An Oklahoma City man who was blocked from using a “sleepwalking” defense at his murder trial was sentenced Friday to life in prison plus 20 years.

Roger Frank Kincaid, 49, was convicted last month of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Terry Lee Jobe four years ago. He was convicted of assault and battery with a deadly weapon for wounding another man, Kenneth Ruff.

He was staying with the two men at their Oklahoma City apartment.

A prosecutor said Jobe, 43, was stabbed 24 times.

At his formal sentencing Friday, Kincaid said the truth was not brought out at his jury trial.

“I believe there was a great mistake,” he said. “I wasn’t the perpetrator here. … I wasn’t in the apartment when it happened.”

A psychologist consulted by the defense concluded Kincaid could have been sleepwalking at the time of the homicide. The psychologist reported Kincaid would have been unaware and not in control of his actions.

Oklahoma County District Judge Glenn Jones refused to allow the jury to hear that opinion after a state expert pointed out severe problems with it.

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A Bray man turned the gun on himself Saturday after wounding both his parents, Stephens County Sheriff Wayne McKinney said.

Marvin Tow, 45, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the temple, McKinney said. Official cause of death was not available late Monday from the state medical examiner’s office.

William Tow, 78, was shot twice in the head and his wife, Lena Tow, was shot once in the face, McKinney said.

McKinney said Marvin Tow shot the couple about 9 p.m. Saturday in the midst of a family argument.

William Tow was listed in good condition Monday at OU Medical Center.

Lena Tow was treated for injuries and released from a hospital, McKinney said. Her age was not available.

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A Jackson County jury has convicted an Altus man on felony murder and drug charges.

The jury Friday found 29-year-old Patrick Robinson guilty in the May 2009 shooting and stabbing death of 34-year-old Hai Phan while robbing him outside a southwest Lawton apartment complex.

Robinson acknowledged he was a drug dealer — but said he didn’t know his four co-defendants planned to rob Phan.

Co-defendant Sedrick Sanders pleaded guilty to murder and conspiracy charges in the case and is now serving a life sentence. The other three co-defendants pleaded guilty to charges ranging from conspiracy to commit robbery to being an accessory after the fact.

Formal sentencing for Robinson is set for July 28.

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A Seminole murder suspect was arrested in Garvin County on Monday, authorities said.

Adam John Rollins, 28, was arrested along State Highway 29 about 4 p.m., a Pauls Valley police dispatcher said. The precise location of the arrest was not known.

Rollins is wanted for questioning in connection with the Thursday shooting death of his girlfriend, Shiloh Mitchell, Seminole County Undersheriff Todd Hignite said.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Seminole home about 12:45 p.m. Thursday and found Mitchell, 24, in a travel trailer parked in the driveway. She had been shot multiple times in the chest, Hignite said.

Pauls Valley police said they were tipped off early Friday that Rollins was staying at a home in the area, and his car was found Friday afternoon at the Love’s station along Interstate 35 at the Pauls Valley exit. Police surrounded the home and called for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s tactical team. But no one was there when officers entered the home.

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A woman who is accused of pushing her husband out of a 25th-story window has been charged with second-degree murder.

The charge was filed Monday against Amber Michelle Hilberling, 19. The court entered a not-guilty plea on her behalf at an arraignment Monday evening. The hearing was held a day before it was scheduled because of alleged threats against the parties involved.

Joshua Blain Hilberling, 23, died June 7 after he fell 17 stories to the top of the parking garage that encircles the University Club Apartments tower at 1722 S. Carson Ave.

The charge alleges that Amber Hilberling caused her husband’s death “by physically pushing him, thereby causing him to fall through a window and fall to his death.”

The charge also says the push was imminently dangerous but was committed “without premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.”

Tulsa County prosecutors included an alternative charge of first-degree manslaughter. The alternative count, which the jury can pursue if they believe that there is insufficient evidence to convict Hilberling of second-degree murder, alleges that she was committing misdemeanor domestic assault and battery at the time of her husband’s death.

Tulsa Police Department Homicide Unit Sgt. Dave Walker said evidence at the scene was sufficient to arrest Amber Hilberling on the murder complaint. A police report also states that she “made statements to witnesses that she pushed the victim and that caused him to fall through the window.”

She was more than seven months’ pregnant at the time, Walker said.

The couple had argued before Joshua Hilberling fell to his death, Walker said. The couple had a history of domestic violence, police and court records indicate.

