Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 near Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4, 2023.
He was last seen alive about a mile away at a four-day 22nd birthday party with friends over the Labor Day weekend that was heavily documented on social media.
Presgrove suffered massive head and upper-body injuries that led him to die from internal bleeding, but the cause of those injuries remains a mystery.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 in Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4, 2023
The lost weekend
The party was to celebrate the 22nd birthday of Avery Jo Combs, whose family are huge landowners in the area around Terral and beyond.
Advertised to friends on Snapchat, it was held at her house - one of three on small a dirt road off the highway 1.2 miles north of town and surrounded by fields.
The group lived in the various small towns dotted along US-81, including Ryan, Waurika, Duncan, and Comanche - where Presgrove lived.
About 40 people showed up, coming and going over the course of the weekend, and videos of the increasing of the increasingly drunk antics popped up online.
A photo of Presgrove with his friends late on the Saturday night of the party
These videos, watched by many locals as they were posted, became the only record of the last hours of Presgroves life.
One of the most crucial was from the Saturday night showing some of Presgroves friends, including Avery, writing their names on his bare buttocks with marker.
At some point that the night, Presgrove got into an argument with his best friend Jack Newton after the latter didnt like that he was huddled in a corner talking to his girlfriend Carter Combs - Averys sister.
We argued about girls for a second then ended up holding each other crying telling each other how much we meant to one another, Jack told a friend in the weeks after Presgroves death.
Presgrove drove home late that night and showered, but it was not clear how much of the stubborn marker he was able to get off in the shower.
One of the most crucial was from the Saturday night showing some of Presgroves friends, including Avery, writing their names on his bare buttocks with marker
We argued about girls for a second then ended up holding each other crying telling each other how much we meant to one another, Jack told a friend in the weeks after Presgroves death
Sunday night, identified in videos by the black shorts he was wearing, involved more drunken hijinks, including Presgrove daring friends to slap him across the face as they partied under an outside patio at the house.
Presgrove had to repeatedly insist that a male friend named Bryan Sweat hit him, eventually only giving him a light tap before sprinting away in fear of retaliation.
About the same time, a concerning video appeared to show a teenager holding a rifle with Presgrove visible in the foreground.
Presgrove fought at another point in the night after another friend, Mikey, accused him of hiding his phone.
Presgroves family claimed Mikey fishhooked him, and had his finger bitten in retaliation - but some friends insisted the argument was never physical.
The phone was found under another friend who was sleeping on a couch, and the two boys made up.
The slap video was posted at 1.42am, according to those who watched it in real time, and was the last known post for about two hours.
Presgrove daring friends to slap him across the face as they partied under an outside patio at the house. This was posted at 1.42am and is the last known video of him alive
Another concerning photo appears to show a teenager holding a rifle with Presgrove visible in the foreground
The ATV accident
The story of the ATV accident is so universally agreed upon that it made it into the autopsy report, along with Presgrove coming out of it unscathed.
Earlier that night he [was riding in an ATV] and he flipped it but then after that he was just hanging out at the house, Stephanie Milan, one of the girls who was there, wrote in a Snapchat message to an inquiring local.
Like he turned it on its side but they flipped it back on its wheels.
But the details, and what happened afterwards, vary wildly depending on who you talk to - some saying it happened about midnight and others at 3am.
Jack, who owned the Polaris Ranger side-by-side, said it had to have happened after he went to bed about 1.50am.
I took my keys out of the SxS and apparently Noah came in my room and grabbed them while I was asleep. A bunch of people went and drove the Ranger and wrecked it, he told DailyMail.com in an interview.
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Earlier that night he [was riding in an ATV] and he flipped it but then after that he was just hanging out at the house, Stephanie Milan, one of the girls who was there, wrote in a Snapchat message to an inquiring local
Presgrove argued with Avery (pictured) after he asked to sleep in her bed, but she refused and told him he had to sleep on the floor
Jack said he went to bed early because he was going fishing on Waurika Lake, about 30 miles north of Terral, with his father the next morning.
