Oklahoma City, OK: Police find missing Oklahoma City woman’s car

The blue 2001 Ford Focus hatchback belonging to Angela Biggers, 48, was found Monday at an Oklahoma City apartment complex, police said. Biggers’ boyfriend, Ronald Seth Banks, 34, was arrested Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, on a murder warrant in connection with her presumed death.

BY MICHAEL KIMBALL
Published: December 14, 2010
The man arrested on a murder warrant in the presumed death of his girlfriend told a relative who urged him to surrender to police that, “The only thing going for me is no body, no crime,” according to an affidavit filed Monday in Oklahoma County.

Police find missing Oklahoma City woman’s car
Ronald Seth Banks, 34, remained jailed Monday in Tarrant County, Texas, in the disappearance and presumed death of Angela Biggers, 48. Oklahoma City police Capt. Patrick Stewart said investigators think Banks killed Biggers, but her body has not been found. Banks has not been charged.
Police found Biggers’ blue 2001 Ford Focus hatchback Monday morning at an apartment complex at SE 15 and High Avenue, Stewart said. The car was taken to a police evidence barn.
Banks was arrested Saturday at a bus station in Fort Worth, Texas, Stewart said. Oklahoma City detectives were in Fort Worth attempting to interview him.
Biggers’ family reported her missing Wednesday. She told family members two days earlier that Banks had beaten her up, and she had visible injuries on her head, neck and face, according to the affidavit. Biggers also told a friend that day that Banks was at her house on the porch, police investigator Cris Cunningham wrote in the affidavit.
No one has reported seeing or hearing from Biggers since that call.
A friend found the front door kicked at Biggers home, 2326 NW 35, on Wednesday, according to the affidavit.
Banks began making phone calls to friends and family beginning last Tuesday morning, Cunningham wrote.
He told friends and family that “something bad happened,” and that he did not want to go back to prison but would not answer when a friend asked him if he had hurt or killed someone.
Banks also went to a friend’s house about dinnertime that day and asked the friend to put a shovel and two baseball bats in his backyard, according to the affidavit.
In other conversations with a family member, Banks made comments about “doing something stupid” and that he “didn’t mean for it to happen,” Cunningham wrote. Banks asked the family member for money to leave town, but the relative encouraged him to surrender to police.
According to the affidavit, the family member asked Banks about Biggers’ car and told Banks that Biggers might report the car stolen, according to the affidavit. Banks replied, “That will never happen; she won’t be reporting anything stolen.”
Banks was convicted in 1993 in Cleveland County on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. He was arrested in 1999 and 2003 on complaints of violating a protective order.
CONTRIBUTING: STAFF WRITER ROBERT MEDLEY