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Bethany man jailed in wife's death says wife caught him watching pornography

BETHANY — A Bethany man jailed on a murder complaint in the Saturday stabbing death of his wife said he attacked the woman because he “snappedâ€￾ when she caught him watching pornography on his computer, according to an affidavit filed today in Oklahoma County District Court.

Reginald Scott Bartlett, 58, is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail in the death of Cathy Bartlett, 57. He has not been charged.

Police were called about 6:35 p.m. to the couple's home at 7600 NW 25 and found Reginald Bartlett rolling around on the living room floor groaning, officer Angelo Orefice wrote in the affidavit. Cathy Bartlett was partially clothed on the floor with stab wounds to much of her body. She was pronounced dead at the scene

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Bartlett was taken to a hospital due to his “distraught demeanorâ€￾ and was interviewed Saturday following his release, according to the affidavit. Bartlett told police he was “a sick individualâ€￾ and that he was addicted to pornography.

He told officers his wife came into the computer room, saw he was looking at pornography, slapped him and began to yell at him about a bank statement because she thought he was ordering pornography, Orefice wrote. Bartlett said he snapped, grabbed a knife and stabbed her repeatedly.

Bartlett told police he pulled some of her clothes off to make it look like his wife had been raped, then emptied a drawer out on the floor to make it look like the house had been burglarized

Bartlett took the knife used in the attack along with a computer and his clothes and put them in a black bag, which he threw into Lake Overholser

After that, he went to a sporting goods store to look at golf equipment and then to Southern Nazarene University to watch a basketball tournament before returning to the home to call 911.

http://newsok.com/police-bethany-ma...article/3531099?custom_click=lead_story_title
 
Officer Orefice *snicker*

I've been reading here too long, my mind first says he must have been watching kiddie porn or something like that, who would kill over tthe rest? Then it reminds me that people kill for dumber reasons all the time... I'm torn...
 
Uh-huh. He shot her because he was watching porn. Sure. Was he watching "Debbie Does Donkeys"? Or maybe something involving men and little boys and girls? Sick old skeeve.
 
Uh-huh. He shot her because he was watching porn. Sure. Was he watching "Debbie Does Donkeys"? Or maybe something involving men and little boys and girls? Sick old skeeve.
Some people are so prudish about porn and addiction to it, it doesn't even have to be out of the ordinary for them to want to hide it. I just finished a true crime book where the prosecution said a guy murdered his wife over porn addiction. His taste ran to pics of women getting their faces cummed on. Not even kinky - everyday porn.
 
Officer Orefice *snicker*

I've been reading here too long, my mind first says he must have been watching kiddie porn or something like that, who would kill over tthe rest? Then it reminds me that people kill for dumber reasons all the time... I'm torn...

See I read it that she walked in on him watching porn, slapped him, then was yelling at him about a charge on their bank statement that she believed was a purchase for porn, then he stabbed her repeatedly, tried to make it look like a rape by ripping her clothes, then tried to make it look like an attempted robbery, by turning over a drawer. After he collected his thoughts, gathered the knife, clothes, and computer, and dumped them. Then did a little shopping.

I figured it was the slapping and nagging about buying porn that set him off.
 
I came home once and found one of my videos in the VCR. I asked my ex about it & he got this bewildered look on his face and tried to play it off like I left it in there. I teased him about it a little bit, which surprisingly enough to make him bust it in half on a wall corner.

I wonder wtf he's think if he saw my newest videos. One is labeled "2 men for every girl" (bi) & the other is "dark meat" totally GAY porn vid. I didn't get them myself, a friend of mine snatched them from his ex-boyfriend. I don't know if he was aiming for shock value or what. But I kept them. Got a few male friends who have a habit of checking my dvd & vcr cause they know porn will likely be there. Gonna slip in one of those special vids for those buttholes and see how they like THAT.
 
I am thinking, the kiddie porn element is making the most since to me. Personally, i have found porn to be pretty mainstream and accepted by most people/couples in my age range anyway (35). I think porn is awesome, it is the only thing you can put on T.V.in the background, that doesn't need sound so you can listen to music at the same time and if you are surfing at the same time, you don't have to pay attention to the story at all but it is still, always entertaining and interesting, every time that you do pause on the computer and watch T.V.
 
I am thinking, the kiddie porn element is making the most since to me. Personally, i have found porn to be pretty mainstream and accepted by most people/couples in my age range anyway (35).

I would agree with you, but the smaller percentage who doesn't approve of porn seems to HATE the stuff. I've met broads, relatively young ones, who honestly believe that their man should only have eyes for them and that viewing porn equates to cheating in their opinion.

Needless to say, I've never befriended any of these women, but I do know they exist. :p
 
I watch porn, it beats some of the reality shows that are on nowadays. When you have one partner in a relationship who is against it, one who likes it, the person who likes it would be ashamed if they were caught watching it. To the point of murder? I don't think anything, unless someone else is going to die is to the point of murder, but some may completely break with reality.
 
Bethany, OK, man sentenced to serve life in prison for killing wife

An admitted porn addict was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for fatally stabbing his wife after she caught him looking at computer pictures of naked women.

Reginald “Reggie” Scott Bartlett, 59, of Bethany, told police he snapped after his wife slapped him. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder.
http://newsok.com/bethany-ok-man-sentenced-to-serve-life-in-prison-for-killing-wife/article/3555976
 
Even though this is an old story I have so many questions.......

