Sentenced: Broken Arrow Man Recycles Dead Girlfriend

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A Broken Arrow man was sentenced to life imprisonment after jurors found him guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting of his ex-girlfriend, whose body he admitted hiding in a recycling bin.

Konner James Brunner, 23, was convicted Jan. 17 of killing 21-year-old Lauren Kidd on Oct. 27, 2018. Jurors recommended that he spend life in prison with the possibility of parole, which Tulsa County District Judge Kelly Greenough upheld during a sentencing.

Brunner will be required to spend at least 38 years and three months in prison before becoming eligible for parole, although it is possible that he will remain incarcerated until his death.

“The options he had at the moment when he took her life — he didn’t call the cops and say, ‘Come and get this girl. We’re not getting along. We’re arguing,’ ” said Christa Kidd, Lauren’s mother. “He didn’t do that. He didn’t bring her home. He didn’t do that.

“So there won’t be any closure. We don’t have a body to bury, and we don’t really have a memorial. There’s not that gravesite, per se, that you can have. So we have to create our own.”

Brunner, according to testimony from Detective Mark Williamson, spoke with police about how he hid Lauren Kidd’s body in a recycling bin.
Her body has never been found, but Williamson has said officers recovered evidence from the bin that supported Brunner’s statements.

The Broken Arrow Police Department said in January 2019 that it confirmed that Kidd was the source of biological material found at a paper mill that uses recycled materials in Valliant, a town in McCurtain County.

Defense attorney M.J. Denman told Greenough that Brunner is still weighing whether he wants to appeal his conviction and sentence.

During a preliminary hearing last year, Denman argued that the gun Brunner used “accidentally discharged” during an argument he had with Kidd inside his Dodge Dart sedan.

Broken Arrow man gets life sentence for killing girlfriend, dumping body in recycling bin

Konner James Brunner, 23, was convicted Jan. 17 of killing 21-year-old Lauren Kidd on Oct. 27, 2018. Jurors recommended he spend life in prison with the possibility of parole, which

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[orange_julius]

Ok so I know next to nothing about the recycling process once the truck leaves my house. Can someone maybe fill me in on how it’s possible that a dead adult human was missed somewhere at the beginning?

 

[Bobbo]

Good to know my “dead body in the recycling bin” theory has proven fruitful.

 

[orange_julius]

Good to know my “dead body in the recycling bin” theory has proven fruitful.

I’m unfamiliar with this theory but intrigued.

 

[DaveL]

he hid Lauren Kidd’s body in a recycling bin.
Her body has never been found

Damn, I guess the sorters at the plant are really phoning it in.

 

[Sejanus]

He has douche face

 

[Bipedalprimate]

That mugshot...

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Ok so I know next to nothing about the recycling process once the truck leaves my house. Can someone maybe fill me in on how it’s possible that a dead adult human was missed somewhere at the beginning?

Its supposed to go to a sorting facility.
Otherwise, the trash company is just making everyone feel good about recycling.

 

[JackBurton]

This is Oklahoma.

 

[Bobbo]

I’m unfamiliar with this theory but intrigued.

 

[EyEgOrE]

 

[Craygor]

.... jurors found him guilty of first-degree murder ...

I'm surprised the DA just didn't go for negligent homicide, first degree murder is pretty high bar with no body, no concrete motive, and no witnesses. Good on the DA though for winning the case.