True Crime with Rachel Shannon
WICKED: Baby found in a Trap House, 2 Year old in a Dresser Drawer After Mom does the UNTHINKABLE
24 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What happened to the two-year-old Oakley Snow?
The story of a two-year-old little girl who wasn't just failed by her own mother but by an entire family. An entire family who lied and deceived their way into creating a complex web so messy and tangled it took months to just find a clear path to justice. This family went to extraordinary lengths to protect a violent abuser at the expense of an innocent baby girl.
Buckle up because this case will take us through a wild ride as we uncover the truth of what really happened to Oakley Snow. Two-year-old Oakley Snow was born on March 10th, 2021 to 21-year-old Madison Marshall and Zach Snow and she had a younger brother than seven-month-old Colton.
Chapter 2: How did the family create a web of lies surrounding Oakley's situation?
After the birth of their children, Zach and Madison split up. They were living in Oklahoma, and in that state, when an unmarried couple has children together, the children will automatically be placed with their mother. So the children were living with Madison, though Zach was always very much involved in his children's lives.
After Madison and Zach split up, she started a relationship with then 24-year-old Roane Waters. This case starts on January 19, 2023, when Zach called the authorities to report that Madison and Roane had come to his house in Cromwell, Oklahoma, and took both of the children without his permission. He said that he's tried to get into contact with Madison multiple times, but she won't answer.
He said that she's worried the couple fled to Indianapolis with the children since Roan has family there. But like I said, in Oklahoma, mothers automatically gain custody of the children after a breakup. The father actually has no rights to the children unless he goes to the courts Proof's paternity then seeks a custody order. So according to officers, there was nothing they could do.
The children were known to be with their mother, who has custody. There were no court orders saying otherwise, so there was no reason to think that either of the children were in any danger. But that wasn't necessarily true.
Just months before Madison and her boyfriend took off with the children on October 26, 2022, officers responded to a call regarding domestic abuse at the hands of Roan Waters.
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Chapter 3: What led to the police being called about Madison and Roan's actions?
In the report, Madison said that Roan had hit both her and her then one-year-old daughter Oakley in the face. When officers responded to the residents, they were met with Roan at the front door. He asked them if they had a warrant to be on the property, but before the officers could answer, he slammed the door in their faces.
The officers tried talking to Roan through the closed door to explain why they were there, but Roan just told them to get the F out. As they started heading back towards their cars, they saw Madison pull up in her truck with her two children with her.
Officer started speaking with Madison, which Roan noticed, so he stepped outside the home, started yelling, then started blasting music so that he could prevent them from talking. As all of that was happening, officers were trying to ensure Madison's safety until she eventually told them that they could leave. She was just fine.
Later that same day though, Zach also called the police to inform them that he was now with Madison and their two children, so she was ready to make her official report. At that time, Madison explained to officers that Roan had smacked Oakley in the face with an open hand to get her to stop crying. This caused Oakley to sustain a gash on her upper lip, which officers were able to see.
Madison said that she confronted Roan about smacking her daughter, but that just led him to smacking her across the face. Officers noted bruising and contusions on Madison's left eye and cheek. At that time though, Madison told officers that she only wanted to press charges against Roan for the assault on Oakley, not for hers.
A few days later, officers issued an arrest warrant for Roan for charges of child abuse and domestic battery. However, no arrest was ever made and even though there was a warrant out for his arrest, apparently officers felt that since Oakley and Colton were with their mother, there was no cause for concern when Zach reported them missing.
Even though, again, it was known that Roan had previously abused both her and Oakley. Despite this, nothing else happened in this case until March 3rd, 2023. That day, the Greenwood Village Police Department in Colorado ended up finding and arresting Roane Waters on an outstanding warrant after receiving a noise complaint for her room at a Best Western hotel.
When making the arrest, they found that Madison was also staying at the hotel, but she wasn't actually present when police arrived. There was also no sign that either of the children were with them at the time. After his arrest, Colorado officers got into contact with officers from Oklahoma since he also had an outstanding warrant there.
The agencies then worked together to question Roan about what happened over those three months. In the days following, officers also spoke with different witnesses, including family members and friends of Roan's. To avoid being repetitive, I'm going to sort of combine everything they told officers up to this point.
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Chapter 4: What were the signs of abuse that Oakley experienced?
