Snapped: Women Who Murder - Theresa Voss

Episode Date: June 20, 2021

When a body is discovered in the trunk of a burning car, police in Ohio sift through the ashes for clues… but as the years slip by without an arrest, will a killer evade capture?Season 25, ...Episode 21Originally aired: July 28th, 2019Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WsLCJWqmIebSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wonder East Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. They were partners in business and in love. They were an adorable couple. Both of them were attractive. She was in love with him.
Starting point is 00:00:32 Until one hot summer night, when their romance comes to a fiery end, they'd had a record of a car fire. They found a body basically burned to beyond recognition. It was a grizzly scene. Was this the result of a deadly lover's quarrel? He was having a relationship with the married woman. Or was it something far more deliberate and cold blooded?
Starting point is 00:01:00 He came home and police were waiting for him. They found this really frightening history of violence. She had a problem with not being accepted, not being wanted, and I think she took rejection very hard. Passionate relationships can sometimes go from the good kind of passion to the bad kind of passion. It was an evil person doing an evil thing, and there was a great loss due to this horrific incident. The call came in around 4.13 in the morning. Firefighters arrived and they had no idea what caused this fire.
Starting point is 00:01:50 They knew the flames were really high and they could do it. They were like, what's going on? They were like, what's going on? They were like, what's going on? They were like, what's going on? They were like, what's going on? They were like, what's going on? 4.13 in the morning. Firefighters arrived, and they had no idea what caused this fire. They knew the flames were really high, and they could tell by how raging this fire was
Starting point is 00:02:12 that it had been set pretty recently. Once the flames are extinguished, firefighters take a closer look at the car's charred ruins and find something gruesome. They found a body in the trunk. It was burned to beyond recognition, and they know that at this point there's some kind of a crime scene. Homicide detectives soon arrive and begin processing the scene.
Starting point is 00:02:46 The license plate was actually off of the car on the ground. A quick search determines that the vehicle is a Ford Mustang registered to a man named Jimmy T. Mar Jr. Investigators obtain Jimmy T. Mar's phone number and home address in the city of Deer Park, about 25 miles south. The police called Jimmy, and when they contacted him, of course, they knew that wasn't him and the trunk. Once police realized that Jimmy wasn't in the trunk of the car,
Starting point is 00:03:20 they needed to figure out who it was. That's when Jimmy tells police that his 30-year-old brother Troy T. Marr took his car the night before. Jimmy and Troy lived together and they shared vehicles. Troy had his truck and Jimmy had a Mustang and they would borrow each other's cars. And Jimmy reported that he'd loaned his car to his brother Troy, and he had not come home
Starting point is 00:03:48 that night of July 3rd. They know that Troy is missing, and they quickly begin to add up two-and-two and come to the conclusion that that's probably his body in the car. Investigators are now tasked with answering some difficult questions. Who would do something like this to Troy?
Starting point is 00:04:07 And why? Born in 1969, Troy Lee Timar was raised in the small town of Deer Park, the second oldest of four children. The Timars had lived in the community a long time. They were well known, especially because Troy had been such a star in high school. Troy was a homecoming king. He was a great athlete, very popular in high school. Troy's just very outgoing, and I don't know anybody that had anything negative to say about Troy.
Starting point is 00:04:44 Because he was funny, and just he never stopped. He was going a mile in it. After high school, Troy stayed into your park and gained a solid reputation in construction, eventually working at a company called Capital Construction. He was the project manager at the time for them. Troy would oversee the financing of the projects,
Starting point is 00:05:07 and Troy would procure the contracts, as well as the material. Troy wanted to succeed in whatever he did. That included all of his pursuits, even when it came to women. He was a young man who was single, and he had several girlfriends at various times, and sometimes at the same time.
Starting point is 00:05:32 But in February 1996, Troy met a woman who would cause the Carefree Bachelor to finally consider settling down. Her name was Teresa Terry Horeline. Terry had a pretty good upbringing. Her dad was a firefighter. Real respected. She had a younger brother named Donald. She was close to her brothers.
