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[Music] on the 29th of January 1999 best friends Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman had a
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sleepover at Ashley's house to celebrate her 16th birthday Ashley's parents Donnie and Cathy Freeman were also at
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the house which was actually a trailer on a rural property in Welsh located in Craig County Oklahoma USA it was a
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remote area it was a pretty quiet uneventful night of eating cake and watching TV nothing seemed out of the
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ordinary but about 6:00 a.m. the next morning a neighbor reported that the Freeman house was on fire
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emergency services rushed to the scene and found the body of Catherine frame but where would Danny and Laura and
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Ashley [Music] Laure Bible and Ashley Freeman grew up in Vinita a town in crate gianni
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oklahoma the population at the time was about six and a half thousand people laura was born on the 18th of april 1983
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ashley was born later that year on the 29th of december 1983 lauren ashley first met each other in kindergarten
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they formed an instant bond and were basically inseparable ever since they only got closer as time went on and were
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the best of friends about as close as friends could get lauren bible Laura's mother says that Lauren Ashley would
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call each other at least once a week what one was thinking the other was thinking when one of them started a
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sentence the other one would be able to finish it they attended the same schools
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and spent every waking minute together throughout their early school years but then in 1995 Ashley's parents decided to
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make the move to Welsh still in Craig County Oklahoma about 32 kilometres away or 20 miles Welsh was a rural area with
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a population of about 600 at the time the Freeman's moved into a trailer on a rural property that they owned which was
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about 40 acres in size it was a pretty isolated remote quiet spot it was a testing time for the girls friendship
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but they got through it they remained best of friends and still managed to see each other quite regularly they called
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each other on the phone almost daily Laura and Ashley were your typical teenage girls I love hair makeup
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shopping clothes the usual stuff both were also very good students are now in the top 10% of their classes Laura was a
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cheerleader and had a passion and love for animals absolutely was more of an athletic type that she was in the
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basketball team she loved hunting as well she shot a first year around the age of 12 actually also had a job at a
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local convenience store and she hoped to save enough money by the time she turned
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16 to buy a car Ashley's mother Cathy Freeman was described as a loving and caring person
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she was a hard worker and was the main breadwinner for the family her father Dan Freeman he was known to have a
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little bit of a violent temper actually also had an older brother Shane he was three years older than her and after
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moving to Welsh there were a few issues starting to happen in the Freeman household there were reports of friction
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between Ashley and her father not only that there was friction between her father and a brother in 1998 Shane ran
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away from home Danny rang the local sheriff's office to report Shane missing and they located him shortly after but
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Shane had injuries he reported to the local deputy that he had run away because his father had whipped him for
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disobeying him and his injuries were significant enough that there was bleeding coming through his underwear as
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a result Danny Freeman was charged with assaulting chained and a court date was set for the next year in 1999 but about
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four months later on January 8th 1999 the Freeman household would be devastated train had started to develop
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a bit of a taste for theft and on January 8th 1999 he stole his neighbor's vehicle and a gun
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[Music] a little while later deputy David Hayes from Tri County Sheriff's Department
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spotted the vehicle on the side of the road he made his approach he pulled up and got out but almost immediately shank
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in front of him and pulled a gun deputy Hayes drew his gun and screamed at Shane to drop it
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Shane refused forcing deputy Hayes to fire Shane died almost instantly an investigation by the County District
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Attorney found the deputy Hayes was acting in self-defense and the shooting was justified this was devastating for
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the Freeman family and actually really struggled to come to terms with the death of a brother
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Laura played a big part in helping a friend through that tough time the freeman family refused to believe the
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shooting was in self-defense they had grave doubts about the deputy's version of events they were of the
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belief it was a cold-blooded murder I can't find any information as to what made the friendlies think this if there
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was something in particular that led them to believe it but it's not unusual in cases of police shootings it's a
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natural and understandable reaction from the family to blame the police not their
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dead loved one the freeman family started the post silent around town saying justice for Shane they really
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started to make noise about it and as a result a little bit of a feud started between the local sheriff's office and
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the Freeman family about a month after the shooting Danny Freeman was arrested after driving around attempting to find
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out where deputy David Haye he's lived in response to that the local deputies started the city outside the Freeman
