Jack Sartin

Jack Sartin was a Tulsa resident whose life, like so many, is recorded in only a few public lines. Official public records show he was 45 years old when he died and that his passing is listed by the Tulsa Police Department among the city's unsolved cold-case homicides of the 1990s. Beyond those brief entries, the public record is sparse.

While details about Jack’s daily life, family, work, and hopes are not readily available in the accessible sources, it is important to acknowledge him as a person rather than a database entry. He carried relationships, routines, and private memories that mattered to others — facts not fully captured by public lists or archival indices. For anyone who knew Jack personally, those private recollections are the truer portrait of who he was.

Because reliable, family-authorized obituary or funeral-home notices matching the exact March 8, 1997 date were not found in the public archives consulted, this remembrance focuses on honoring Jack’s personhood and the human loss felt when any life ends too soon. His name on the Tulsa Police Department cold-case list is a reminder that his death remains a matter of unfinished questions for the community, and that there are likely family members and friends who still carry grief and memories privately.

If you have personal remembrances, family details, photographs, or other information that can enrich Jack’s public memory, those contributions can help move him from a short entry in a database to a fuller, more personal remembrance. Until then, this brief life story holds to the simple truth that Jack was a real person whose life had intrinsic value and whose memory deserves to be treated with care and respect.