I didn't go ballistic. I called my husband and said you got to get here

of the Freeman's house that's burned to the ground and they haven't found the girls.

Sixteen and a half years later we're still right where we were that very first day.

Ashley Freeman and Laura Bible had been best friends for most of their lives.

When they went missing on December 30th, had been

best friends for most of their lives.

When they went missing on December 30th, 1999,

they had been celebrating Ashley's birthday.

Both girls were now 16 years old.

To mark the occasion, Laura was staying over at Ashley's house, a trailer home just outside of Welsh Oklahoma.

By 5 a.m. that morning, the Freeman Family trailer would be found ablaze burning in the cold darkness,

and the girls nowhere to be found.

Ashley and Laura's disappearance shook their small town community.

The two were both smart, kind, and well-liked.

Laura was a cheerleader.

She loved children. In fact, that's what she did to make her money. She would babysit.

I'm Lorraine Bible. I'm Laura Bible's mother. She would make her little babysitting suitcase and she'd take it with her to

whoever she was babysitting. Very likable. I mean she would you know these are my

principals and you're not going to sway me.

You know, I don't believe in September I'm not going to do it.

I don't care who you are.

And you cannot like me or you can make fun of me for it, but I'm still not going to do it.

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