that point, this is the time when bitch would get out of jail. he s gonna get out of jail in december 2003. during this time behind bars, the fbi was working on the case. building up more and more circumstantial evidence against him. seems like it was just escalating, escalating, escalating. the thinking is, well, we re gonna know what s happened. it would take a new prosecutor to look at the case with fresh eyes. john petree, who was the chief assistant da for dekalb county georgia. well, we never really had much at all until the u.s. attorney s office did in fact bring the boxes to. us and i was able to find an empty store room in the courthouse. and created, what i call a war room for this case. so i buried myself in his office, started going through the file. one thing was clear, hinton had been the key is suspect early on because he had a
china s finger. she even wore it in this family portrait. lewis and ivan knew whoever made that phone call had their daughter. a dreadful shock. but mixed with some vindication for the family in their dealings with the authorities. they had to accept that she was definitely kidnapped. you can no longer say flighty because we established that she was, in fact, kidnapped. they waited for the collars s next move. waiting, but not idle. the distraught parents are about to turn up the heat on their daughters of dr., as a search for continues. coming up, an ingenious idea to ensure that whoever has shannon cannot take off. we put 77 billboards around the city. i felt that if people see her face, they can t move her. and then the phone rang and a friend in atlanta said, bush hinton s house is on fire. when dateline continues. te to severe eczema could make it hard for her. now i m staying ahead of it. dupixent helps heal your skin from within.
about saturday, what s your story, what we are doing that? we did talk to him on april 4th. fentanyl police he was aware that shannon was missing. he said nothing unusual happened during the game. still he had a number of inconsistencies. it did not. up internal different stories about where he was in the hours after stranded vanished. he did say he went home soon after the game. sure enough, phone records showed he made a phone call from his house. if this man did something to shine in, he would ve had to tight window to commit is crime. hinton was the only possible suspect they had. then a phone call came in. one that could become a game-changer we had hoped that when the call came in. there was a moment where you thought, oh my gosh, she s alive, she s. okay this is about a week after shannon s gone missing is, that right? correct. who gets called and who s on the other land? the phone call came into the
committed the murder in 1994, under looser parole guidelines, he would be eligible for parole in seven years. we are the ones who have a life imprisonment without parole. he has a hope, just a hope, that he might get out. they remained determined to do all that they can to fight every time his parole comes up. he will be eligible again in 2025. when he will be 64. i m carrying this to the very end. until this guy is no longer in existence. i will carry this fight. the melendis fight was not only because of shannon, but because the family, and investigators believe that hinton had other victims. remember those police searches behind hinton s home? they did not find anything from shannon. but. it was very, very macabre. they found many items in different locations of women s clothing, all sorts of sweaters, and tops, and blouses. this is chilling to hear you
was having a tournament with 25 teams. you re talking about a lot of people. every single one of the people that was there was questioned. that took us to probably 4 to 5 and out of those hundreds of interviews. in curious story about one person in particular, an umpire. a lot of the players in the game were concerned that his empowering method wasn t normal. he didn t pay attention to a lot of balls are being thrown. his objective affection was shannon, who was behind home plate, where he was calling the game. she was keeping score that day. he s checking out shannon? yes. he was more interested in washing shine and then he was in calling the sophomore game. police learned his name was bush here is seen on camera, getting ready for a game. he was a man or of a church where his dad was a pastor. he was married and had a job