for sure, but prosecutors had an uphill battle. still didn t have a body or a crime scene. could they convince a jury that butch hinton was shannon s killer? coming up, an emotional trial. this is your first chance to really see him? the old saying if looks could kill, he would have been dead on the spot. then, it s all up to the jurors. all i could do was pray, pray that they saw what we saw, see him for the monster that he was. when dateline continues. coaching. new workouts. and screening for colon cancer. yep. the american cancer society recommends screening starting at age 45, instead of 50, since colon cancer is increasing in younger adults. i m cologuard®. i m convenient and find 92% of colon cancers. .even in early stages. i m for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur.
authorization in the u.s. within the next two weeks. and now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. missing college student shannon melendi was last seen at a softball tournament where investigators learned umpire butch hinton was acting strangely. word had it he kept his eye on shannon more than the ball. police were quick to question him. then came that startling discovery 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 in shannon melendi s disappearance. an anonymous caller had left a cloth bag, like this one, carrying shannon s ring at the phone booth.
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didn t you have? 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 called, a war room for this case. so i buried myself in this office, started going through the file. one thing was clear, hinton had been their key suspect early on because he had a criminal record. as petrey began poring through the file, he came across a name, tammy singleton. she sat down with us to tell the same harrowing story she told to the fbi. really small town, everybody knew everybody. back in 1982, 12 years before shannon s disappearance, tammy was 14 years old and living with her family in neponset, illinois. one day she got a call from the brother of her ex-boyfriend. the brother was 22 years old, already married. he asked tammy to get together, and she agreed to meet him on her way to a slumber party. i m waiting around with my overnight bag, and he finally p
she expected her ex, tim, to be there, too, but he wasn t. still, she knew the brother as the son of her one-time pastor. so when he asked her to get in his car, she did. and he said he had something from tim for me. and it was a ring that he tried on my fingers and placed on my pinkie. and then he tied my asked me to clasp my hands together and tied my hands behind my back. i m still not registering. tammy, tammy, what s going on here? i m not registering that it s a problem until i feel the cold blade against my neck. and he says, you know what this is. it s a knife. and if you don t cooperate i m going to use it on you. the man with the blade, as you might suspect, was butch hinton. he tells me things like, i ought to waste you right now. if you don t cooperate i ll do