March 24, 2026

PART 2 | ANOTHER Knoxville Nightmare

PART 2 | ANOTHER Knoxville Nightmare
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Season 9
Part Two of a Two Part Series KJ dives deep into the harrowing 2007 Knoxville murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom—a young couple whose weekend turned into a nightmare of unimaginable brutality. She unpacks the shocking details of the carjacking, torture, and killings orchestrated by a group of perpetrators in a rundown house.

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's

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kJ You're back with an another episode of Unspeakable. What

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is going on with you? I know that y'all have

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been waiting for this part too. You sent me the messages.

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Release it now, Release it now. Y'all had to finish

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writing it because I was still doing more research, so

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I wasn't holding you up just for no reason. But

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we're gonna jump right back into this one now. I'm

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gonna finish it up today. Now I will give you

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a quick recap because people have requested that, and hey,

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I want to give you exactly what you want, so

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quick recap. In part one, Remember Shannon and Chris, they're

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dating They were supposed to go to a party that night,

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but they never showed. Family and friends became upset by this,

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obviously alerted to the fact that, hey, they didn't show up,

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where are they? They began searching for them. The following day,

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they were alerted at some point to a burning body

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on the railroad tracks, and then it would be followed

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up with the fact that, oh, my gosh, it's Chris,

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and now everyone is desperately trying to find Shannon. Now

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her forerunner, her vehicle. It was found near Chipman Street,

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which was about ten minutes from town or ten minutes

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from where the apartment complex was that they were last

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seen at. And everything was missing from this vehicle down

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to the stickers that were removed, except for one sticker

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that remained right on the windshield on the outside where

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the rear view mirror would have blocked it if you

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were sitting on the inside. Remember that the carpets were muddy.

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Inside of the car, police were able to find Newport

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cigarettes that were kind of crushed or used on the floor.

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Her iPod was missing, and that was something that was

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very special to her. So while friends and family were

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wanting to search for Shannon, they still were asked to

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step back. The police said, look, you've got to let

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us do this investigation in a controlled way. We understand

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how desperate you are. We want to find her just

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as much as you do, but we have to do

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this in a controlled manner. We don't possibly do something

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that could affect things long term. Now, Chris's family, I

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want to go back to them real quick. Chris's family

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was now left with only the knowledge that someone had

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shot their son multiple times, and they would eventually find

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out that he was shot multiple times after he had

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been violently raped, and then he was set on fire.

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So they just went from what should have been an

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absolute normal week in their lives to planning their son's

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funeral overnight. And I know there's a lot of people

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that have experienced this. You know, people die unexpectedly, things

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happen that are tragic, but it still doesn't take away

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from the fact that you never planned to be burying

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your son and just in just a short amount of

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time from not even you know, knowing where he was.

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Now you know you have to plan this funeral. Their son,

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who was a certified he went to school, he was

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certified in marine and motorcycle repair, the one who switched

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and was decided that, you know, carpentry was something he

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really really enjoyed. The kid that had devoted his time

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to becoming somebody that just played golf in his spare time.

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He was shot and he was burned, and then on

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top of that they have to process he was raped.

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This is not something that you normally hear. You don't

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typically hear this type of thing happening specifically too, because

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he was an adult male. How had they gotten to

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this point in their lives? Chris's mother had stayed up

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all night calling him after they initially realized that Shannon

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was missing and that he was missing, and she never

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got a callback from her son. She's thinking back through

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how this just had happened. She then tried to file

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a police report the day prior, but they wouldn't do anything,

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or wouldn't do anything because he was twenty three and

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it hadn't been he was twenty three years old and

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it hadn't been twenty four hours yet. It's just like

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she felt like, my god, what do we do. I'm

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here talking to the people I know to talk to,

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but because of that technicality, the police weren't doing anything

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in that moment. They did suggest to her, Hey, maybe

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you should call the hospitals. Maybe he was in an

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accident or something. She had done that everything that she

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tried to locate her son had led her to a

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dead end. Even though he was a grown man at

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twenty three years old. Her baby was missing. And that

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was until someone arrived at her home and then had

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broken the news to her that Shannon's vehicle had been found. Now,

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before Chris's body had been located, his parents and I

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just want to point this out, before his body was

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even located, his parents had already been suffering. That's why

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I bring up what she had been through and her

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his dad had been through in those last hours before

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this realization that he was dead. The unknown in those

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moments was damn near as bad as the eventual known

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the suffering. At least it just was you know, It's

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not like it just was like, oh he's missing, Oh

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he's dead. I mean, there's just so much emotion involved

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in this that his family suffered for such a long time.

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No parent ever wants to see a chaplain show up

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at their door. And when she saw that, she knew,

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she knew immediately, my baby is gone. And she immediately

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went blank after that, nothing else really mattered. Her child

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was dead. So police in the meantime, they are having

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to break the news to Chris's family that devastation is

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now just now starting to you know, evolve. But they

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still on the other side of that, are searching hard

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for Shannon because they're clinging to the hope that not

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only may she still be alive, but hopefully she's just

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being held somewhere and the police are now determined they're

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going to find her. And so as these minutes are passing,

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Shannon's mom is also still in a world of distress.

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She too, was thinking back over the last time she

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had spoken to her baby girl. These mamas, you know,

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if you're listening and you're a mama or you're a daddy,

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you probably are grasping the point of why I'm spending

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so much time on talking about these parents, because we're

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all the same in the regard that we love our children,

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and the suffering involveteer is something that I just you know,

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I would not wish on my worst enemy. So she's

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thinking back about the last time she spoke to her

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baby girl. Shannon had gotten up that last morning and

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she took a shower, and Dina, that was her mama's name,

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she had just finished a load of laundry and so

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she folded it and she brought it up to Shannon's

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room and she placed it on her bed, an everyday

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normal thing. Shannon by that point had gotten out of

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the shower, and so Miss Dina sat down on the

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bed and she was chit chatting with her daughter while

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her daughter was getting ready, and Shannon was telling her, Mama, look,

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I'm trying to figure out what I want to wear

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for this party tonight, and she was, you know, she

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had just gotten some new clothes for Christmas, so she

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had all these new choices and it was just a

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simple but sweet moment between a mother and a daughter.

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And after Shannon ended up getting dressed, her mama walked

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her to the front door, and the last thing her

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mama ever said to her was have a great shift

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because she was driving, she was heading to work. She said,

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have a great shift and drive careful and I love you, baby.

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And although now missing, at least her mother did have

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that bit of solace that the last words that she

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could remember speaking to her in person where I love you,

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And in some way I think that we would all

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pray that should some try tragedy strike our lives in

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this manner, we would hope for that too, because when

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it's all said and done, it's all that matters is

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that you love your children. But the truth was that

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Shannon had called home again very late that same night.

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So she had gone to work, like you already know,

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and then she went and she had met up with

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Kara Caro left and went to the party. But that night,

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later that night, and this was around midnight, one am,

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Shannon did call back to the house, but her mama

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was in the restroom, and so she yelled out to

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her husband and said, Hey, answer the phone. Someone's calling.

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It's really late. Answer it please. She just thought it

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was really odd. Well, it turned out that it was Shannon,

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and so the last person to actually speak to Shannon

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was her daddy. Now, Shannon had told her dad that, Hey, Daddy,

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I just want to let you know. So I'm gonna

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be home around three am. Right now, I'm with Kara.

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I'm at her house and we're watching a movie. Now.

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Since mom was awake at this point, Dad fell back asleep.

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But because Mom was already awake and it was the

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early morning hour. She decided that she was just gonna

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stay up and wait for Shannon to come into the

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house because they had dogs and she didn't want the

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dogs to start barking and disturb or wake up Shannon's

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dad whenever Shannon came in. But the thing was, she

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never came home. So by three point thirty am, when

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Shannon never walked in the door, her mom started calling

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her because, like I said, she was a girl of

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her word. If she said she was gonna be home

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at three, she was gonna be home at three now.

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The first time her mother rang, it kept ringing, ring, ring, ring,

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until eventually the voicemail picked up. Well, her mom continued

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to try to call some more, but every subsequent call

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seemed to now go straight to voicemail. But then some

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times she would wait, then she would call again, and

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then it would ring until the voicemail would pick up.

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She'd leave a message Shannon called me back, I'm worried,

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And then when she would try to call again later

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on again it would go straight back to voicemail. So

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her mom's like, okay, did she turn off her phone?

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Why would she turn off her phone, well, maybe it died. Well,

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if it died, then why is it now ringing again?

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It just was kind of odd. But her mom eventually

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fell back asleep, but when she woke later that morning,

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she started calling Shannon again and now the phone was

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not going to be answered. Okay, so something had happened

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with that phone. Now her mom did remember getting frustrated

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at that point, but now in the moment, knowing what

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she knew that her daughter was missing, she didn't care

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what the situation was. She just prayed the phone had

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died at this point and that Shannon wasn't calling her back.

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She just wanted her baby girl back. How would she

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break the news when they got her back. How was

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she going to break the news to shann that Chris

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was dead. There were so many emotions, so many thoughts.

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She just knew, oh my god, she's going to be

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devastated when we have to tell her that Chris is dead.

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It was just too much to even consider. Her brain

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was just all over the place with possibilities and the thoughts.

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But later that day was when the manager from the

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store where Shannon work called and that's when she it

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solidified in her mother's mind. Oh my god, something is

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definitely wrong. So what did Shannon's mom do at that point, Well,

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of course, she too called police, but Shannon was too

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old to immediately at least jump into trying to look

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for her. She called the hospitals, just like Chris's mother

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had done. She even called the jails, although that just

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seemed just ridiculous, but she thought, I don't know, maybe

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the party got out of hand, maybe something happened and

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she did get arrested. She even called the jails looking

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for her daughter, but no one at any of these

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places recognized her name or had seen anyone come in

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under another name or a Jane Do or anything like that,

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so it just wasn't very helpful. Her mother became so

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just you know, enraged isn't the word, but just became

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so overwhelmed by everything. She even contacted the local FBI

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office trying to get some help, but again, because of

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Shannon's adult status, nothing would be done. The helplessness in

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those moments, that's the only word I can think of,

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is the helplessness. You are trained your whole life that

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you call the police in a time of need, but

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due to this technicality being her age, nothing It's like

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you're on an island all your own. You're all alone.

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The police don't know your kid, they don't know her

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nuances or her the way that she behaves. You know,

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in majority of the time, people do show back up

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when they're adults. So there, you know, their urgency just

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wasn't there. But her mom knew. So when the police

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got the results from herself phone pinging and it showed

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that that Shannon's phone was pinging off of that Cherry

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Street tower, that's when her mom now is falling apart.