Starting point is 00:05:58 The family was wonderful, well known in Montgomery. Terry and I met in seventh grade. We were in home room class together, and we just hit it off. We were just very, we had a great friendship. Unlike Troy, Teri wasn't a standout at her high school. Teri was very quiet, but she was very, very pretty. We had a lot of guys at school who were interested in her, but she never dated too many people.
Starting point is 00:06:27 She wanted to get married right away and wanted to have kids. She didn't talk about college, she didn't talk about doing anything else. But Terry's dream of settling down and starting a family wouldn't come easily. At 32 years old, Terry found herself a twice divorced single mother, just trying to make ends meet. I think she just needed somebody to be with her. And I think that's what she really wanted was a family. Though Terry's love life was tumultuous,
Starting point is 00:07:01 she had better luck when it came to her career. She was very good at bookkeeping and accounting. She was a whiz at that. Those skills helped Terry land a job as the office manager and bookkeeper at Capital Construction in 1996, which is where she met Troy Timar. The two young co-workers shared an undeniable connection.
Starting point is 00:07:26 Troy and Terry had a long common. They were both born in small towns. They were pretty detailed-oriented in their work. Both of them were attractive. After a whirlwind romance, Terry moved into Troy's house in Deer Park. He was very in love with Teresa. Everything he did, he needed a lot for her.
Starting point is 00:07:48 They came to work together and they go home together. And he just like he always wanted he needed to be there for her. For the next two years, the couples bond only grew stronger, so much so that they decided to go into business together. In January 1998, Troy and Terry started their own construction company out of their home. Team R construction.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Troy wanted to be his own boss. He was a leader. And I think the company was the way to keep them two together every day. Treesau was going to do all the clerical work. She would write the checks out. Troy was the guy that go out to find work. For the first year, the new company thrived.
Starting point is 00:08:35 But as work slowed down, projects were harder to come by and the company struggled. To help stay on top of bills, Terry took a second bookkeeping job with a local plumbing contractor. But in December 1998, Terry ran into some serious trouble at her second job. The owner of that company discovered that some inbezzling was going on, and the trail led to Terry.
Starting point is 00:09:03 And when he confronted her, she admitted it. Terry pled guilty to felony theft and was put in a program to make restitution. She claimed she had taken the money to help Troy when his business was struggling. Unaware of her illegal activities, Troy was stunned when he learned the truth. There was a lot of strain at that point
Starting point is 00:09:28 put on the relationship between Troy and Teresa. Troy tells Teresa, maybe you should move out. She was very reluctant, but around March 1999, she does move out. She ended up moving in with her parents. Troy moved in with his brother, Jimmy. Despite their breakup, Troy and Terry continued to see each other on and off. And as the months passed, they began to mend their relationship.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Troy was a compassionate, caring person who wanted to see the best out of everyone, including Trissel. They were in love. They did live together, and he cares about her. The door wasn't entirely closed on her and Troy getting back together. But the possibility of a rekindled romance seems gone forever.
Starting point is 00:10:20 Now that police have found the remains of a burnt body, they believe is Troy T. Mar. Coming up, a horrific crime comes into focus. They notice there was a trail of burned grass leading away from the car. Whoever set the fire was smart enough to make a gasoline fuse. And investigators try to unravel a web of lies. They were seeing each other for about a month and a half
Starting point is 00:10:50 before he died. In Warren County, Ohio, a body found in the trunk of a burned-out Mustang is believed to be that of 30-year-old Troy Timar. The area where the car was found gives investigators a possible window into the perpetrator's mindset. This location certainly suggests premeditation because there's nobody around for quite a distance in every direction. It was probably appearing like the ideal place to put a body. No one's prints were found on the car due to the fact
Starting point is 00:11:42 that there was a fire. And as all reports were, this was a very, very hot fire. On the ground, investigators locate their first big clue. They find the gun casings near the vehicle. Investigators also find traces of what appears to be a possible accelerant used to ignite the car. They noticed there was a trail of burn grass leading away from the car, suggesting that the car had been doused and gasoline and whoever set the
Starting point is 00:12:17 fire was smart enough to make a gasoline fuse that went from probably 25 feet to the car, which was indicative that someone had let a fire from the distance. As investigators wrap up the crime scene, the medical examiner conducts an autopsy and confirms the body is, in fact, Troy Timar. It was shocking to see somebody who
Starting point is 00:12:48 has had so much promise and was such a likable, fun person to lose his life this way so young. Troy had been about 180 pounds. And the weight of the body that they removed from the trunk was 96 pounds, which is not uncommon in burn victims of people who have been burned severely. Here was this healthy, attractive, outgoing, athletic, young guy, and just to see that happen was very sad.
