Annastasia Runningwolf was not the most functioning of societies people. This should have had no barring on the way her case was handled, but it did. in 2004, Annastasia's grandfather banned her from the family home when she stole some very expensive items from him, and sold them to feed her drug habit. Though he loved his grand daughter dearly, he thought that by doing this, she would have no way to get the drugs she was addicted to, and get clean, and return home. Unfortunately, this made Annastasia turn to prostitution to pay for her ever growing habit, and she was picked up by the Oklahoma City Police Department. While incarcerated in county lock up, her grandfather passed away from the Leukemia battle he had been fighting for 6 months. She begged to be allowed to go to his funeral but the police department denied her request, and she attempted slitting her wrist while in their custody. When she was finally released on bail, she slipped out of Oklahoma and ran to Texas where little is known to me personally what she got herself into, though from what I have found online, she once again got into prostitution and drugs.
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In 2005, she returned to her family home where her sister, grandmother, mother, and kids were living on the family land (which contained 3 homes and a converted apartment garage). She was again told to get clean from the drugs and she would be allowed to come home by her grandmother. Her mother and sister couldn't bare her being out on the streets of Oklahoma City. Her sister provided Annastasia with food, and her mother would often times rent hotel rooms for her and provide her with cigarettes when the weather was bad, and the "johns" were scarce. This provided a way for them to know she was safe and give them a small piece of mind. On good weeks Annastasia would call and check in with her mom to let her know everything was okay.
In mid October 2005, the day of her oldest daughters birthday, Annastasia called her mothers home only to be denied the ability to talk to her daughter. Her mother was scared that if she spoke with her daughter that their father would never bring the kids back to visit. Her sister also spoke to her on the phone and the last words she ever told her was "You need to grow up and get clean and be the mother these kids need because they sure as hell don't need you the way you are." These words have haunted her ever since.
When a week had passed and no one had heard from Annastasia, everyone assumed she was giving her family the silent treatment for not being allowed to talk to her daughter. Her mother and grandmother went away to Mexico on their planned trip, leaving her sister home to watch over everything. On the morning of November 3rd, 2005 an Oklahoma City Detective and two officers came to her sisters door and told her that Annastasia had been murdered. Due to the fact that it was an open homicide, they refused to release any information on how she was murdered.
The only information the family was ever given was that her body was found in a drainage ditch, wrapped in a blanket, in the 1600 block of S Miller Boulevard. That by the decomposition she had more than likely been their at least a week. The family cooperated 100% with the Detectives and officers. Her sister, so caught up in needing to know who, how, and when investigated long after the police gave up. She put up flyers all around Oklahoma City, and only one person that called in response said he thought the flyers were for a 'date' with the girl in the picture.
Annastasia's sister overheard one police officer state that nothing would ever be done because they were just happy another prostitute drug attic was off the streets. They didn't care that she left behind two sisters, and three children, a mother, and grandmother who will forever grieve and have no closure. Her sister still calls cold case in Oklahoma City every October and is told the same thing every year. Unless the person(s) who did it come in and announce they murdered Annastasia Runningwolf, the case will never see the light of day again.
I am asking that if ANYONE saw or heard ANYTHING the last part of October 2005 in the area of 1600 block of S Miller Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma please either contact me via PM, or call the local police department in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. You never know.. the smallest bit of information can cause a snowball effect and bring closure to a family in need.