Presgrove is generally agreed to be the one driving the Ranger when it flipped, and though he wasnt injured, he was dirtied from when it hit the ground.
Carter and Jasmine Milan are said to have helped him shower to clean the dirt off as he was too drunk to do it himself.
Averys mother Stevie Howard wrote in a Facebook comment that a video was posted online that showed them showering him, though it has not emerged since.
Others said they remembered seeing the video at the time, but some of them claimed Presgrove was barely responsive.
The autopsy report said only a stick figure drawn in marker on his back was still visible on his body when it was found.
When and how the names and doodles scribbled on him on the Saturday night, along with more on his front visible in a photo from the Sunday, were washed off is still a matter of considerable debate.
After showering, his friends said Presgrove put on a different pair of shorts - described as being white in the autopsy report - and no underwear. Jack described them as loose-fitting wrestling shorts.
Jack with his fiancée, and Averys sister, Carter Combs
Presgrove soon after argued with Avery after he asked to sleep in her bed, but she refused and told him he had to sleep on the floor
Presgrove soon after argued with Avery after he asked to sleep in her bed, but she refused and told him he had to sleep on the floor.
She told him he couldnt sleep in her bed because he messed with her friend the night before, Jack told a friend earlier this year.
The argument upset him, and he wandered off into the night to cool off, never to be seen alive again.
He walked off to clear his head but he wasnt mad and there was no beef... We dont know why he got mad. No one had beef, Stephanie wrote in her Snapchat message.
Exactly when Presgrove left the party is unclear, but his friends gave estimates of between 3.15am and 3.30am.
The mismatched shoes
Presgrove was found naked by the side of the road with only a pair of shoes on, the shorts having fallen off on the middle of the road nearby.
One was his Adidas slip-on, and the other was a HeyDude branded slip-on.
Presgrove couldnt find his other Adidas shoe, and so impulsively pulled on one he found lying around the house, his friends said.
Elisha Lee earlier this year explained the other shoe belonged to her son, the friend who was asleep on the couch and was earlier lying on Mikeys phone.
A video showing the HeyDude shoes one of the party guests was wearing before they kicked them off and fell asleep on the couch. Presgrove took one of them when he left the party when he couldnt find one of his, and it was found with his body
The shoes shown on the photo are my sons and on his feet. He had just had ACL and meniscus surgery and was wearing a pink knee brace, as seen on this Snapchat video provided to the OHP, she wrote, sharing one of the videos of the night.
One of these shoes sits on a shelf in my sons closet. The other was found on Noah.
When my son went to sleep, in this chair that evening, he kicked off his shoes and went to sleep.
When he was awoken by the sounds of his friend stating Noah was gone, he found his shoe was missing.
Presgrove goes missing
Presgroves friends said he had a habit of wandering off from social gatherings and for a while they didnt think that night was any different.
Jasmine posted a selfie to Snapchat at 3.41am with the caption well, Noahs missing, which continues to fuel condemnation a year later.
I just want to make something clear I posted this picture not knowing that the worst was gonna happen, not knowing Noah would never come back, she later wrote in a Facebook post defending herself.
It was normal for Noah to wonder off nobody thought he wouldnt be back. So dont even think for a second just because I posted that means I know what happened to him because Im just as clueless as everyone else.
Jasmine posted this selfie to Snapchat at 3.41am with the caption well, Noahs missing, which continues to fuel condemnation a year later
Im sick of it. Noah was my friend and I loved him so much. it hurts that people could even think that any of us could have done anything to hurt him. we all loved Noah.
Someone is really out there thinking they got away with murder because yall are blaming us for something we didnt do.
Jack told a friend those still awake eventually did go looking for him, but were still not in fear of his safety.
After he was gone for a while, everyone was looking for him, they said, but knowing Noah I bet he was kidding and didnt let anyone find him, he wrote.
He told DailyMail.com his ATV was even part of the search: They said they took my Ranger to look for him in the ditches and stuff, but knowing Noah he was probably seeing everyone looking for him and was just hiding out.