Starting point is 00:13:23 The autopsy also determines that Troy did not die from the fire. The autopsy revealed that Troy had been shot twice in the back. Later, they determined that the gunshots were from a 40 caliber handgun or weapon. That he probably died or almost certainly died before being burned. And it looked like Troy had blood to death in the car. Their speculation was that the person who fired the shots
Starting point is 00:13:52 was leaning in through the driver's side window and fired the shots into the victim as they stood outside the car. With his identity confirmed, detectives take a trip to see Troy's family and deliver the tragic news of his death. They were very close. No one could believe that something ill would happen to Troy. Detectives questioned Troy's brother and roommate Jimmy T. Mar. Jr.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Hoping he can shed some light on Troy's whereabouts in the 24 hours before he was killed. Jimmy says that the last time he saw his brother was the day before. He had seen Troy sitting on the couch watching TV. Troy intended to stay home because he had plans to work at a benefit the next day. Parking cars is a volunteer. Jimmy went to take a shower, and when he came back out, Troy was gone, and so was the Ford Mustang. Jimmy says when he returned home the next morning at around 10.30 a.m.,
Starting point is 00:14:59 Troy was still gone. Police wonder if Jimmy is hiding anything. First, police had to exclude Jimmy. It is his car, and bad blood between brothers isn't unheard of. So they needed to figure out if Jimmy and Troy had any problems. And what they found out was that they were really very close. I mean, they were business partners.
Starting point is 00:15:23 They were best friends. They were roommates. He was pretty quickly excluded. He was the most outspoken in the family. I think he was devastated. He was physically devastated. Jimmy tells detectives that he has no idea who would want to hurt his brother.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Troy's just very outgoing, and I don't know anybody that had anything negative to say about Troy. As detectives head back to the station, word of the heinous crime has already spread throughout Dear Park. It's big news for there to be a body in a burning car. That kind of thing just doesn't happen. It was a rural country community, not much crime.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Rarely would we have a murder. Investigators spend the next few days interviewing several of Troy's long-time friends and learn a surprising detail about the 30-year-old's love life. Since his breakup with Terry, Troy had started secretly dating a woman named Gabby. Troy first meets Gabby through friends at a restaurant since an adi. Troy and Gabby hit it off and they started seeing each other, but they would go off together without friends being aware. Why the secrecy?
Starting point is 00:17:01 Troy's friends explain it's because Gabby lives in another town, with her husband. Troy was having a relationship with a married woman. Now, police want to speak with both Troy's secret girlfriend Gabby and her husband. In a police investigation, when you find out that one party is having an affair, you're going to look at those people as possible suspects. Police meet with Gabby at her home. When she learns of Troy's death, she seems devastated.