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house in their patrol cars the tension was starting to run north later that year Danny still had the face court on
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the charge of assaulting Shane but he was acquitted Laura played a huge part in lobbying Ashley came to terms with
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her brother's loss throughout that year and towards the end of the year on the 29th of December it was time to
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celebrate Ashley's 16th birthday Ashley was still grieving she didn't feel like doing much she didn't want a party
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instead deciding to spend the day with her mother Kathy and of course Laura I went into town they went shopping they
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ate they spend the day together the girls decided that they wanted to have a sleepover and so after finishing up in
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town they stopped in at Laura's home and she got permission from her parents to sleep over at Ashley's house for a
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birthday it was about 7 p.m. Laura was driving she was 16 she had her own car and she drove herself
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Ashley's she also took her purse with her and about two hundred dollars in cash and so Laura made away.the Ashley's
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place and they continued the birthday celebrations all still very low-key they ate cake and they watch the hunting
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show on TV a little while later Ashley's boyfriend Jeremy Hurst turned up and gave Ashley her birthday present he
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stayed for a little while before leaving at about 9:30 p.m. he said everything was normal it was a quiet night just
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Laura and Ashley and Ashley's parents hearing and talking and watching TV nothing crazy going on at all everything
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appeared normal until about 6 a.m. the next morning Thursday the 30th of December 1999 about 6:00 a.m. that next
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morning a neighbor of the Freeman's called in to report the Freeman trailer was on fire it was still dark before
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sunrise there was a remote isolated area so the neighbor wasn't close but a trailer on fire
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obviously he's hard to miss Stevens from a long way away well volunteer firefighters rushed to the scene when
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they got there the frame and trailer was still well alight but they managed to put it out the Craig County Sheriff's
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Office arrived soon after and a crime scene was established the area was taped off there was about 7:30 a.m. when the
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Rimbaud we'll get a phone call that would turn her family's life upside down her son called
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her at work to tell her the frame and trailer had been destroyed by fire pretty much as soon as she hung up local
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deputy arrived to tell her the bad news in person and the one body had been located but he didn't have too much more
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information Lorraine immediately called her husband and they rushed to the scene when they
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got there still in a state of shock and panic they saw it was taped off and there were a lot of deputy standing
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around but no one seemed to be doing too much no one was searching through the debris
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the bible's were panic and immediately questioned deputies about what they were doing to find their daughter the hotel
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the investigation would not be starting until an agent arrived from the Oklahoma
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State Bureau of Investigation otherwise known as the OSBI you see the deputies were well aware of what the Freeman
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family thought of them after Shane's death and they deemed it a bit of conflict of interest for them do
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investigate they refused to handle the matter and instead called in the OSBI the OSBI is the state law enforcement
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agency for Oklahoma independent of the local county departments this decision by Clay County Sheriff's Department may
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not have been the greatest as we'll see later the agent from the OSBI who would come to be in charge of the
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matter of his agent Steve another he arrived at the scene and the investigation commenced the body they
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had located was identified to be Cathy Freeman and by about 5:30 p.m. that afternoon they had decided that they had
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concluded their investigation of the scene they had collected all the evidence they possibly could and Cathy's
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body was removed they told the bible's that they were 100% sure that there are no other bodies in the house as far as
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the bible's could see though no search was conducted of the 40-acre property the Freeman's lived on the police were
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only worried about the trailer and the immediate surrounding area so Laura's father organized to field the local
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Rangers and they searched some of the property on horseback themselves but there was no trace of Danny or the girls
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so this raised from serious alarm bells for people went to sleep in the trailer that night three were unaccounted for
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where with Danny Laura and Ashley the Bibles were taken back to the police station when they were interviewed by
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OSBI agents they were interviewed till around midnight obviously a million things have been
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running through their minds but the number one thing was that Danny may have killed his wife and abducted the girls
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that was the only thing making sense at the time otherwise what else could it be
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there was a problem with that theory though but Danny and Cathy's cars were still parked in the driveway as was
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Laura's car it even still had the keys in the ignition remember this is a remote area and they didn't own any
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other cars so how did Danny get away with the girls the RAM model also informed the OSBI
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agents that she was aware Danny had a history with drug use and maybe a little bit of drug dealing this immediately
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raised the possibility of another scenario a drug deal gone bad it did make sense and it would explain what
