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 it happened. and this 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 they separated and teresa filed for divorce. joanne snyder denied any involvement in her husband s disappearance, but she admitted having several telephone conversations with ron harshman
and the truck radio was tuned to a rock music statement. just a year earlier, melvin had an affair with a woman name teresa hartman. melvin and teresa left their life behind and fled to montana. melvin s wife joanne and teresa s husband ron took the time to get better acquainted too. mrs. hartman and mr. snyder 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. yes men, change partners
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 that she had any prior knowledge of the murder. i think joanne had some involvement in this case, i am not sure whether that was done intentionally or if she was
of melvin and joanne snyder for more interesting than those civil war battlefields. on sat may 25, 1985 joanne snyder left for work around 5:30 a.m. she baked pies for a local diner. when she returned home around noon, her 43-year-old husband melvin was gone. and so was his truck. she looked around for him, and observed some things that she felt were out of the ordinary, first of all, he left his tools out. melvin snyder was very meticulous about his things. he was very careful about his things. he would not have just left his tools laying about. joanne called some of her family to come over and help look for melvin. 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.
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