The friends said they didnt find him and returned to the house, assuming hed eventually turn up.
Presgroves family claimed they saw a video of Avery and Carter screaming at each other on the front porch about him walking off, but the footage has never emerged.
Presgroves best friend Jack Newton, who insists he was asleep when the teenager died, summarized the basic chain of events to a friend weeks after the party
Jack told a friend those still awake eventually did go looking for him, but were still not in fear of his safety
Presgroves body is found - the 911 calls
Presgrove was only found when two vehicles traveling along US-81 spotted his body by the side of the road in the early hours of the morning and called 911.
The two callers were Gulfmark Energy field supervisor Tyler Hardy, and a semi-truck driver also named Tyler, who didnt give his last name to the 911 operator.
Three calls were placed from the area, but one of them was just 20 seconds of static that local police said was Hardy on a bad signal.
He had a bad connection and he to re-call. I confirmed it was the same phone number, he said.
The first call, at 5.43am, was from Tyler, whom Hardy earlier said was a trucker for Oklahoma Petroleum Allies who turned around in Terral, about two miles south, and came back to the scene.
I had a bunch of cars behind me, but it looks like someone got hit, like somebody walking down the highway, [they are] lying on the shoulder in the road, he said.
Yeah, like on the shoulder, like maybe they were walking and somebody hit them… unless it was a deer, but it looked like a body.
Gulfmark Energy field supervisor Tyler Hardy (pictured with his wife Mallory) was the first known person to find Presgroves body, and called 911 at 5:48 am
The dispatcher assured Tyler that she would have an officer respond to the situation, and then said Sheriff Wilson was on his way.
Before the call ended, Tyler remarked that the scene looked awful odd.
Hardy, who was one of the cars behind Tyler, pulled over next to Presgrove and called 911 at 5.48am, immediately trying again after his first call failed.
I was driving to work south of Terral, and I am pretty sure someone is lying dead on the side of the road, he said.
They look naked, I’m staying back.
The dispatcher told him that a deputy was heading toward the scene to address the situation.
Hardy responded that he was parked in the middle of the road, so he could prevent other motorists from driving over the body.
I am sitting here blocking the road. The body is lying right on the white line... I turned around because I just about hit it, he said.
At first, I thought it was a deer, and I was talking to a guy I work with and said, "I dont think that is a deer."
Presgrove was a high school football player until his graduation in May
Hardy then told the dispatcher that it actually looks like theres a piece of clothing lying in the middle of the road.
I don’t want to get too close… I’ll just go ahead and make sure nobody runs it over or anything else, he said.
The clothing was a pair of white shorts, according to the autopsy report, that some of Presgroves friends said he was last seen wearing.
By the time police arrived, the shorts were folded near Presgroves body, as they were described in the autopsy report.
Jack said he retrieved the shorts and folded them in the few minutes before local police arrived, to prevent vehicles running them over.
What those first on the scene saw
Hardy repeatedly insisted no one touched the body between when he saw it, and when police arrived.
I was the one who found the body so yes I can say 100 percent that nobody messed with Noah, I was the first person there, he said.
I know who and what I saw.
The married father-of-two was driving south in darkness to an early shift when he spotted something in the headlights of his Ford F-150 work pickup truck.
He pulled over to take a closer look and realized he was looking at the body of a young man, dead by the side of the road.
Hardy said Presgroves body was lying on its side, totally naked except for mismatched shoes, with a pair of shorts lying on the road about 25ft away.
Confronting photos of police chalk outlines showed where his body, marked by the white line, and at least one of his teeth, marked by the circle, were found
Presgroves body was found between the two chalk lines, and teeth within the circles. In the background is a memorial set up for the teenager
Crucially, Hardy said there was very little blood at the scene despite the teenagers massive upper-body injuries, including three skull fractures.
I called it in and so did the truck driver, we were on the phone with them at the same time, he said.
We did not leave the scene until around 10 am and nobody was messing with anything.
Less than 10 minutes after both he and the truck driver called 911, Presgroves best friend Jack Newton arrived.
