The rural Oklahoma mobile home of Kathy and Danny Freeman went up in flames in the frigid early morning hours of December 30, 1999. Kathy and Danny’s bodies were found inside, both killed by gunshots to their heads. Their 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, and her best friend, Lauria Bible, who had been there for a sleepover, had disappeared from their beds.
Years of searching for the two girls came up empty. The search extended into Mexico and Canada, but rumors in the small community pointed to local lowlifes as the killers and kidnappers.
Join us at the quiet end for Gone in the Night: Ashley Freeman & Lauria Bible. The Freemans should have felt safe in their humble country home, but the formally beautiful landscape of Welch, Oklahoma, was immersed in drug culture and the local police were appallingly ineffective, demonstrating shocking levels of negligence and potential corruption.
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Sources
The Charlie Project, April 28, 2018
Hell in the Heartland by Jax Miller
Hell in the Heartland 4 part series, HBOMax, June 2019
The Joplin Globe, August 31, 2020
Out of the Ashes, Disappeared, Season 6, Episode 9, January 2013
People.com, April 2018
State of Oklahoma Court Archives & exhibits
Unsolved Mysteries, April 2018