worker, when he was in umpire-ing. you don t take the stories of face value, go to this guy bush and say, let s talk about saturdays. what s the story? we ll be doing the day? and so we did talk to him on april 4th. hinton told police that he was aware shannon was missing, and he said nothing unusual happened during the game. still, he had a number of inconsistencies that just didn t add up. hinton told different stories about where he was in the hours after shannon vanished. but, he did say he went home soon after the game. sure enough, phone records showed he had made a phone call from his house. so, if this man did something to shannon, he would ve had a tight window to commit his crime. hinton was the only possible suspect that they had. then, a phone call came in, one that could become a game-changer. we had hope when that call came in. there was that moment where you think, oh, my gosh, she s alive, she s okay. this is about a week after china s gone missing, is that
fear. she called her grandparents, and her grandfather came to pick her up. monika stat lueck s was at work. and the mom ivan who was with them. and after they were done, they went to the mother s house. i went to the car. and it was my mother, i, think my mother s sister came out. and said shannon is missing. i drop to the ground. and many said we ll never see them again. i just saw my father collapse to his knees. and i knew i was right in feeling the fear that i felt. when you heard the word missing, what did you feel? i just keep thinking, no! it can t be! shannon. missing. it was beyond all imagination. from the roommates, a love timeline emerged. shannon was supposed to be in her dorm on the saturday night, but when she still wasn t home by sunday morning, a roommate started to worry. she said where is she?
guilty. i ll never forget when they announced the verdict. just the sheer joy and pain that you saw on the faces of shannon s family. it was good to know this monster would be a way. the sheriff calls him, i want to hear the click on the cuffs. i took a deep breath and said, this is over. but, the family found out that it actually wasn t over. hinton was sentenced to life in president, and the melendi s 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 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
serious. authorities polygraph the acts. they were still interviewing all of shannon s friends, when a mysterious phone call came in. the caller was about to give police a clue that would kid stark the engine of this investigation. coming up! right before janet disappeared, again. and some attention from an empire. he s checking out shannon? is what you re saying. yes. he was more interested in watching shannon them calling the softball game. when dateline continues! continues
magnitude is try to interview all of the acquaintances and friends. and we didn t get as much information as out of those as we can. the melendi s were eager to share. because they knew their shannon would never put them through this kind of pain. they re shannon put everybody else at ease. she had a smile that warm to rome. she would walk in and people would go, shannon is here! from a young age, she commanded her parents attention. she had her father under her thumb. and she would just look at him and say, but daddy please! she was very good at convincing me of whatever she is trying to do. people with liking being around her. she was witty, smart, funny. good shannon and became fast friends in seventh grade. we have a lot in common. her father was coming from cuba. my parents were immigrants from cuba. we were, i guess you could