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Because Cherry Street was a known area of town that

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was no good. Shannon would have been terrified to have

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even gone near that area of town. Now, we all

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live wherever we live. We all live in areas where

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we know that there is an area of town that

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we just don't go. Come on, let's be for real. Okay,

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this is the real world. I know in my own parish,

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there are places that I just don't go, and there

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are certainly places that I'm not going to go after dark.

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You know why, because I don't belong there and there's

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nothing there that has anything to do with the way

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my life goes. Okay, her mom knew that Shannon would

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have been terrified to even go near that part of town.

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So let's talk about the Cherry Street area. They were

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lower income homes, crime rate high. Shannon would certainly never

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have been there on purpose at least. So the question

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now became why had she told her daddy that she

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was at Kara's apartment when that obviously was not true. Shannon, though,

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was not a liar. She wouldn't have had to lie.

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She was an adult. Her parents recognize that. Matter of fact,

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Shannon's brother was off at college too. I think he

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was older than Shannon. So the agreement they had made was, Shannon,

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you know your brother gets to go move off and

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go to college, and he has his freedom. If you

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don't want to live in a dorm and you know

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you can't afford an apartment, then you can stay home

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and we will give you the freedoms of an adult,

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so long as you check in with us and you

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don't make us worry. That was the agreement. She had

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the freedom, so there was no reason for her to

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have lied and say I'm at the apartment when she

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was over on Cherry Stree. Now, when her mother had

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run over to Cherry Street, when Shannon's car was found,

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there was an immediate question in the minds of police

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when they arrived, and basically the police were wondering, was

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it possible that maybe Chris and Shannon had been on

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Cherry Street to go and buy drugs, because, like I

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told you, this is not a good part of town.

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Drugs rampant, drug sales rampant. And her mother immediately took

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offence to this question posed and she told the cop

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that that question was total bullshit. Don't you dare ask

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me that about my child When I am telling you

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she would have never stepped foot in this part of town.

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It would have tore her up. But the reality is this,

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while her mother knew that Shannon did not do drugs

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and would not have been in that area, the cops

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didn't know that there are kids lie to their parents.

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Adult kids lie to their parents. They don't run home

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and say, hey mom, I'm gonna go snort a line,

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or hey I'm gonna go, you know, smoke weed. They

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just don't do that. So the police I think were

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fair in asking that question. But there was something else

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that her mother was banking on that that you know, look,

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her stickers have been removed from her vehicle. So even

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if she did go down here to buy drugs, she

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didn't stand outside and pull the damn stickers off of

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her vehicle. Of course, okay, we all understand what Mom's

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getting at here, and of course we all understand, but

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the police have to look at everything. So while this

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was completely and totally offensive to her mother, I will

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tell you it was the right call to question all

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of these possibilities so that they could be ruled out.

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But a mama knows. And there's another thing that her

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mama knew, and it's that Shannon always had clothes in

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her car. The reason was because she was always staying

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with Kara or staying over with other friends, and so

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she would have to goas or overnight bags packed. And

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she said, half the time Kara would bring home her

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dirty clothes after she stayed with her friend a couple

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of days or whatever, and her mama would wash them.

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She said, hell, half the time Kara's clothes were in there.

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You know, they shared stuff, so she would just bring

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home these clothes to be washed. Also, Shannon was a

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very very very good student, and so she would always

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have her books and her booksack and all of that

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in the car, All of that was gone. Her mama

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knew everything here was wrong, but the police have to

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look at every single avenue to rule them out. Like

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I said, so another thing would happen. Whenever they cracked

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open the car h Shannon's car, they were searching through

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and the police opened the glove box and they found

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a needle. So it's like, uh oh, maybe this is

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the thing that the mom didn't know. Maybe this is

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the drugs, Maybe this is the connection of why they're downtown.

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So they go to the mom and they say, miss Dina,

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you know, we found a needle in her car. Would

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there be any reason you would know this would be

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in here? And to their surprise, she said, well yes, wait,

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what what do you mean? Yes, why would there be

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a needle in the car? And she said because one

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of her best friends that's always with her is a

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diabetic and she is insulin dependent, and so they always

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have the insulin with them. Further looking into that, it

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checked out this was not drug related. So now that

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the news of Chris's dead body being found was revealed

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to Shannon's family, the whole family at this point knows

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this is not going to be good, and they were

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now at the mercy of the police to find their daughter.

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But science, science itself would make a big difference in

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this moment because while there wasn't much left in the vehicle,

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there was a bank envelope that was found on the

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floorboard inside of Shannon's car, so that was collected as

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possible evidence. And when they they took that to the

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lab and it was treated with a n ynhydron, they

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were able to develop a print on that envelope. Now,

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Chris had gone by the ATM earlier in that afternoon

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to get some money, right thee hundred dollars that he

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pulled out for dinner, So it's probably going to be

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Chris's print that's developed on the envelope. So they take

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the print and they run it through APHIS and they

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do get a match. Now here's the thing. Chris wasn't

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a criminal, so there was no reason for Chris's thumb

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print to be in APHIS. That meant this was someone

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else's print, and when it was matched up, it was

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found to be the right thumb print of a LaMarcus Davidson. Now,

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in episode one, I mentioned if you remember that there

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was another party that was happening on Chipman Street at

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the exact same time as the party that Shannon and

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Chris were supposed to be at their party on the

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other side of town. Well, Chipman Street is also going

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to be that place where Shannon's forerunner would be located. Now,

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the right thumbprint of the very man who lived at

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the very house where the vehicle was seen parked was

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just identified on an envelope inside of Shannon's vehicle. So

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this isn't rocket science, guys. The police are like, there's

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a clue, and so they go up and they knock

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on the door of this home that is known to

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be the home of LaMarcus Davidson. Now, either no one

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was home or they were refusing to answer. They weren't

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sure that with the answer was at that point, but

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police knew, all right, guys, we got to go secure

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a warrant for this house and we're gonna have to

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make entry to see what's going on inside. Well, that

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warrant was swiftly granted. The SWAT team was called and

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they were like, you know, setting up, we've got to

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make entry into this house and doing a background check

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on LaMarcus Davidson. It was now realized that this is

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not a god be playing around with. He had a

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violent history, a prior record, and it turned out LaMarcus

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and one of his best friends named Eric Boyd, those

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two liked to commit armed robberies together and so they

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had been convicted before. These guys were not somebody that

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you'd want to be messing with. So the swat team arrives,

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they suited up and on the signal, they busted down

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the front door, and they quickly entered into the home

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with guns drawn, ready for a fight. Sunroom that's at

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the very beginning of the house. When you're first walking in,

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there's a sunroom there. So the sunroom on the porch,

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clear bedroom, one, clear bathroom, clear closet, clear bedroom two,

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clear kitchen, clear back porch, all clear. Nobody was there.

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The home was extremely small. It was only about eight

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hundred and five square feet, so it took less than

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five minutes to clear this whole house. No one was home.

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The house was completely silent, so the officers are just

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kind of looking at each other like, well, okay, it's empty,

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no wonder nobody's answer in the door. In the quick

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assessment that was made, while these officers are going through

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guns drawn, you know, trying to clear the house. It

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was very obvious that whoever lived here was clearly the

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home was being maintained by someone who lived in poverty,

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all right. There was no furniture really to speak of

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in this house. There was trash on the floor. There

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were just random items on the built in shelving in

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the living room. The closets held just a few pieces

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of clothing in them. It looked to be like there

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was drug paraphernalia in certain places. There was a scale

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with some powder residue on it. There was no food

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in the cabinets. There was only a blow up mattress

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for a bed in one of the bedrooms. They did

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find They did see some firearms in the closet leaning up.

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So it just wasn't your ideal home to be living in.

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But two officers who last cleared the back patio area

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stepped back into the kitchen, and when they did, they

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immediately grabbed at their guns, and they did so while

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making eye contact with one another. They didn't speak a word,

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but they both realized at that exact second that they

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were probably in immediate danger. And they realized it at

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the exact same moment because there was a large rubber

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made trash can in the kitchen, and they both happened

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to look at this trash can at the same time

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and recognize that it was completely misshapen. And by misshapen,

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I mean the only way that it could be shaped

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this way was that something very very heavy would have

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had to have been inside of it to distort the

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shape of the trash can in that way. They knew

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immediately someone was hiding in that trash can. I know

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that sounds silly, and someone might be like, really, but

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I can tell you if you've listened to prior episodes

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of mine, I had a warden friend of mine one

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who that very thing happened to her. She looked in

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a trash can, and an inmate that had escaped was

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hiding in a trash can. Okay, so crazier things have happened.

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So while one officer drew down with his weapon on

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the can, he nodded as the other one quietly but

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swiftly grabbed a hold of the lid and ripped it off.

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But no one jumped out of the can. No one

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was hiding inside the can. It was actually quite the opposite.

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No one was hiding inside, but someone had been hidden inside.

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The officers quickly realized that this was the body of

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a white female. Oh my god, Shannon, Shannon, but she

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never responded. They did check for signs of life, but

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there were none, and they radioed to the others. We

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found her, but Shannon Christian was dead. So a command

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post had been set up by the Sheriff's office at

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this nearby restaurant on Cherry Street, and Shannon's family had

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remained there constantly to await updates or any additional information

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if they could help. They wanted to be right there

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and be available in any way, shape or form. A

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matter of fact, just a little while earlier, Shannon's mom

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had run home and grabbed one of Shannon's hair brushes

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for a tracking dog to use as a scent marker,

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and that dog had been sent out searching because the

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hope was still high that they would find her. So

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Shannon's mom and dad were initially elated when the word

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came the words came out of someone's mouth at the

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command post, Shannon's been found, but when it was followed

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up with the fact that she was deceased, her whole

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family just fell apart. Her daddy began way and her

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mother almost lost consciousness, the weight of her or her

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legs just giving out. The officers knew in that moment

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that there was nothing to do and there was nothing

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to say. Everyone's eyes just dropped to the ground as

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the finality of their daughter's life had just been confirmed,

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and now the moments of forever living without seeing Shannon

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alive had just begun. So the family was now left

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to grieve this unimaginable loss with no answers, and the

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command post was no longer holding any value for them.

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Their daughter was dead, they didn't need to be there,

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but the command post still had work to do locating

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whoever was responsible for all of this. So the family

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left and they go back home to try to make

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sense of this, to just start the initial steps of grief.