Starting point is 00:17:42 She seemed genuinely heart sick and hurt. I mean, her boyfriend is gone. Investigators questioned Gabby about her whereabouts during the time Troy went missing on July 3rd. She claims she was with her husband on a camping trip. Police were looking at Gabby, but more than that, they were looking at her husband. Because if he had found out that his wife was having an affair with Troy,
Starting point is 00:18:14 that would be motive for murder. Coming up, police confront the husband of Troy's secret lover. There's a toy in the husband of Troy's secret lover. Is Troy trying to contact you here in the last week or two weeks, right? No, not then. Okay. But the investigation reveals someone is lying. He came home and police were waiting because she had accused him of domestic violence.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Detectives in Deer Park, Ohio are investigating the brutal murder of 30-year-old Troy Timar. 24 hours after his body was found in the trunk of a burning car, police have just uncovered a startling secret about Troy's love life. Troy was having a relationship with a married woman. They were seeing each other for about a month and a half before he died. So that brought the married woman and her husband
Starting point is 00:19:30 into a suspect status. With Troy's lover fully cooperating, detectives decide they need to speak with her husband face-to-face. They ask him to come in for a formal interview. When asked about Troy, Gabby's husband admits that they knew each other. There's a dear more Troy, the one trying to contact you
Starting point is 00:19:58 in the last week or two weeks, right? No, no. And... The husband did not know that there was a relationship between Troy and his wife. Police don't tell him about his wife's affair, but they do press him on his whereabouts over the holiday weekend. What he was doing was Saturday night, and I'll wait till Saturday evening. We were at home until probably more, too,
Starting point is 00:20:27 probably actually left the house after two. The husband says that afternoon, his boss invited him and his wife on a camping trip. Based on his claims, he and Gabby would have been 60 miles away from the crime scene the night of the murder. His boss also was able to verify that. The investigators were able to determine that both of them were busy out of state, clearing
Starting point is 00:21:02 them from, as being possible suspects. After finishing their interviews with Gabby and her husband, investigators Sapina Troy's phone records, in hopes they might shed some light on his murder. According to his call history, Troy had received several phone calls on the day he disappeared. As they began looking at phone records, they find that Terry had been calling Troy non-stop,
Starting point is 00:21:33 July 3rd. But one call in particular stands out. Around 9 o'clock that night, detectives verify that Terry had paged Troy, and he had called her back. It appears to be the last time Troy had spoken to anyone. And then afterward, there were no more pages, no more phone calls. For police, the fact that Terry was the last person to speak to Troy on the phone raises red flags.
Starting point is 00:22:08 And their suspicions only grow when one of Troy's friends contacts detectives. Troy's friend told police, maybe there's somebody else you should talk to. She was talking about Teresa. Troy's friend tells police most people assumed Troy's breakup with Terry had been over her embezzlement scheme. But the friend has information about an alarming incident
Starting point is 00:22:35 that had occurred just four months prior. What the police had been able to gather was that Troy was arrested and charged with domestic abuse. And when he asked Treeset to move out that Troy was arrested, in charge of domestic abuse. And when he asked Theresa to move out right around his birthday, he came home and police were waiting because she had accused him of domestic violence. She claimed that she had been thrown down the basement, Starris. She was bleeding, and the allegations were enough that Troy was actually arrested and
Starting point is 00:23:04 taken to jail. But Teresa had eventually admitted that she fabricated the allegations. We find out that Teresa stabbed herself with sewing needles. Ultimately, she says that she made up the allegations and Troy's released from jail without charges. That was really the deal, Greka, for him, from the looks of it as the way the events happened from there. And I think at that point, that's when he wanted her and out of his life.
Starting point is 00:23:32 It's clear that Troy's relationship with Terry had been volatile, but could it have somehow led to his death? Terry was troubled, and that became pretty clear. She seems to be that kind of person who needed attention and needed some kind of help. But is Terry capable of murder? To answer that question, detectives decide it's time to speak with her.
Starting point is 00:24:02 And she agrees to come to the station for an interview. Terry appears devastated about Troy's death and claims that despite their break-up, she and Troy had remained friends. Their relationship at that point between Terry and Troy apparently continued off and on until he came up missing. When detectives asked Terry where she was the night of July 3, she readily admits she had been with Troy.
