were intimate with one another. but after only three weeks, melvin and teresa decided they had made a mistake, and moved back home. gentlemen, change partners across from where you are. change partners and swing her. however, in this recent disappearance, neither teresa or her husband ron knew of melvin whereabouts. and the bank reported no activity on any of melvin s credit cards. he had a young son, he was early 20s, and this wasn t the kind of man that would run off and leave family obligations. which is why investigators began to suspect foul play.
coincidentally, a .25 caliber shell casing was discovered in melvin s barn on the day he disappeared. police searched harshman s home and found ammunition for a .25-caliber weapon, but no gun. i asked him where the gun was and he said, you will have to ask teresa. she is the one who took the gun, she liked it and she took it. so when we asked her, she said no, it s a lie, i don t even like guns. i don t know anything about the gun. during their investigation, police also learned that ron harshman and melvin snyder once had an unpleasant confrontation over the affair that melvin was having with ron s wife. he learned that mr. snyder was coming to his home to pick up his wife and he crashed his car into him. he had a gun with him at that
while searching the property a family member found a 25 caliber shell casing on the barn floor. but there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. a bullet like that, it will usually not travel through a human body, if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. it s not like the typical tv shows, where you see blood flying everywhere. there were no eyewitnesses. unless maybe there were barn yard animals and of course they were not talking. joanne waited for two days before she filed a missing person s report. police found melvin s pickup truck about 60 miles away in reisterstown, maryland. it was in a grocery store parking lot. melvin s checkbook and .22 caliber rifle were still inside the truck. so the motive wasn t robbery. the truck was left windows partially down, keys in the ignition. i believe some of melvin s belongings were still located in the truck. other than that, truck was in fine condition except for marks in the back of the bed of
disappearance, but she admitted having several telephone conversations with ron harshman the week before melvin disappeared. both joanne and ron insisted the calls were innocent, and that s where things stood. one year later, ron and teresa harshman divorced, sold the farm, and ron moved out of the area. he continued to say he had nothing to do with melvin s disappearance. and he even demanded a meeting with police to stop what he called their harassment. we did have the meeting. we had lunch together. it was he was sociable, but