The Welch Girls: A look inside the decades-old Oklahoma cold case
On an ordinary night in December 1999, Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible were spending the night at the Freeman home.
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A $50,000 reward remains active.
Sen. Michael Bergstrom, R-Adair, responded to the release of Busick on Tuesday.
“Lauria Bible was a student of mine at Bluejacket High School where I was the English teacher. The murder of the Freeman’s and kidnapping of the girls shocked the school and the community,” Bergstrom said. “I saw how the community pulled together for the family. I saw how Lauria’s mother struggled to cope, always hoping that her daughter was still alive somewhere, and I am sure dreading the possibility of the worst.”
“Now the family must suffer the injustice of seeing this individual who has admitted involvement being released from prison after little more than two years in prison. This is a travesty, and my prayers go out to the family,” Bergstrom added. “Unfortunately, the agreement reached with Busick in this case resulted in him getting a ridiculously small prison sentence, even though he has yet to help law enforcement recover the girls’ bodies. It’s outrageous.”
The article is dated May 2. Also, IMO "Tuesday" refers to the day the Senator responded, not the date of Busick's release. Bad wording.... MOOThis says Tuesday, which is 5/16, I have his date as Thursday, 5/19...
Anyone here reading - can you access the Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections’ Lexington Correctional Center or the Craig County case #CF-2018-00056.
TIA!
CRF# | Court | Offense | Conviction Date | Term | Term Code | Reception Date | Discharged Date |
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2018-56 | CRAIG COUNTY COURT | ACCESSORY TO FELONY - MURDER | 8/31/2020 | 5 Y | Probation | 8/31/2020 | Active |
2018-56 | CRAIG COUNTY COURT | ACCESSORY TO FELONY - MURDER | 8/31/2020 | 10 Y | Incarceration | 12/9/2020 | Active |
01/12/2021 | TEXT | MEDICAL SHEET Document Available at Court Clerk's Office |
The article is dated May 2. Also, IMO "Tuesday" refers to the day the Senator responded, not the date of Busick's release. Bad wording.... MOO
Sen. Michael Bergstrom, R-Adair, responded to the release of Busick on Tuesday.
Neither DOC or OSCN show a discharge date.
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CRF# Court Offense Conviction Date Term Term Code Reception Date Discharged Date 2018-56 CRAIG COUNTY COURT ACCESSORY TO FELONY - MURDER 8/31/2020 5 Y Probation 8/31/2020 Active 2018-56 CRAIG COUNTY COURT ACCESSORY TO FELONY - MURDER 8/31/2020 10 Y Incarceration 12/9/2020 Active
Latest entry:
01/12/2021 TEXT MEDICAL SHEET
Document Available at Court Clerk's Office
Standard populist move, which will result in just one thing: it will make investigators' work difficult if not impossible by discouraging criminals from cooperating and testifying against accomplices. When you investigate crimes from hell, you don't get angels as witnesses.JUN 6, 2023
[...]Bill filed after early release in Welch girls case
The only living man convicted in the case of the missing girls is Ronnie Busick, who was released from prison after serving roughly three years of a 10-year sentence.www.kjrh.com
Filed by Rep. Steve Bashore, the law would add accessory to murder in the first or second degree to the list of crimes that would require an offender to serve 85% of their prison sentence before being eligible for consideration for parole. It would also exclude the prisoner from earning any type of credit that would reduce the sentence to below 85% of what was imposed.
The bill is named after two girls who were brutally raped and murdered in 1999 — 16-year-olds Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman.
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Rep. Brashore says it was reported Busick received a lower sentence in exchange for information to help investigators locate the bodies of the teens, but the bodies have yet to be recovered. ...
"This case has been a travesty of justice from the beginning," Bashore said. "The families of these girls are horrified that a person so closely involved with this heinous crime not only was sentenced to such a low number of years in prison but now is free to move about in their community after so short a time served. I have vowed to work to ensure something like this will never happen again for anyone else's loved ones."
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