Two sisters narrowly escaped death on the very same stretch of an Oklahoma highway where their friend's naked body was later discovered bearing mysterious and violent injuries.

Noah Presgrove, 19, was found alongside US-81 near Terral, Oklahoma, on 4th September 2023, just hours after he had been partying late into the night with a group of friends approximately a mile away.

Presgrove was discovered naked, having sustained severe head and upper body injuries that ultimately proved fatal due to internal trauma. The precise cause of those injuries remains a mystery to this day.

The gathering had been hosted by Presgrove's close friends, sisters Avery Jo Combs and Carter, in honour of Avery's 22nd birthday.

In a chilling twist of fate, the two sisters had themselves come perilously close to tragedy just a fortnight before Presgrove's death, when they were involved in a three-car collision. Carter was subsequently airlifted to hospital with serious head and chest injuries.

On the night of 13th August 2023, Avery was behind the wheel of her pickup truck, waiting to turn left off US-81 onto the gravel access road leading to their home, when the sisters were suddenly struck from behind by a lorry. The impact sent them careering into the southbound lane, where a second vehicle T-boned them, according to police reports filed at the time.

The collision occurred just approximately 0.8 miles south of where Presgrove's body would later be found. At the time of the crash, Carter, then 19, was seated on the passenger side — the very side struck by the second vehicle — and required immediate emergency medical attention.

She was airlifted to Denton Regional Medical Center, just outside Dallas, where she was admitted in a stable condition with head and chest injuries.

Officers at the time confirmed that all others involved in the collision sustained minor injuries at most, were treated locally and subsequently discharged.

A fortnight later, on that very same stretch of highway that had witnessed a serious accident, police were called out once more, on this occasion to discover Presgrove's body.

Close friends of Presgrove who attended the party have consistently maintained they have no knowledge of how the teenager died.

While the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is not treating Presgrove's death as a homicide, his family has remained steadfast in their belief that he was beaten to death and his body disposed of.

Presgrove's sister, Maddison Rawlings, had launched a wrongful death lawsuit against four of his friends and three parents last June. Two of the friends named in the suit were Carter and Avery.

injuries to Noah's head, as well as fractured ribs, patches of missing hair and his eeth that had been knocked out, reports People.com.

They stood accused of supplying Presgrove with alcohol "even after he was already intoxicated" and failing in their duty of care, according to the Daily Mail.

Presgrove's autopsy report revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.14.

The six-page complaint provided no evidence that Presgrove had been beaten to death, and no further proof has come to light since his body was discovered, beyond the nature of his injuries. All defendants rejected any responsibility in their preliminary responses to the legal action, which remains in the discovery stage.