In the Southeast corner of Oklahoma, near the Texas and Louisiana border, is the small town of Valliant which sits on land originally designated as Indian Land and part of the Choctaw Nation. In the 1970's Weyerhouser Paper Mill (now International Paper Company) came to town and, at that time, was the largest mill in the world. The company also brought with it many jobs for the surrounding area and prosperity to the residents of Valliant. As in other small towns across America, everyone knows everyone, and most of their business.
Hope and Jerry Meek, along with their three young children, lived on Section Line Road, most likely a road cut by the section of timber which Weyerhouser may have been harvesting at one time. Hope Meek worked as a jailer who transported inmates to court, and was preparing to soon graduate with a degree in criminal law. Jerry Meek worked for Weyerhouser (International Paper Company) when, in February, 2002, Hope disappeared.
Family members describe Hope as being very close to her family, talking to her mother by phone several times throughout each day, which is verified by phone records, so when there was no word from her the family was worried and took action by sending the police to the home for a wellness check. On that day, Jerry Meek told them Hope had just left to go to the store, however, upon searching the home they found that her vehicle was still there, all her belongings, credit cards, her purse, cell phone, and her glasses and contacts, unusual for someone who can't see without them. The three children were also at home.
It was five days before Hope Meek was reported missing, at the insistence of her immediate family. Apparently Jerry Meek changed his story about Hope going to the store and admitted that he hadn't seen her for five days, reporting that he had taken the children camping, at a location he was unable to remember 5 days later. According to accounts from friends and family, the winter night of February 21 was quite cold, too cold for three small children (ages 6, 3 and 10mo.) to be sleeping outdoors.
Family and friends allege the marriage was beginning to unravel, there were police reports made about domestic violence incidents and the couple were separating. The night he went camping with the children, Jerry Meek says he left Hope with $500, and when he returned, she was gone as well as the $500.
Her employer, McCurtain County Sheriff's Department, says it was not in Hope's character to be absent from work without a valid excuse, and was highly unusual that she did not pick up her paycheck. As in almost all cases of missing mothers, friends and family say that she would NEVER leave her children behind and discontinue contact with them.
According to public records found online, Jerry Meek petitioned for divorce from Hope Danielle Meek on March 6, 2002, 10-12 days after Hope went missing. Others report that another woman, a former babysitter and now elementary teacher, moved into the marital home within a short period of time. According to family members, Jerry Meek was having an affair with the "other woman," and Hope knew, but that wouldn't be a reason for her to leave everything and walk away.
Nine years have gone by, and Jerry Meek has managed to erase Hope's very existence in the lives of her children, including fighting Hope's family for full custody of her oldest child from a previous marriage. Hope's family has been denied visitation which was court ordered, leaving them with no contact with her biological family, and theirs.
Jerry Meek has not cooperated with investigators, searched for his wife, nor answered any questions concerning what has happened to her. He refuses to take a polygraph. In this writer's opinion, Jerry Meek is probably well connected to the area, being born and raised there, and someone, somewhere is covering up the truth of what happened to Hope Meek.
In cases such as this, speculation runs very high, but no matter what the circumstances are today, the fact remains that Hope Meek is missing and needs to be found to give her family peace of mind and her children the truth.
Missing Since: 02/21/02
Missing from: Valliant, Oklahoma
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: 1976
Age at disappearance: 25 years old
Height:5’1
Weight:90 lbs.
Hair Color: Sandy Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hope wears eyeglasses,
but she left her pair behind inside her residence at the time of her disappearance.
NamUs MP # 5169
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Valliant Police Department
580-933-4555
OR
Oklahoma State Bureau Of Investigation
800-522-8017
If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.
Interview 5/5/2011 with sister of Hope Meek
http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/hope-danielle-meek/#comments
http://hope-meek.memory-of.com/About.aspx
http://lostnmissing.posterous.com/unsolved-missing-hope-meek-25-oklahoma-who-ha
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/valliant-ok/TM9KOQNOK62MBI7LF
http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2010/05/hope-meeks-family-demands-answers-in-loved-ones-disappearance.html
http://www.valliantchamber.org/index.html
http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=637.0
https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/5169
http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21141
UPDATE
AUGUST 11, 2012
OSBI agents arrested Jerry Meek, 39, where he works, at the International Paper Company in Valliant.
He was booked into the McCurtain County Jail on one count of first degree murder. His bond was set at $250,000.
The bureau said the arrest was made possible by a new District Attorney, who was willing to prosecute the case despite the lack of body. They said they believe the passage of time proves Hope is deceased.
22 comments:
I can't believe it has been so long since hope went missing. Wasn't there another husband who took the kids "camping" in the dead of winter and mom vanished?
Hi Nikra! Yes, you are probably thinking of the Susan Powell case. She has been missing from Utah since Dec, 2009, and her husband claims he took two toddlers camping at midnight in a snowstorm. Yea, right!
Hope Meek is my sister and it has been nine and a half years now. I have been getting leads and tips in, but nobody listens to the tips. I am sooo frustrated. But something new has came up, maybe this is the break we needed
Wow watching bad blood was frustrating, Jerry is the only person last to ever and ever see hope Alive and the only one who can give her remains to her family. Tiffany oney is in complete denial and talked horrible about a young murdered mother. The mommy left me and I took kid's camping has been used before. Classic case of domestic violence gone wrong. Shame on him for keeping jaimee, hope's family needed a better custody attorney, it's wrong to let her live with the man whom killed her mother and try to erase her to all the kids, very shameful and evil. Prayers to hope's family. Rip Hope
That's quite evil to keep the child not his from her family who were hurting for their missing daughter and sister! To keep all the children from Hope's family to me says a lot & to try to erase her existence from their precious minds is quite hateful in itself. File for divorce 12 dys after reported missing finally! WOW!! That's telling. I wish and pray for peace for Hope's family and the woman who stepped into Hope's role so quickly. RIP Hope! "With God All Things Are Possible." Matthew 19:26
That's quite evil to keep the child not his from her family who were hurting for their missing daughter and sister! To keep all the children from Hope's family to me says a lot & to try to erase her existence from their precious minds is quite hateful in itself. File for divorce 12 dys after reported missing finally! WOW!! That's telling. I wish and pray for peace for Hope's family and the woman who stepped into Hope's role so quickly. RIP Hope! "With God All Things Are Possible." Matthew 19:26
I too watched Bad Blood and believe that people do often run away, but they NEVER run away without their "eyes"! She didn't run, she was killed.
