Hell in the Heartland
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On December 30th, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, 16-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 rumours of drug debts, revenge killings, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found.
In 2016, crime writer Jax Miller travelled to Oklahoma to discover what really happened. What she unearthed was shocking. These forgotten towns were wild, lawless, and home to some very dark secrets.
Finally, in April 2018, the first arrests were made... could justice finally be in sight for the girls and their families?
âThere 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 booksâ Robert Graysmith,author of Zodiac
âEvery generation has its standout true-crime writer. Jax Miller does with Hell in the Heartland what Truman Capote did with In Cold Bloodâ A.A. Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness
âMesmerizing, raw, evocative, unforgettableâ William Boyle, author of A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself
âA captivating ride through the frustrating twists, turns, and dead ends of a horrifying murder caseâ Publishers Weekly
âBeautiful and devastatingâ Crime Reads
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Jax Millerâs first novel, Freedomâs Child, received acclaim from outlets that include The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Italian Vogue and was translated into 16 languages. Miller is a three-time Dagger nominee of the Crime Writers Association in London and in 2016 was awarded the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in Paris by Elle Magazine.
She is executive producer, creator and host of the four-part docu-series Hell in the Heartland, which premiered in the US on HLN in 2019, and is based in her investigative research into the Freeman and Bible murders.
