Tulsa World
July 24, 2015
A Tulsa man who was arrested after the body of a missing Talala man was found this week told police the victim’s death occurred after he was bound and gagged and left in a covered pickup bed on a hot day, police said in an arrest report.
Vernon Lee-Mountel Smith was arrested in Tulsa on Monday in the death of Chazz Holly, 27, whose body was found alongside the Indian Nation Turnpike in Pushmataha County on Sunday afternoon.
Holly, who had cerebral palsy and delayed cognitive reasoning, was last seen alive in Tulsa on June 20. His parents reported him missing the next day, filing a missing person report with the Rogers County Sheriff’s Office.
Following his arrest, Smith, 27, told investigators that he, Holly and a friend had devised a plan to sell a GMC Sierra pickup owned by Holly’s father for $1,000 in Longview, Texas, according to Smith’s arrest report.