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On January 7, 1997, Justin Sneed beat Barry Van Treese to death with a baseball bat. [15] The killing occurred at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where Van Treese was the owner, Sneed was the maintenance man, and Glossip was the manager. [15]
The actual killer, Justin Sneed, testified in exchange for a life sentence that Glossip had paid him $10,000 to do it. Glossip has maintained his innocence, but no court has granted his appeal.
Glossip’s case dates to January 7, 1997, when Barry Van Treese, a 54-year-old husband and father of seven, was beaten to death at the Oklahoma City motel he owned by a 19-year-old named Justin ...
Shortly before dawn on January 7, 1997, Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, the owner of the Best Budget Inn motel in Oklahoma City.In order to avoid the death penalty, Sneed agreed to testify against Richard Glossip—the motel's manager—and implicate him in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
Sneed confessed to killing Van Treese but said Glossip pressured him into doing it. Sneed’s testimony against Glossip allowed him – but not Glossip − to avoid a death sentence.
The case is controversial as Sneed was at the time a methamphetamine addict and possibly a mythomaniac. Raymond Eugene Johnson: Fatal beating and arson deaths of his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker, and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya. 15 years, 200 days At the time of the crimes, he was on parole from a 20-year sentence for manslaughter.
All parties agree Van Treese was beaten to death with a baseball bat by maintenance worker Justin Sneed. Sneed confessed to the murder but avoided capital punishment by accepting a plea deal that ...
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2). ...