Tiffanie was not having an affair with Jerry, she and my sister were babysitting Jerry & Hope's children because Hope was not there. They did eventually fall in love. I feel for Hope's family and wish they had answers too but Tiffanie was only helping and she has taken wonderful care of those kids. So say what you want but leave ugly things about Tiffanie out of your comments, she has been a blessing for those kids!
I am appalled that they even filmed Tiffany for this show. She didn't talk very nicely about Hope,she is obviously deceased and I feel she now doesn't deserve to be put on TV in a disrespectful way. I almost feel sorry for Tiffany though, she is obviously brainwashed or just not very bright...RIP Hope & to your kids, mother & sister God bless you and I pray all of you will someday be able to lay her to rest ..big hugs
yes that's the right case, there may be another one in Utah that lady 👇 is talking about, but that's what happened in this case. husband said she didn't want the kids to see her leave so he took them camping in February. lol. the most frustrating thing I saw about this case on bad blood was his ex tiffany standing behind him knowing good and we'll he murdered her. she made me sick, fell in hopes sister that she could still be alive just living off the grid. nope, she s dead, and he did it. thank God they finally put this psycho in jail.
tiffanie is a psycho. she married this man knowing he killed his ex wife. she should be in jail with him. she probably helped dispose of the body. she was what I found most infuriating about this episode. telling ppl she ran off when it's obvious that she s dead.what a f-ing psycho bitch. how dare u look at the families and tell them she ran off when her glasses were left behind, her kids, her truck and her income tax return. does tiffanie think we're all as stupid as she is? I think this is exactly what forest meant by stupid is as stupid does.
that's exactly what I thought when I watched this episode. she s stupid and she obviously thinks everyone else is as stupid as she is. how dare her try to make hopes sister think she s jist ran off without her kids, her tax return and her truck. I hope she enjoys spending time with him in hell
that's exactly what I thought when I watched this episode. she s stupid and she obviously thinks everyone else is as stupid as she is. how dare her try to make hopes sister think she s jist ran off without her kids, her tax return and her truck. I hope she enjoys spending time with him in hell
Bullshit Tiffanie!
I just watched the story on ID . Its amazing to me how all the "church" folks defend him and talk so much trash about Hope. For someone like me who knows neither, it's obvious they are only interested in trashing a dead mother! It's awful
Tiffany isn’t the trampoline here. Hope lived a very risqué lifestyle. Leaving her kids at home by themselves when the oldest one wasn’t even 7 at the time. Leaving for days on end and running off. Everything bored her. Marriage, men, children, being a mother, a wife, staying with one man..... she put her self in harm’s way with the lifestyle she lived. Loud and spoke her mind(well that translates into someone who had a big mouth and said whatever she wanted to say to people). She was the villainous here. NOT the women who babysat before she disappeared and stepped in to be a mother to Hope’s children because she never was a mother to her kids. Wherever she is; she got there on her own and living reckless; as she did. Idk where all of you come off that her wilding out and whoring around made her a saint?
Tiffany isn’t the tramp here.
Tiffany did not talk horribly about Hope Meek. The show brought out that Hope ran off ALZL the time, screwed her husband’s best friend, left her kids alone so she could go to the bars(while her husband was at work),was bored being married, birdied being a mother, bored staying at home with her kids, boarded living in Oklahoma, everything bored her; except sleeping around with any man she could and running here there and everywhere. She cussed the division and domestic disputes in her own home. Tiffany didn’t. Hope lived the risqué lifestyle. Not a Tiffany. Hope had the opportunity to be a mother to her kids (she preferred to leave them alone and go to the bar) . Don’t hate Tiffany because her love for Hope’s kids is greater than their own mother’s. Don’t hate Tiffany; because she acted like a wife to Jerry and Hope never did. And because Tiffany and Jerry were in love and happy together; y’all hate on her? Hope was screwing more than one guy as soon as she started working, she screwed her first husbands ; best friend! And She wasn’t at the bars because she was thirsty. She slept with multiple men in the time her and Jerry were together. She lived a high risk lifestyle and it probably ended badly for her. She is to blame. Not Tiffany.
CORRECTION’S-The show brought out that Hope ran off: ALL the time. ... bored being a mother. AND she caused the division and domestic disputes in her OWN home..... What ALL of you stupid people need to do : is stop blaming Tiffany for Hope doing; what she wanted to do.
Who got custody of the kids?
Alguma atualização do caso ?
I'm watching this from South Africa for the first time. Any new news so far. Xxx My niece and her friend was also murdered and shot by her ex husband Martin Stevens in 2000. You can Google it. Found not guilty despite ALL THE EVIDENCE he was FREE. In 2015 he stabbed his 2nd wife 7 times and she's now paralyzed AND STILL WALKING FREE.. Hope Meek husband killed her but although his in a damn prison he doesn't even let anyone know where she is... It's Heartbreaking and we can't never accept or forget if someone killed your loved one. Love to you all♥️♥️
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