For years, I have written extensively about the 2011 murder of Jaymie Adams, a pregnant mother of four who was brutally stabbed and left in a field in Oklahoma City. Jaymie was prostituted on craigslist by her husband, Justin Adams, and went missing after meeting a client on the night of December 9.

From the outset, I cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the husband being the killer. I referenced the case of Megan Waterman, a sex worker who went missing in 2010 and whose boyfriend was initially suspected, only for it to later be revealed that she was a victim of the Long Island serial killer. That case served as a reminder that first instincts aren’t always right, especially in situations involving sex work arranged online.

That said, all signs did seem to point to Justin Adams. He had taken out a $100,000 life insurance policy on Jaymie before her disappearance. He was reportedly having an affair while she was missing. And early in the investigation, he was arrested and charged. But that changed. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge in exchange for a manslaughter plea, and Adams walked free with probation.

However, in 2013, authorities arrested Joseph Cyr, a man who had exchanged messages with Jaymie through craigslist and who eventually stood trial for her murder. I was one of the few who publicly questioned that arrest and his subsequent conviction. To me, the case against Cyr seemed circumstantial, media coverage was sparse, and the motive unclear. When Cyr reached out to me from prison in 2024, I was already in contact with his family and others advocating on his behalf. I took the correspondence seriously.

At the time, I believed that the justice system had failed. I believed the wrong man had been convicted, while the person with the clearest motive and the most to benefit walked free. I stand by the fact that media coverage of the case was weak, and that local reporting failed to provide the public with key facts that have since come to light. But I no longer believe the case against Cyr was as baseless as it once seemed.

What Changed?

Thanks to someone else who was looking into Joseph Cyr’s case, I was directed to the 2018 opinion from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld Cyr’s conviction. The document contains details that were never widely reported, details that complicate the narrative and raise serious questions about Cyr’s own behavior.

According to the ruling:

• DNA matching Joseph Cyr was recovered from Jaymie Adams, while Justin Adams and other clients were excluded as contributors.
• Stained seat covers from Cyr’s truck tested presumptively positive for blood.
• His call and text records were deleted, and he later asked his girlfriend to hide his cellphone.
• He cleaned out his truck, ran it through a car wash, and bought new tires shortly after the murder.
• Cyr allegedly pressured his girlfriend not to talk to police, lied to her about when he got home, and tried to reshape her memory of the timeline.
• Prosecutors presented evidence that Cyr had a documented pattern of disregarding his partners’ sexual boundaries, including two women who became pregnant after he ejaculated inside them against their wishes.

This behavioral pattern, while not direct evidence of murder, was introduced at trial as a potential motive. Jaymie Adams reportedly insisted on condom use and control during sex, which prosecutors argued clashed with Cyr’s sexual behavior.

Still a Flawed Case

None of this removes suspicion from Justin Adams. In fact, in 2023, more than a decade after Jaymie’s death, Adams was sentenced to seven years in prison for sexual battery of a person over 16, something the Oklahoma media never reported. His past remains a troubling backdrop to this case, and his treatment by both the media and the legal system raises difficult questions.

But Joseph Cyr is no longer the man I believed was simply railroaded. While the case against him was circumstantial, it was not without substance. His post-crime behavior was suspicious. His statements were inconsistent. And the DNA evidence, though initially absent from the autopsy report, was later confirmed in court.

That said, I’m still not 100% convinced of the motive. I find it hard to believe that a man would stab someone 29 times over a disagreement about condom use, though, sadly, we know that other sex workers have been killed for less. The possibility of a sudden outburst, of repressed violence triggered in a volatile encounter, remains. But it still feels thin, and unsatisfying.

A Personal Note

I want to take a moment to say something to those who reached out to me, Joseph Cyr’s friends, his mother, the people who believed I might be able to help. I’m sorry if I got your hopes up. I genuinely thought I might be able to uncover something that would lead to a different outcome. I looked into court transcripts, tried to track down overlooked evidence, even explored traveling to Oklahoma City to access records in person. But the deeper I went, the more complicated the truth became.

A Final Thought

I’m not a lawyer, a private investigator, or a forensic expert. I’m just a guy with a website and an opinion. But maybe someone out there, someone more capable than me, can pick up where I left off. Maybe there’s more to this story that still hasn’t come to light. And maybe, just maybe, someone out there is willing to look at this case with fresh eyes and ask the questions that still need answers.

Until then, I can only tell the story as best I can, and let the facts, as murky and conflicting as they are, speak for themselves.