perhaps. look at our camera, we suggested. speak from the heart. i still love i still love you, elizabeth. it s very complicated. it s very difficult. you re still my daughter. and i know the situation is hard for both of us. and i am sorry i wasn t a better mother. i can t go back and change that. but elizabeth didn t like this idea. i don t have anything to say to her. because it doesn t matter what i say. it s like she s not going to change. she s not going to tell all these people that she lied. in the years following their father s death, joan shannon s two sons, david s sons, were living in north dakota and grew up in the major s boyhood home here. his mother became in joan s absence their mother and grandmother. the boys believed in joan s innocence, visited her sometimes, and talked to her on the phone. they were not speaking to their sister. and major david shannon, his remains will spend eternity here
but elizabeth didn t like this idea. i don t have anything to say to her. because it doesn t matter what i say. it s like she s not going to change. she s not going to tell all these people that she lied. in the years following their father s death, joan shannon s two sons, david s sons, were living in north dakota and grew up in the major s boyhood home here. his mother became in joan s absence their mother and grandmother. the boys believed in joan s innocence, visited her sometimes, and talked to her on the phone. they were not speaking to their sister. and major david shannon, his remains will spend eternity here just down the road from home in the old military graveyard under the black prairie sod and the wind. that s all for this edition of dateline extra. i m craig melvin.
investigation turned on its heel and headed in a whole new direction. they would meet couples on the internet. and her husband would prearrange it, then they would engage in so type of sexl relation with the couple itself. did that make your invective mind click? the person who shod david shannon might be familiar with joan shannon. maybe the swinger lifestyle might have had something to do with that. finally, a possible lead. had the shannons unusual sex life created a motive for murder? coming up, an intriguing new lead. was there a fatal love triangle in this circle of swingers? when the mystery of the murdered major continues. chev dependability award for its midsize car-the chevy malibu. i forgot.
and jeffrey had become romantically involved. and i believe it would have been sunday, she s actually having sex with jeffrey wilson, and actually david is killed in the early morning hours of tuesday. if you ask joan, and of course we did, wilson just didn t understand. didn t understand that the affair was actually winding down. why would he say you were in love with him then? he s a very self-centered and into himself and believes the whole world loves him. i didn t. we were actually pulling apart. it was coming to the end. really? detectives added it up and 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?
find their bedroom rearranged. their daughters had an idea that something was going on in their absence. but murdered exposes secrets, as they say. maybe there was some sort of triangle involved here? some type of love triangle. we asked questions, the couples they might have met, anybody that she was involved romantically with that maybe her husband didn t know about, or did know about. did she offer anything? she identified a guy by the name of jeffrey wilson. jeffrey wilson? turns out david actually met him first online. jeffrey was also in the army, based at ft. bragg, like the major. he went by the name black stuntman. by now, deputy da billy west was monitoring the investigation.