EP 98 - Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman: Hell in the Heartland

Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! We are back to bring you the final installment of our multi-part series covering the book by Jax Miller; Hell in the Heartland. We come to our tragic conclusion to a 20 year cold case. We cover a handful of suspects Jax learns about through her investigations, the more recent arrests and charges placed against the men responsible, and what may have transpired the night the Freeman’s trailer went up in flames.
This episode contains foul language, discussions about police corruption, small town life, rape, torture, murder, and drug use. 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