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Danny Cathy and Laura's cars were still there if someone else had gone there and
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maybe taken with someone there Danny theory ended the drug theory these were the two that were making the most sense
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at the time much more sense than the other possibilities a random attack that seemed pretty unlikely it was a remote
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location what are the chances of someone just stumbling across the Freeman's trailer what about the possibility of
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the girls being responsible for this well that was unimaginable not Lauren Ashley there's no way they could have
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done it earlier that next morning the 31st of December agent neither received some shocking
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news Cathy didn't die from the fire she died from a shotgun blast to the head the time of death was estimated to be at
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5:00 a.m. on the 30th it was also confirmed the fire was deliberately lit an accelerant had been used
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not long after receiving Nadine phone the police got their first tip-off someone had calling in to say that they
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saw Danny Freeman in a white Ford truck with both Laura and Ashley inside the caller said they saw them about 7:00
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a.m. so now the police the bible's and relatives of the Freeman family thought they had their in stop Danny murdered
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Kathy set the house on fire and abducted the girls seem the likely scenario but that's not what happened also early that
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morning on the 31st of December the bottles returned to the Freeman property there was no longer a crime scene or the
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police and investigators have gone just imagine what horrible thoughts and feelings they were going through they
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went back to the scene just to look around and just in the hope maybe the police missed something surely there's
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got to be a sign of the girls and what happened they needed answers they needed to know where their daughter was well
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they found an answer all right they found a very big in sir not long after arriving at the frame of
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property and sifting through the debris they found the burned body of Danny Freeman staring back at them this was a
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major major problem it was already friction between the Freeman's and the local sheriff's department and for that
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reason they called him the OSBI to take over the matter and to avoid any conflicts of interest but something else
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between them they managed to miss Danny from his body which took the Bible's all
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of about five minutes before and when they started sifting through the debris somebody failed miserably
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the Bible's called Craig County Sheriff's Office again and they arrived shortly after another crime scene was
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established and the OSBI was called back in the Bible's were told to leave the area because it was a crime scene but
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they refused the Wren raised a good point saying we let you do your job yesterday and look how well you did the
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Bible's weren't going anywhere their daughter's body could very well beam amongst that debris
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it was determined tuned after that Danny Freeman had also been killed with a shotgun blast to the head his charred
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body was found near where his wife's body was found in the bedroom no shotgun was found nearby ruling out
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murder-suicide now imagine what the Bible's are thinking if the police missed Danny's body they've probably
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missed Lauren Ashley's body as well an extensive search was carried out of the scene but by the end of it the Bible's
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were told the police were a hundred percent sure there were no other bodies on sight I'm not too sure how comforting
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that was for the Bible's because that they had heard that story before the Bible's grisly discovery had put an
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end to the theory that Danny had murdered his wife and abducted the girls and obviously the tip off the police had
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received earlier that morning was a false lead but it now raised the question could Lauren actually have done
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this it seemed impossible to loving caring girls good at school no history of violence
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but police had to consider it of course there was the same problem as the Danny theory how did they get away what did
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they do murdered Danny and Kathy set the trailer on fire and then run into the woods all
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the cars were still in the driveway Laura's purse was found at the scene still under money in it and her ID
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nothing was adding up the only thing that made sense if Lauren Ashley were responsible was that it was self-defense
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what if Danny and Kathy had gotten into an argument Danny had shot Kathy then Ashley
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defending your mother shot Danny Ashley wasn't avid hunter and she had her own guns it still seemed crazy but it had to
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be conceded [Music] as the investigation continued police learnt that Danny had a large gun
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collection himself rifles and shotguns they're around 14 found at the scene but they wouldn't save the murder weapon was
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among them police also learned that Ashley had close to $4,000 in cash saved up hidden in the freezer that was the
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money she was going to use to buy a car but that money was gone there was no sign of it someone who knew it was there
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had taken it the Freeman family Ashley's uncle and grandmother had their own theory which was pretty bizarre they
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were convinced the local sheriff's department was responsible finally putting an end to the bitter feud
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they've been having with the family since change death Danny's brother Amos said that just prior to his death
