he had a gun with him at that point, shot at him. [ gunshot ] did not hit him. nothing happened. no one was hurt. melvin didn t want to pursue the matter, and no charges were filed. melvin had expressed a great deal of embarrassment about the whole incident. and i think he sort of felt it was, in part, his own fault that this had happened. and there was one more interesting twist in the case. melvin and joanne snyder had come to terms with the affair, but the harshmans had not. melvin was trying very hard to make the marriage work. mr. and mrs. harshman on the other hand had a rockier road. although they did attempt to patch things up, eventually in the following spring, um, they separated and teresa filed for
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 montana. hey, everybody swing! melvin s wife, joanne, and teresa s husband, ron, took the opportunity to get better acquainted, too. mr. harshman and mrs. snyder struck up a relationship and were intimate with one another.
joanne snyder denied any involvement in her husband s 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 he bordered on being angry. and the whole purpose was for me to stop interfering in his life, both his social life and with
after he disposed of melvin s body, he put his motorcycle in the back of melvin s truck, which created the damage found in the bed of the truck. harshman then abandoned melvin s 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 told ron harshman that melvin would be home alone that day. but prosecutors had no proof she had any prior knowledge of the murder. i think joanne had some involvement in this case. now, i m not sure what that was
[ gunshot ] did not hit him. nothing happened. no one was hurt. melvin didn t want to pursue the matter, and no charges were filed. melvin had expressed a great deal of embarrassment about the whole incident. and i think he sort of felt it was, in part, his own fault that this had happened. and there was one more interesting twist in the case. melvin and joanne snyder had come to terms with the affair, but the harshmans had not. melvin was trying very hard to make the marriage work. mr. and mrs. harshman on the other hand had a rockier road. although they did attempt to patch things up, eventually in the following spring, um, they separated and teresa filed for divorce.