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While the medical examiner was showing up and taking everything in,

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00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:13.400
taking note so that she could take Shannon in for

474
00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.480
an autopsy. Now she made the decision the emmy did

475
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.799
to take Shannon in the can so that they wouldn't

476
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:26.240
disturb or lose any evidence contained therein So once at

477
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:31.680
the office, Shannon remained in the trash can undisturbed until

478
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:37.279
the following morning, when a proper autopsy would be performed. Now,

479
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.359
I want to tell y'all, I've been doing true crime

480
00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.559
a long time, and I've been podcasting a while now,

481
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:51.559
and I'm gonna warn you that Shannon's autopsy is not

482
00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.200
one that if you are extremely sensitive to this type

483
00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:58.400
of thing, that you may want to hear. I want

484
00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:59.759
to just tell you that, I know I don't normally

485
00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:01.880
warn you about these things, but this one's pretty brutal.

486
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:05.319
So there's your warning if this is not something that

487
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.319
you would like to listen to. But I'll tell you

488
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:15.400
that her autopsy took me two pages to document. This

489
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:24.240
autopsy would reveal brutality and abuse taken far beyond the

490
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:28.160
force that it would have required just to subdue somebody.

491
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:35.240
Shannon's capture had served a very specific purpose for her captors,

492
00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:39.920
and this was revealed as the doctor went through the examination.

493
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:46.400
So to start, Shannon, when looked at in the can

494
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:50.720
before removal, was believed to be in the fetal position,

495
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:58.720
with her head dropped down slightly between her knees a bit. Now,

496
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.440
as they go to remover, they're not just pulling her

497
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:05.240
body out, because it turns out that she was bagged

498
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:09.119
in trash bags. And it wasn't just one or two.

499
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:13.200
She had been bagged in five trash bags, one on

500
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.319
top of the other before she had been stuffed into

501
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:21.200
that trash can. So they carefully pulled her out, and

502
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:25.640
they removed these trash bags layer by layer until her

503
00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:31.400
full body was exposed. Now, while it had looked at

504
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.279
first like Shannon was dressed because she had on a sweater,

505
00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.599
when the final bag was removed, it was realized that

506
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:46.000
Shannon was nude from the waist down. And this next

507
00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:49.680
set of information that I'm gonna give, I want my

508
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:56.400
listeners specifically to rise to the occasion with me. And

509
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:58.279
what I mean by this is that I'm sharing this

510
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:03.000
information as a woman woman, and I expect full protection

511
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.000
of Shannon's dignity as you listen to what I am saying,

512
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.920
because I am not sharing this for any reason other

513
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.640
than I want you to have the full truth and

514
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:22.160
full transparency on what this doctor saw. Not only was

515
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.960
Shannon nude from the waist down, but she was also

516
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:32.960
found to have been hogtied with strips of cloth or sheeting. Now,

517
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.160
the positioning of this hogtie on her made it to

518
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:44.319
where she could in no way fight back, and her

519
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:49.359
legs and her ankles were pulled up and secured in

520
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:55.440
a fashion that her genitalia was readily exposed and accessible.

521
00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:58.519
And this is what I mean. There was a ligature

522
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.440
tied around her ankles, so if you want to imagine,

523
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.039
put your ankles together next to each other. There was

524
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.559
a ligature around her ankles and her feet, and then

525
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:13.759
that ligature had a long piece to it that which

526
00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.079
if you pull up, which is what was happening here,

527
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.440
that the captor had pulled up to where her knees

528
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:25.359
would come up to her chest, and then that was

529
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.200
tied around her neck and tightened fashioned, you know, in

530
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:34.759
a knot behind her neck, so she was in the

531
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:38.039
fetal position, but her feet were tied together, her knees

532
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:41.640
drew completely up, and it was fashioned behind her neck secured.

533
00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:44.480
So if you can see what I'm saying here, you

534
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.480
understand what I mean that she was fully exposed and

535
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.519
accessible to someone. And there was also another ligature holding

536
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:58.559
her thighs together so that she could not move. Her

537
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:04.279
vagina and her anus were readily viewable by the medical

538
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:08.519
examiner due to this positioning without any type of modification

539
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:15.240
or movement. Required proof in itself that there was absolute

540
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.359
purpose in her being tied up this way. It made

541
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:24.599
accessing her private parts for rape automatic, and there is

542
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:31.240
no way she could reposition or fight back. And this, oh,

543
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:35.359
there is a fire burning in me to know that

544
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.079
someone could do this to somebody and there's nothing she

545
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.759
can do about it. It just angers me. It's an anger.

546
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:51.519
It's an anger coming from a woman that you know.

547
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.559
I'm not a prude, guys, but I am. I believe

548
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:58.559
in dignity and I believe in privacy, and she was

549
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.319
just it was taken from her and there was nothing

550
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:07.160
she could do about it. Nothing. And the doctor knew

551
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.599
that that was the case, that this rape was the

552
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:13.320
cause and the reasoning for all of this because of

553
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.480
the trauma that she could see that had been suffered,

554
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.440
and it was right there. They didn't have to do

555
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.639
any type of investigation to find out if she was raped.

556
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.159
It was so obvious this girl had suffered brutality in

557
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:30.480
the form of rape, unlike anything that you would ever

558
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:33.320
want to hear. And it's times like this where I'd

559
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:36.480
love to just skip right over this information, but in

560
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.639
a way, I feel like it takes away from the

561
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.840
full reality of what we are dealing with here. I

562
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.079
always try to put myself in a victim's shoes, and

563
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:51.519
for that reason I refuse to gloss over this information

564
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:56.159
because the word rape here is not enough. I'm telling

565
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.400
you it is not enough. Her final days and moments

566
00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:03.440
were document and very clearly by her own small body's

567
00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:08.039
attempt to try and heal itself, with no chance of it,

568
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:13.440
because you could see readily that she had suffered horrific

569
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:20.920
vaginal and anal bruising. The word hematomas was what was used.

570
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:25.559
There was blood leaking out of her genitals from the

571
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:31.760
violence that she had endured. Her head was pushed into

572
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:36.039
her knees, she was so tightly crammed into that trash can,

573
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:42.159
which the medical examiner confirmed. Shannon was alive when they

574
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.360
put her in those bags and they put her in

575
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.400
that trash can. She knew what was happening to her

576
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:57.760
after she had been viciously raped. This type of damage

577
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:05.480
is not from one sexual encounter, not this level. Her

578
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:10.480
lips were purple. They looked at her face and those

579
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:14.239
lips were purple from lack of oxygen, which was due

580
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:18.840
to positional asphyxia, meaning that she was crammed so tight

581
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.559
and hog tied so tight that when she was put

582
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.840
in the can, she could not even expand her chest

583
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:29.559
enough to get oxygen in. And to top it off,

584
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:34.079
while she is suffocating, some animal put a white trash

585
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:38.000
bag over her head and then tied it behind her neck.

586
00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:41.519
So there was a combination of a lack of oxygen

587
00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:44.440
not only from the trash bag, but the inability to

588
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.719
breathe effectively due to all of the compression in the

589
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.320
trash can and the longer that she sat in that

590
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:56.360
confined space, gravity was causing her body to settle. She

591
00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:01.159
couldn't reposition, she was tied, She couldn't do anything but

592
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:04.400
just sink under her own weight. And then they put

593
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.039
a lid on top of her. There was no air.

594
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:13.599
I mean, you take this in and there's no way

595
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:18.079
that we can even fathom what her mind was thinking

596
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:25.960
all of that known. She hasn't even been uncurled yet

597
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:30.800
by this doctor. So they got her out after all

598
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.119
of this. They took her ligatures off and they were

599
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.920
able to lay her out on the examination table and

600
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:43.920
the internal examination would then be completed. And I'm gonna

601
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.960
tell you it only got worse if you can even

602
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:56.639
believe this. Internally, Shannon was suffering contusions, bruising, and abrasions

603
00:37:56.840 --> 00:38:03.880
to her cervix inside up inside of her body. Her

604
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:11.519
cervix was bruised, it was bleeding, There was pockets full

605
00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:17.880
of blood hematomas from such violent damage being done to her. Internally,

606
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:23.320
she was so brutalized. Both her labia majora and manora

607
00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:28.000
were bruised and swollen. On the outside. There was a

608
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:32.480
large hematoma in her perianal area. So that area between

609
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:37.239
your vagina and your anus right there with such documented

610
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.960
swelling that the doctor said she had to have been

611
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:43.480
alive when all of these rapes were committed. And the

612
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.679
way that the doctor explained it was that when you

613
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:48.800
are alive, your body is going to immediately begin sending

614
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:53.039
blood cells to this traumatized area to try and repair itself.

615
00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:54.840
And we all know that like if you cut yourself

616
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:56.679
or if you get hit, the first thing that happens

617
00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:00.880
is swelling. That's the typical initial response. So the fact

618
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.119
that her body was so swollen told the doctor she

619
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:09.920
was absolutely alive while she was being traumatized in this way.

620
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:13.320
When the doctor rolled her over on her backside, the

621
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:17.440
doctor noted that she had carpet burns on her bottom.

622
00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.639
Of course she did. She was hogtie, she couldn't move

623
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:26.039
from the position she was in and someone was raping

624
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:31.440
her on the carpet, literally causing carpet burn to her bottom.

625
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:37.440
She had an injury on her lower neck as well,

626
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:41.280
almost in the shoulder area, and it wasn't until the

627
00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:44.159
doctor made the incision on her scalp and peeled back

628
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.280
her scalp that the doctor was able to identify multiple

629
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:51.440
areas of contusions on her skull. Her hair had masked it.

630
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:56.800
There were contusions on both sides of Shannon's skull, both

631
00:39:56.840 --> 00:39:59.039
the left and the right, and the doctor said they

632
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:03.239
were large. She even had a contusion that reached the

633
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:06.559
level of her brain on the back of her head.

634
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.599
So basically, the doctor's report said that Shannon had been

635
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:13.920
hit so hard in the head towards the top that

636
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.840
it impacted her brain and it caused her brain to

637
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:22.559
be damaged in the back of her head. The lack

638
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.280
of oxygen that she suffered while she suffocated in that

639
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:28.519
trash can had caused her brain to swell, and her

640
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:32.800
brain had oozing inside of the skull. From this, inside

641
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:39.280
Shannon's mouth would also tell a story of just animalistic abuse.

642
00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:42.920
Right now, while you're listening to this, I want you

643
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.960
to take your tongue and I want you to lick

644
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:51.239
inside of your mouth up underneath your upper lip, that

645
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:54.639
little piece, that little string that's attaching your upper lip

646
00:40:54.679 --> 00:41:01.119
to your gum, your frenulum. Everyone knows what that is, right, Well,

647
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:08.039
your friendulum is not an easily ruptured thing. Okay, It's

648
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.280
got to have some sort of excessive force applied to it.

