
July 1, 2011 marked the 10-year anniversary of the creation of the Oklahoma Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. In that time, 52 board members and six staff have reviewed 341 cases. Numbers alone cannot do justice to the tales of human tragedy reviewed by the Board nor the lessons learned as a result. In 10 years of case review, the Board has seen and heard countless stories of victims who have suffered ongoing abuse in silence as well as those who told everyone from their sister to the utility clerk to police officers about the ongoing violence they were enduring.