it she okay? as the investigation started, police told reporters that they were looking at two very different possibilities. either she left on her own, or someone else grabbed her. if police were looking into whether shannon left on her own. the melendi s told them they were wasting their time. i told them, you do not know her! you do not know her! she would never, ever ran away. she never ran away from anything! law the melendi s use the media to spread the message. hoping the focus on the case would lead to answers. i know i m doing whatever have to do to get this thing happening. so you think to get anything going it had your passion. i m gonna do what i have to do and i don t care who s toes i stepped on. shannon s only thing that made sense was that she had been abducted. police were investigating every option. the first thing you do on a missing persons case of this
she loved everything about it. she studied political science, and scored an internship at the carter center. and now, her determined family leverage every political collection. from the local congresswoman, to the former president. and the case was on the fbi s radar. they would join the search for the missing college student. we interviewed her roommates, boyfriends, you would imagine that everybody is a suspect. special agent joe had investigators look into every aspect of shannon s young life. including a spring break trip they took before her disappearance. who did she go? with who did she travel? with and one of the questions of the top of the list. did shannon go all over the grid? with someone who met on spring break? we spoke to a lot of people. all the people that she spoke to. including chris. they went to high school together and he was on the group spring trip to colorado.
missing. and martina vasquez found out in the worst way possible. i was got up and was ready to go to class, and my father looked worried. he just handed me a copy of the local section of the miami herald. it says miami family is flying up to atlanta to search for their daughter. shannon. it was surreal! by the time they read those words, the melendez were already in atlanta. feeling dazed and i was like, what s going on? what s going on? a question that would consume law enforcement and the family for over a decade. what happened to shannon? police float the idea that she might have skipped town. coming up! i tell them, you do not know her! you do not know her! she would never run away.
garnet, any apparel? there was nothing of evidence to link him in those search warrants to shannon. what about shannon s car found abandoned at the gas station? the officer on the scene let shannon s friend driving back to campus, that meant any forensic evidence was contaminated. this was our first mistake. not to beat that officer back in the day, but what was the protocol there? what should ve happened when you had come upon the abandoned vehicle? somebody should ve from investigation should ve said release the car. we would ve been able to and see if there was any forensic shannon had been missing for evidence. days by the time of forensics team got a real look at the car. when they process the chief, what did they find? was there anything there. well that s another interesting thing. they came to the conclusion, the crime scene people dead, that the car had been right down! so someone had made an
hinton s home, about 30 miles away from emory university. shannon s family found out about it from the local news. we know you are the primary suspect in the disappearance of shannon melendi, and we like to take just talk to. i glanced the tv and i see a picture of an officer going like this, with the rod, and one of the planters. they were at his house? yes. we already knew that he was a suspect, so they were at his house searching the house. where the cops letting even on this? very little. what did you find? that house was gone through with a fine tooth comb, they say. they also took a cadaver dogs down there to see if there was any evidence of a body being there. we found nothing down there. no sign that shannon had ever been there? that we could find. but, in the trash pit behind enten s house, they did find something interesting. a collection of women s clothing. anything from shannon, any