649
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:17.719
Shannon's frinulum had been completely ripped away from her gum.

650
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.280
If there's got to be some type of forceful action

651
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.239
in this mouth enough to rip Shannon's frinulum, the doctor

652
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:33.840
opined that this was forced penile insertion that would have

653
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:37.559
ripped her frienulum. She's trying not to let that happen,

654
00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:41.079
and someone's forcing her to give oral sex, cramming this

655
00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:45.199
in her face, and it ripped the frinulum underneath her lip.

656
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:50.239
All over the other portions of her body, there was

657
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.119
documented bruising, and there were bruises that were consistent with

658
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.760
people forcefully grabbing her or a person forcedly grabbing her

659
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:02.679
u There was beatings, There was bruising, the whole all

660
00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:05.159
of it. But there was one thing that the medical

661
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:09.159
examiner was initially stumped by, and that's that Shannon's skin

662
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:12.840
was showing slippage in some areas, like it's slothing off,

663
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:17.119
but most notably, it was on her size. But the

664
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:19.639
doctor couldn't quite figure this out at first, because she

665
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:23.679
hadn't been dead long enough to expect that. Okay, so

666
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:27.000
the doctor started to wonder if maybe she had been

667
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.280
exposed to some sort of chemical or something like that,

668
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:35.880
because she did notice that whenever Shannon's body was being

669
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:39.360
you know, looked at, she could smell something that smelled

670
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:43.719
chemical like, but it was also mixed with the typical

671
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.320
decomposition smell, and so she couldn't readily identify it in

672
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:50.840
that exact moment. But when further testing was done, it

673
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.719
would reveal that this was exactly the case. The medical

674
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:58.480
examiner was spot on because whoever had done this had

675
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:04.079
taken a bottle of bleak and poured it not only

676
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.679
all over Shannon's bottom half, all over her vaginal area

677
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:09.119
and all of that to try to, I guess, get

678
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:12.199
rid of evidence, but they had also poured bleach in

679
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:18.960
her mouth. This chemical created an environment for that slippage,

680
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:21.800
and while she was gasping for breath, she was breathing

681
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.880
in these fumes. It combined with the warmth of the

682
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.119
trash can and her body and the lack of oxygen

683
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.440
in the cairn. Shannon had been sweating, so that's why

684
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.519
Shannon's body still had maintained some moisture. It just the

685
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:40.199
horrificness of this is beyond So the doctor obviously did

686
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:44.079
a rape test kit. Swabs were taken from all over

687
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:46.880
Shannon's body and those were sent off to the lab

688
00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:49.480
for DNA testing, but that would take some more time

689
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:53.000
for those profiles to be developed, if any profiles could

690
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:56.880
be developed. But when it's all said and done, Shannon's

691
00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:01.280
cause of death was ruled as ex asphyxia due to

692
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.440
the bag that was over her head, combined with positional

693
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.519
asphyxia because she could not breathe because of the way

694
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.639
she was tied up and crammed in that trash can.

695
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:16.320
You know, it kind of makes you wonder. It makes

696
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:20.000
me wonder what must the vicarious trauma be like for

697
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.559
people who have to deal with these cases, You know,

698
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.360
people who have to see this day in and day out.

699
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:28.519
We know that law enforcement officers suffer over time. Imagine

700
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:31.559
being the medical examiner just the day before she had

701
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:34.320
done the autopsy on Chris, seeing him burned to helen

702
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:39.400
back and raped, and now here's Shannon in this condition.

703
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:42.400
Takes a very special person to be a medical examiner.

704
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:46.920
So police, now that they've got this fingerprint and they

705
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:51.039
know that it was la Marcus's on that bank envelope,

706
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:53.400
the pressure was now on. They had to go find

707
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.320
this guy. Okay, we got to go find him. Now

708
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.559
this is not a joke. And now we have Shannon's

709
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:00.960
body in his house. The pressure is on. So multiple

710
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.000
agencies became involved by this point, and through some information

711
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.760
that was obtained. And I'm gonna explain more, but the

712
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:11.039
police now even knew that it's more than just LaMarcus,

713
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:13.320
they're probably looking for. They're gonna have to go across

714
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.599
state lines and they're gonna actually have to go into

715
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.480
Kentucky to grab more people. Okay, why did they think that? Well,

716
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.679
do you remember Daphne. Her name was Daphanie Sutton. Daphne

717
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.320
was the boy, the girlfriend of LaMarcus. And if you remember,

718
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:29.360
in episode one, I told you they had gotten in

719
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:32.440
a fight very night that Shannon and Chris went missing

720
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:36.639
and she left the house. Remember it was a big fight. Well,

721
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.519
police had gotten a hold of Daphne, and the reason

722
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:42.840
they were able to get her, if you're curious, is

723
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:47.480
because that address, that of the house where Shannon was

724
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:51.159
found was tied to LaMarcus. Well, there was a cop

725
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.559
in that actual police I think it was a sergeant

726
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:57.199
or something, but that she was related. Daphnie was related

727
00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.519
to this cop. Well, the cop was able to get

728
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.760
in touch with her because he knew her and said,

729
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:04.599
we got to talk to you. We have some questions.

730
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:09.239
So Daphne's like, okay, sure, I'll answer your questions. Well,

731
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:12.679
Daphne worked at Sonic. Okay, she didn't have a high

732
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:14.440
paying job or anything. Remember she was the only one

733
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.519
employed in that house on Chipman Street. But she had

734
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:20.719
lived with LaMarcus as well as her two children. So

735
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.000
she starts explaining to the police why. She says that

736
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.239
things have gone south, and her biggest complaint was that

737
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:27.599
she couldn't trust him anymore. Well, why why are you

738
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:32.079
having trust issues with him? She said, Well, let's start

739
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:35.039
with this. Okay. Remember this is January, so Christmas had

740
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:40.239
just happened. So LaMarcus had told her that allegedly, while

741
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.199
she was at work one day, that someone broke into

742
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:49.079
their house and stole everything of Daphne's. This included all

743
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:53.840
of her money and all of her Christmas gifts. So

744
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:55.960
she's just looking at him like, are you be so

745
00:46:56.039 --> 00:46:57.880
for real right now? Are you for real right now?

746
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:02.280
He's like, yes, not only he said that he thought

747
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:05.960
it was racially motivated because whoever broke in the house

748
00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:13.159
had spray painted the inward on the wall. So she's

749
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:16.360
like what, And so she goes inside of their home

750
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.159
and she looks, but it just strikes her as not

751
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:23.320
quite right because it wasn't the inWORD with the hard

752
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:27.960
R on the wall. It was the slang inward. It

753
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:32.360
was nigga. And so she's like, I don't think a

754
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.039
racist is gonna come in here and spray paint the

755
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.679
slang word on the wall and just steal my stuff.

756
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.400
That's crazy. Plus, while she's arguing with him about that

757
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.079
this don't seem right, she looks down at his shoes

758
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:48.519
and the same paint that was on the wall that

759
00:47:48.599 --> 00:47:52.440
had the racist who broke in and did it used,

760
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:56.000
that same paint was on his shoes. She was like, oh,

761
00:47:56.079 --> 00:48:00.639
hell no, no, this cat took her stuff, spent her money,

762
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:03.320
and probably sold all of her stuff, okay, and she's

763
00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:06.719
She's like, no, I'm not doing this. So the reason

764
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:08.920
she finally left that night in question was because he

765
00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:11.840
had been hitting her and he was pushing her and

766
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:14.199
she just wasn't gonna deal with this anymore. And they

767
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:16.360
asked her who all was at the house when you left?

768
00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:19.920
Was there anybody there? And she says, yeah, everybody was there.

769
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:23.639
So police are now all ears, well who is everybody?

770
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:28.119
And she says, well, it was LaMarcus, me, his brother

771
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:34.199
La Talvis, his girlfriend Vanessa Coleman that's Talvis's girlfriend, and

772
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:38.880
then another friend named George Thomas. Remember I told you

773
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:41.519
this in first episode. La Talvias, George, and Vanessa were

774
00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:47.440
visiting from Kentucky. Bingo police now had more names of

775
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:50.280
people they needed to go talk to in reference to

776
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.159
what all likely went down. She also told them that

777
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:58.639
after the blow up fight later that evening, LaMarcus showed

778
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:00.679
up at her friend's house where she had gone to

779
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.320
stay for the night. And when he showed up, he

780
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.199
was blaring music out of this vehicle. Mind you, LaMarcus

781
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.239
didn't have a vehicle, and so she goes outside because

782
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.280
it's late. It was against the rules of the apartment

783
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.760
complex have blaring music. And she goes out to the car, like,

784
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:19.079
turn it down, what are you doing? And when she

785
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:20.880
went out to speak with him, she said it was

786
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:25.320
a silver SUV. So the police go, okay, was there

787
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:28.039
anything about it that stood out to you? And she said, well, yeah,

788
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.000
there were stickers on it. There was a large power

789
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:33.280
tea sticker and there was a north Face sticker on

790
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:38.320
the rear window. And that's about all I can remember. Now.

791
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:41.159
Daphne didn't know it in this moment, but she had

792
00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:47.480
just described Shannon's vehicle literally to the tea. But there

793
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:52.079
was more because the next day, LaMarcus had called her

794
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.159
again and he had started blowing up her phone. Now

795
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:57.519
you need to remember it. Daphne knows nothing about the

796
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.559
house or Shannon's body or any of this. While she's talking,

797
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:03.239
she said, he was blowing me up the next day

798
00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:05.599
and he said that he had some clothes for me.

799
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:08.480
So she said, I went back over to the house

800
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:13.920
and she noticed that everybody was being kind of stand office.

801
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:17.320
She said, La Talvis wouldn't speak to her. And George

802
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:20.079
was sitting there rolling up a blunt never said anything

803
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:23.639
to her. She went to go in the bathroom, but

804
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:26.400
LaMarcus said, no, you can't go in there, and kind

805
00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.719
of pushed her, and he said that there was somebody

806
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:33.119
in there. She assumed that it was Vanessa, and then

807
00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:35.639
she said she tried to go back into the bedroom

808
00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:38.039
because she had left some of her makeup or something there,

809
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:40.079
and he wouldn't let her in the bedroom either. He

810
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:41.719
starts yelling at her and he tells her, this is

811
00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:44.400
my house. Now you left, you don't get free access

812
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.960
to my house. He tried to then give her some money,

813
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:51.960
and then he gave her a ring. And by the way,

814
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.920
this was weird to her too, because he had never

815
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:57.880
done that before. LaMarcus was broke and he was unemployed.

