Who vanished from the burning Freeman house? | Forensic Files

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

Case 03: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman

On the 29th of January 1999, best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman had a sleepover at Ashley’s house to celebrate her 16th birthday.

Ashley’s parents Danny and Kathy Freeman were also home. It was a quiet uneventful evening, nothing seemed out of the ordinary until 6 am the next morning when a neighbour reported the Freeman house was on fire...

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Brief Summary

The episode details the unsolved case of Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman, who vanished after a sleepover in 1999 following their parents' tragic deaths.

Key points

The Fire. A neighbor reported the Freeman house was on fire, leading to a tragic discovery.
The Girls' Disappearance. Laura and Ashley went missing after a sleepover, raising alarms for their families.
Shocking Discovery. The bodies of Danny and Cathy Freeman were found, complicating the investigation.
Theories Emerge. Conflicting theories arise about the circumstances surrounding the Freeman family tragedy.
The Disappearance. Laura and Ashlee vanish without a trace, leaving the community in shock.
Confessions from Death Row. Inmates confess to the Freeman murders, but the truth remains elusive.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

They were basically inseparable ever since.

Describing the bond between Laura and Ashley.

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Tension

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