.25-caliber handgun just a few weeks before melvin s disappearance. 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.
man that no one was going to tell him what to do. no one was going to take his property. he became very vengeful, very angry. he was not the kind of person that was going to allow his wife to return home and try to rebuild their relationship. there was no forgive and forget. it was, i will get my revenge, and that s what he did. prosecutors say that the crime was premeditated. the evidence suggests that harshman drove to melvin s home, found him inside the barn and then shot and killed him with his new .25 caliber pistol. the .25 caliber round probably didn t exit melvin s body. prosecutors believe harshman 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 primer. but again, it can vary from case to case. under a microscope, firearms examiners discovered this was precisely what happened. the impressions on the shell casing were still clear. and those impressions caused by the breech face were identical to the breech face impressions on the shell casing found in melvin snyder s barn. there was no doubt in my mind whatsoever that these two discharged cartridge cases had originated from the same gun. why would he have shot his gun on mr. snyder s property? there was no reason for that except for the fact to kill him. based on the ballistic evidence, prosecutors charged ronald harshman with first-degree murder. melvin snyder disappeared on may 25th, exactly one year to the day from when melvin started the affair with teresa harshman. mr. harshman is the kind of man that no one was going to
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. melvin s 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 melvin s home on the day he disappeared. it was similar to the truck that ron harshman owned. ron s wife and melvin snyder once had an affair. whether it was harshman s truck or not, i don t know. we don t know. police discovered that harshman had purchased a .25-caliber handgun just a few weeks before melvin s disappearance. coincidentally, a .25 caliber
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