both jehovah s witnesses, both home schooled by their mothers. or at least aaron was home schooled until his parents marriage broke up. we were so drawn to each other, that two people were so driven, and so optimistic, and just wanted to do big things in life. so after high school, they got engaged, and full of excitement, planned a wedding. then one night shannon s mother, pam, sent the girls off to bible study and told their father, jerry, they needed to talk. she looked up and says, i don t want to be married to you anymore. i don t want to be here. everything was fine, fine, fine, then we seemed to be getting along. everything was fine. she said, this is it, i m done. what did that feel like? it was a crush. you were crushed. what happened? no one knew. except that now these two had one more thing in common. both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached, just
ralph for not protecting her mother, read the letter and began to have thoughts that were much more disturbing. i didn t get through more than a page and a half and i threw it, and i said, this is bull [ bleep ]. i said, this is the worst i could barely stomach to finish it. and aaron, shannon s ex-husband, ralph s son? aaron went to a very dark place indeed. oh, you have no idea. you were 11 years old when your mother disappeared. yes. coming up, secrets in the basement. i had been going through some of my dad s stuff in the basement and found a box of stuff that supposedly she had taken with her. when dateline continues.
nevertheless said, i love you, my boys, and i m taking off. his mother, dina, was simply gone. aaron was devastated. what did your father suggest may have happened to her? that she possibly had moved to missouri. a guy that she had been talking to online for quite some time, you know, maybe she ran away to be with him. a missing persons case was opened, but nothing came of it. aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full-time. but aaron couldn t move on. she had to have left some trail somewhere. barely a teenager, he taught himself every web search engine, looked for years. but found no sign of his mom online. and a terrible suspicion took hold of him, hardened into something like certainty. his mother must be dead. his father must have done it. and after that, it became
sketchy handwriting, but nevertheless said, i love you, my boys, and i m taking off. his mother, dina, was simply gone. aaron was devastated. what did your father suggest may have happened to her? that she possibly had moved to missouri. a guy that she had been talking to online for quite some time, you know, maybe she ran away to be with him. a missing persons case was opened, but nothing came of it. aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full-time. but aaron couldn t move on. she had to have left some trail somewhere. barely a teenager, he taught himself every web search engine, looked for years. but found no sign of his mom online. and a terrible suspicion took hold of him, hardened into something like certainty. his mother must be dead. his father must have done it. and after that, it became more of, okay, where would he put her body? he was maybe 13 or 14 when he thought about those old coal mines around walsenburg.
my boys, and i m taking off. his mother, dina, was simply gone. aaron was devastated. what did your father suggest may have happened to her? that she possibly had moved to missouri. a guy that she had been talking to online for quite some time, you know, maybe she ran away to be with him. a missing persons case was opened, but nothing came of it. aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full-time. but aaron couldn t move on. she had to have left some trail somewhere. barely a teenager, he taught himself every web search engine, looked for years. but found no sign of his mom online. and a terrible suspicion took hold of him, hardened into something like certainty. his mother must be dead. his father must have done it. and after that, it became more of, okay, where would he put her body? he was maybe 13 or 14 when he