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A FAMILY'S LEGACY: POWER, GREED, DEATH
27 Mar 1994
[...]
The story opens in August 1981, a few days after Lora, 22, vanished from her rural Indiana home. Her father had just walked into the sheriff's office and dumped $10,000 in cash from a brown grocery bag onto the desk of the astonished chief deputy.
Snedegar knew daughter was dead
Steve Snedegar knew Lora was dead the instant she disappeared. He told the cops so.
[...]
Chuck Smith vanished. Then Trudy went.
Deputies speculate that Smith, a former truck driver for Steve's business in Indiana, disappeared because he saw a man who may have been connected to Lora's death.
Smith told deputies that he saw Lora the day before she disappeared with a rough-looking character, and she seemed scared.
Instead of first going to police with the information, Smith told Trudy. She pooh-poohed it: "We know who that is, and the police already know."
They didn't. Why would Trudy steer Smith away from authorities? And why, later, did she so desperately want Smith's unlisted telephone number?
The reason she gave Munden when she came - twice - to his office for Smith's phone number in early 1982 was that she had heard Smith was unemployed, and she had a job for him.
"Dumb-
me gives the number out," Munden said. "She looked at me with those cold glassy eyes and made the remark, 'Steve does not have to know about this.' "
Shortly afterward, a man from John Rogers Trucking in Knoxville, Tenn. called Smith's house and said that Steve had recommended him for a driver's job. Smith was delighted. The company sent him a bus ticket.
Smith boarded the bus in Indiana and was never seen again; the trucking company didn't exist.
Police looking for Smith went to the bus station to talk to the agent who sold the ticket. The agent's name? John Rogers. No coincidence, police figured - the killer just picked the first name he saw.
[...]
After Trudy disappeared, her father promised to solve the mystery of Lora's death. Then, like so many others, he died before talking.
Detectives think that Trudy later engineered the disappearance of Chuck Smith, the truck driver who took the never-ending bus ride for a fictitious job. Munden thinks the man Smith saw with Lora before she vanished was threatening Lora. They believe the man would have led investigators back to Trudy.
[...]
A FAMILY'S LEGACY: POWER, GREED, DEATH
Lora's thread: IN - IN - Lora Morris, 22, Greenfield, 10 Aug 1981
Trudy's Thread: FL - FL - Gertrude Mary Snedegar, 49, Astor, 4 July 1986
Tony Lambert's thread: LA - LA - Paul Anthony Lambert, 34, New Orleans, 8 Sept 1981
27 Mar 1994
[...]
The story opens in August 1981, a few days after Lora, 22, vanished from her rural Indiana home. Her father had just walked into the sheriff's office and dumped $10,000 in cash from a brown grocery bag onto the desk of the astonished chief deputy.
Snedegar knew daughter was dead
Steve Snedegar knew Lora was dead the instant she disappeared. He told the cops so.
[...]
Chuck Smith vanished. Then Trudy went.
Deputies speculate that Smith, a former truck driver for Steve's business in Indiana, disappeared because he saw a man who may have been connected to Lora's death.
Smith told deputies that he saw Lora the day before she disappeared with a rough-looking character, and she seemed scared.
Instead of first going to police with the information, Smith told Trudy. She pooh-poohed it: "We know who that is, and the police already know."
They didn't. Why would Trudy steer Smith away from authorities? And why, later, did she so desperately want Smith's unlisted telephone number?
The reason she gave Munden when she came - twice - to his office for Smith's phone number in early 1982 was that she had heard Smith was unemployed, and she had a job for him.
"Dumb-
me gives the number out," Munden said. "She looked at me with those cold glassy eyes and made the remark, 'Steve does not have to know about this.' "Shortly afterward, a man from John Rogers Trucking in Knoxville, Tenn. called Smith's house and said that Steve had recommended him for a driver's job. Smith was delighted. The company sent him a bus ticket.
Smith boarded the bus in Indiana and was never seen again; the trucking company didn't exist.
Police looking for Smith went to the bus station to talk to the agent who sold the ticket. The agent's name? John Rogers. No coincidence, police figured - the killer just picked the first name he saw.
[...]
After Trudy disappeared, her father promised to solve the mystery of Lora's death. Then, like so many others, he died before talking.
Detectives think that Trudy later engineered the disappearance of Chuck Smith, the truck driver who took the never-ending bus ride for a fictitious job. Munden thinks the man Smith saw with Lora before she vanished was threatening Lora. They believe the man would have led investigators back to Trudy.
[...]
A FAMILY'S LEGACY: POWER, GREED, DEATH
Lora's thread: IN - IN - Lora Morris, 22, Greenfield, 10 Aug 1981
Trudy's Thread: FL - FL - Gertrude Mary Snedegar, 49, Astor, 4 July 1986
Tony Lambert's thread: LA - LA - Paul Anthony Lambert, 34, New Orleans, 8 Sept 1981