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Danny had an animated discussion with him and said if anything ever happens to me look at the Sheriff's Department
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Danny's brother said Danny was deadly serious when he said this pointing finger in his face obviously Danny could
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easily have just been letting off steam by saying this being a bit worked up in a heated discussion tensions were high
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with the Sheriff's Department and it could be a natural thing to say it then came out that the freeman family were
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actually trying to save enough money to file a wrongful death suit in relation to change death they only had one week
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left to come up with the money to file the suit otherwise a year would have passed since change death and they would
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no longer be out before Danny's rather said the local deputies were trying to threatening the
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intimidate Danny Freeman not to go ahead with the case the Freeman's wouldn't drop this theory and would convinced the
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local deputies who killed Danny and Kathy and buried the girl somewhere the OSBI responded and put the local
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deputies on a lie-detector test all passed with flying colors agent Steve Nutter had this to say
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all cleared themselves as a result of those examinations the overall conclusion of our efforts was that the
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Sheriff's Office had nothing to do with the murders of Danny and Kathy and did not know the whereabouts of the two
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missing girls that's a pretty far reach to think that local deputies could have murdered Danny and Kathy and then
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abducted the two girls over a wrongful death suit wrongful death suits are nothing new to police departments and
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the death had already been ruled justifiable at the time by the district attorney it seems a bit of a stretch
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clearly there was friction there and naturally the remaining members of the frame and family are going to look to
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put some blame on the local deputies the information received that the Freeman's
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were trying to come up with enough money to file a wrongful death claim was interesting it was found out that that
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amount of money they needed was $5,000 a pretty significant sum to come up with in one week it's already been mentioned
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that then he was known to be involved in drugs and maybe a little bit of dealing
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could he have gone in over his head looking for a big quick payday only to have the big deal go horribly wrong it
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was certainly possible or was it the I spell I didn't seem to think so agent no thought that nothing fit correctly if it
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was drug-related and that the very last thing anyone would want to do is abduct the two girls if it was a drug matter
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now here is providing information that we aren't but that's an incredible comment if it was a drug deal gone
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horribly wrong do you not think that the person or people responsible for shooting two people in the head and then
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burning their house down wouldn't be capable of abducting two girls of course they would be and for any number of
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reasons I don't think you need too much of an imagination to know why people capable of such horrific violence would
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want to take two sixteen-year-old girls with them by now an autopsy had been performed on Danny and it was revealed
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he had a fracture in his right collarbone indicating there could have been a fierce struggle before he was
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killed on New Year's Day the local community banded together and over 500 people
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performed a large service with the frame of property but the search turned up nothing
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it's like Laura and Ashlee disappeared off the face of the earth on Friday the 7th of January 2000 and memorial service
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was held for Danny and Kathy over 400 people were in attendance the investigation continued but the police
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had nothing no witnesses no leads no real suspects it was 18 months later when they got their first solid break or
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so they thought a couple of inmates at the local County Jail reported that they saw Ashley and Laura at a farm he not
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aware County on New Year's Eve 1999 the day after their disappearance and it wasn't any house there was a house well
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known to police it belonged to the global family who were known meth manufacturers lazy mates reported seeing
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Ashley and Laura being drugged raped and tortured at the house and apparently someone had filmed it one of the inmates
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had saw the tape police immediately applied for a search warrant and on the 26th of July 2001 they raided the Glover
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house but the only thing I found was evidence of drug manufacture they did find a spot of blood in the house and a
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sample was taken back to the lab but the lab was busy the Bible family were told
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they would have the results back in a year one whole year as if the Bible's and the rest of the frame and family
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hadn't suffered enough now they had to wonder for a whole year with this story by the inmates that a local county was
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true and if that blood belonged area Ashley or Laura well they suffered through the year and
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were told that it wasn't a match it wasn't Ashley or Laura's blood no trace of the girls are found in the global
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house police were back to square one like a lot of cases that garner significant media attention there were
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all types of crazy tip offs and people calling in with sightings of the girls all over the country these calls only
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got worse when a $50,000 reward was offered in exchange for information leading to an arrest police were even
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receiving calls putting the girls in totally opposite parts of the country on the same day as the investigation went
