Convicted killer Tommy Lynn Sells proved to be, basically, Henry Lee Lucas 2.0, at least in regards to telling the truth about the Freeman-Bible crimes. An LE timeline of the days in question also gives the lie to his meager attempt to claim more victims - although he STILL got a free trip out of his "confession":
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From
Through the Window by Diane Fanning, pages 218-19:
It seemed for a time that Max McCoy, a reporter from
The Joplin Globe, was the only one convinced of Sells' guilt in the 1999 Freeman murders, the arson, and the abduction of Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible. Sells had told McCoy that he knew where the bodies were. To another reporter, he'd stated that he was uncertain whether he was still in Oklahoma or across the state line in Texas when he disposed of them. [...] He refused to speak of further specifics.
At another time, he said, "About that murder up north, I'm not trying to avoid your questions about nothing. I remember something bad happened. I think I remember that lady's face. I remember small parts of what happened. But then again there's been so many and I get mixed up with another murder. It's not that I don't want to talk about this murder or any other murder - things get real crazy inside my head."
Then on June 17, 2002, Tommy Lynn Sells told the Texas Rangers, the Craig County Sheriff, and an officer from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that he could take them to the bodies. They returned to the prison the following Sunday with a bench warrant.
A well-guarded Sells took a field trip to locate the bodies. They headed northeast, to Marshall, Texas, a town near the Louisiana border (...) East of town, Sells identified the spot. Bones were found. But they were all cattle bones, seven to eight years old.
There are three possibilities, then: either Sell is not involved in the Freeman crime; or his memory is faulty; or he intentionally led officers to the wrong spot. A look at the road map indicates that en route from Welch, Oklahoma, to Del Rio, Texas, a side trip to Marshall would be a lengthy and illogical detour.
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