816
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.039
He was a scrub. I guess how could you could

817
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:03.920
refer to him? He had never bought her clothes before,

818
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:06.800
for sure, but they were in a Sears bag, and

819
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:11.360
so she took it. But then looking through it, she realized,

820
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:14.119
wait a minute, these clothes aren't even new. LaMarcus, where

821
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.719
did you get these? And he said he had gotten

822
00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:19.559
them from like a thrift store or a resell type

823
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.239
store and he had bought them for her. But even

824
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:26.440
if that was the case, Daphne wasn't stupid. Okay, I'm

825
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.519
also not gonna say she was an angel, but she

826
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:33.360
wasn't stupid. And she was super skeptical about this because

827
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:39.679
LaMarcus was a known gang member and that gang repped Blue. Okay,

828
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:42.440
who reps Blue? I'm gonna assume the crips, Okay, I

829
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:45.639
don't know, but he was a known Blue repper. She

830
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:49.760
was never allowed to wear red for any reason because

831
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.440
of that. But in the bag of clothes that he

832
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:56.239
gave her there was a bright red skirt. This one

833
00:51:56.280 --> 00:52:01.840
against everything LaMarcus would ever allow. So she's just totally like,

834
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:04.400
what is going on here? But she did try on

835
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:08.119
the clothes. She kept some, but she gave the rest

836
00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:09.639
back because she said some of it was just a

837
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:12.719
little big for her, it didn't fit. The police said, well,

838
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:14.639
do you have the items that you kept? She said,

839
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.079
I sure do, and she turned over the items she

840
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.719
kept to the police and guess what those items were

841
00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:26.719
identified as Shannon's clothing. But Daphne had no idea about this. Remember,

842
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:29.679
this is kind of ghetto where they live. It's kind

843
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:32.400
of like you know, people don't ask a lot of questions.

844
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:34.760
They just kind of go with whatever. She probably assumed

845
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.320
you stole them, to be honest. Well, with all the

846
00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:41.199
new names and the information, police were now searching for

847
00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:44.239
all of these people and ultimately trying to figure out

848
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:47.719
how did Shannon end up with these people in that

849
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:51.480
house and how did Chris end up beside railroad tracks

850
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.639
raped and set on fire. It still was not making sense.

851
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.239
They were kind of getting some pieces here to the puzzle,

852
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.920
but it still wasn't making complete sense. While well, Kentucky

853
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:04.400
police were out searching for la Talvis, George and Vanessa.

854
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:09.039
The Knoxville police, well, they were searching for Eric Boyd.

855
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:13.920
That was the friend, the best friend of LaMarcus. So

856
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.639
by now, just to put it into perspective, by now,

857
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.320
it was Thursday, January the eleventh, and it's around one

858
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:24.039
pm when Eric Boyd was driving down the road and

859
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:27.480
he gets stopped by police in a traffic stop. But

860
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:29.880
it wasn't actually just a traffic stop. They had been

861
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:34.119
surveilling him and they now had questions. The basic question

862
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.800
was where is your best friend LaMarcus. Of course he

863
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:41.679
knew nothing. He didn't know where LaMarcus was his best friend,

864
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:44.159
He had no idea, couldn't tell him a thing. Well,

865
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:47.559
police knew better, so it says robbing partner. They were

866
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:51.280
best ease, so they continued to pressure him. Now, while

867
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:55.920
all of this is happening, inside that van that Boyd

868
00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:02.119
was driving, a completely frightened mother and daughter were inside

869
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:05.559
of it. Now, this woman, I'm just gonna describe her

870
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:07.440
to you because I just thought she was quite lovely.

871
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:10.920
But the mother was from Africa. She has a very

872
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:16.199
thick African accent, very well put together a lady. And

873
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.800
the police are like, what are y'all doing together? What

874
00:54:18.840 --> 00:54:21.119
are you doing with this guy? Right? Because Boyd's a criminal.

875
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:26.400
And she says, she's just shaking, she's totally just fearful.

876
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:28.760
And she says, we were heading to a doctor's appointment.

877
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.760
My daughter has a doctor's appointment. He was taking us there.

878
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:34.719
But they would never make it to that appointment because

879
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:37.199
they were going to spend the next four hours on

880
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.000
the side of the road with the police. This mother

881
00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:42.639
and daughter were completely in shock, did not know what

882
00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:46.840
was going on, and were terrified out of their minds. Well,

883
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:50.559
eventually Eric would break and he would tell police exactly

884
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:53.519
where his best friend la Marcus was hiding, and so

885
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:55.920
the police are like, cool, that's what we need from you.

886
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.519
The police photograph him at that time in this parking

887
00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.480
lot and then they release him and then they're on

888
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:03.639
their way to go find LaMarcus. Now I have to

889
00:55:03.639 --> 00:55:05.840
tell you this, it's it would be comical if this

890
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:08.480
wasn't a true crime podcast. But the shirt that he

891
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:12.199
is wearing in this photograph, it's a yellow shirt and

892
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:16.400
it says watch out for the Alphabet Boys, and then

893
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:21.320
underneath it there's like cartoons of cops and it says

894
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:25.440
CIA atf FBI, you get it. The Alphabet Boys watch

895
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:27.840
out for him. And the Alphabet Boys had just pulled

896
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:32.679
his ass over, but they cut him loose. So LaMarcus

897
00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:35.440
he told them that LaMarcus was hiding in a house

898
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.000
that was for sale and was abandoned. It was nearby,

899
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:41.760
so about four pm police followed that lead and they

900
00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:44.199
do in fact find him there hiding. They take him

901
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:48.079
into custody without incident. Interesting though, was that the only

902
00:55:48.119 --> 00:55:50.719
things that were in that house when they took LaMarcus

903
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:56.719
into custody were these tennis shoes that didn't fit him.

904
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:02.719
A McDonald's bag, a rev and a cell phone that

905
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:06.719
belonged to none other than Eric Boyd, you know, his bestie,

906
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:10.119
who knew nothing about anything, but just knew where he

907
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:13.920
was hiding by chance. So the police go, oh, we

908
00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:15.360
got to go back and get his ass because this

909
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:18.039
is his phone right here in the house. So he's

910
00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:20.360
obviously involved more than they know. So they go they

911
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.599
track him down. Eric was just walking down the road

912
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:26.119
when they found him, and he was taken into custody

913
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:30.960
right then and there. So later that same day, George Thomas,

914
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:35.960
La Talvis Cobbins and Vanessa they remember, had fled to Kentucky.

915
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:39.519
They were apprehended by police and taken into custody there.

916
00:56:39.880 --> 00:56:43.239
Of course, when they were questioned, y'all they knew nothing

917
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:48.559
about anything. Uh, I didn't know. This is crazy, But

918
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:52.039
that's when, just like freaking cockroaches, when you turn on

919
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:55.199
a light, they all start turning on each other and

920
00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:58.840
they're all trying to distance themselves from everything. Right, But

921
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:04.320
the story that would eventually emerge is one that confirms,

922
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:09.360
without a shadow of a doubt, that evil and a

923
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:16.800
lack of compassion and heartlessness runs in groups. So if

924
00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:18.719
you are still wondering at this point, what in the

925
00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:21.320
hell happened. I'm trying to make sense of this. Trust

926
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:23.679
me when I tell you right now you can't. It

927
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:27.440
makes no sense. But here is what happened to Shannon

928
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:33.000
Christian and Chris Newsom on January fifth, the day before

929
00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:38.639
they went missing. Eric Boyd's cousin had loaned him her car,

930
00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:42.119
which he kept all weakened. Okay, this was a small

931
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:45.280
white Pontiac Sunbird. It matters that I'm telling you this,

932
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:49.039
That's why I'm sharing it. So he took that white

933
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.840
Pontiac Fire Sunbird and he drove it over to visit

934
00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:56.440
with LaMarcus. And when he got there, of course the

935
00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:01.519
other group of people were there. It was George and

936
00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:04.559
everybody over there hanging out. But when he got there,

937
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.880
Daphne and LaMarcus were in the middle of that fight

938
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:12.440
that I've told you about. She stormed out. Well, they

939
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.880
all continued hanging out at this Chipman Street address when

940
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:19.519
a woman made a phone call to LaMarcus wanting the

941
00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:23.639
money that he owed her. Now, who is this lady, Well,

942
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.360
she was a sweet older lady. Her name was miss Ethel,

943
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:28.800
and Miss Ethel had just gone through a divorce, and

944
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:31.000
in the process she had sold her house and she

945
00:58:31.039 --> 00:58:34.119
had sold all of her furniture. Well, when that happened,

946
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.920
LaMarcus agreed to purchase some of it, so he took

947
00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:40.800
the items from her. But I'm sure you're shocked to

948
00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:44.800
find out he never paid her. But now she had

949
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:48.679
her bills due, and miss Ethel said, I need the money, LaMarcus,

950
00:58:48.679 --> 00:58:51.920
I'm not playing bring it to me. She had sold

951
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:55.320
him some furniture, like I said, but also a floral

952
00:58:55.440 --> 00:59:01.599
patterned set of sheets and a comforter. LaMarcus didn't have

953
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:03.719
a job, y'all, So how the hell was he about

954
00:59:03.719 --> 00:59:06.920
to go pay miss Ethel. Well, this will answer your

955
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:10.480
next question. Miss Ethel, who was selling the house, had

956
00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:14.239
just moved into an apartment at none other than the

957
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:19.920
Washington Ridge Apartment Complex complex. And yes, that's the same

958
00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:24.599
complex that Shannon's best friend Kara lived at. And that's

959
00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:28.840
the same one that Shannon was sitting outside waiting for

960
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:32.360
Chris to arrive to take her to dinner the night

961
00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:36.000
they went missing. And that is where the first link

962
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:41.119
is made. LaMarcus didn't have a car to go pay

963
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:44.599
miss Ethel, but his best friend Eric Boyd did because

964
00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:48.280
he had barred one, and all of the peeps that

965
00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:50.960
were at the house decided to pile up in that

966
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:54.199
white car, but not for a joy ride and not

967
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.400
to go together as a team to pay miss Ethel. No,

968
00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.920
they went together, becase, because they were going to go

969
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:06.000
help create some income through a planned carjacking. They didn't

970
01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.119
know who they were going to carjack, but they were

971
01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:12.840
going to steal from people so they could pay Ethel. Now, LaMarcus,

972
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:17.320
his brother, let Talvis, George, and Eric all set out

973
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:19.800
to steal a car, and as they made their way

974
01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:23.360
into the apartment complex, that's when they realized that there

975
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:28.159
was an unsuspecting couple who wasn't paying any attention to them.

