Welch is a town in northern Craig County, Oklahoma, United States.

Welch was established in 1888 in the Cherokee Nation on land that D. B. Nigh leased from Frank Craig.

The town that began to grow around the switch was named for a Katy railroad official, A. L. Welch.

[5][a] On the night of December 29–30, 1999, firefighters responded to a fire reported at the home of Danny and Kathy Freeman in Welch.

Initially, they found no other bodies, but noticed that both Danny and their teen-age daughter, Ashley, were missing.

The local police immediately assumed that the father had killed the mother and kidnapped Ashley.

When Lorene and Jay Bible woke on the morning of December 30, they discovered that their daughter, Lauria, had not come home after spending the previous day with Ashley Freeman, her best friend.

Sometime during the following decade, news media reported that two convicts, Tommy Lynn Sells and Jeremy Jones, had confessed to murdering the four victims.

They further claimed that they tortured the girls before killing them and dumping the bodies in an Oklahoma mine shaft.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all land.

[5] Crop production, ranching, and related businesses remain the area's financial anchor.