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The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch Girls

The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch Girls

Before dawn on December 30, 1999, a mobile home outside Welch, Oklahoma, burned with Danny and Kathy Freeman inside, both shot in the head before the fire was set. Ashley Freeman, who had turned 16 the day before, and her best friend Lauria Bible, also 16, vanished from the house and have never been found. Why did investigators spend the first day treating a quadruple crime as a domestic fugitive case? How did Lauria's parents find a second body in the rubble one day after detectives left the scene? And how did a suspect file naming…

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