, Jim Reece, has children who live in Broken Arrow and he wanted to do something to help.

The Crimestoppers number is 596-COPS or the Spanish speaking line, 596-7000.