Jack was the only person who walked up to to Noah, and he told me who it was, until the Terral fire and Jefferson County Sheriffs showed up, Hardy said.
Jefferson County Undersheriff Jimmy Williams was the first policeman to arrive at the scene after the two motorists saw the body and called 911.
Williams arrived at 6.18am and only took a brief look before focusing on securing the area but told DailyMail.com there was not enough blood for it to be starkly noticeable.
I didnt observe a lot [of blood] from what little I was there checking – once we determined he was in fact dead, I was just securing the location, he said.
Williams couldnt say if there was more or less blood than you would expect from Presgroves injuries, as he was not a medical expert, but it was not an obvious amount.
His observations aligned with Tyler Hardy, the first driver to stop at the scene, Presgroves best friend, Jack Newton, and others who said there was very little blood around the teens body.
A medical expert told DailyMail.com that with the injuries detailed in Presgroves autopsy report, there would have been a lot of blood at the scene.
Presgroves burial site, decorated for the first anniversary of his death
Williams also said Presgrove was not lying in the fetal position, as some people who saw the body recalled.
He was laying somewhat on his side, but I wouldnt say he was in a fetal position, no, he said, saying his legs were straight and his arms not tucked into his body.
The undersheriff said there were only five people at the scene when he arrived, and he was joined by Sheriff Jeremie Wilson six minutes later at 6.24am.
Along with the two motorists who called 911 were two Terral Rural Volunteer Fire Department officers, including its chief, who arrived at 6.15am, and Newton.
Williams said from when he arrived to when he left at 8.17am, only the sheriff and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers came to the scene.
We kept traffic moving except for people who needed to be there… not long after OHP arrived we shut the road down completely, he said.
Presgroves friends learn the bad news
Jack said he woke up ready to go fishing sometime after 5.30am and was told his best friend was missing.
I figured maybe he got a ride or something, Noahs done that before - got mad and left, he told DailyMail.com.
He was not one you usually worry about. I wasnt really thinking about it.
Jack texted his father, Caleb Newton, at 5.53am - coincidentally the same time as the 911 call - letting him know he was on his way.
Ill meet yall at the lake. Can you bring me a hat please... Someone messed with mine after I went to bed, he wrote. Caleb replied ok.
Jack texted his father, Caleb Newton, at 5.53am letting him know he was on his way
Jack assumed Presgrove was fine and left for the lake, driving north until he saw the semi-trailer and pickup by the side of the road.
In a Facebook post last week, Caleb explained how his son called him to tell him Presgrove was dead.
At about 6.05 I got a call no parent ever wants to get it was short and hard to understand him, he wrote.
I was standing on my boat in my yard, I know exactly where I was when that call came in.
I was getting [the] boat ready. Dad was making coffee. We were very actively getting ready to go to the lake.
Caleb wrote that he immediately called his father, who was supposed to come fishing with them, to call the trip off - but was told to swing by his house less than a mile away pick him up.
He jumped in his wifes car because it was the most readily available and gunned it the 40 minutes down the highway from Comanche.
By the time he arrived, local Jefferson County Sheriffs deputies had arrived on the scene at 6.18am and were securing the scene.
Jacks father Caleb Newton is pictured with his wife
Caleb wrote that when he arrived and saw the body, he called the teens father Victor Presgrove to break the horrific news.
Police covered the body with a tarpaulin or sheet and retrieved the shorts, which the autopsy report said were undamaged despite Presgoves injuries, from the middle of the road and neatly folded them nearby.
Presgroves family has claimed that Caleb picked up one of the teeth lying on the road, which he flatly denied.
The tooth that was on the road was not moved that I seen. I watched a police officer circle it with white chalk. I pointed out a tooth to the police, I would not have picked that up ever, he wrote.
He also said he was never at the party, as one rumor claims, and was at a cookout at a friends house south of Duncan - about an hour away - that night.
The cleanup
Caleb said he stayed at the scene for hours until it was cleared and processed before he went to the party house to retrieve Jacks ATV.
