Inside the Oklahoma Cabin Surgery Case: Bob Lee Allen & Thomas Evans Gates
Crime Salad
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In October 2020, a person from Virginia traveled to a remote cabin in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, to meet Bob Lee Allen and Thomas Evans Gates—two individuals they had connected with online. What happened next turned a private arrangement into a full-blown criminal investigation, raising disturbing questions about consent, legality, and the hidden corners of the internet.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains graphic and disturbing content, including descriptions of extreme violence and other mature themes. |
| 0:08.3 | This story is not suitable for children and may be triggering for some audiences. |
| 0:12.6 | Listener discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:19.6 | A person travels across the country to meet strangers in a cabin in rural Oklahoma. |
| 0:25.1 | And what happened next involves surgery, blood loss, and a freezer full of human body parts. |
| 0:33.2 | We want to take you back to October of 2020, when a person from Virginia made a long journey |
| 0:39.3 | to a remote cabin in southeastern Oklahoma. |
| 0:42.3 | They were there to meet someone that they connected with online, someone who promised to help |
| 0:47.3 | them carry out a deeply personal procedure. |
| 0:50.3 | And what happened next was something straight out of a horror movie. |
| 0:55.2 | What started out as a consensual arrangement between adults very quickly turned into a full-blown criminal investigation. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the case of Bob Lee Allen and Thomas Evan Gates, two men who were arrested after allegedly performing an illegal |
| 1:12.0 | surgery inside their Oklahoma cabin. But what really made headlines and what left investigators |
| 1:17.7 | stunned was the comments that one of the men allegedly made about this surgery and others like it. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, these are all allegations taken from affidavits and police reports. |
| 1:33.8 | But the more we dug into details, the more disturbing this story became. |
| 1:38.0 | Who were the people involved? |
| 1:39.4 | What actually happened in the cabin? |
| 1:41.8 | And how did law enforcement find out? Today, we are covering the |
| 1:45.9 | strange case out of LaFlor County, Oklahoma, a story that raises serious questions about consent, |
| 1:52.2 | legality, and the dark corners of the internet. I'm Ashley. And I'm Ricky. And this is Crime |
| 1:59.0 | Salad. |
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