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 point, shot at him.
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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, yeah, he has 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 doesn t 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 strange feeling about the fact that he, in essence, had predicted something like this was going to happen. for the next 15 years, the case haunted prosecutor jack nelson. he knew melvin snyder personally.
drove home and returned later on his motorcycle. 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
a .25-caliber shell casing was discovered in melvin s 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 anything more with it. nelson pored over the case file and discovered an interesting notation. ron harshman admitted test firing his new .25-caliber pistol in his backyard just after buying it. that gave nelson an idea. what about going out there and seeing if we can find a shell casing and then compare that to the one in the barn.