Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! This week starts our next multi-part series covering the book by Jax Miller; Hell in the Heartland. An unforgettable case from rural Oklahoma with questions that still remain unanswered. This week we dive into one of the families affected in our story; the Freeman’s. We start with the death of their son Shane, their muddy past with the local police department, and the day of their house fire. A fire that left two dead and two girls who remain missing to this day; Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible.

This episode contains foul language, discussions about police corruption, small town life, murder and death. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!

Sources
Hell in The Heartland: Murder, Meth, And The Case of Two Missing Girls, Jax Miller
BBI - Find Lauria Bible Facebook Group
“Teens’ Fate Still Unresolved A Year Later”, Don Diehl,The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) Jan 2001
Arrest Affidavit for the case of Ronnie Busick, April 23, 2018
Jax Miller: Switching From Fiction to True Crime, Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer, July 31, 2018
“Justice after decades: Bible family sees suspect sentenced after Lorene's 'relentless' fight”, Tulsa World, Mike Simons, September 24, 2020
“Ashley Freeman loved to fish. Lauria Bible was a country girl who raised pigs. This is the story the family and friends of the missing Welch girls want to tell.”, Andrea Eger, Tim Stanley, Tulsa World, Feb 18, 2019