Hell In The Heartland Murder Meth And The Case Of Two Missing Girls

Description: There is in the best of us a search for the truth to serve the living and dead alike. Jax Miller is one of those people and Hell in the Heartland is one of those books. Robert Graysmith New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac As seen in Marie Claire's " Best True Crime Books of 2020" Huff Post OK! Magazine Crime Reads Lit Hub's " Best New Summer Books"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 happened on that winter night in 1999, and why the story was still simmering more than fifteen years later. What she found was more than she could have ever bargained for: evidence of jaw - dropping levels of police negligence entire communities ravaged by methamphetamine addiction and a series of interconnected murders with an ominously familiar pattern. These forgotten towns were wild lawless and home to some very dark secrets.
Title: Hell In The Heartland Murder Meth And The Case Of Two Missing Girls
Barcode: 9781984806314
Publication Date: 6/15/2021