He over reacted a bit didn't he? If he's telling the truth. Probably was looking up something Illegal.

Like throwing all of the stuff in the lake was going to prevent him from being found out about? Because I am sure idiot left a ton of evidence.

He went and did all of those activities and then came back and called 911? Which proves he was calculating.

He had to go to the hospital because he was so inconsalable?
That is odd because he spent quite a few hours after killing her shopping and leisurely running around.which means he was putting on one Hell of an act for the cops.
 
She slapped him for looking at porn? That too seems like a bit of an overreaction.

Of course, we could very well be missing a very important detail to the story, if it was child porn then she didn't overreact, she underreacted. But just looking at legal/normal porn doesn't deserve a slap, she should have just pulled up a chair and watched with him.
 
Even though this is an old story I have so many questions.......
He over reacted a bit didn't he? If he's telling the truth. Probably was looking up something Illegal.

Like throwing all of the stuff in the lake was going to prevent him from being found out about? Because I am sure idiot left a ton of evidence.

He went and did all of those activities and then came back and called 911? Which proves he was calculating.

He had to go to the hospital because he was so inconsalable?
That is odd because he spent quite a few hours after killing her shopping and leisurely running around.which means he was putting on one Hell of an act for the cops.

Not many articles about the case and on the actual trial to answer your questions. I'd like to know if the police did get his computer back to check.

I also find it interesting to read about what people do after they murder, going to check out golf equipment, go to game, and then call cops and roll around on floor

Did find the order of events according to him, altered slightly from what I read above
In a handwritten confession, he stated, “My wife came in the computer room yelling about the bank statement. Thought I was ordering porn, saw me looking at naked women on the computer. She slapped me hard on the ear and I snapped. … Picked up knife and began stabbing her. Pulled shirt and bra up and stab some more.”
http://newsok.com/bethany-ok-man-sentenced-to-serve-life-in-prison-for-killing-wife/article/3555976
 
I look at tons of porn, and if my wife found out...I'm not sure what she'd do. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't slap me, though.

But this guy's story is full of holes and backpeddling...something else must have been going on. Why would you murder somebody over a slap? Oh hell, somebody just murdered a soldier over the song he played on a jukebox...I guess my question is answered.
 
Pornography poisons the mind. Vile, disgusting smut the lot of it. It's not surprising to me at all that someone who views it regularly would be the time of person who would commit a heinous, violent act like this.

The wife sounds like she was a real piece of shit too. While her anger and feelings of betrayal are more than justified, the way she chose to act out on those feelings is unforgivable and totally unacceptable. There's NEVER an excuse for domestic violence. This dumbass felt differently and look where it got her. Tragic.
 
Pornography poisons the mind. Vile, disgusting smut the lot of it. It's not surprising to me at all that someone who views it regularly would be the time of person who would commit a heinous, violent act like this.

I never said my mind was pristine.

But I've never committed any heinous, violent acts. That must count for something.

In fact, I just recently adopted an old blind dog because nobody else would have taken her. She's 17 years old and deserves a loving home in her last years.

C'mon, give us a hug.
 
I never said my mind was pristine.

But I've never committed any heinous, violent acts. That must count for something.

In fact, I just recently adopted an old blind dog because nobody else would have taken her. She's 17 years old and deserves a loving home in her last years.

C'mon, give us a hug.

O-o-o-o.....hugs
 
My ex was addicted to porn. In the beginning I was like okay he watches porn he is a guy this is what they do, no biggie. As time went on it became apparent there were some serious issues, the time he spent secluded away, finding porn in bizarre places, credit card statements, issues at work, then finally he went on a golf trip and I found this suitcase tucked away. I pulled it out and when i opened it not only was if loaded with every type of porn thing imaginable I found discs from our family video camera... when I played them to see what it was, I found that he had been hiding in the bushes secretly video taping random women at pools. WTF?!?! For those ten years my self esteem plummeted and I felt like there was something wrong with me. After I found those tapes he was kicked the fuck out and I told him he couldn't see our two daughters until he got help. To this day we haven't heard from him... and I prefer it that way.
 
My ex was addicted to porn. In the beginning I was like okay he watches porn he is a guy this is what they do, no biggie. As time went on it became apparent there were some serious issues, the time he spent secluded away, finding porn in bizarre places, credit card statements, issues at work, then finally he went on a golf trip and I found this suitcase tucked away. I pulled it out and when i opened it not only was if loaded with every type of porn thing imaginable I found discs from our family video camera... when I played them to see what it was, I found that he had been hiding in the bushes secretly video taping random women at pools. WTF?!?! For those ten years my self esteem plummeted and I felt like there was something wrong with me. After I found those tapes he was kicked the fuck out and I told him he couldn't see our two daughters until he got help. To this day we haven't heard from him... and I prefer it that way.

Really not that shocking. Men who view pornography, whether polite society would deem them addicted or not, are so morally corrupt that they'd do shit like this without a second thought.
 
Here's the deal. Like anything else about a relationship, full disclosure is paramount up front. If your wife to be can't tolerate you watching porn, then find someone who does.
Relationships aren't that fucking complicated, but people just like to live life the hard way.
Now of course there's situations such as @JGALAS went through, but those are the exceptions, not the norm. A simple rule of thumb for most situations is; if you don't want to be married to a cunt or a dickhead, then dont fucking marry one!
 
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