976
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:32.480
The girl was seated in a nice newer model Forerunner

977
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:37.519
and the boy well, he wasn't paying any attention either.

978
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:40.280
The boyfriend was leaning in and getting a kiss from

979
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:43.559
the girlfriend, and that's when they found themselves all of

980
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:48.840
a sudden, surrounded by four masked men at gunpoint. But

981
01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:53.119
those men didn't just steal the car and go. They

982
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:57.320
decided that they wanted to keep the young couple too,

983
01:00:57.480 --> 01:00:59.719
so while miss Ethel was still waiting for her payment,

984
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:03.119
LaMarcus never showed up, and that's because he and his

985
01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:08.360
boys were too busy binding and gagging and blindfolding Shannon

986
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:14.480
and Chris. LaMarcus drove the Forerunner with his terrified captives

987
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:18.800
inside with him, while le Talvis followed in the other car.

988
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:22.719
What was running through Shannon and Christopher's minds at this

989
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:26.159
point because the level of terror involved in this moment

990
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:29.079
I cannot equate to anything other than just pure sickness,

991
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:33.599
like what is happening. They couldn't communicate with each other,

992
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:38.800
they couldn't see one another because they were blinded and blindfolded,

993
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:41.280
and they were gagged and they were tied up. So

994
01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:43.840
Shannon and Chris did the only thing that they could

995
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.440
think to do, and they remained silent as they were

996
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:50.199
instructed and just prayed to God Almighty that this compliance

997
01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:54.639
would hopefully result in their release. And meanwhile, these absolute

998
01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:58.280
heathens that are now in charge of their custody, while

999
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:00.920
they're hooping and hollering at the awesomes of the vehicle

1000
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:03.119
that they just got. This is going to bring us

1001
01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:06.679
a ton of money, isn't it. So when the Forerunner

1002
01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:09.800
pulled up to Lamarcus's house, the couple was ripped from

1003
01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:13.280
the back and they were escorted inside of this disgusting home.

1004
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:16.760
Shannon was grabbed and jerked around so hard, that's why

1005
01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:20.599
the bruises were left by whoever was grabbing her fingertips

1006
01:02:20.599 --> 01:02:23.880
on her arm. And once they got inside that front

1007
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:27.320
part of the home, they split the couple up. Chris

1008
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:31.239
remained on the sun porch while Shannon was brought inside,

1009
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:33.920
and there was nothing either one of them could do.

1010
01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:37.760
They couldn't see, and they were physically bound. Now Here

1011
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:43.239
is where evil begins to truly surface, dead hearts and

1012
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:47.559
lack of souls. Because when the couple was brought into

1013
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:53.719
the house, obviously against their will, Vanessa Coleman was there.

1014
01:02:54.920 --> 01:03:00.920
She looked up and she saw two people obviously kidnapped

1015
01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:05.639
and bound brought into the home. Did everybody get wide

1016
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:10.519
eyed and stressed out by this? Nope? Did Vanessa try

1017
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:16.000
to free Shannon and help another woman out? No? Did

1018
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.519
anyone call the police or say you know this is

1019
01:03:18.559 --> 01:03:25.480
a bad idea? No, they did nothing. George Thomas would

1020
01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:30.480
eventually tell investigators what happened at that point. Shannon was

1021
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:33.400
brought in and he said she had an oversized hoodie

1022
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:36.760
on her eyes were blindfolded, her wrists were bound, and

1023
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.880
LaMarcus was the one behind her and kind of pushing

1024
01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:42.960
and leading her into the living room. He said, Shannon

1025
01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:47.920
was quiet. She never said a word. Eric Boyd had

1026
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:51.920
Chris knew some He was too, blindfolded and bound by

1027
01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:55.679
the wrists behind his back, and they were bound by

1028
01:03:55.719 --> 01:03:59.800
the way with strips of flower patterned cloth. You know,

1029
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.239
the same betting that miss Ethel had sold to LaMarcus

1030
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:07.639
and was wanting payment for. So at that point, LaMarcus

1031
01:04:07.679 --> 01:04:10.880
takes Shannon and brings her into the front bedroom. And

1032
01:04:10.920 --> 01:04:14.880
while no one will ever know exactly how it went

1033
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.119
down or what went step by step in that room,

1034
01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:24.079
we can all assume with educated information here that this

1035
01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:26.800
is the point where he ripped off her jeans, and

1036
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:30.800
he ripped off her panties and then hogtied her into

1037
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:38.960
that unspeakable position where raping her would continually go uncontested.

1038
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:46.000
Fifteen minutes later, LaMarcus came out of the room and

1039
01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:50.239
he said that George said that he directed George and

1040
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:54.280
Eric to deal with Chris. Now did they say at

1041
01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:56.199
that point, no way, or what did you do with

1042
01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:59.880
the girl? Or I don't think so? No, they didn't

1043
01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.320
it didn't do any of that. They said, Okay, cool,

1044
01:05:02.760 --> 01:05:07.239
let's do it again. While Eric Boyd had Chris on

1045
01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:13.079
the porch alone. Isn't it possible that that's probably when

1046
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:19.760
he raped him? I think that's plausible. Now, George maintains

1047
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:22.440
at this point he never heard or saw anything of

1048
01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:26.599
any sexual misconduct in the house. All of this, by

1049
01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:29.599
the way, while all of them are in this poorly

1050
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:34.199
crafted eight hundred foot home where a hundred square foot

1051
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:37.719
of that home was the porch. Knowing what you know

1052
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:41.360
about Shannon and Chris and the sexual abuse that they

1053
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.440
both endured, do you think that's the truth, because I'm

1054
01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:48.039
going to tell you right now, I sure as hell don't. So.

1055
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:51.360
Let Talvis and Vanessa are. They're busy rolling blunts and

1056
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:54.920
getting high and smoking and doing what they do, completely

1057
01:05:55.039 --> 01:06:01.119
unconcerned with the rapes that are happening around them. Now.

1058
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:03.880
At this point, when they're told to get rid of Chris,

1059
01:06:04.239 --> 01:06:06.880
Eric Boyd grabbed Chris and led him out of the

1060
01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:10.679
house to the Forerunner. And that's when they get in there.

1061
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:14.159
By day, I mean Boyd and George. They get in there,

1062
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:16.599
but not before they don't they shove Chris in the

1063
01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:18.880
back on the back seat where he's laying over on

1064
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:23.079
his side. He's still blindfolded and bound and gagged. And

1065
01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.159
then Eric Boyd drove them all to that industrial warehouse

1066
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:29.880
where they drove behind it to the railroad tracks. Now

1067
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:32.639
George says that Boyd got out. Eric Boyd got out,

1068
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:34.960
and he took Chris with him, and he took him

1069
01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:38.960
off in the distance to a drainage ditch. It's implied

1070
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:43.039
at that point that he's saying that's whenever Chris was raped.

1071
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:47.960
But I don't believe George. I don't believe him. I

1072
01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:50.719
don't believe him on that portion because he says, oh,

1073
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:53.519
I remained in the car. He's just trying to distance

1074
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:55.960
himself from this. And I'm gonna explain why I think that,

1075
01:06:56.559 --> 01:06:59.599
Because George said that Eric pulled Chris over to a

1076
01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:02.679
tree line and then he saw a flash of a

1077
01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:06.079
gun three times ba ba ba. Well, the reason I

1078
01:07:06.119 --> 01:07:09.280
don't believe that for a fucking second is because of

1079
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:12.000
everything told to me and explained to me by the

1080
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:16.480
medical examiner. If you remember in episode one Chris's wounds,

1081
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:19.360
he was shot three times, but there's no way those

1082
01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:23.400
shots were done in rapid, rapid succession. There's no way

1083
01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.079
the shot to the arm had to be first. But

1084
01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:28.960
she also said that Chris had to be bent over

1085
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.800
on all fours, basically bent over or his face down

1086
01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.920
butt up for that second shot to enter his spinal

1087
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:39.840
column the way that it did. So ask yourself, why

1088
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:42.760
would he be in that position to be shot that way.

1089
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:46.159
There's no way that he could have been shot three

1090
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:50.280
times bow bow bow, like George is saying. Chris would

1091
01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:55.199
have had to have been shot collapse, shot, collapse, and

1092
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:58.119
then shot in the head. I don't believe George for

1093
01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:01.440
a second there. But he then claims that Eric came

1094
01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:04.320
back to the car, got a gas can, returned back

1095
01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:06.960
to the body alone, poured the gas all over him

1096
01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:09.639
and let him on fire. And he said there was

1097
01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:12.559
a bright whoosh is how he described it. Again, I

1098
01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:14.360
don't believe that for a second. I think that George

1099
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:18.800
was with him when this happened. Because of the distance

1100
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:20.319
and everything, I don't think he would have seen the

1101
01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:22.560
woosh from where he was parked. All right, this is

1102
01:08:22.600 --> 01:08:25.359
part of being an educated guess. But this is why

1103
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.880
I watched trials. I want to form my own opinion,

1104
01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:31.600
so LaMarcus, you know, he's been in the front bedroom

1105
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:34.319
with Shannon the whole time. And when the two return,

1106
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:38.279
Eric Boyd tells him it's taken care of. Before everyone

1107
01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:41.000
talking about Chris. Before everyone just goes about their night.

1108
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:45.039
Eric Boyd left and the rest of them just smoked

1109
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:47.800
weed and hung out and drank and did what they

1110
01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:52.159
do while Shannon's hog tied in this bedroom and Chris

1111
01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:56.520
is on fire. Now. The entire night, something was happening

1112
01:08:56.520 --> 01:09:00.920
that I think you need to know. LaMarcus, La Talvas,

1113
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:05.880
and Vanessa were all in and out of that front

1114
01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:10.520
bedroom where Shannon was throughout the night. That's according to George.

1115
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:14.479
They all were in and out of that bedroom. So

1116
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:18.039
while they thought that they had everything controlled and hidden

1117
01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:19.840
and they were going to get away with this, there

1118
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:23.079
was another variable that none of them had counted on,

1119
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:27.640
and that was a waste management worker who was working

1120
01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.159
that night. His name was Xavier Jenkins, and the very

1121
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:33.600
night that all of this was taking place, he happened

1122
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.359
to have arrived at work at twelve thirty, like a

1123
01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:39.560
little after midnight, because he was waiting for a trainer

1124
01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:42.079
to come to learn to be a commercial pickup driver.

