day from when melvin started the affair with teresa harshman. mr. harshman is the kind of 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 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 the crime was premeditated. the evidence suggests that harshman drove to melvin s home, found him inside the barn. then shot and killed him with his new .25-caliber pistol. [ gunshot ] the .25-caliber round probably didn t exit melvin s body. prosecutors believe harshman drove home and returned later on his motorcycle.
divorce. 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.
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.
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 melvin s whereabouts. and the bank reported no activity on any of melvin s credit cards. he had a young son, he was early 20s, and this wasn t the kind of man that would run off and leave family obligations. which is why investigators began to suspect foul play. running my own shop has been brutal. but then i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy.
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 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