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Like this was going to happen. >> for the next 15 years, the case haunted prosecutor jack nelson. he knew melvin snyder personally. and something just didnt add up. a .25-caliber shell casing was discovered in melvins barn. and ron harshman purchased a .25-caliber handgun just a few weeks before melvin disappeared. but ron was never able to produce the weapon, saying it had been misplaced. >> there was a lot of information there, but nothing new was coming in to give you the opportunity to do an...

Struck up a relationship and 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 harshman nor her husband, ron, knew of melvins whereabouts. and the bank reported no activity on any of melvins credit cards. >> he had a young son, he was early 20s, and this wasnt the kind o...

The truck. other than that, the truck was in fine condition except for some marks in the back of the bed of the pickup truck. >> and the truck radio was tuned to a rock music station. >> melvin snyder never listened to rock music. >> melvin snyder was well known in his small town. >> gentlemen, change partners. >> just a year earlier, melvin had an affair with a married woman, teresa harshman, who he knew from square dancing. melvin and teresa left their jobs and families behind and fled to mont...

Now, im not sure what that was done intentionally or if she was being used by ron harshman and didnt realize she was setting melvin up. >> ron harshman pled not guilty. prosecutors knew that trying a case with only one piece of forensic evidence would be difficult. >> there arent a whole lot of cases out there that get prosecuted without a body. there arent a whole lot of cases that get prosecuted without a weapon. and for a case to be prosecuted with no body and no weapon was almost unthinkable...

We had no body, we had no actual gun. we knew what the past history was between ron harshman and melvin snyder, and common sense will tell you that, yeah, he has a good reason to want to kill melvin snyder. he is the only person that we know of that ever wanted to harm melvin. but that doesnt prove it in a court of law. >> before his disappearance, melvin snyder told friends that he was afraid of ron harshman because ron was still angry about the affair he had with his wife. >> always have a str...

Contact with the outside world not to have some sort of record with something. >> we had divers check the ponds in the area. talked to neighbors, if they had seen anything unusual, if they saw him leave. no one did. >> melvins dental records were compared to every unidentified body discovered anywhere in the united states, with no success. the only lead in the case was from a neighbor who said he saw a brown pickup truck near melvins home on the day he disappeared. it was similar to the truck ro...

Shell casing was discovered in melvins barn on the day he disappeared. police searched harshmans home and found ammunition for a .25-caliber weapon, but no gun. >> i asked him where the gun was and he said, youll have to ask teresa. shes the one who took the gun. she liked it and she took it. so when we asked her, she said no, its a lie, i dont even like guns. i dont know anything about the gun. >> during their investigation, police also learned that ron harshman and melvin snyder once had an un...

After he disposed of melvins body, he put his motorcycle in the back of melvins truck, which created the damage found in the bed of the truck. harshman then abandoned melvins truck 60 miles away in maryland and drove his motorcycle home. >> what did he do with the body? the body, after 19 years, has not been found. carefully, carefully, he must have planned where he was going to take the body. how he was going to dispose of the body. >> during police questioning, joanne snyder admitted that she ...