it was good to know this monster would be away. the sheriff cuffs him, and when i hear the click on the cuffs, i took a deep breath and i said, this is over. but the family found out it actually wasn t over. hinton was sentenced to life in prison, and the melendis assumed he would remain behind bars forever. they were crushed when they learned that because hinton committed the murder in 1994, under looser parole guidelines, he would be eligible for parole in seven years. we are the ones who have a life imprisonment without parole. he has the hope, just the hope, that he might get out. they remain determined to do all they can to fight every time his parole comes up. hinton will be eligible again in 2025, when he will be 64. i m carrying this to the very end. until this guy is no no longer in existence i will carry
where is shannon? is she okay? as the investigation started, police told reporters they were looking at two very different possibilities. either she left on her own or somebody else grabbed her. if police were looking into whether shannon left on her own, the melendis told investigators they were wasting time. we kept telling them, you don t know her. you do not know her. she would never ever run away. she never ran away from anything. the melendis used the media to spread that message, hoping attention focused on the case would yield answers. i m somebody who loves my daughter, and i m going to do whatever i have to do to get this thing happening. so you think to get anything going, it needed your intervention and your passion and your concern? well, i m a pain. i do what i need to do, and i don t care whose toes i step on. shannon s parents said the only thing that made sense was that she d been abducted. gene moss says police were investigating every option. the
all the acquaintances and friends and get as much information out of those as you can. the melendis were eager to share, because the shannon they knew would never put her family in this kind of pain. their shannon was the one who always put everyone else at ease. she had a smile that just warmed a room. she d walk in and people would, oh, shannon s here! from a young age she commanded her parents attention. she had her father under her thumb, and she d just look at him and go, but daddy, please! she was very good at convincing me of whatever she was trying to do. people liked being around her. she was witty, she was smart, she was funny. anne and shannon became fast friends in seventh grade. we just had a lot in common. her father came from cuba. my parents are immigrants from
wasn t some kind of robbery. shannon s friends called police. they were patched through to the dekalb county police department, where gene moss worked as a captain. you know, we ve worked a lot of missing persons in my day. that was something we investigated a lot. one of his officers was sent out to meet shannon s roommate and friends at the gas station. inside that vehicle, there was no no signs, no blood, no no real signs of anything, a struggle or anything. solution was, you girls take the car home. yeah, take the car. shannon s friends drove her nissan back to campus. the melendis were reeling. the question then is, where is shannon, who s got her? where is she? right. it didn t take long for shannon s friends back in miami to hear that she was missing. anne martinez vazquez found out in the worst way possible. i got up and was getting ready to go to class, and my
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