Joshua Hilberling filed for a protective order against Amber Hilberling on May 10 in Tulsa County District Court, but the case was dismissed May 24 because neither party appeared at a hearing, court records show.

In his application for the protective order, Joshua Hilberling said his wife grabbed a floor lamp and “pushed/threw the lamp at me and busted me in the head.”

He said his injuries required 10 staples and 11 stitches at a hospital.

Amber Hilberling appeared before Special Judge Millie Otey about 5:30 p.m. Monday in an arraignment that was scheduled in the hour before the hearing.

Otey said threats had been made on the Internet “against certain people involved,” but she did not elaborate.

Tulsa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shannon Clark said courthouse deputies learned about the threats Monday and brought them to the judge’s attention.

He said the judge brought all of the parties together and decided to hold the arraignment early “in the best interest of public safety and the defendant.”

District Attorney Tim Harris told the Tulsa World that Monday’s arraignment was odd, but he told the judge that the state will “follow the court’s lead and take all safety precautions.”

Amber Hilberling has been free on $250,000 bond since June 8, jail records show. Otey ordered additional bond stipulations that Amber Hilberling not have any contact with the victim’s family; must remain in Tulsa County; must continue to wear a GPS ankle monitor; and must not be anywhere where alcohol or drugs are sold unless they are prescribed for her pregnancy.

A motion by Harris to increase Amber Hilberling’s bail was deferred to Special Judge Dawn Moody, who originally set her bail at $250,000.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 27.

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Gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, nabbed in California this week after 16 years as a fugitive, is making a quick return to Boston.

Bulger is scheduled to be in federal court in Boston at 4 p.m. Friday, said a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors in Boston. His longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, who was captured with him Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., will make her initial appearance in a different courtroom shortly afterward.

Bulger’s arrest appeared to end a long, frustrating manhunt that had embarrassed the FBI and raised questions about its efforts to find one of its most wanted fugitives.

But his capture could become a new chapter in an old scandal for the Boston FBI and others.

If Bulger decides to cut a deal with prosecutors, he could implicate an untold number of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, according to investigators who built a racketeering indictment against Bulger before he fled in 1995.

“If he starts to talk, there will be some unwelcome accountability on the part of a lot of people inside law enforcement,” said retired Massachusetts state police Maj. Tom Duffy. “Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t want my pension contingent on what he will say at this point.”

Bulger is charged in connection with 19 murders. He had lived in Santa Monica for 15 of the last 16 years, according to his landlord.

Bulger’s flight in early 1995 allegedly came after a tip from former Boston FBI Agent John Connolly Jr., who was convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice in 2002 for protecting Bulger and his cohort Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi from prosecution. Both Bulger and Flemmi were FBI informants who ratted out members of their main rivals, the New England Mob.

During Connolly’s trial, Bulger’s right-hand man, Kevin Weeks, testified that Bulger boasted that he had corrupted six FBI agents and more than 20 Boston police officers. At holiday time, Bulger stuffed envelopes with cash, Weeks testified.

“He used to say that Christmas was for cops and kids,” Weeks said.

Edward J. MacKenzie Jr., a former drug dealer and enforcer for Bulger, predicted that Bulger will disclose new details about FBI corruption and how agents protected him for so long.

“Whitey was no fool. He knew he would get caught. I think he’ll have more fun pulling all those skeletons out of the closet,” MacKenzie said.

“I think he’ll start talking and he’ll start taking people down.”

Bulger, now 81, appeared briefly in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, agreeing to waive extradition.

Neighbors were stunned to learn they had been living in the same building as the man who was the model for Jack Nicholson’s ruthless crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie, “The Departed.”

Connolly, the retired FBI agent who was convicted of protecting Bulger, also was found guilty of murder in Miami for helping to set in motion a mob hit in 1982 against a business executive.

The Bulger arrest could have a huge impact on whether Connolly spends the rest of his life in a Florida prison. Connolly is set for release next Tuesday from a federal penitentiary after serving nearly 10 years for his Boston racketeering conviction.

But Connolly will be whisked to Florida right away to begin serving a 40-year sentence for his role in the slaying in Miami of gambling executive John Callahan. Connolly was convicted of murder in 2008 for tipping Bulger that Callahan was about implicate Bulger and Flemmi in the 1981 killing of Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler.

Connolly, who is appealing the conviction, insists he never fingered Callahan. Now, if Bulger backs up Connolly’s story, it could change the outcome of the Florida case.

