awful night in the shannon house. assuming, that is, that what she told the detectives was actually true. it got to the point where i finally did for her. but it never would have happened without her. her. her very own mother joan shannon. she insisted her mom had wanted david dead for months. first by trying to poison him. then later recruiting one of liz s friends to kill him. and finally she was like, would you be brave enough to do this? to do what? she wanted me to kill my step dad. in 25 years on the job, detective murphy had never heard a story quite like this. he pressed further, he said, pushing elizabeth to explain how her mother talked her into murder. and the answer, elizabeth says now, was this. it was love given and withheld. it wasn t an affectionate
every grisly detail of that awful night in the shannon house. assuming, that is, that what she told the detectives was actually true. it got to the point where i finally did for her. but it never would have happened without her. her. her very own mother joan shannon. she insisted her mom had wanted david dead for months. first by trying to poison him. then later recruiting one of liz s friends to kill him. and finally she was like, would you be brave enough to do this? to do what? she wanted me to kill my step dad. in 25 years on the job, detective murphy had never heard a story quite like this. he pressed further, he said, pushing elizabeth to explain how her mother talked her into murder. and the answer, elizabeth says now, was this. it was love given and withheld.
here s what they had. a story of some shadowy intruder that didn t seem to check out. the swinging, the affair. the story, true or not, that she wanted out of the marriage. and by the way, she stood to collect $700,000 in insurance money. the detective confronted joan. and she? well, given her lifestyle, she said, she wasn t surprised at his attitude. he s disgusted. he s automatically prejudiced against me and focuses on that. he s determined he s going to get me. in north dakota, david shannon s family tried to keep up with the shocking information. the murder, the revelations about swinging, and now joan was telling them that she had become a suspect, to which they replied joan? not a chance. we tried to play the scenario. did joan have a part in it? none of us could see that she could possibly have done that.
thing with a married man named jeffrey wilson, now that was a real lead. could it be the major was the victim of a jealous lover? so detective murphy paid a call on wilson, also a soldier here at ft. bragg. jeffrey did confirm he was involved in a romantic relationship with joan shannon. where was he when this murder occurred? he was actually working at the time of the homicide. in fact, a little checking revealed it was an unassailable alibi. jeffrey wilson was innocent. of murder, that is. but as for a three-month relationship with joan, wilson was very cooperative. he revealed every lurid detail. back in april, they were probably meeting for sex about two times a week. and in july, and of course the murder occurred on july 23rd, at least four times a week. so now the deputy d.a. began to flip the idea of a love
[ sirens ] and by the time the police and the ambulance wailed up to the door, it was too late. david shannon, just 40, was dead. all it took was a look, in fact, for lead detective mike murphy to see what happened in david s bedroom was highly intentional. it was an execution. the intruder came in while he was sleeping, placed a gun to his head, and shot him in the chest. and joan? the shock of it didn t help, of course, nor the fact that she was sound asleep when it happened. by the time she calmed down enough to talk to police, she wasn t very helpful. i did not clearly see the person who shot david. i m not sure if i saw or just had a feeling of somebody just leaving the room.