pinky. and then he asked me to clasp my hands together, and tie them behind my back. tammy, tammy what is going on here? i m not registering it is a problem until i feel the cold played against my neck. and he said you know this is? a knife. and if you don t cooperate i mean i use it on you. the man with a bright lead, as you might suspect, was butch hinton. he tells me things like, i want to waste you right now. if you don t cooperate, i ll do you like i did the other two. i ll waste you right now? yes. and at some point i move from the front seat to the back. and he proceeded to tie me further. to use bandanas tie together on my mouth. he dictates me. he is what is known as hard high, and places may in the trunk. tammy says he drove around with her in the trunk for a long time. until they finally got to his house. he carries me through the seller door in the basement of his home. it s now dark out? yes. can you yell or scream at this point? no my mouth is gagg
him. butch never really confessed per se to anybody. but he made a horribly incriminating statements to 38 inmates that to me worse so believable. one of them remembered an eerie late night conversation. but she had woken up in the middle of the night and said i don t do this, a demon inside of me kill that girl. and went back to sleep. and yet jill hill snitches, as they re called, get a lot of side eye. and what is this guy get an exchange for sitting here and telling us the story? right right. but the state had other witnesses to bring in stories of the criminal past. tammy singleton went to court to see how he kidnapped and assaulted her when she was 14. and to show that he no longer had any power over her. are you seeing him? did you make any eye contact? i made the point to look at him. i did look directly at him and forcefully say what transpired. i needed people to understand
can still kept up the awareness campaign in the press. until s southern twist! five once after she disappeared. the phone rang. it was ten after 11. and a friend in atlanta said, butch hinton s house is on fire. investigators determined the fire was deliberately set. and when he filed a insurance claim on the house, he was arrested for fraud. he was convicted, and sentenced for nine years in prison. it was great to have him off the streets. but, that just left shannon s family and shannon s friends wondering what happened to shannon? where shannon? with hinton now behind bars, shannon s loved ones worried they would never have an answer. but investigators were about to dig deeper. coming up! from hundreds of miles north, a critical clue in the form of a bone chilling tale.
landslides. fiona is expected to cross over the dominican republic on monday. i m just calais to new york. now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline, i m craig melvin. missing college student, shannon melendi s was seen at a softball tournament, we re at butch hinton was acting strangely. word had it then he kept his eye on shannon more than the ball. police were quick to question him, but then then police had recovered her ring, but could it lead them to shannon? back to dennis murphy with shannon s story. after more than a week of theories, of speculation, investigators now had a promising lead and shannon mullin these disappearance. an anonymous caller had left a cloth bag, like this one, carrying gianna s ring at the
inside. and, and that was a great moment. great moment for my soul! a great moment for the family. for sure. but prosecutors had an uphill battle. still did not have a body, or a crime scene. could they convince a jury that was butch hinton was shannon s killer. coming up! an emotional shot. this is your first chance really see him. we were saying, if looks could kill, he would ve been dead on the spot. then it s all up to the jurors! all i could do is pray. pray that they saw what we saw. see him for the monster that he was! when dateline continues!