Richard Glossip, was the supervisor at the Best Budget Inn motel in Oklahoma City in 1997. The motels handyman Justin Sneed confessed to beating his boss Barry Van Treese to death with a baseball bat. To avoid lethal injection Sneed gave a statement and signed a deal with the D.A. portraying Richard Glossip as a co-defendant. Glossip was charged and convicted of murder in 1998. Sneed's testimony was made out to believe Richard Glossip to be the mastermind of this terrible event. Sneed said Glossip promised to pay him a set amount of money to kill their boss. Sneed portrayed Glossip's reasoning for such a cruel act was to cover up his par-take in embezzling from the hotel. In Glossip's trial in 1998, a year later the defense lacked forensic
