Casefile Archives 5: Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman

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Casefile Archives 5 Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman

*** Content Warning: child victims ***

Oklahoma teenager Ashley Freeman celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inviting her best friend, Lauria Bible, over for a sleepover. It was a pleasant yet uneventful evening, until the following morning of December 30 1999, when neighbours noticed that the Freemans’ house was engulfed in flames.

Emergency services quickly arrived at the scene, where they found the charred remains of Ashley’s mother, Kathy. She had also been shot in the head. The fire was ruled to be arson, but where were Lauria, Ashley or Ashley’s father, Danny?

CREDITS

 

Casefile Presents

  EPISODE

Research & writing – Anonymous Host

Additional writing – Elsha McGill

Narration – Anonymous Host

  MUSIC

‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com

Audio production – Mike Migas 

Scoring – Mike Migas 

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

  OTHER

Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska

  PREMIUM

Although Casefile episodes are free for all listeners, those who want to support us financially can do so by becoming a member of Patreon, Apple Premium or Spotify Premium. Paid subscribers receive access to exclusive content including behind-the-scenes discussions with the Casefile team, interviews, early releases and ad-free episodes.

ABOUT CASEFILE ARCHIVES

Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites – our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016.

Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.

  RESOURCES

 

COURT DOCUMENTS

The State of Oklahoma VS Ronnie Dean Busick

Victim impact statement from Lorene Bible

  ONLINE ARTICLES

The Welch Girls: A look inside the decades-old Oklahoma cold case – KOCO News 5

More than 12 people kept their mouths shut in the case of Oklahoma girls missing since 1999 – Oklahoma News 4

Accused killer of missing teens charged following new evidence almost 20 years later – News.com.au 

Mother of Lauria Bible speaks to alleged perpetrator – ABC8 Tulsa

UPDATED: Busick sentenced in Freeman-Bible murder case – The Joplin Globe

Man convicted in Welch girls case released from prison; ‘I’m going to be watching,’ victim’s mother says – Tulsa World

← Casefile Archives 4: Mirna Salihin Casefile Archives 6: The Eriksson Twins →

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Casefile Archives 5 Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman

*** Content Warning: child victims ***

Oklahoma teenager Ashley Freeman celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inviting her best friend, Lauria Bible, over for a sleepover. It was a pleasant yet uneventful evening, until the following morning of December 30 1999, when neighbours noticed that the Freemans’ house was engulfed in flames.

Emergency services quickly arrived at the scene, where they found the charred remains of Ashley’s mother, Kathy. She had also been shot in the head. The fire was ruled to be arson, but where were Lauria, Ashley or Ashley’s father, Danny?

CREDITS

 

Casefile Presents

  EPISODE

Research & writing – Anonymous Host

Additional writing – Elsha McGill

Narration – Anonymous Host

  MUSIC

‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com

Audio production – Mike Migas 

Scoring – Mike Migas 

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

  OTHER

Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska

  PREMIUM

Although Casefile episodes are free for all listeners, those who want to support us financially can do so by becoming a member of Patreon, Apple Premium or Spotify Premium. Paid subscribers receive access to exclusive content including behind-the-scenes discussions with the Casefile team, interviews, early releases and ad-free episodes.

ABOUT CASEFILE ARCHIVES

Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites – our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016.

Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.

  RESOURCES

 

COURT DOCUMENTS

The State of Oklahoma VS Ronnie Dean Busick

Victim impact statement from Lorene Bible

  ONLINE ARTICLES

The Welch Girls: A look inside the decades-old Oklahoma cold case – KOCO News 5

More than 12 people kept their mouths shut in the case of Oklahoma girls missing since 1999 – Oklahoma News 4

Accused killer of missing teens charged following new evidence almost 20 years later – News.com.au 

Mother of Lauria Bible speaks to alleged perpetrator – ABC8 Tulsa

UPDATED: Busick sentenced in Freeman-Bible murder case – The Joplin Globe

Man convicted in Welch girls case released from prison; ‘I’m going to be watching,’ victim’s mother says – Tulsa World

← Casefile Archives 4: Mirna Salihin Casefile Archives 6: The Eriksson Twins →

The post Casefile Archives 5: Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman appeared first on Casefile: True Crime Podcast.

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