Pittsburg Co. Deputies Arrest Suspect In Holly Cantrell’s Murder

The Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Workplace has made an arrest within the murder case of Holly Cantrell.

The Pittsburg County Sheriff says he grew to become emotional when he informed Holly’s household Cody Ketchum was in custody, particularly in spite of everything her household has been via the previous 5 years.

“We acquired him in handcuffs, I informed him, Cody Ketchum you are below arrest for the homicide of Holly Cantrell, he took a sigh of breath and dropped his head, and that was it, he did not say a phrase,” stated Sheriff Chris Morris.

Holly Cantrell first went lacking in 2017, when she left the McAlester Hospital on her lunch break. Her purse was discovered a month later, and stays discovered a 12 months after that.

In 2020, the stays had been recognized as Holly. Morris says Ketchum was all the time thought-about a suspect as a result of he was the final particular person seen with Holly, nevertheless it was cellphone proof introduced out throughout an look earlier than the state’s multi-county grand jury that led to Ketchum’s indictment.

“If I name a witness to return into my workplace to interview them, and so they do not come, I am unable to power them to return speak to me, but when a grand jury subpoena them, they’ve to point out up and inform the reality,” Morris stated.

Morris says investigators have labored onerous on this case, and it was nice to offer the household a little bit of justice.

“Simply think about if it feels that good for regulation enforcement, what a sense it offers to the household, it do not carry their member of the family again, however once I spoke to them yesterday, they had been in tears an arrest had been made,” he stated.

Ketchum has been charged with one depend of first-degree homicide and destroying proof.