HELL IN THE HEARTLAND BY JAX MILLER

While this case is frustrating in a sense that the answers we seek were never completely given, it’s a fascinating and well written true crime account of the Freeman/Bible case from 1999.

​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 28, 2020
Genre: True Crime. 
Series: None. 
Pages: 335 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.

S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this 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, possible 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 corruption 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 

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