Casefile Archives 5: Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warning: child victims ***
Oklahoma teenager Ashley Freeman celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inviting her best friend, Lauria Bible, over for a sleepover. It was a pleasant yet uneventful evening, until the following morning of December 30 1999, when neighbours noticed that the Freemans’ house was engulfed in flames.
Emergency services quickly arrived at the scene, where they found the charred remains of Ashley’s mother, Kathy. She had also been shot in the head. The fire was ruled to be arson, but where were Lauria, Ashley or Ashley’s father, Danny?
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Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016.
Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.
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| 0:00.0 | As we enter CaseFiles' 10th year, we've created a new run of special bonus content. |
| 0:07.0 | CaseFile Archives, a series of releases revisiting the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes. |
| 0:17.0 | This is completely additional content and will not replace new episodes. |
| 0:21.6 | We'll still be back on March 7 with brand new cases and we'll be releasing the same number of new episodes this year as we did last year. |
| 0:30.6 | Case file archives is simply a way to mark the 10th year, revisit some older episodes, and to offer previously |
| 0:39.0 | subscriber exclusive episodes to the wider audience for the first time. For the re-release episodes, |
| 0:46.2 | we have fully edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced them from start to finish to |
| 0:51.9 | match our current production standards. |
| 0:56.8 | They are not full rewrites. |
| 1:01.9 | Our aim isn't to reshape the cases or alter the original storytelling, |
| 1:06.5 | but to preserve them as they were first told while giving them the level of production they didn't have back in 2016. |
| 1:10.3 | Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure |
| 1:13.9 | remains faithful to the originals. Because of this, these episodes may sound a little different |
| 1:20.3 | to our recent work. Today's re-release is Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman, the third case file episode ever produced. |
| 1:30.5 | On December 30, 1999, a fire tore through a home in Welch, Oklahoma. Inside, police found the body of |
| 1:39.1 | Ashley Freeman's mother, Kathy. But Ashley, her best friend, Laura Bible Bible and Ashley's father, Danny, were nowhere to be |
| 1:47.5 | found. Investigators soon confirmed the fire was deliberate and that Kathy hadn't died in the |
| 1:54.7 | blaze. She'd been killed before the house was set alight. What followed was an investigation filled with missed opportunities and years of unanswered questions. |
| 2:07.2 | Originally released in January 2016, the case has seen a significant development since then, |
| 2:14.1 | which has been included in this re-release version. |
| 2:32.1 | Thank you. since then, which has been included in this re-release version. Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents. |
| 2:36.5 | If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre. |
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