Burned is a true-crime murder mystery that has challenged the best forensic minds in the country and gained national attention on CBS's 48 Hours and Court TV's Forensic Files. What really happened out on that deserted country road in south Georgia on August 18, 1996, that left 82-year-old Freda Weeks dead and burned beyond recognition? Did the loving daughter, Sheila Bryan, stage an automobile accident and burn her mother alive for the insurance money as the prosecution alleged? Was it just a horrible accident as the defense claimed? Or did the real truth lie somewhere in between? For the first time, the author has gathered all of the known, and much of the before-now unknown, facts of the case into this book. The reader will have to solve the mystery for himself by following all of the facts and clues in this remarkably complicated case. Every clue, even the smallest, is important in putting together the final picture of this murder mystery puzzle.