17-year-old recruited 2 others to ‘get rid of’ her parents in OK, feds say
Three people in Oklahoma have been sentenced to prison after officials say one of them recruited the other two to kill her parents.
Ashlie Nicole Rose Martin, 22, was sentenced to 38 years in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit murder, Chad Jon’Dale Voyles, 23, was sentenced to 35 years on one count of murder, and Bryson Noel Miller, 19, was sentenced to 25 years on one count of murder, according to a July 16 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
McClatchy News reached out to attorneys for Martin and Voyles but did not immediately hear back. Miller’s attorney declined to comment due to a pending case.
The three were sentenced in the 2020 deaths of Curtis Lee Martin and Sherrie Pyron.
On Dec. 22, 2020, Ashlie Martin, who was 17 at the time, recruited 18-year-old Voyles and 15-year-old Miller to kill her parents, prosecutors said.
Martin sent text messages saying she was looking for help with “trying to get rid of (her) parents,” according to an indictment.
One text she sent to Voyles said “kill my mother and take out my father then get what (you) need take one at a time put into the (hole) then the next one,” according to court records.
That evening, Martin let Voyles and Miller into her home through a window, officials said. As Pyron was sleeping on a couch, Miller and Voyles beat her to death, prosecutors said.
The three then buried her in a shallow grave before cleaning up and getting rid of evidence, according to officials.
As Martin made plans to flee, Voyles and Miller waited for her father, Curtis Lee Martin, to get home. When he arrived, the two “ambushed and fired at him with a compound bow and field-tipped arrow,” prosecutors said.
A struggle between Voyles and Curtis Lee Martin ensued, then Miller struck him in the head with a dumbbell, according to officials. The two then poured gasoline on him and set him and the house on fire, prosecutors said.
“The defendants’ actions were brutal and horrifying,” U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Wilson said. “Although nothing can erase the effects of these crimes or ease these families’ agony, the sentences imposed remove three very dangerous people from our community for a very long time.”
According to court records initially filed in Choctaw County District Court, Ashlie Martin was in a relationship with Miller and she was pregnant, which her parents were unhappy about, The Oklahoman reported. She told Miller killing her parents was the “only way that (they) could be together and raise their child,” an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in an affidavit, according to the outlet.
This story was originally published July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM.
