He loved them dearly and was enormously proud of their academic success achieved without public assistance at prestigious private prep schools and universities, and of their subsequent business success. It was a source of great satisfaction that his daughters are happy and independent and have never belonged to a labor union or been on a government payroll. Three daughters Lea Ann Garrison-Knight of Boston, Jill Garrison Grace, of Lubbock and Beth Killion of Minneapolis, all married to outstanding young men, also survive him. He regarded her as the best person he ever knew. She was his wife, advisor and closest friend. Joann, his beloved wife of 48 years, survives him. He served on numerous local, state and national, civic, educational, and business boards of directors including the Board of KPMG Peat Marwick, the professional CPA firm where he spent most of his work career. ![]() He later contributed and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for OU. After military service he earned two degrees from the University of Oklahoma, including the first Master of Accountancy conferred by that institution. He graduated from Amber High School where he was an outstanding athlete and Valedictorian of his graduating class. Garrison was born and reared in a loving family on a sharecropper farm near Amber, Oklahoma in an unpainted house with no electricity or plumbing. He tried to deal fairly with everyone but was deferential to no one in his personal values. He did not suffer fools gladly and abhorred sycophants and perverts. He intended, and did his best, to be politically incorrect on the issues of our times and had little regard for conventional wisdom. He was a political conservative and had disdain for liberals and contempt for most politicians. A lifelong smoker, he enjoyed it, and blamed no one for the cancer that probably resulted from it. He was satisfied with his life and at peace with death. He was a proud maverick who marched to his own drummer and did not join parades that he was not leading. He believed in, and depended on God and family and proven friends. The killings show a continuing threat to society that can be ended with the death penalty, Sewell said.Wayne Garrison of Scottsdale died on April 27, 2005, at the age of 70. ![]() Steve Sewell, first assistant district attorney, said that Wiles was butchered. you could be wrong." Either of the life sentences is the "right thing to do."ĭistrict Attorney Tim Harris, no relation to the judge, said not all of Wiles' body parts have not been found. In closing arguments, Fleak told the jury Garrision was convicted on "flimsy circumstantial evidence. Considering his age and health conditions - six strokes - "he will never get out." He later married, had a son and operated his own business.ĭorothy Farrar, Wiles' mother, testified through tears Monday that "the last 12 years have been a horrifying nightmare for me."įleak told the jurors that Garrision "has never been forgiven" for the earlier deaths, even in high school. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and received a four-year prison term.ĭefense attorney Art Fleak said Garrison had a "troubled childhood." After his release from prison, Garrison at 18 went to high school and graduated, then learned auto repair. While on a pass from a state hospital in 1974, he killed a 3-year-oldstuffed him in a garbage bag and hid the bag under a home. In 1972, when he was 13, Garrison strangled his 4-year-old cousin with a blue ribbon and hid the body in the crawl space beneath his uncle's home. He was hospitalized but was able to attend the penalty phase of his trial Monday.Īuthorities think he took an overdose of an antidepressant.įormer Tulsa Police Department officers testified about their questioning of Garrison in the two earlier deaths. The next morning, he was found unconscious in a Tulsa County jail cell. ![]() Garrison, 43, was found guilty of the murder last week. The defense said Garrison was born to unwed parents, was abandoned, was physically and sexually abused by an older brother and was raised amid drug abuse. In response, defense attorneys argued for a punishment of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole or life imprisonment without parole. To support their request for the death penalty, prosecutors told jurors of the deaths in 19 of two other children. TULSA - Jurors, after deliberating for about two hours Monday night, handed down the death penalty to Wayne Henry Garrison for the 1989 dismemberment death of Justin Wiles, 13.įormal sentencing will be later this month.
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