“If Bulger says that John (Connolly) had no involvement in the Callahan murder, then John will file a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence and should prevail,” said Connolly’s attorney Manuel Alvarez. “If that happens, we might see Whitey testifying in a Miami courtroom.”

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A woman who was convicted for her role in the 1978 deaths of nine people, including six workers at an Oklahoma City steakhouse, has been denied parole.

Pardon and Parole Board Executive Director Terry Jenks says the board voted unanimously on Thursday to reject parole for Verna Stafford.

Stafford’s former husband, Roger Dale Stafford, was found guilty of six slayings at a Sirloin Stockade steakhouse and the deaths of an Air Force airman, his wife and son. Roger Stafford was executed in 1995.

Verna Stafford pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors to two second-degree murder charges and is serving two life sentences.

The board was considering paroling her from the first life sentence.

Jenks says she won’t be eligible for parole again for three years.

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A Hugo woman lay dead in her ransacked home for three days before her body was found by a friend, an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent said.

Willie Bell Gill, 76, had been stabbed to death, and the man charged Tuesday in Choctaw County told his girlfriend he “had done something bad” and threatened to use his knife on her if she did not take him to a hotel on the night the victim was found.

Kelvin Kretell Knight, 26, of Hugo, is charged with first-degree murder, accused of killing Gill after breaking into her home to steal vintage money and coins and a set of gold-plated flatware.

Gill’s body was found June 16 in her rural Choctaw County home, OSBI spokeswoman Jessica Brown said.

A medical examiner’s report indicates Gill died either late June 13 or early June 14.

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A Hominy man pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years for the 1997 death of a teenage girl, prosecutor Mike Fisher said.

Jeffrey Scott Garrison, 42, entered the plea June 16 in Osage County District Court in the death of 16-year-old Amy Lee Schlock Hays.

District Judge Bruce David Gambill sentenced him to 40 years with 20 years suspended and ordered Garrison to pay $5,000 in restitution for burial expenses.

Hays had been missing for two weeks when her body was found July 2, 1997, in an abandoned Hominy motel with a strip of an American flag wrapped around her neck.

An autopsy showed that Hays died from strangulation.

Garrison was charged in 2008 after DNA evidence from a hair found at the motel connected him to the death.

Fisher said the Hays family was in agreement with the plea agreement and sentence.

Authorities think Hays was killed on June 18, 1997.

Hays was last seen walking home from a friend’s house, and Garrison was seen walking about a block behind her, said Pamela Hammers of the Oklahoma District Attorney Council’s office.

Hammers was assigned to the case after District Attorney Rex Duncan was called up for active military duty.

During Garrison’s preliminary hearing, witnesses testified the then 29-year-old Garrison said he was going to follow the teenager to make sure she got home OK.

A month after Hays’ body was found, Garrison was sentenced to 15 years on theft charges, of which he served eight, according to state Correction Department records.

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One man died after a fistfight that was captured on video and another from a single punch in a bar fight.

The fights occurred separately, days apart in adjacent Seminole and Ponotoc counties.

Bill Croft, 58, of Cromwell, collapsed and died in his house about 8:20 a.m. Tuesday after fighting with Charles Kiplinger, 41 outside the house.

Gary Fox, 38, died after being punched in the face by Jeremiah Pool, 31, in a bar between Allen and Ada.

Both cases are under investigation.

A witness videotaped the fight between Croft and Kiplinger with a digital camera, Seminole County Undersheriff Todd Hignite said.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, Kiplinger surrendered at the Cleveland County jail in Norman.

Kiplinger’s pickup was found near Croft’s house, but he fled after the fight.

Hignite said he did not know what the fight was over, but Croft apparently fell and hit his head during the fight as one of his acquaintances videotaped it.

The videotape will not be released and is being held as evidence in the case, Hignite said.

“All we know at this point in time is it was an altercation,” Hignite said.

The state medical examiner’s office has received Croft’s body, but a spokeswoman said an autopsy had not been started Wednesday morning.

Another death

Fox was punched one time by Pool on the dance floor at Outlaws bar early Sunday, Ponotoc County Sheriff John Christian said.

Pool claims it was self-defense and has not been arrested, Christian said.

Christian said Pool told investigators Fox swung at him first, then he struck back and Fox fell and hit his head on the concrete floor of the bar.

Witnesses so far have told a similar story, Christian said.

Christian said the two apparently argued because of something Pool supposedly said about Fox’s dead brother-in-law, Jeffery Walls, 28, of Roff.

Walls died May 7.

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