1125
01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:46.720
So he was there, and he noticed, because he worked

1126
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:49.000
there and he was there all the time next door

1127
01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:51.520
to this Chippin Street house, that there was a lot

1128
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:54.399
more commotion than normal, a lot more movement. And he

1129
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:56.960
also noticed while he was waiting for his trainer to

1130
01:09:57.000 --> 01:09:59.680
show up, that there was a silver Toyota four Runner

1131
01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:03.840
there and the lights were on. It was parked directly

1132
01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:05.319
in front of the house, and there was a white

1133
01:10:05.359 --> 01:10:08.920
car parked behind it, and it just seemed super sketch

1134
01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:11.399
because again of how much activity there was, and that

1135
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.600
the Forerunner kind of seemed too nice to be in

1136
01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:17.439
that area of town. So he was there thirty to

1137
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:20.079
forty five minutes when his trainer didn't show up, so

1138
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:22.840
he decided to drive down to the store, grab a snack,

1139
01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:25.640
and call his trainer, and then he returned back and

1140
01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:30.880
waited for his trainer to arrive. Well, at that point,

1141
01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:35.439
the Forerunner comes driving towards him, and it starts making

1142
01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:37.800
him nervous because this is a bad area and there's

1143
01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:39.720
a lot of high vegetation, and he was like, what

1144
01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:43.960
is going on here? And as the Forerunner comes past him,

1145
01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:47.520
it slows down and he can see very clearly that

1146
01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:51.840
there are four black males in the suv, and he

1147
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:55.119
said that they were like mean mugging him. Like he

1148
01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:57.880
was like, what are they doing. They're like mugging him,

1149
01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:00.159
you know, trying to let him know that they see him.

1150
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:02.439
He got so nervous, in fact, that he called his

1151
01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:04.800
own dad and was like, Dad, dude, this is sketchy.

1152
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:07.119
I don't know what is going on. And his dad

1153
01:11:07.159 --> 01:11:09.520
was like, okay, son, be careful, you know, keep your

1154
01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:13.560
head on a swivel. Whatever. But he saw this car

1155
01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:16.640
so well, and he saw the white car so well

1156
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:19.800
that when police actually spoke to him, he was able

1157
01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:23.079
to pick out those cars from a lineup, specifically down

1158
01:11:23.079 --> 01:11:25.880
to the pinstripe on the white vehicle. He saw what

1159
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.720
he saw, and he in fact verified that there were

1160
01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:32.159
four males running around in that suv and that it

1161
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:34.880
was right there in front of that Chippen Street. The

1162
01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:37.239
next day, which was Sunday, is when Chris's body was

1163
01:11:37.279 --> 01:11:41.159
discovered by the train conductor. The following day after that,

1164
01:11:41.199 --> 01:11:44.119
which was Monday, is when Shannon's brother found her car,

1165
01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:48.760
and that's when Lamarcus's print was identified. So LaMarcus was

1166
01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:51.920
obviously aware of all the police activity. Now that was

1167
01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:55.079
around his home, and he knew that Shannon was inside

1168
01:11:55.079 --> 01:11:56.920
of that trash can because he had been raping her

1169
01:11:57.399 --> 01:11:59.159
and he had shoved her in there, so he couldn't

1170
01:11:59.199 --> 01:12:02.279
go back home. So that's whenever all of the using

1171
01:12:02.319 --> 01:12:06.560
people really starts happening, because LaMarcus calls Daphne and feeds

1172
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:08.359
her this lie that he can't get into his house

1173
01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:10.520
because his brother has his house key, blah blah blah

1174
01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:13.039
blah blah. Would she come get him and she says yes,

1175
01:12:14.279 --> 01:12:16.720
So she noticed whenever she picked him up that he

1176
01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:19.640
was wearing these nice Nike tennis shoes that were way

1177
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:22.560
too small for him and that his toes looked crammed

1178
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:25.279
into the end of them. By the way, these are

1179
01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:28.960
Chris's Nikes that he's wearing and they don't even fit him.

1180
01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:31.600
And then LaMarcus asks her if he can spend the

1181
01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:35.680
night with her, and she agreed. Obviously had no clue

1182
01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:39.560
yet to anything that was going on. The search warrant

1183
01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:42.439
went down the following Tuesday, and that's whenever they found

1184
01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:45.119
Shannon's body, so LaMarcus knew that he had to run.

1185
01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:47.720
Well at that exact time that all of this has

1186
01:12:47.800 --> 01:12:51.560
kind of come into fruition. Daphne's mama called her and said, uh,

1187
01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:54.640
are you okay. She's like, yeah, I just saw your

1188
01:12:54.640 --> 01:12:57.439
house on TV and there was a dead body inside.

1189
01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:02.359
What's going on? Well, LaMarcus overheard this. His eyes got

1190
01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:04.920
real big and he starts saying something about oh, his brother,

1191
01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:07.439
you know, his brother must have done something. And they're like,

1192
01:13:07.560 --> 01:13:09.840
you gotta go. I don't know what's going on here,

1193
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:11.720
but you got to go. You're not staying with us.

1194
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.520
So they dropped him off at a park next door

1195
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:19.600
to where Eric Boyd's mother lived. This apartment complex. Well,

1196
01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:22.039
Eric Boyd happened to be there. Why because he knew

1197
01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:24.000
he was going to meet up with his best friend. Well,

1198
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:26.840
there was another woman in that apartment complex who was

1199
01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:29.760
partying for her birthday. So they go up in that

1200
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:32.479
house acting like they're there to party, hang out, and

1201
01:13:32.479 --> 01:13:34.079
they're like, you know, man, can we just spend the night,

1202
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:36.439
you know, cause whatever? And she's like sure, right is

1203
01:13:36.439 --> 01:13:39.359
they're partying again. They use that woman to try to

1204
01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:41.920
find a place to lay low that night, but in

1205
01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:46.000
the following early morning hours, that woman's watching TV. Remember

1206
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:48.399
they're all still there at the house party in and

1207
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:52.600
on the news pops up the picture of LaMarcus and

1208
01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:55.720
a body's been found in his house and she's like, oh,

1209
01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:57.680
hell no, you got to get out of my house

1210
01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:01.840
and you got to go now. She kicks them out,

1211
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:03.680
so they go and they hide off in the woods

1212
01:14:03.720 --> 01:14:07.359
for a while, and that's whenever they have to come

1213
01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:08.920
up with a plan. How are they going to get

1214
01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:11.319
LaMarcus out of town? Because the cops are everywhere and

1215
01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:13.640
he's on the news. And this is again where you

1216
01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.920
see how a user thinks. So they can't get a

1217
01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:18.800
ride anywhere. No one wants to give him a ride.

1218
01:14:19.239 --> 01:14:22.600
And that's when Boyd remembers that there's a neighbor back

1219
01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:25.239
at the apartment complex where his mom lives, and he

1220
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:28.199
knew she had a vehicle. Now that happened to be

1221
01:14:28.279 --> 01:14:31.159
that African woman that I mentioned to you about. So

1222
01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:33.720
he knocked on the door and he pretended that he

1223
01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:36.960
was just visiting, and whenever he found out that they

1224
01:14:37.039 --> 01:14:39.800
were going to the doctor, he offered to drive for

1225
01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:41.760
her because she didn't have a license and she was

1226
01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:44.359
scared to drive. She didn't know how I'll drive you

1227
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:49.800
fall on. Knowing that he had no plans of staying there,

1228
01:14:50.359 --> 01:14:52.159
he was going to drop that mom and that daughter

1229
01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:54.159
off and steal that car. I feel that in my

1230
01:14:54.279 --> 01:14:57.560
soul give it to LaMarcus so that he could leave town.

1231
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:00.560
But it didn't work out that way. Police had been

1232
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:02.880
surveilling him and they pulled him over and got him

1233
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:07.640
before he could ever get that vehicle to LaMarcus. So

1234
01:15:07.720 --> 01:15:12.520
the arrests were made of LaMarcus, Latalvas, George, and Eric.

1235
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.199
But when the results from the rape test kit from

1236
01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:19.880
Shannon came back, it painted an even more vivid picture. Here.

1237
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:26.359
In Shannon's rape kit, the vaginal swabs found sperm from LaMarcus,

1238
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:32.279
the anal swabs found sperm from LaMarcus. The oral swabs

1239
01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:38.800
found sperm from Latalvas. This means that not only was

1240
01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:43.800
LaMarcus raping Shannon, but Latalvas was going in there and

1241
01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:49.359
raping her as well. On her tank top they found

1242
01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:53.880
two stains, both of them sperm, and both of them

1243
01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:57.880
Latalvas's sperm. The striped shirt that she had on over

1244
01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:01.560
that tank top also had two stains. One was sperm

1245
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:06.119
from Lttalvas. The other one was inconclusive because of degradation,

1246
01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:07.960
I think from the bleach that was poured on her

1247
01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:11.479
on that floral fabric they removed from her, there were

1248
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:15.560
eight stains, but they got three DNA profiles from that.

1249
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:21.119
It was the sperm of Latalvis, the sperm of someone

1250
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:24.119
else which was inconclusive because of the bleach, but also

1251
01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:31.920
Vanessa Coleman. This means that Vanessa helped, She helped tie

1252
01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.039
her up. She may have helped rape, I don't know.

1253
01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:39.600
And then on the blue jeans that were taken off

1254
01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:44.920
of Shannon, there were five sperm stains there and they

1255
01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:48.960
all turned out to be that of LaMarcus and Latalvas

1256
01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:55.000
combined with blood from Shannon. So Vanessa was involved. Obviously,

1257
01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:59.119
her DNA was there. She too was arrested and she

1258
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:02.039
was charged. While the murder weapon used to kill Chris

1259
01:17:02.119 --> 01:17:05.880
was never recovered, police had recovered a holster from inside

1260
01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:08.720
the vehicle and when they tested that, the DNA from

1261
01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:14.720
the holster returned positive for Eric Boyd. And guess what else.

1262
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:18.039
Remember that shirt I mentioned that Eric was wearing and

1263
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:20.920
how it was kind of ridiculous the alphabet boys, Well,

1264
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:24.640
they took that shirt off of him as possible evidence

1265
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:31.079
and they tested it for DNA. Eric's shirt was covered

1266
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:36.840
in Eric's own sperm all over it, as well as

1267
01:17:36.920 --> 01:17:40.319
the gray sweatshirt that had been tested at the Medical

1268
01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:45.720
Examiner's office. The belt that was tested also showed DNA

1269
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:50.199
from Eric Boyd. There's no doubt in my mind that

1270
01:17:50.439 --> 01:17:56.399
Eric Boyd is the one that raped Christopher. So while

1271
01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:59.680
burning Chris did destroy a lot of evidence, particularly DNA,

1272
01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:01.640
I'm gonna just tell you I know what I believe,

1273
01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.239
and then I believe that the rapist and murderer of

1274
01:18:05.319 --> 01:18:08.880
Chris Newsome was Eric Boyd. Like I just told you, so,

1275
01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:11.279
how did the others make it back to Kentucky whenever

1276
01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:13.239
they were on the run. I'm glad you asked, because

1277
01:18:13.239 --> 01:18:14.680
I wanted to tell you this because remember, none of

1278
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:18.399
them had a car. How did they get back to Kentucky. Well,

1279
01:18:19.159 --> 01:18:23.960
they did what thugs do, and they offered this woman

1280
01:18:24.039 --> 01:18:26.399
named Jody. They said, we'll give you some morphine pills,

1281
01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:28.640
some crack, and some cash if you'll give us a

1282
01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:33.159
ride to Kentucky. And she agreed. I've never met people

1283
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:35.800
like this, but she agreed and drove them four hours home.