I went to inspect the utv but there were no signs of damage or cleaning it was still very dusty its an old utv if it tipped it was minor enough to not leave scratches, he wrote.
Meanwhile, Jasmine and Stephanies mother Renee Milan had arrived at the house and run off the remaining party guests and began to clean up.
The extent of the cleanup is hotly debated on social media with some claiming there was a strong smell of bleach later in the day.
Presgroves body was found about a mile north along the highway from the small street where the party was held
Renee, Stevie, and Caleb insist all that was done was clearing up beer cans and other alcohol remnants, and there was no attempt to hide a crime scene.
It wasnt like that. It was a bunch of sitting around and crying and I think people were just trying to stay busy, Stevie wrote on Facebook.
By people I mean parents cause we didnt know what to do. Not to hide anything but to help our kids. Didnt know how to help em.
Caleb said he removed the guns from the house and took them his house, then later and I got them to their owners.
There are also conflicting opinions about whether police ever searched the house.
Presgroves family claimed the Oklahoma Highway Patrol told them that as there was no evidence where his body was found linking him to the party house and no evidence a crime was committed there, they couldn’t get a search warrant.
But others claimed police were let on to the property soon after Presgroves death and were even shown where the ATV crashed - but never did a forensic search.
The ATV was finally sold in April so Jack could buy a boat.
Presgroves family claim his clothes, including his American flag shirt he wore to the party but soon took off in the summer heat, were distributed among his friends by Caleb as mementos after police examined them, and only his shorts were recovered
What happened to Presgroves clothes and belongings is also a source of controversy.
His family claim his clothes, including his American flag shirt he wore to the party but soon took off in the summer heat, were distributed among his friends by Caleb as mementos after police examined them, and only his shorts were recovered.
Caleb dismissed this as a baseless rumor, but there is no definitive answer about what happened to the rest of his clothes.
Presgrove had just bought a new phone in the days before his death, and took it and his old one to the party, leaving them behind when he wandered off.
These were recovered and examined by detectives, then returned to his family, but his family claimed his wallet was never found and the last paycheck he got was never cashed.
What they think happened
Many locals and some of his family are convinced Presgrove was beaten to death, whether as a murder or in a fight that went too far, then dumped on the highway.
Suspicion has fallen on his friends for claiming they had no idea how he died, but they insist none of them could ever hurt him.
I guess everyone at the party could be lying but I just can’t see it, Jack told a friend last year.
I mean Noah’s closest friends. And you know if everyone was lying I don’t think everyone would be so cooperative with the cops.
The OHP in May said it was not investigating Presgroves death as a murder, but that didnt rule out manslaughter.
Jack Newton, Presgroves best friend
Jack has recently told friends he is torn between Presgrove being hit in the back of the head by a passing trucks mirror or falling, or being pushed, out of a pickup truck.
Suspect in the latter include a group of party guests Presgroves friends called the Texas boys, who were friends of friends and not well known by the core group.
I’m 50/50 between a semi and the Texas boys… maybe Noah asked them for a ride or something… but even if something happened with them it was accidental, he wrote.
But man I just can’t see any kids accidentally killing someone and not calling for help.
Jack elaborated to DailyMail.com that he didnt believe they had any reason to kill him or cover up his death.
Those were good kids too, if thats what happened they would have called and tried to get help for him. They didnt really know Noah so they wouldnt have beef with him, he said.
Medical experts have dismissed the truck mirror theory as not explaining Presgroves extensive torso injuries, and believed much more damage would have been done to his head.
Jack is convinced Presgrove died where he was found, and wasnt moved form a different location and dumped to cover it up
Falling onto his head from a vehicle is considered more plausible, but Dr Stuart Fischer, an internist doctor with extensive experience in emergency medicine, said he would likely have more significant leg injuries.
Jack is convinced Presgrove died where he was found, and wasnt moved form a different location and dumped to cover it up.
