Barry Alan Van Treese


The Best Budget Inn on the night Barry Van Treese was murdered.


Richard Eugene Glossip smiling in his 2021 mugshot


Summary of Offense:

He was found guilty in 1998 of plotting the 1997 beating death of motel owner Barry Alan Van Treese in Oklahoma County. The killer, Justin Sneed, then 20, confessed to the slaying. He testified that Glossip persuaded him to kill Van Treese and take the money he had on him. Van Treese was picking up checks from various motels. Sneed pleaded guilty in exchange for a no-parole life sentence.

Glossip has been on death row since September 2, 1998.