shannon melendi little sister monique was just 13 years old. i received a phone call former roommate. shannon was a sophomore year in atlanta. they received a phone call from their childhood home. and on the other line was athena, the college roommate. athena was distraught, and was asking me if i heard or spoke to shannon. shannon had not been seen or heard form in more than a day. now are you starting to do the calculation even though you re 30? that there is trouble? there was. i knew immediately that something was terribly wrong. monique hooks up with the roommate and makes a few calls of her own. i immediately called my godmother who was living in atlanta. after she had heard from shannon, i she did not. i called my aunt that also lived there. she had not heard from shannon. monika was gripped with
the revelation of another teenager s horrific tale, to our unravel the mystery of sharon s disappearance. here s murphy with shannon s disappearance! the snapshots, the videos. they documented her life. the photographer dad, the camera professional captured every moment of his daughter s life. she loved life. she wanted to do everything! these parents did not know back then, how difficult it would be one day to look at these memories. i want to remember her voice. i put on a video. it s probably the hardest. it s hearing her voice. i m shannon melendi welcome, to our special segment. when i look at that video, definitely a sweet memory. i look back at how just innocent we were. shannon was someone who wanted to live. but then came that phone call, way back in march 1994.
melodies disappearance, butch hinton was serving time in prison for fraud after a mysterious fire at his home. shannon s parents, who had already been suspicious of butch hinton the well, he probably burned the house itself to cover evidence. now the end of vesta geisha in into the disappearance, had a deadly clock taking to his release. it was scary at that point in time. we realize no new needs are coming in, and we decided at that point, this is the time where he could get out of jail. he s gonna get out of jail in december 2003. during this time behind bars, the fbi was working on the case. building up more and more circumstantial evidence against him. seems like it was just escalating, escalating, escalating. the thing is, well, we re gonna know what s happened. it would take a new prosecutor to look at the case
We Were back in Shippensburg Saturday for the PIAA Track & Field Class 3A State Championships. Several area athletes medaled, including Somerset's Dustin Hy
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