Becky Vreeland Murders Granddaughter
Becky Vreeland is a killer from Oklahoma who would murder her three year old Granddaughter Riley Nolan
According to court documents the body of three year old Riley Nolan was found in a trash can and the little girl’s body had been there for days
A police investigation would lead them to the child’s Grandmother Becky Vreeland. Vreeland would initially tell officers that Riley Nolan had died during a tragic accident and had fallen into a large green trash container. However Vreeland would not call authorities when the so called accident took place.
Becky Vreeland former husband would ultimately call police three days after the child’s death which led police to the body
It was determined during an autopsy that Riley Nolan had died from blunt force injuries to her head
Becky Vreeland would be charged with murder and was in the middle of her trial when she suddenly plead guilty and would be sentenced to forty five years in prison
Becky Vreeland Case
A 60-year-old Oklahoma City grandmother has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of her granddaughter.
Police say 3-year-old Riley Nolan’s body was found in a trash can at a home in southwest Oklahoma City in 2022.
Nolan’s grandmother, Becky Vreeland, was arrested and charged with Nolan’s murder in the first degree
Investigators believe Nolan’s body had been in the trash can for days when police discovered her body in a recycling bin.
A medical examiner’s report revealed Nolan’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
Vreeland will spend at least 85% of her sentence in prison before she would ever be eligible for parole.
Becky Vreeland News
An Oklahoma grandmother was in court this afternoon to face murder charges. June 21 marked one year since 3-year-old Riley Nolan was found dead inside a trash can at a home in southwest Oklahoma City. Her grandmother, Becky Vreeland, is charged with her murder. Today, a preliminary hearing was held in the case.
4 witness were called to the stand. The hearing lasted more than 3 hours. KFOR news cameras were not allowed in the room.
The first witness called to the stand was a former tenant who lived in the home.
After a long testimony, he claims he didn’t meet Riley until he saw her sleeping in the laundry room 2 weeks after he moved into the home.
The next witness was Vreeland’s ex-husband, Lyle Wayne Nolan who says he was at the home when his ex-wife told him there was an accident with Riley. He claims Vreeland said “she fell into a big green dumpster.”
Shortly after that, Nolan says he called 911 since Vreeland hadn’t called police even though it had been three days since she claimed she first saw Riley in the trash can outside the home.
An Oklahoma City Police Lieutenant was next to testify.
He says when he got to the house, he opened the lid to the trash can and saw a little foot sticking up, decaying, with “maggots all over the body.”
Vreeland said this to News 4 cameras in September of 2022. “She died peacefully and I didn’t do it,” Vreeland in 2022. The last witness to be called was a detective who testified that in his original interview with Vreeland, she claims Riley climbed into the trash can by herself using a 6 foot tall pool ladder, and suffocated to death.
He also said in that interview, Vreeland says she has left bruises on her three grandchildren before
The state does have another witness to call to the stand and testimony will continue at a later date.