Starting point is 00:24:34 Troy came to pick her up between 10 and 10 and 30, and she was very clear about that in her conversations with the detectives. They had gone to a park in Pleasant Ridge, and walked around as they used to do. Terry told detectives that she got home about 1230. Terry claims Troy dropped her back at her parents' house. Terry was dropped off, which then her father
Starting point is 00:24:57 seized her go and come inside. Anyone who would establish a timeline for Teresa's activities, they were important, such as her parents. To double-check Terry's alibi, detectives pay a visit to her home, where she lives with her parents and her younger brother, Eric Hoorline. Teresa's dad, Don Senior, is interviewed by police, and he does say that Teresa got' had got home around 12.30 in the morning, which jived with Trees' alibi.
Starting point is 00:25:31 She came home. She calmly went upstairs, came down, and started doing her nails. Trees' father says his son, Eric, arrived home shortly after. And Eric and Trees stayed up while he went to bed. Investigators sit down with Eric to confirm his father's story, as well as ask him about his own whereabouts
Starting point is 00:25:58 earlier that evening. Eric Corline had stated he had been to a AA meeting at 11 o'clock. After the meeting, Eric says he went to Waffle House for a cup of coffee and then home where he visited with Terry. With Terry's alibi confirmed by her family, investigators are back at square one. We didn't know who let the fire. Just because there was a fire in someone had caused it, did not indicate who had done it. The gun casings had to be matched to the actual gun,
Starting point is 00:26:35 and they did not have a gun to match. A lot of the evidence, the trace evidence, was burned up in the fire. It was all circumstantial. They just didn't have enough. Months pass with no new leads. Then years, the case officially goes cold. The likelihood of solving a murder that's been languishing for six years is pretty small.
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Starting point is 00:28:41 It's been four years since 30-year-old Troy Timar was shot to death and his body burned in the trunk of a car. And police aren't any closer to proving who is responsible. After the initial investigation, the case went cold. In April of 2003, a special task force at the Warren County Sheriff's Office is formed to take another look at the stalled murder case. Since Troy's ex, Terry Horline, was the last person to see him alive, the task force focuses on her statement and finds it a little far-fetched.
Starting point is 00:29:22 The fact that he had broken up with her, considering her false allegations of domestic violence, that he would be seen alone with her in the middle of the night just seemed very odd. Troy had moved on. He had other interests that did not make sense that he would be with her without some bizarre reason. The cold-case investigators also re reexamine Terry's alibi.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Terry told detectives that she got home at about 12.30 and that was more or less confirmed by her family. One of the detectives decides to map out the route Terry claimed she and Troy had traveled that night. One of the things he did was to meticulously follow the route that she claimed in her alibi that Troy and Terry had taken that night when they drove around together. And he followed it and there was no way
Starting point is 00:30:20 that she could have done it in the time that she claimed. They spoke with the park ranger who was responsible for that area, and the park was closed and no one was there. Then that begs the question of, why would you lie about what you did that night? To find out, investigators dig deeper into Terry's background and what they discover is shocking.
Starting point is 00:30:48 She had this incredibly sketchy or frightening background of trying to hurt people and in some cases succeeding. She had a very hard time when men would reject her. She couldn't handle that. Teresa had a tendency to lash out at men, and she did it in very violent ways. Terry's first recorded incident of violent and vengeful behavior toward a man who had rejected her was in 1995,
Starting point is 00:31:19 shortly after her second husband filed for divorce. He had told her that he was leaving her, and he wakes up one night, and she's stabbing him in the neck. She barely missed his carotid artery, and that would have certainly killed him, and he was fortunate to live. And then she promptly was in a psychiatric hospital. Back in those days, that was not uncommon.
