“How did we ever do this before this database?” she asked. “You can see why someone would die in Muskogee County and the information would never make it to Tulsa, because those two agencies weren’t talking. It wasn’t done intentionally, but they just didn’t know.”

Mike Nance, NamUs regional systems administrator, said the Frost case is a prime example of what can happen when multiple agencies do their part to provide information that’s easily accessible via the database. He said technological advancements have improved different agencies’ ability to communicate with each other on cases such as Frost’s death, and he said he wants her family and others looking for missing loved ones to know they aren’t forgotten.

“As you can see, these types of investigations are multi-jurisdictional. They span multiple years and agencies and require a great deal of resources,” he said. “These resources were not available in the 1980s. At that time, law enforcement and medical examiners, their response was to take as much information as they could and then bury the remains. That was the case here.”

Loveall said the new information in the case has “started the investigation clock over again,” and she asks that anyone with information about Frost’s disappearance and death call police.

As for suspects, “no one is eliminated, and no one is specifically targeted,” she said. “It’s an open and clear investigation, and we’re going back and starting at stage one to reinterview people. We have not narrowed this investigation in any way.”

Samantha Vicent 918-581-8321 samantha.vicent@tulsaworld.com

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