Stephen Tanner Vineyard, Second Degree Murder, Oklahoma 2014

Ardmore, Oklahoma, resident Stephen Tanner Vineyard, 31, will spend the next 200 months behind bars after being sentenced for his role in a 2014 murder.

The gruesome crime took place on June 30, 2014, when a 59-year-old Ardmore woman was left to die on her front porch after sustaining multiple shotgun wounds in the early morning hours.

For years, the case went cold, but witnesses eventually came forward, recounting statements Vineyard made at the time of the murder admitting his involvement.

Vineyard pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a Murder in Indian Country – Second Degree on May 10, 2022. He was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma due to his status as a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe and the fact that the crimes occurred in Carter County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation.

The Honorable David C. Joseph, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, sitting by designation, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.

Vineyard will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

The investigations that led to Vineyard’s conviction were conducted by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Ardmore Police Department, the Carter County District Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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