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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

What Happened To Edie?

Cary Aspinwall and Ziva Branstetter: EUCHA – This was the plan: Greg Williams would drive to Delaware County, call Edwina King and then she would call him back on a pay phone, so they could arrange a secret meeting place.

King was holding evidence for the Tulsa attorney, proof that women's allegations of sexual abuse at the Delaware County jail weren't attempts by female inmates to get back at guards.

It was Oct. 16, 2008, and no one believed the women's claims that they were being raped, sexually assaulted and groped by men who worked at the jail in Jay.

Save for 40-year-old Edie King, who had been in jail a few days earlier that summer with some of the women. They trusted her, so they wrote…

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