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Jack Burris ( May 27 , 1917 -- June 1952 ) served as County attorney of Mayes County , Oklahoma from 1947 until his murder in June 1952 . He was the subject of one of the most famous unsolved murders in Oklahoma history . His assassination and the investigation by ___MASK87___ Slim Weaver and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has been the basis for several books and screenplays for over 50 years . During a 1979 documentary on the Girl Scout murders , ___MASK87___ L . L . `` Slim '' Weaver referred to the Burris case and retraced his route to scene . Comparing the two he claimed he picked up photographer Merle Cloud on the way to the Burris house and they were passed by a white pickup truck with a cattle guard going in the opposite direction . Weaver said he believed this to be the killer . Cloud had been with Burris earlier in the week taking photos of illegal activities in Langley , Oklahoma . According to the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation , the killer waited outside the house for Burris with a shotgun . A newsman from KOLS radio station in Pryor , Oklahoma later secretly recorded an interview with a man claiming to be Burris ' killer . The newsman described him as a `` quiet man from Vinita '' but never turned the tape over to authorities . Weaver said he did not learn of the existence of the tape until October , 1958 . Rather than notify the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation of its existence , Weaver spent the next five months `` negotiating '' for it . In March , 1959 the newsman disappeared and the case remains unsolved . Commonwealth ' s Attorney is the title given to the elected ___MASK67___ of felony crimes in Kentucky and Virginia . Other states refer to similar prosecutors as ___MASK19___ or state ' s attorney . A county attorney in many areas of the United States is the chief legal ___MASK74___ for a county or local judicial district . It is usually an elected position . The role of the county attorney can be similar to or complementary to that of a local state ' s attorney , commonwealth ' s attorney or district attorney . The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety ( ODPS ) is a department of the government of Oklahoma . Under the supervision of the Oklahoma ___MASK54___ of Safety and Security , DPS provides for the safety of Oklahomans and the administration of justice in the state . DPS is responsible for statewide law enforcement , vehicle regulation , homeland security and such other duties as the Governor of Oklahoma may proscribe . DPS has the duty to provide for the protection and security of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor . The Choctaw ( In the Choctaw language , Chahta ) are Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States ( modern - day Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , and Louisiana ). The Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean language family group . The Choctaw are descendants of the peoples of the Hopewell and Mississippian cultures , who lived throughout the east of the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries . About 1 , 700 years ago , the Hopewell people built Nanih Waiya , a great earthwork mound , which is still considered sacred by the Choctaw . The early Spanish explorers of the mid - 16th century encountered Mississippian - culture villages and chiefs . The ___MASK30___ John Swanton suggested that the Choctaw derived their name from an early ___MASK23___ . Henry Halbert , a ___MASK36___ , suggests that their name is derived from the Choctaw phrase " Hacha hatak " ( river people ). Oklahoma ( Cherokee : " Asgaya gigageyi " /   ; or transliterated from English as  (" òàlàhoma "), Pawnee : " Uukuhuúwa ", Cayuga : " Gahnawiyogeh ") is a state located in the South Central United States . Oklahoma is the 20th - most extensive and the 28th - most populous of the 50 United States . The state ' s name is derived from the Choctaw words " okla " and " humma ", meaning " red people ". It is also known informally by its nickname , " The Sooner State ", in reference to the non - Native settlers who staked their claims on the choicest pieces of land before the ___MASK11___ opening date , and the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 , which opened the door for white settlement in America ' s Indian Territory . The name was settled upon statehood , Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged and Indian was dropped from the name . On November 16 , 1907 , Oklahoma became the 46th state to enter the union . Its residents are known as " Oklahomans ", or informally " Okies ", and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City . The Cherokee ( Cherokee " Ani - Yuwiya " ) are a Native American people , originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States , including Alabama , Georgia , Kentucky , Mississippi , Tennessee , North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia and West Virginia . Currently there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes : the Eastern ___MASK41___ of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina , the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma , and the United Keetoowah ___MASK41___ of Cherokee Indians , also in Oklahoma . A state ' s attorney or state attorney is a ___MASK26___ representing the interests of the state in a legal proceeding , typically as a prosecutor . It is an official title in the United States , sometimes appointed but most commonly an elected official serving as the chief law enforcement officer of his or her county , circuit , or district . The offices of district attorney , commonwealth ' s attorney , county attorney , county prosecutor , or prosecuting attorney are more frequently the case in the United States although South Carolina uses solicitor . Other countries also use or used the term state attorney , like the Boer republics of the Orange Free State ( 1854  1902 ) and the South African Republic ( 1852  1902 ) in South Africa . In these cases the position corresponded to that of the attorney general in the British judicial system . It is used within the Attorney - General ' s Department of Sri Lanka . As ___MASK96___ terms , Indian Territory , the Indian Territories , or Indian country describe an evolving land area set aside by the United States Government for the relocation of Native Americans who held aboriginal title to their land . In ___MASK96___ , the tribes ceded land they occupied in exchange for land grants in an area purchased by the United States federal government from Napoleonic France , the Louisiana Purchase . The concept of an Indian Territory was an outcome of the 18th - and 19th - century policy of Indian removal . After the Civil War , the policy of the government was one of assimilation . In the United States , a ___MASK19___ ( DA ) represents the state government in the prosecution of criminal offenses , and is the chief ___MASK2___ officer and legal officer of that state ' s jurisdiction . The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation ( OSBI ) is an independent state ___MASK2___ agency of the government of Oklahoma . The OSBI assists the county sheriff offices and city police departments of the state , and is the primary investigative agency of the state government . OSBI works independent of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to investigate criminal law violations within the state at the request of statutory authorized requesters .