Inset: Kore Bommeli Adams (Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Adams appears in court in Dane County, Wisconsin (Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office).
An Oklahoma murder case involving a missing roommate, dismembered remains and a freezer abandoned in the woods has ended with a prison sentence for the woman accused in the killing.
Kore Bommeli Adams, 64, pleaded no contest in Wagoner County to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 53-year-old Talina Galloway, along with desecration of a human corpse and possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
Adams was ordered to serve 35 years in prison in Wisconsin, where she is already incarcerated in a separate case, regional Fox affiliate KOKI reported.
The case began on April 17, 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was dominating national attention. Adams reported Galloway missing and told investigators her roommate had said she had the coronavirus and planned to go to “her favorite lake to be alone,” according to the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office.
Adams also allegedly claimed Galloway had been tested for COVID-19 and instructed to quarantine. But Wagoner County investigators said they found that Galloway “was never screened at any hospital for COVID-19 and there was no contact with her doctor.”
Nearly two months later, on June 8, 2020, a witness about 150 miles away in a forest near Mena, Arkansas, noticed a pickup truck pulling a small enclosed trailer. The person “was suspicious of the activity” and recorded details including “a foul odor coming from the trailer” and “a foul-smelling thick liquid pooled in the floor.”
The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office said the witness alerted the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas, but the trailer was not examined further at the time. The investigation would take another major turn on Jan. 14, 2021.
On that day, “the same witness was walking in the woods and came upon a white box type freezer with the lid taped shut,” the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office said. Once again, a “foul smell” emanated, and when the witness gave a tag number of the vehicle, authorities realized it was registered to Galloway.
Deputies responded and “discovered what appeared to be dismembered human remains inside the freezer.” The Arkansas State Medical Examiner identified the human remains as Galloway’s, and the manner of death was determined to be a homicide.
The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office spoke with Adams, and the agency said in August 2021 that the woman “exhibited suspicious behavior, gave inconsistent statements, and later was proven to be deceptive in her reporting of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance.”
“Investigators soon realized that Kore Bommeli knew much more than she was sharing with investigators,” the Oklahoma deputies added. Adams “subsequently broke off communications with investigators, and refused to cooperate.”
Authorities searched for Adams and learned that she was in the area of Dane County, Wisconsin. Deputies there arrested her and charged her with first-degree murder.
On June 27, 2025, Adams was found guilty of two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide after “trying to kill her neighbors with poison in April 2014,” per the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office. “Prosecutors said Kore Bommeli Adams put ricin around her neighbors’ home in the spring of 2014 while they were on vacation.”
Adams is also serving 35 years in Wisconsin in that case, Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH reported. Her new sentence in Oklahoma is due to be served at the same time.
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