He said that the two were very heavy drug users. They typically snorted heroin, which would leave them out of commission for several hours at a time. He said that Madison and Roan were not attentive at all to the children. They rarely if ever held them and would often just plop them in front of the TV all day every day. He never saw them interact much or even play with them.
He never saw them give the kids a hug or any sort of affection. Though he did notice that Oakley once had bruises on her legs. Tennessee said that he saw Oakley on the morning of February 9th. Oakley went up to him, allowing him to pick her up. She was probably desperate for any sort of human connection since it seems that she so rarely got it from her parents.
He said though that when he picked her up, he noticed that she looked like she was wearing makeup around her eyes and mouth, which had obviously been applied by an adult. It's not like she got into her mom's makeup and smeared it on her face. He also noticed that there was a line on her face that went from her bottom lip to her chin, which did look like a bruise.
So putting two and two together, it looked like her parents applied makeup to her face to try and cover that bruise. After this brief interaction with Oakley, he left the house and said that he didn't return until later in the day. That was the very last time he ever saw Oakley. Shortly after returning back home, both Tennessee and Roan stopped at Roan's mom's work to visit her.
But while there, Roan seemed very rushed and frantic. He spoke briefly with his mom, then left in a hurry. After that, Tennessee dropped Roan off and then went on his own to hang out with Roan's older brother, with whom he was good friends. During that time, the brother also got a call from their mom, which made him very upset.
Tennessee said that on the call, he said to her, I don't know what the F you have going on, but you all need to deal with it. After hanging up the phone, the brother wouldn't tell Tennessee what the call was about and became distant pretty much the rest of the day.
at some point after that tennessee actually admitted that after he left that morning he got a call from madison saying that something happened and he needed to bring the dodge durango back i guess he had been using it at the time it seemed like all the roommates would trade off using the car they all shared it essentially when he returned home he said that roan was still frantic saying that he effed up
Neither of the children were present in the home at that time. Then both he and Madison left the home for several hours. So I'm not exactly sure when Roan went with Tennessee to his mom's work. I'm assuming that was earlier in the morning before Tennessee left for the day or maybe it was at some point after. Maybe he asked Tennessee to drive him to his mom's work to see her.
That was a little bit confusing, so I'm not exactly clear on that part in this whole timeline. But either way, after that, Tennessee left the home again and returned back home later that night. Again, this is after he returned the car and, you know, Madison and Roan were saying that they effed up.
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Chapter 5: How did the investigation unfold after Oakley went missing?
She said that Roan drove while she sat in the backseat with Oakley. As they drove, she continued to inspect her as she continued to decline. Within minutes, Oakley stopped trying to breathe.
Her lips turned blue, and Madison could no longer feel her heartbeat.
Once she was dead, and Madison pretty much knew that, Madison climbed into the front seat of the car, leaving her daughter behind.
They then drove all the way to Martinsville, where they pulled off the highway and took multiple rural side roads, all which led them to an old, abandoned, dilapidated home. Rowan told her it was his grandparents' home. Rowan then got out of the car, grabbed Oakley, and carried her inside through a window. Madison remained in the car while Rowan left her body inside the home.
When Rowan returned to the car, he told her that he either put her inside or under a dresser in the home. After they returned back to the trap house, the two got high and fell asleep for a while. But that same night, they were informed by their roommate that the other friend, Chad, had turned Colton over to his sister, Keona, who then called CPS.
Of course, Rowan knew that CPS would likely be following up with him, so he panicked and started packing his bags. He told Madison that they were leaving that night. Then that night, Rowan and Madison left to head to Colorado. She then said that after Rowan's arrest, Madison told Rowan's mom everything. She told her that Rowan killed Oakley and had left.
So Rowan and Madison left to head to Colorado and stayed at the hotel where he was later apprehended. She told officers that after Rowan's arrest, Madison called Rowan's mom and told her everything. She told her that Rowan killed Oakley and that they had left. She said that his mother said that Rowan had just gotten out of prison and was not letting Madison put him back.
So at some point in all of this, Rowan's brother and sister-in-law picked her up from Colorado and brought her back to Indianapolis. There, the mother helped Madison get a new phone telling her not to turn it on until she got on the bus and left the state so that I guess police wouldn't be able to locate her until she was out of Indiana. The mother also paid for her bus ticket.
She told Madison that she could go anywhere she wanted as long as she didn't return to Indiana. This was information that the mother straight up denied in her interviews. Again, they both admitted to helping Madison, but the mother said that she didn't know what happened to Oakley and didn't know where she was.
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