Everyone is saying he was moved after he died, its impossible, Ive seen it with my own eyes the spot on the road where the back of his head hit the ground, there was a tooth found there, his necklace was all destroyed there, he told DailyMail.com.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation called Presgroves death suspicious in the days after his body was found.
A town ready to explode
As the months wore on without answers, Presgroves friends and family, along with concerned locals, grew more restless.
Multiple Facebook groups have thousands of members discussing his death around the clock with hundreds of comments a day.
Many of them are angry at the friends who were at the party, and their families, whom they accuse - largely without evidence - of covering up a crime.
Some of them were even sent threats, to which they responded angrily, and many times confronted their accusers on social media - sparking messy, all-in threads of condemnation.
This place is a volcano waiting to erupt, one concerned local told DailyMail.com.
Theres a lot of p**sed off people... Im worried our small communities are going to erupt in violence.
It has potential to be very explosive... I dont want to be anywhere near that fire when it pops off.
Jack has taken to social media many times to defend himself
Locals feel OHP released its statement, its first update in eight months, saying the case was not a murder investigation in an attempt to calm tensions.
Presgroves family also tried to put a lid on the angst after the autopsy report was released.
We understand peoples frustration with the pace of the investigation, his aunt Robyn Smith wrote on Facebook.
This is not an open and shut case. According to some accounts, there were as many as 40+ people in and out of that party. That makes for a large pool of people to question.
A lot of the stories being told do not align with one another, so having to decipher whos telling the truth is a whole other matter in itself.
Presgrove (left) poses with Jack during the party
Smith said she had full faith that investigators were doing their best and dismissed rumors they were being paid off as ridiculous.
A team of 15 investigators is working on this case, along with the OSBI, she claimed.
No matter how well-off some may represent themselves to the community, there is not enough money in those pockets to buy off that many officials or two agencies.
Please be kind, and remember, these are the men and women trying to find resolution for Noahs family and friends.
Presgroves injuries
Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner Leonardo Roquero ruled Presgrove died of multiple blunt force injuries, but how he got them was undetermined.
His autopsy report released on May 13 detailed extensive injuries to the teens upper body, including 10 broken ribs, serious skull, neck, and spine fractures, internal bleeding, brain and organ damage, and cuts and grazes all over his body.
There was one extensive skull fracture running across his head, splitting the middle base of skull into two, and two smaller ones, with police investigators describing his head as being caved in.
Presgrove suffered external injuries to his face and head that night. The most serious was the chunk of scalp that was torn off his head all the way down to the bone that coincided with the massive internal injuries to his skull and brain that were at their worst at the top and back of the head. The piece of scalp and hair was found on the highway feet away. Many of Presgroves teeth were also broken and some were knocked out and found on the road
Presgrove is believed to have died from massive internal bleeding before his other injuries had a chance to end his life. All up, he lost at least 3.2 pints of blood from two punctured lungs, damage to vital organs, and extensive tissue damage. A man Presgroves size has about 12.6 pints of blood, and would generally die after losing half of it - though as little as a third can lead to death
He had about 20ml, or 0.68oz, of blood pooled inside his head from a brain bleed, damage to four parts of the brain itself.
There was also air in both his cranial cavity and spinal cord, extremely rare conditions only caused by massive head trauma.
Both lungs were punctured and he had internal injuries to his heart, spleen, and stomach and internal bleeding of at least 1,550ml - about 3.2 pints.
A man Presgroves size has about 12.6 pints of blood, and would generally die after losing half of it - though as little as a third can lead to death.
The skin on left side of his scalp was torn off to the bone and a clump of hair and skin was found in the middle of the highway.
Additionally, a clump of hair was observed on the right buttock without blood or tissue, Roquero wrote.
Both his upper and lower teeth were broken with few fragments and found inside the mouth and others strewn across the road several feet from his body.
He was bleeding out of his ears and had a cut on his lower lip and one on his tongue.
