BY ANDREW KNITTLE aknittle@opubco.com
STIGLER — An Oklahoma man who confessed to the long-unsolved murder of a Haskell County commissioner said he admitted to the slaying when he was “drunk and high on painkillers” and that everything he told investigators was a lie.
Clifford Eagle was charged last April with first-degree murder after he told investigators in Billings, Mont., that he shot and killed former Haskell County Commissioner Leo Reasnor on June 25, 1987.
He implicated another man, Vince Allen Johnson, in the killing, but Johnson was executed for another Oklahoma murder in 2000.
Eagle wrote a letter to the judge presiding over his murder case in July, detailing the many reasons why he gave a false confession to Reasnor's murder.
“I confessed to something that I wasn't involved in ...
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