[1] Myers' mother, described as a possessive woman who made all the major decisions for him, frequently brought various boyfriends to the house who then emotionally and physically abused the young boy in drunken stupors.
[4] In 1978, Myers contacted the authorities and implicated two people in the murder – Rowden's brother-in-law, Leslie, and a friend named Imogene Butterbaugh.
[5] After voluntarily undergoing psychological stress testing, Myers was transferred to Kansas to testify against Rowden and Butterbaugh, but as some considered him to be unreliable, copies of his testimony were sent to a professional laboratory for analysis.
[4] Not long after, Myers accused another person of participating in the crime – Charles "Chink" Enders, an acquaintance who was also charged with first-degree murder.
[6] However, Myers was acquitted due to a lack of evidence and returned to Oklahoma to continue serving his sentence for rape, and as his allegations against Enders were also deemed unreliable, charges against him were dropped as well, leaving the Rowden case to go officially unsolved.
[7] A forensic autopsy determined that Williams had been extensively beaten and raped, and that her killer had shot her five times, with one of the bullets fired into the chest rupturing her aorta.
Myers was identified as the prime suspect within a day of the murder, as multiple witnesses had seen him pick Marzano up from her workplace at a delicatessen in Broken Arrow.
Prosecutors used his own statements against him, pointing out that he initially denied even knowing Marzano when arrested by officers, but later on told a former sheriff that he had had sex with her on numerous occasions.
[12] In response, Myers' attorneys argued that their client was mentally ill due to his low IQ and organic brain damage, thus rendering him ineligible for execution.
[17] Some have also speculated he might be responsible for the murders of several women in Joplin and Rolla, Missouri, but local authorities have claimed that they have no evidence implicating Myers in any cases in their jurisdiction.