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The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2015, crime writer Jax Miller--who had been haunted by the case--decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really happened on that winter night in 1999, and why the story was still simmering more than fifteen years later. What she found was more than she could have ever bargained for: evidence of jaw-dropping levels of police negligence, entire communities ravaged by methamphetamine addiction, and a series of interconnected murders with an ominously familiar pattern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese forgotten towns were wild, lawless, and home to some very dark secrets.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJax Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is an American author. While hitchhiking across America in her twenties, she wrote her first novel, \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Child\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she won the 2016 Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and earned several CWA Dagger nominations. She has received acclaim from the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and many more. She now works in the true-crime genre, having penned her much-anticipated book and acting as creator, host, and executive producer on the true-crime documentary series \u003ci\u003eHell in the Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e on CNN's HLN network. 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