Mount Pleasant traffic stops leads to three arrests for murder

The body of 41-year-old Harold Jones was found about 15 feet down a well on Church Street off Oklahoma Highway 3 just outside Broken Bow late on the night of Thursday, July 13. (Source: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

Three people are in custody and charged with murder in connection with the death of a Southeast Oklahoma man whose body was found in a well last week.

The body of 41-year-old Harold Jones was found about 15 feet down a well on just outside Broken Bow by a McCurtain County sheriff's deputy last Thursday night after gathering information that he may have been beaten and thrown into a well.

Jones was reported missing July 5 by his sister, who told police she hadn't seen him since June 29 in the Broken Bow-Idabel area. His pickup also was missing.

The truck was stopped July 8 in Mount Pleasant. The driver told police he bought the vehicle "from a guy" July 3 in Clarksville.

"That information helped Oklahoma investigators locate persons with details which have led to what is presumed to be Jones’ body," according to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation investigator Chad Dansby.

Charges were filed in McCurtain County District Court for Murder in the Second Degree on Monday against 42-year-old Marvin Earl Baty of Clarksville, who had sold the truck.

Heather Melancon, 31, and Bo Greenwood, 25, both of Idabel were arrested on Friday and being held in the McCurtain County Jail.