Title:
Hell in the heartland : murder, meth, and the case of two missing girls / Jax Miller.
ISBN:
9781984806307
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
Physical Description:
319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Prologue -- Section 1: The fire. Mother, Kathy Freeman -- Daughter, Ashley Freeman -- Father, Danny Freeman -- Best friend, Lauria Bible -- One body -- One woman, Lorene Bible -- Scene of the crime -- Prime suspect -- Day two and the BBI -- Section 2: Corruption. Initial theories -- Son, Shane Freeman -- Alleged cover-up of Shane Freeman -- Boyfriend, Jeremy Hurst, and Pop Pop, Glen Freeman -- Last letter of Kathy Freeman -- Murder of DeAnna Dorsey -- Section 3: Drugs. Most toxic place in America -- Outlaw lands -- Outlaw lands (continued) -- East of Welch -- Ballad of John Paul Chapman -- Confessions -- Section 4: Later leads. Edges of Oklahoma -- Another avenue -- Chetopa -- Searches of Chetopa -- Revival -- "This place is ate up." -- Section 5: The arrests. Arrest -- Ronnie Dean "Buzz" Busick -- Insurance-verification card -- David "Penny" Pennington -- Like lightning -- No end.
Summary:
"The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police collusion abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found. In 2015, crime writer Jax Miller--who had been haunted by the case--decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really happened on that winter night in 1999, and why the story was still simmering more than fifteen years later. What she found was more than she could have ever bargained for: jaw-dropping levels of police negligence and corruption, entire communities ravaged by methamphetamine addiction, and a series of interconnected murders with an ominously familiar pattern. These forgotten towns were wild, lawless, and home to some very dark secrets"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1119470741
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