Heidi Dutton is a teen killer from Oklahoma who was convicted of the murder of her Grandparents
According to court documents due to family circumstance Heidi Dutton was adopted by her Grandparents Deborah and Larry Dutton. However the relationship would stain when seventeen year old Heidi decided that she wanted them dead and would convince her boyfriend Lucas Walker to pull off the evil deed
Lucas Walker would grab a gun from Deborah and Larry Dutton gun safe and proceeded to go into the home and wait outside of their bedroom. When Deborah opened the door she would be shot and had her throat slit. Larry would attempt to come to his wife’s aid and would b stabbed to death
Heidi Dutton would be arrested and initially told police it was all her doing and Lucas Walker was just used to clean up the mess however her story would change and would tell officers that she planned the double murders but Lucas committed them
Lucas Walker would plead guilty and would be sentenced to thirty five years in prison
Heidi Dutton would plead guilty to two counts of first degree murder, conspiracy and two counts of desecration of a human corpse. Dutton will be sentenced in June where she faces up to life in prison
Heidi Dutton Case
A Washington County teenager pleaded guilty to five felony counts, including two charges of first-degree murder with deliberate intent, for the killings of her adoptive parents in December 2022.
Washington County District Attorney Will Drake confirmed that Heidi Dutton, 19, entered the plea May 8 in connection with the December 2022 slayings of Larry and Deborah Dutton in Dewey. Sentencing is set for June 6. Prosecutors are seeking life in prison.
Drake declined to comment further until sentencing concludes.
Teen confessed to planning killings, court records show
Court records alleged the killings were a calculated double homicide. Investigators say Dutton, then 17, confessed during police interviews to orchestrating the killings of her grandparents, who had adopted her.
“We kill them,” Heidi Dutton told investigators she said to her boyfriend, Lucas Anthony Walker. Her reasoning — “because she wanted them dead,” according to police affidavits and preliminary hearing testimony.
On Dec. 22, 2022, according to police investigation and testimony, Dutton and Walker shot Deborah Dutton in the head and slit her throat. When Larry Dutton entered the room, he was stabbed in the head and abdomen, also according to police testimony. As the couple attempted to clean the scene, police say Larry Dutton was still alive and crawling toward his wife.
Their bodies were found buried in the backyard near the family’s swimming pool.
Blood-stained evidence, surveillance footage and shifting stories
Washington County deputies began investigating after neighbors reported the Duttons had not been seen for several days. On Jan. 19, 2023, Deputy Derrin Jorgensen noticed the smell of decomposing flesh at the property. The next day, a search warrant turned up blood-stained jewelry, splattered walls and incriminating surveillance footage.
Ring camera footage showed Walker and Dutton carrying a body wrapped in a sheet out the back door.
Initially, Dutton claimed she alone had committed the killings and said Walker only helped with the cleanup, investigators said. She later recanted, saying Walker committed the murders and she had lied to protect him.
Walker, now 22, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of second-degree murder in Indian Country. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Jan. 24, 2025. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, his case was tried under federal jurisdiction pursuant to the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma.
In addition to two counts of first-degree murder, Dutton pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of desecration of a human corpse.
The investigation was led by the FBI, Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma prosecuted Walker’s case.