There was one extensive skull fracture running across his head, splitting the middle base of skull into two, and two smaller ones, with police investigators describing his head as being caved in. The large fracture is known as a hinge type for its distinctive shape. Presgrove also suffered damage to a muscle on the side of his head, which is used for chewing
The skull fractures and scalp tearing caused bleeding inside his head both above and below the skull. The most was at the back of his head in whats known as a subdural hemorrhage - below the dural layer under the skull that carries fluid around the cranium - where there was 20ml, or 0.68oz, of blood pooled. There was also air in both his cranial cavity and spinal cord, extremely rare conditions only caused by massive head trauma
Presgroves C1, C2, C6, C7 vertebrae were fractured to varying degrees and C1 was displaced - indicating a seriously broken neck of the same kind that people who are executed by hanging suffer.
He had road rash on upper back and abrasions from grazes on his left shoulder, left arm, left side of torso, and both buttocks.
Other grazes were on his left eyebrow, corner of the left eye and left cheek, left ear, right neck, and behind his right ear.
Presgrove had healed abrasions and scabs on his nose, both hands and knuckles, left foot and heel, round healing ulcer on right thigh - all of which predated the injuries from that night.
Presgroves C1, C2, C6, C7 vertebrae were fractured to varying degrees and C1 was displaced with his head being pushed forward from his spine - indicating a seriously broken neck of the same kind that people who are executed by hanging suffer
Presgrove suffered fractured to nine vertebrae in his spine, mostly at the back of the bones in the knobs you can feel if you touch your spine with your hand. There were also fractures to 10 ribs - all close to the spine and mostly in the upper back
Roquero wrote that there were no vehicle parts or debris observed on the scene, indicating Presgrove was almost certainly not hit by a car.
He was naked and was only wearing unmatching shoes. There was a pair of shorts found several feet from the decedent and was reported to be his, Roquero wrote.
Additionally, there were three pieces of a white metal chain as well as part of a tooth present several feet from the decedent.
Roquero noted there was a drawing in black ink of a stick-figure person on the side of the right thigh.
The shorts he was wearing were undamaged, despite the grazes on his buttocks, and the slip-on shoes had grass and other debris lodged in them.
Presgrove had a blood alcohol level of 0.14, but no drugs in his system.
Presgrove had a blood alcohol level of 0.14, but no drugs in his system
Confronting photos of police chalk outlines showed his teeth were found scattered across the highway, some a dozen feet from his body.
Farther away still is a spot of blood - the only blood found at the scene despite the extensive injuries all over his upper body.
Family pleas
Presgroves family complained his friends all claimed to have no idea what happened to him and how he ended up dead by the roadside just hours later.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation described his death as suspicious days later, but few details have been released about the investigation.
Even Presgroves family said they were in the dark and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol refused to provide any details to maintain the integrity of the investigation.
The longer you keep the truth inside, the guiltier you become… you could aid in getting justice for Noah, Rawlings said.
You could do the right thing and may receive a mercy that was not given to him, but the longer we sit in silence, the worse it becomes for you.
I hope those involved see that we are not budging and the silence fuels our desire to know more.
I miss Noah daily. This is the hardest chapter of my life, but I am thankful that I have a family that will not give up on each other.
Presgroves grandmother Deborah Smith also called on his friends to tell the whole story about what happened the night he died.
When you think you have friends that you trust with all your heart and then here it comes. Sorry Noah that some of your true friends stabbed you in the back, she said.
A piece of my heart is missing and every day that goes by and Noah doesnt walk through the door and still no answer just takes another piece of my heart.
Presgroves aunt Robyn Smith (center) and grandmother Deborah Smith (right) appealed for answers more than seven months after his death
Presgrove and his friends graduated from Comanche High School just a few months earlier and his family said he planned to join the military
His aunt Robyn Smith begged anyone with information to at least tell the police so his family would have answers.
We lost an amazing young man to the horrible choices of others, please do not let us lose out on justice, she said.
Weve heard so many different stories, but we have yet to hear the truth. The whole truth. Which we deserve.
I know its scary and I know its hard, but we deserve to know what happened. Noah deserves to have his story told. We will not stop searching and asking. We will not stop demanding. It will come out.