with fresh eyes. john, 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 criminal past. as petri came across the file he came across a single name. tammy singleton. she told the same story she had told the fbi. it was a real small town. i did know anybody. back in before the disappearance, she was 14 years old and living with her parents in illinois. one day, she got a call from the ex-boyfriend.
through projectup, comcast is committing $1 billion so millions more students, past. and present, can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. vanished and investigators believed a bush hinted had struck again. hinton was now heading to court, charged with shannon s murder. her family believed justice was insight, but they were about to learn their fight was far from over. which ended his trial for the murder of shine in mullin the began in august 2005, more
sentence and got about 21 months. that short prison sentence back in the 80s meant he was a free man. free to divorce and remarry. freedom moved to georgia, free to get those jobs ads delta airlines and the softball field. and free to meet shannon in march of 1994. as john study the files, he s realized there was a lot there. but with a huge challenge. shannon s body had never been found. but this prosecutor wanted to take a chance. this is the kind of case that you look at and you say, i want one of those! i can make a difference here? yes, i can make a difference! hinton was released from prison for that insurance fraud case back in . it will take a few months before law enforcement finally investigated him for murder, ten years after janet disappeared. and i heard bush being arrested. for the murder of shannon. and my tears, just hit my
per se, to anybody, but he made horribly incriminating statements to three inmates that, to me, we re just so believable. one of them remembered an eerie late night conversation. busch had waked up in the middle of the night and said, i didn t do this, the demon inside of me killed that girl, and then went back to sleep. yet, jailhouse niches, as a call, to get a lot of side i. yes they do. right. the state had other witnesses to bring in stories of his criminal past. tammy singleton came to court to tell how hinton kidnapped and assaulted her when she was 14. and to show he no longer had any power over her. are you seeing him? are you making eye contact? i look directly at him. he tried to avoid my stare, but i did look directly at him. i forcefully said what had transpired. i needed people to understand that he did have a modus
questions. he asked me if i ever had sexual intercourse. i told him no i had not, i was a virgin. i had never had sex. what did you say about his fate? about his demeanor? he had a high kind of personality. i recall the evil that passed over his eyes. there was definitely an evil in his eyes. at the time he is talking to me. hinton took her to a bed and sexually s assaulted her. at that point i had lost it, and it was painful what he was doing. so i was screaming, please don t do this to me! please don t do this to me! and crying. after the assault, he left tammy in the basement, handcuffed with duct tape on her mouth. and at some point i hear his wife, i hear her voice upstairs. so i began to make some noise in the basement. and she s like, what is that? and he kept running to the basement. which was curious to her. so in the meantime, i managed