Starting point is 00:31:42 Someone who had psychiatric problems would go to the hospital instead of being prosecuted. And probably with the support of the husband, that's probably why they weren't charges. In less than a year of counseling, she's back, and this kind of pattern continued. The cold case team finds another man, Theresa had dated, named John Trob. According to John, his trouble with Teresa started in the fall of 1995
Starting point is 00:32:13 when he attempted to end their relationship. We were dating and I was in the process of breaking up with her and just kind of being friends would go in different ways. The impending break-up seemed amicable until 3 a.m. on the morning of November 30th when John was awoken by an intruder. I see the door kind of cracked open and I raise up and went like this in front of my face
Starting point is 00:32:43 and I had to hit me right like that and cut those two fingers off. The hatchet wielding a salant ran off and turned himself into police two days later. It was determined from speaking with the person who admitted that he did that and went to prison. He was convinced to do that by treason. But there was nothing that pointed exactly, you know, to her.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Terry was never really held accountable for her crimes, and there were several that should have put her in prison. Now, eight years later, investigators wonder if Terry's pattern of violent behavior could have escalated to the murder of Troy Timar. I think her inability to deal with rejection caused her to snap. These repeated incidents of violence kind of made her the better suspect. But had Terry acted alone. From her past, it's clear she had a pattern
Starting point is 00:33:50 of convincing others to do her dirty work. I think all of the detectives were knew that she would have had to have help because he weighed 180 pounds and how was she going to get him out of the driver's seat into the trunk of the car. To identify Terry's possible accomplice, she going to get him out of the driver's seat and into the trunk of the car. To identify Terry's possible accomplice, Cold Case detectives focus on Terry's whereabouts
Starting point is 00:34:11 the night of the murder. They re-examine her alibi and decide to question her brother, Eric Horeline, again. The Cold Case team was able to investigate the alibi's much better. For example, Eric Corline had stated he had been to a AA meeting late at night. Police called the AA facility and talked to a building supervisor who said there was no meeting at that time.
Starting point is 00:34:42 His alibi was very shaky and had holes in it, so they became more and more interested in Eric as an accomplice to Terry. Detectives learned that since Troy's murder, Terry appears to have successfully moved on. In 2001, she married a man named Eric Voss, and the two had an 18-month-old son. Terry and I talked about Troy, but he was tragically killed somehow
Starting point is 00:35:11 that she didn't know how. And I asked Terry, did the police question you on that? And she said, yeah, they did, but I was at home. And my father could verify her that. And I said, Terry, I believe there's no way you would have anything to do her that. And I said, Terry, I believe there's no way you would have anything to do with that. In June 2005, cold case investigators talk to Terry. Hoping to go to Terry into a confession,
Starting point is 00:35:36 investigators confront her with their suspicions. The only way I can see you getting out from under this was leniency, is I'm convinced you didn't act alone that you had help if not with the actual murder, with the actual, with the cover up afterwards, with disposing a choice body. I'm giving you an opportunity to tell you who helped you with that.
Starting point is 00:36:05 Now, I can probably guess that one comes to my mind as your brother, Eric. Oh, God. Just because I was close to Troy does not mean I killed him. I don't know why everyone thinks that I'm... Because the truth and the evidence points to you. Despite the pressure, Terry never changes her story. And without a confession, police don't have enough evidence to arrest her. So detectives shift their attention to her brother, Eric. When they decided to bring him in, he was troubled.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And this might be the way you'd get that door open to get him to finally admit what he'd done. Coming up, investigators roll the dice in their interview with Eric Horline. But will their gamble pay off? The lead detective sat down and just said, why don't you just finally tell the truth? And it'll set yourself free from this.
Starting point is 00:37:08 MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC After years of dead ends, a new investigation into Troy T. Mar's murder has just unleashed
Starting point is 00:37:28 ghosts from his ex-girlfriends past. She had this really frightening history of violence. When Teresa is rejected, she responds violently, and it's a pattern with her. A pattern that police believe led her to kill Troy Timar after he broke off their relationship. All of the detectives were pretty well convinced that she was the one who had killed Troy, but they just couldn't prove it.
Starting point is 00:38:03 In a last-ditch effort to prove Terry's guilt, cold case detectives turned to her brother and suspected co-conspirator, Eric Horline. Eric kind of seemed as spiral out of control. At some point, a few years after Troy's murder, he had a lot more interaction with police. After the case is reopened by cold case investigators, Eric is re-interviewed in 2005. And at this point, his story starts to change. Eric said I didn't shoot him. The next question was who did.