1284
01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:39.039
But when she got back, she saw the news again

1285
01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:42.119
and she realized, oh shit, I just gave a ride

1286
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.560
to rapist murderers, and she herself was on probation for

1287
01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.520
some other charges. She started freaking out and she was

1288
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:52.520
willing to give up the information. These are just a

1289
01:18:52.560 --> 01:18:55.560
lot a group of really good people, as you can tell,

1290
01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:59.079
involved in this story. Now, when it came to prosecute,

1291
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:04.399
no one would testify against the other, which posed obvious

1292
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:09.279
issues here. But we can thank excellent crime scene processing

1293
01:19:09.359 --> 01:19:13.479
and photography because it did its job. So in the house,

1294
01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:18.439
they found Shannon's purse in trash bags. They found her

1295
01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:22.520
Britney spears, perfume that Chris had bought her some lotion

1296
01:19:22.640 --> 01:19:26.720
and perfume for Christmas. They found They found her iPod

1297
01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:30.520
with her name inscribed on the back Shannon Love Mom

1298
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:35.159
and Dad. They found her car, keys, clothes. They also

1299
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:40.239
found six shell casings, the gas canned. They found Chris's

1300
01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:44.319
burned license. They found everything they needed to tie these

1301
01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:48.279
people to this horrendous crime. So there's no doubt that

1302
01:19:48.359 --> 01:19:51.680
what happened in that home on Chipman Street was nothing

1303
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:55.960
short of evil. They had her for days. They raped

1304
01:19:55.960 --> 01:19:59.880
Shannon over and over and over the group of them,

1305
01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:02.479
and they thought that that was just one after the other,

1306
01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:06.319
and I couldn't help, but notice either. And I want

1307
01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:09.319
to tell you this, I could not help but notice

1308
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:13.119
throughout all of the testimony, all of the interviews, everything

1309
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:17.520
stated to police, not one time did anyone ever mention

1310
01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:26.319
giving Shannon food or water, the basic decent thing to

1311
01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:29.760
sustain her life. At least they didn't even offer that

1312
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:35.159
to her. These animals live and they act without an

1313
01:20:35.279 --> 01:20:39.159
ounce of humanity. And listen, we all think that this

1314
01:20:39.199 --> 01:20:41.399
could never happen to us. We do it. I do

1315
01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:43.760
it too sometimes. But what if I told you this?

1316
01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:46.199
Do you know that George had worked for Amazon at

1317
01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:50.720
one point? Yeah, so he could have been on your doorstep,

1318
01:20:51.119 --> 01:20:54.119
smiling and possibly delivering a package to you, and you

1319
01:20:54.119 --> 01:20:57.920
would have been none the wiser. These animals are everywhere.

1320
01:21:00.199 --> 01:21:04.760
Five people were charged and convicted for the two thousand

1321
01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:08.800
and seven carjacking, kidnapping, rape, and murders of Shannon Christian

1322
01:21:09.039 --> 01:21:14.319
and Christopher Newsom. LaMarcus Davidson he was the ringleader and

1323
01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:18.960
he was sent to death row let Talvis Cobbins he

1324
01:21:19.079 --> 01:21:21.479
was also you know, murder and raping all of that.

1325
01:21:21.760 --> 01:21:26.760
He ended up with life in prison without parole. Eric

1326
01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:33.159
Boyd received two consecutive life sentences plus ninety years and

1327
01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:40.399
George Thomas got fifty years, while Vanessa Coleman ended up

1328
01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:44.399
with thirty five years. Now, if you're familiar with this case,

1329
01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:46.079
you're going wait a minute, that's not quite right yet

1330
01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:49.920
it is stand by. As time passed, there would be

1331
01:21:50.840 --> 01:21:54.640
some complications in some of their convictions. And what I'm

1332
01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:56.760
going to do for my Patreon members is I'm gonna

1333
01:21:56.760 --> 01:21:59.079
do a bonus episode on this and it's going to

1334
01:21:59.159 --> 01:22:01.960
interest you so much because there is some foul play

1335
01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:04.439
that you'll want to know. So I'm going to give

1336
01:22:04.439 --> 01:22:07.760
you that so you'll know what ends up happening. But

1337
01:22:07.840 --> 01:22:12.359
this much I can tell you everyone has experienced loss

1338
01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:16.720
or will at some point experience it in their life,

1339
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:23.239
but God willing nothing like this. The families of both

1340
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:26.600
Chris and Shannon had to not only endure this tragedy

1341
01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:29.920
up close and personal. But while we feel sick to

1342
01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.640
our stomachs at what this couple went through, I can

1343
01:22:32.640 --> 01:22:35.159
tell you are hurt in no way compares to these families.

1344
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:38.600
And there were some positive changes that did come out

1345
01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:41.960
of this. In the years of waste connections, they the

1346
01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:43.960
trash place that was next door to the Chipman house,

1347
01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:46.600
they bought the property, and they tore the house down

1348
01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:49.239
so that it no longer even remains, and in October

1349
01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:51.439
of two thousand and eight, a memorial was placed there.

1350
01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:55.640
There's memorial scholarships given each year after a golf tournament

1351
01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:59.279
that's done in Shannon's memory, and Chris's memory is honored

1352
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:02.119
through this Life League baseball tournament each year that's in

1353
01:23:02.159 --> 01:23:07.039
his name. Good things have happened in response to this hope,

1354
01:23:07.720 --> 01:23:12.680
and something to make it worthwhile has happened in their name.

1355
01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:18.520
But that doesn't overcome this tragedy because between the Newsome

1356
01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:21.920
and the Christian families, the parents of both of these

1357
01:23:22.039 --> 01:23:27.680
victims have spent nearly two decades attending over three hundred

1358
01:23:27.720 --> 01:23:31.640
and fifty court hearings to ensure that all five of

1359
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:34.600
the people that did this to their kids were held accountable.

1360
01:23:35.560 --> 01:23:39.399
And I watched Shannon's daddy. I watched him as he

1361
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.600
rocked back and forth in the pews of the courtroom.

1362
01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:46.039
I'm telling you, anger bursting at his seams as he

1363
01:23:46.079 --> 01:23:49.279
had to listen over and over and over again to

1364
01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:53.000
what happened to his daughter, and then just complete strangers

1365
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.720
getting to see his daughter in that light. You know

1366
01:23:56.800 --> 01:23:59.600
the photographs that were taken and had to be displayed,

1367
01:23:59.800 --> 01:24:04.319
and you know, Shannon and Chris at this point really

1368
01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:07.880
just seem like evidence. You know, I know that's not true,

1369
01:24:07.880 --> 01:24:10.079
but it just seemed like that, and that all their

1370
01:24:10.119 --> 01:24:14.159
dignity and their privacy just stripped away. But it had

1371
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:18.319
to be done in the name of accountability. It's just

1372
01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:23.239
a double edged sword. And how these parents remained seated

1373
01:24:23.399 --> 01:24:26.720
through all of these you know, processes and all of

1374
01:24:26.760 --> 01:24:31.079
these hearings and everything with their children's killers right there

1375
01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:35.199
and they didn't attack them, I cannot tell you. The

1376
01:24:35.319 --> 01:24:37.000
only thing I can say is that God must have

1377
01:24:37.640 --> 01:24:40.880
had his hand because I don't know how they did it.

1378
01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:42.960
It's not right for mama and a daddy to see

1379
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:46.920
any of this in relation to their child. And as

1380
01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:49.800
for these killers, I think it's safe to say that

1381
01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:52.720
their parents didn't instill much in them as far as

1382
01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:59.840
integrity goes. But that's where the story ends at this

1383
01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:07.960
ugly intersection of cruelty and cowardice. And what was taken

1384
01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:13.760
from Shannon and Chris wasn't just their lives. It was dignity,

1385
01:25:14.840 --> 01:25:19.760
it was safety, and it was also any illusion we

1386
01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:23.560
all hold that evil is always distant or that it's rare,

1387
01:25:24.920 --> 01:25:31.039
and in this case, evil ran in packs. A group

1388
01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:37.239
of vile individuals so devoid of purpose or decency that

1389
01:25:37.319 --> 01:25:40.720
the only way they could gain anything in life was

1390
01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:47.520
by stealing, terrorizing, and destroying other people. And let's not

1391
01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:51.399
for one second dress this up as these animals being

1392
01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:54.560
victims of social disparity. You know, they were forced into

1393
01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:58.359
this behavior by poverty, or they had no education, or

1394
01:25:58.399 --> 01:26:02.640
they didn't know their dad. That's bullshit. They were all

1395
01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:10.880
active participants in remaining leeches on society. This wasn't desperation

1396
01:26:11.279 --> 01:26:15.600
and it certainly wasn't done for survival. This was rot

1397
01:26:17.239 --> 01:26:23.560
humans with nothing inside of them worth having, and nothing

1398
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:28.920
inside of them that should even have them remaining amongst us.

1399
01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:33.720
To be quite honest, and the most pathetic part is

1400
01:26:33.760 --> 01:26:37.119
that they targeted people who would have never given them

1401
01:26:37.479 --> 01:26:40.520
a second glance. And I do not mean this out

1402
01:26:40.520 --> 01:26:44.840
of cruelty. I mean because they offered nothing worth noticing.

1403
01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:49.119
It's easy to be a loser, and I guess that's

1404
01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:52.560
why there were so many of them running together that night,

1405
01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:56.039
and at the end of the day, when the cell

1406
01:26:56.079 --> 01:27:01.359
bars slam shut, no one even noticed that they were gone.

1407
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And why because their existence never added anything to the

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world that people would miss. They were nothing. And there's

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a value to the word human, and that value lies

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in the implied humanity that a human at its very

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basic function should recognize. But at the end of the day,

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these animals didn't just fail at being human beings, but

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they proved that they never deserved the title in the

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first place.