Monday, the twenty-sixth of November, 2001. Oklahoma City. At Crossings Community Church, a family from Enid is burying a thirty-nine-year-old advertising executive, a deacon, a father of two. His name is Rob Andrew. Six days earlier, he was shot to death in the garage of the house he'd just moved out of, with his children inside. His wife and his children aren't at the funeral, and nobody seems to know where they are.

Rob saw it coming. In the weeks before he died, he told his family, a friend at work, and his prayer journal that he was afraid. He took the cut brake lines from his car to the police. Then he went back and told them again. The day before he died, he handed them a cassette tape.

This is Rob's story, told the way his family lived it: the boy from the swimming pool in Enid, the marriage, the friend from church who sold him an $800,000 life insurance policy, a search for two missing children, an arrest at the Texas border, two trials, two death sentences, and a handwritten letter that nobody in this case says is true.

And it isn't over. Brenda Andrew and Jim Pavatt were both convicted of Rob's murder and sentenced to death. Brenda Andrew still says she's innocent, and her case has been to the U.S. Supreme Court and is headed back there. On October 14, 2026, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied Jim Pavatt clemency. He is scheduled to be executed on November 12.

Content note: this episode describes a shooting, with children in the house at the time. Nothing in it is graphic, but if that's not for you today, sit this one out. There'll be another one.

ON THE BLOG: Everything I found for this episode is at Section29.com: the newspaper coverage from 2001, pages from Rob Andrew's prayer journal, and the court records, from the 2003 and 2004 trials to the Supreme Court.

IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING: If you covered either trial, sat in one of those courtrooms, or knew Rob, I'd love to hear from you. Reach out at Section29.com. And if you have a forgotten case you'd like me to dig into, send it along.

Okie Investigations, in partnership with Forgotten True Crime. Narrated by me. AI used in post to improve the audio.

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