![]() Lynlee was the main suspect from day one, although the family was adamant that she was not involved. ![]() Naturally, they were the first suspects because they were the people closest to Ben and they were there when the body was found.īen Renick (Missouri Hwy. Upon his death, investigators focused on Lynlee and Sam. Raised in the small town of New Florence, Missouri, about an hour east of Columbia, he owned the family property. So it stood to reason that upon his death, Ben’s reptile friends’ first question was: How many snakes are missing?īen, however, was described by those who knew him as a family man first and foremost. The guy was amazing.”īen designed species and his understanding of genetics allowed him to breed snakes of varying colors and patterns. “He was like the Johnny Depp of pythons,” Ben’s friend Matthew Edmonds said in Mystery on a Snake Farm: A Court TV Special. Just 29 years old at the time of his death, the tight-knit reptile community adored Ben. They thought maybe someone knew the value of his snake collection and that it had been a robbery gone wrong. He had a contact gun wound to the head, meaning the muzzle of the gun was actually touching his head when the trigger was pulled.įamily and friends surmised that the only possible motive anyone might have for killing Ben would be theft. It wasn’t until he spoke to the medical examiner that Sam learned, to his shock, that Ben had been shot eight times. Police showed up prepared to shoot the anaconda. ![]() Sam thought an anaconda had gotten loose and attacked his brother. Lynlee Renick (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)
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