Midwestern Malice Samuel A. Freeman

Midwestern Malice Discovery ID describes this show as: a small town, Poplar Bluff is jolted awake when 31 year old Laura Wynn is found dead in her home. And when a double homicide hits a nearby town, people are terrified. Thirteen years later their fears are confirmed when DNA proves the killer lives among them.

Defendant, Samuel A. Freeman and the female victim were regular patrons at the Poplar Bluff VFW club.   On the night of the murder, they had been there for four to five hours.   At some point in the evening, they argued over whose turn it was to use a pool table.   Witnesses noted their raised voices and Defendant's slight agitation.   Later, he attempted to flirt with her, briefly sitting down next to her and offering to buy her a drink, which she rebuffed.   Defendant remembered having no direct physical contact with the victim or, at most, it was limited to his tapping her on the shoulder.

At last call, Defendant left the bar with an empty bottle of Galliano liqueur, which the waitress had given to him as a souvenir.   Fifteen minutes later, the victim left the bar heading home, which was approximately a quarter-mile away.   Her upstairs neighbor heard her arrive shortly thereafter and, going to his window, saw her exit her car and struggle to open her apartment's door.   At this point a man approached from behind her, and they entered her apartment together.   The neighbor did not see the man drive up, and there were no other cars in sight.   The next day, the neighbor was only able to give a very general description of the man
and apparently had not suspected foul play.




The victim's body was found in her apartment the next afternoon by her mother.   She was naked except for one knee-high stocking remaining on her leg.   The other stocking was tied tightly around her neck, and her cause of death was found to be asphyxia.   The autopsy also revealed a hemorrhage behind her ear, which was caused by some type of blow to the head before her death by an instrument with a smooth surface or perhaps a fist.   The examination showed bruises on her thigh and buttocks and injuries to her vagina and near her cervix, likely caused at or just before death and consistent with penetration by a foreign object
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Samuel A. Freeman 1151486   
Potosi Correctional Center
11593 State Highway O
Mineral Point, MO 63660