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on police decided to look into other cases that had been committed around the time of the Freeman case both in
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Oklahoma itself and in neighboring states to see if any similar crimes were committed with a similar MO and I found
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one case that stuck here it was the case of Tommy Lynn sells Tommy Lynn sells was on death row for
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the horrific murder of 13 year old Kaylin Harris in the evening of the 30th of December 1999 tommy was drinking in a
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bar and he eventually got kicked out for inappropriate behavior towards a barmaid
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after being kicked out he decided the porks his way into a nearby trailer he murdered kaeleen and then cut the throat
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of a friend her friend Ahmed dead and Tommy left Kaling's friend then rushed to a neighbor's house police were called
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and Tommy Lynn sells was arrested soon after incredible bravery from Colleen's friend only 10 years old this happened
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in the early hours of the 31st of December 1999 only the day after the Freeman attack and it happened in Texas
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which is in the neighboring state to Oklahoma so Tommy would have had enough time to
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go from the Freeman case to Texas and commit this murder there were differences in the two crimes but both
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were horrific in their nature and police wanted to look into Tommy Lynn sells a little bit more agent Nutter and the new
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Craig County Sheriff Jimmy Souter made their way to death row to interview him at first he gave them nothing but after
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about 60 hours of interrogation he started to confess to the crime he claimed to have very lawyer nationally
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at Red River on the border of Oklahoma and Texas police took cells to the site and he pointed out where he thought he
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had buried him but there was a problem not only were no remains found but the site was completely different to what
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cells had described earlier also cells had a complete lack of knowledge of any of the more intimate details of the case
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he only knew what was in the paper and cells had a habit of confessing to murders while it was on death row he
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confessed to over 70 police do you think he was responsible for around 20 of the
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murders but they also think he was playing the system confessing to a whole heap of crimes he didn't commit
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maybe he just wanted to gain more notoriety maybe you liked the attention maybe he was trying to get special
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privileges and he did get out of his cell for a day after confessing to the Freeman crime to go to the alleged
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burial site so as crazy as confessing to a murder he didn't commit sins there were a number of reasons what Tommy
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would make a false confession and he had nothing to lose he was already on death
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row but whatever the reason was it became pretty clear to police that cells most likely had nothing to do with the
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framing case and he wasn't charged he was executed by the state of Texas on April 3rd 2014
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[Music] Tommy Lynn sells wasn't the only inmate on death row to confess to the murders
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of the Freeman's of Nora Bible Jeremy Jones was on death row for a sickening murder and police became very interested
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in him when he confessed in December 2000 Jeremy Bay Jones was wanted on two separate rape charges in Oklahoma he
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fled the state and went to Alabama he managed to steal somebody's identity and his new identity was John Paul Chapman
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not long after he got himself into trouble again and he was arrested and fingerprinted the prints were sent to
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the FBI and incredibly their system failed to match his prints to his real identity Jeremy V Jones
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so a new profile was created for him under his new identity John Paul Chapman and he was never extradited back to
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Oklahoma to face the rape charges on September 18 2004 45 year-old Lisa Nichols was found dead she had been
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raped and shot in the head inside of a trailer which was then set on fire it's very similar to what happened in
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the Freeman pace Jones was arrested after his vehicles singing out the front of Lisa's trailer the night of the
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murder police caught up with him and this phone they initially worked out his real identity as being Jeremy Jones not
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John Chapman Jones admitted to killing Nichols but that's not all he confessed to you he confessed to 13 other murders
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across six states although police could only find enough evidence to charge him with three of those murders
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Jones was convicted and sentenced to death and while he was on death row in July 2005 Jones confessed to four more
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murders those of Danny Cathy and Ashley Freeman and Laura Bible it didn't take long for the police to
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really lock the look of Jeremy B James not only was the murder of Lisa Nichols are very similar in nature to the
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Freeman case but on the night the Freeman's were murdered Jeremy B Jones was arrested for public
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intoxication only 16 kilometers away from the frame and property or ten miles if you prefer so that put him in the
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area agent Nutter and sheriff Souter immediately went through the state of Alabama to interview Jones strangely at
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first he denied any knowledge of the crime even though he had just confessed to it but as the interrogation went on
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he started to admit his involvement he said that Danny Odom drug money so he shot him he then shot Kathy and set the
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house on fire he didn't even know the two girls were there until they ran out of the house screaming he tied the girls
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up put them in his truck and then he killed them and dumped them in a Kansas mineshaft