Starting point is 00:38:42 And that's when the damn finally broke. Eric says that about a month before Troy died, Teresa asked him for a gun that he had. She said she wanted to scare somebody. He explained that he had loaned her a Glock 40, which was the blistics of the gunshot wounds. which was the blistics of the gunshot wounds. Then, around 10.30 p.m. on the night of July 3rd, Eric claims he received a frantic call from his sister.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Eric was eating at a waffle house when he got the call from his sister, Terry, and she asked him to come help her because she'd had a fight with Troy. Eric says that he drove to the location he was told to, to pick Terry up. And when he got out of the car, Troy was already dead. He gets there. He sees Troy on the ground outside the driver's seat
Starting point is 00:39:36 of the car, blood to death. And immediately tells Terry that they need to call an ambulance. Terry says you've got to help me. At that point, Eric says he made the decision to help his sister get away with murder. He described how he had put Troy's body in the trunk. And that basically resolved the question of how
Starting point is 00:40:02 Teresa could have possibly gotten the body in the trunk of the car. Eric says they left the crime scene to get rid of the murder weapon. Teresa tells Eric that the gun is in her purse. She goes and tosses it in a trash bin. The siblings return to the scene later that morning to douse the car and Troy's body with gasoline. The fire was only burning for just a short amount of time. And that was that for something in the morning. After his confession, Eric Corline
Starting point is 00:40:48 is arrested and charged with aggravated murder. We agreed to reduce the charges as part of the deal to get him to testify. Eric Corline's testimony was vital. We were able to verify several of the facts in his statement that implicated his sister. Eric takes the deal, finally giving investigators the evidence they need to arrest Terry.
Starting point is 00:41:18 I was shocked that Terry was arrested. I never knew all the problems that she had. She'd never showed any kind of violence when I was around. She was so quiet, I was just very shocked to hear that she could actually be a part of something like that. On October 23rd, 2006, Terry Voss finally goes to trial for the murder of Troy Timmar. She pleads not guilty. The prosecution opens their case by presenting their theory
Starting point is 00:41:54 that Terry called Troy on July 3rd and convinced him to meet her at the abandoned farmhouse. Please think she might have threatened to hurt herself. Troy being a good man probably cared enough still about her at that point to try and do something to intervene and talk to her at least, and so he went to see her. Prosecutors theorize when Troy arrived and learned that Terry had manipulated him once again, he had bulked at her advances.
Starting point is 00:42:28 Enraged that he did not want her back, Terry pulled out a gun and shot him twice. While she stood outside of his driver's side window. I think he just got suckered in coming out that night with her. He showed up, and she killed him. Terry's brother testifies that he helped her dispose of the body. But Terry's defense tries to discredit Eric's testimony.
Starting point is 00:43:00 They tried to establish that Eric was unreliable, and that pointed the finger at Eric as being the one who had committed the murder. The jury isn't convinced. On October 26, Terry is convicted of aggravated murder. She received life in prison with the eligibility for parole after serving 30 years. For his part in covering up the murder,
Starting point is 00:43:30 Eric receives a much lighter sentence. Eric Corline pled to abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence and received a sense of five years in prison. The maximum penalty for their offenses. I personally feel like Eric should of him more time. He may not have been the one to actually kill Troy, but he helped.
Starting point is 00:43:57 For those who spent years longing for justice, Terry's conviction is a long time coming. It's scary to think that if her brother hadn't confessed, that she would still be out there. And who knows how many more people she would have tried to hurt. This was a sad case among so many that we see just because Troy had so much to offer. And it's just kind of heartbreaking to see somebody lose their life this way. In 2006, Eric Horline was sentenced to five years in prison. He was released in 2011.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Teresa Voss is serving her sentence at the Day in Correctional Institution and will become eligible for parole in July 20, 2038. She and Eric Voss divorced in 2007, Tori Tamar's life and legacy is memorialized at Deer Park High School, to the press box is named in his honor. For more information on snapped, go to oxygen.com. you

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