Heidi Dutton was a seventeen year old living in Oklahoma with her Grandparents who were also her adoptive parents when she and her boyfriend would murder them
According to court documents Heidi Dutton Grandparents, Deborah and Larry Dutton, would take their Granddaughter in and eventually became her adoptive parents
However Heidi Dutton decided that she no longer wanted them around and with her boyfriend Lucas Walker would plan their murders
Lucas Walker was hiding in a closet when he would came out and shoot Deborah Dutton before slitting her throat. When Larry Dutton attempted to rush Lucas the gun would jam and Walker would proceed to stab him to death
Heidi Dutton and Lucan Walker would then bury the two bodies in the backyard.
When police arrived at the home to perform a welfare check they would discover blood and take Heidi Dutton and Lucas Walker into custody where the two would make a full confession
Lucas Walker would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for thirty years
Heidi Dutton would receive a life sentence
Heidi Dutton Current Information
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 215 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
OK DOC#: 2025873
Birth Date: 11/5/2005
Current Facility: MABEL BASSETT CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Reception Date: 7/10/2025
Heidi Dutton Case
An Oklahoma teenager convicted of murdering her grandparents appeared in court for her sentencing.
Heidi Dutton, 19, entered a guilty plea in May to two counts of first-degree-murder, conspiracy, and two counts of desecration of a human corpse in the deaths of Deborah and Larry Dutton, who were her biological grandparents and adoptive parents.
On June 6, a Washington County Court judge sentenced Dutton to life in prison on the recommendation of the jury in the case.
That comes on the heels of Dutton’s boyfriend and accomplice in the murders, Lucas Walker, being sentenced to 35 years in prison after a federal trial.
Walker’s case was tried at the federal level because he is a member of the Cherokee nation
Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office did not launch an investigation into the deaths of Deborah and Larry until a month after the murders, according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
On Jan. 20, 2023, deputies responded to a welfare check at the couple’s residence in Dewey, a city located approximately 130 miles southeast of Wichita.
Dutton, then 17, and Walker were at the residence when deputies arrived that day, and later left the residence in handcuffs after detectives discovered blood that had seeped under the baseboards of Deborah and Larry’s bedroom.
Once in custody, both Walker and Dutton confessed to the murders, according to the complaint.
Walker told police that he hid out in Dutton’s bedroom on the night of Dec. 19, 2022 after taking a .22 caliber pistol from the garage, and then lay in wait outside the door to her grandparents’ bedroom once the two were asleep.
Deborah died first, according to the complaint, which says that when she “opened the door to the main bedroom, Walker shot her in the face and slit her throat.”
When her husband “got out of bed and rushed him, Walker attempted to shoot Larry Dutton but the pistol jammed,” according to the complaint.
Walker said that he decided to repeatedly stab Larry in the face with a knife.
Walker and Dutton then dragged the couple out on bedsheets and buried them in the backyard — an act that was captured by the home’s Ring Camera — according to a copy of a search warrant request obtained by PEOPLE.
Two days after that welfare check the bodies of Deborah and Larry were exhumed from the backyard.
Larry Dutton, 73, was a retired Master Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and former manager of Lt. William M. Milliken Airport in Eureka, Kan, per an obituary for the couple. He “had a big heart and would give anyone the shirt off his back,” one friend of his remembered in a funeral guestbook entry.
His wife Deborah was a retired Staff Sergeant in the Air Force and had also worked as a chef.
A lawyer for Dutton did not respond to a request for comment.
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Lucas Walker Sentencing
U.S. District Judge John D. Russell sentenced Lucas Anthony Walker, 22, for two counts of Second Degree Murder in Indian County. Judge Russell ordered Walked to serve 420 months for each count, followed by five years of supervised release.
In January 2023, Washington County Sheriff’s deputies began investigating the disappearance of Deborah and Larry Dutton. After searching the Dutton’s home, deputies found Deborah and Larry deceased in a shallow grave in the backyard. Walker confessed to shooting and stabbing Deborah and stabbing Larry to death.
Walker is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and will remain in custody pending transfer to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
The FBI, Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O. Johnston prosecuted the case.