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unlike the confession of Tommy Lynn sells Jeremy B Jones knew some things about the case that really got the
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attention of suitor and Nutter he knew the exact accelerant that was used to start the fire and he knew the type of
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shotgun that was used to commit the murders this information had never been released to the public police
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immediately set up a search of the Kansas mineshaft where Jones said he dumped the bodies but there were
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problems there are over a hundred mines in the area and there was a system of underground water tunnels so anything
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you dump in would float away regardless the area was searched extensively over several days including the use of
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underwater camera equipment but no trace of the girls was found when Jones found
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out the police had come up empty he immediately took back his confession said he made it all up
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he said he made it up to get special privileges he got extra phone calls extra visitation and special meals
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police also had another look at his arrest for public intoxication now first I thought it was great users are pretty
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mean the area but they saw he was arrested at 4:00 a.m. on the 30th of December the time of death on Cathy
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Freeman was estimated at 5:00 a.m. and the drive from the frame and property to the mine where he said he'd
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dump the bodies and back was about any are the latest he could have left was 3 a.m. 2 hours before the estimated time
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of death and it's thought the fire was started after Kathie was killed as well so the tongs weren't really adding up
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but this didn't make Jeremy be James wasn't responsible in some way anyway the crimes could easily have been
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committed by more than one person and for whatever reason Jeremy but James may being left to wonder away from the
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Freeman residence well whoever else that was responsible drove off with the girls
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Jeremy may have been mixing in when he did know about the case and making up the rest in order to confess it a crime
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to get those extra privileges but then for whatever reason decided to take back their confession Jeremy B Jones remains
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a suspect but he's never been charged with a crime he's still on death Road for the other murders cells and Jones
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are as close as the police have ever gotten to arresting anyone for the murders and for the disappearance of
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Ashley and Laura for some reason 11 years after the murders in 2010 OSBI thought it would be a good idea to
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release details of a suspicious vehicle seen in the area of the Freeman property
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around the time of the murders the vehicle was described as a dark four-door sedan and it was seen between
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5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. now LSP I said they did not release details of these people at the time because it was a
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vague description and they decided to keep that information within law enforcement ranks a ridiculous decision
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that information should have been released to the public at the time somebody might have seen it or somebody
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might have been able to shed some light on people that owned similar cars who could have been persons of interest it's
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extremely optimistic to think that any information is gonna come to light 11 years later
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at the same time they also released details of a second vehicles seen around the area of the frame and property
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around the same time between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 this vehicle was described as a dark-colored heavy-duty pickup truck and
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it was seen heading north towards Kansas the osv I said this information was received in a recent interview which at
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the time was 2010 so how reliable that information was in that interview eleven years later is anyone's guess it
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obviously that osv I didn't get any useful information because the case is still unsolved and continues to be
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investigated to this day blades have been followed up all around the country but there is still no trace of Laura and
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Ashley so what happened to the girls it's like they dropped off the face of the earth it seems unlikely - 16
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year-old well-behaved girls would be able to commit such a horrible crime and then vanish without a trace taking none
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of their belongings with them this seems to leave only one scenario they too were
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victims but why weren't they shot dead and left in the house with Danny and Kathy why were they taken where were
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they taken who took the four thousand dollars that actually had hidden and how did they know it was there there are
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still no solid suspects in the case other than maybe Jeremy B Jones but he hasn't been charged yet 11 years after
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his confession it's highly unlikely police are ever gonna charge him I obviously don't think he was responsible
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there is surprisingly little mention of Ashley's boyfriend in all the material of sorts in this case he was there that
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night he was the last one to see anyone alive all of an hour before and out about him senses that he suffers
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depression and survivor's guilt somebody out there knows something hopefully in time that somebody comes forward or
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there is the piece of information that helps break the case wide open actually family have since had her ruled
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legally dead that is a step that the barbers refused to take with Laura every night
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the RAM Bible leaves the porch light on just in case Laura comes home [Music] please don't give out the fire
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