True Crime: Box Set by Lorrence Williams

message to The
Joplin Globe and said that he
had a vague recollection about a fire and a burial of two girls.
    According
to him, on the evening of December 30, 1999, he planned on returning
from St. Louis, Missouri, but he had to first pass through Welch,
Oklahoma (where the Freemans were located). He recounted that at that
time, his mind was clouded because of drugs, but he “wanted”
to recall a memory about a fire and burials for two girls.
    Looking
into his records, police found out that Tommy had been linked to 16
homicides and most of his victims were very young girls. However, no
sufficient evidence could link him to Lauria and Ashley’s case.
    Another
suspect was Jeremy Jones. He was in jail due to his prior murders,
but was released at 10:30 on the evening of December 30-- the date of
the disappearance. According to authorities, Jeremy Jones used the
same M.O. in his previous murders: he shot the victims in the head
and then set the place on fire.
    He
wasn’t charged with anything involving the Bible-Freeman case,
but he soon returned to prison. In there, he confessed to the killing
of the Freeman couple, and then he said that he took the girls to
Kansas, shot them, and buried the bodies in a mine shaft near Galena.
He said that he did it as a favor to a friend involved in drugs.
    Police
searched the mine but nothing came of it. In the end, Jeremy Jones
denied killing the girls. He admitted that he just confessed so that
he could have more “privileges” in jail.
    Ashley
and Lauria’s case, up to now, is still unsolved.

Chapter
6 - Brenda Starr Snouffer

    On
April 21, 1995, a 32-year old woman from Palm Harbor, Florida went
missing. Case files described her as Caucasian with blonde hair, blue
eyes, and ears that were both pierced. Her whole name was Brenda
Snouffer, but the police chose to include her maiden name as she
might use it to identify herself especially since she was in the
process of a bitter divorce at the time she disappeared.
    Brenda
Starr Snouffer didn’t get along well with her then husband,
Scott Irvine Snouffer. According to records, Brenda was supposed to
testify against Scott and his brother, Stuart about their “chop
shops”.
    In
her statements, Brenda reported that Scott and Stuart dissembled cars
that were stolen, so that they could take the parts and sell them.
The hearing should have taken place later the same year, if only
Brenda didn’t disappear. On top of the chop-shop accusation,
Brenda and Scott were also having custody battles for their 6
year-old daughter named Mariel.
    On
April 21, 1995, Brenda’s day began as usual. She took Mariel to
her school at Highland Lakes Elementary at around 9:15 am. She used
her car- a 1993 Mazda Protege ,
which was turquoise blue in color and bore the license plate number
LEA14U. After dropping her daughter off, Brenda never returned to
pick her up. According to Mariel’s teachers, they waited three
hours for the absent mother before making a report to the
authorities.
    The
police, of course, immediately suspected Scott, after all, the couple
was estranged. However, aside from telling the police that he was
innocent, Scott did nothing else to help search for the mother of his
child. He just hired an attorney and that was it. In turn, the police
never removed him from their list of suspected people.
    Apparently,
before the disappearance, Brenda confided to her family and friends
(as well as to the diary she had written a day before she
disappeared) that she was afraid of Scott because he was
“threatening” to kill her. To make matters worse, on the
day she disappeared, threatening letters were sent to her home, and
to the home of one of her friends (Sonny Randall) in Ohio. The
letters said: “You have taken everything from me. What goes
around, comes around.” The sender of the letters, however, was
not identified.
    When
the letters were inspected, the authorities looked into “intentional”
disappearance. Perhaps Brenda got fed up with