everything was a blur. all i m thinking is, is shannon really gone? we interviewed her roommates, boyfriends, everybody is a suspect. then a phone rings. right. he says i ve kidnapped her, i have her. and we ran his criminal history. that s when all the bells went off. he pulls in, asked me to get in the car. i feel the cold blade against my neck. he carries me to the basement of his home. it was jaw-dropping! just chilling! they started digging and they found women s clothing. it was just escalating! escalating! there were so many victims, aren t there? there. were there still are. until this guy is no longer in existence. i will carry this fight! hello, and welcome to dateline! shannon melendi dreamed big. at 15, she wanted to become a supreme court justice. in college, she scored a prestigious internship at former president jimmy carter s foundation. then, suddenly she vanished! detectives had a suspect in their sights. but it would take years
at timothy s that you heard that had anything to do with her disappearance. also ruled out, shannon s ex-boyfriend. he ended up passing the polygraph. it takes you back to the softball field? it does. the softball field, where shannon was working part time as the score keeper. it was a last place she had been seen alive. police tracked down everybody who had been around her on the saturday she disappeared. the softball field that day was having a tournament with 25 teams. you re talking about a lot of people. every single one of the people that was there was questioned. that took us to probably 4 to 5 hundred interviews that were done. and out of those hundreds of interviews. interviewers were told a curious story about one person
quoting like what did the most damage? response: he fell down a flight of stairs because he was too drunk. you can t blame yourself. how can i not? i don t think you fully comprehend the situation. he looked f g did. five people facing manslaughter charges. martha: timothy s parents and jim and evelyn and their attorney, jim kline, join me now. you re very brave. it s hard to listen to that. i have two teenage sons. i can t imagine what that is like. i pray for all of you and what you ve gone through. when we did this story originally and we spoke, it was weird, right? that the video that showed the downstairs, they said that wasn t working, right? now they know it was working. how did you find out that news and why do you think that it took so long for that video to
behind the walls of the suffolk county jail s riverhead facility on long island, new york, four officers have reported injuries while breaking up a fight between timothy campbell and jeffrey despeines over a red and white striped segregation uniform. and now officer yip of the sheriff s emergency response team is concerned that the conflict could take on a new dimension. my concern is that cap bell s brother, robert campbell, is going to retaliate and do what he has to do to get back at him. so officer yip decides to visit robert campbell who is housed in a different unit from timothy s to assess his temperment. both campbell brothers are awaiting sentencing for crimes including attempted assault with atempt to cause physical injury and attempted robbery. your brother got into a fight. uh-huh. you know with who, right? i have no idea.
behind the walls of the suffolk county jail s riverhead facility on long island, new york, four officers have reported injuries while breaking up a fight between timothy campbell and jeffrey despeines over a red and white striped segregation uniform. and now officer yip of the sheriff s emergency response team is concerned that the conflict could take on a new dimension. my concern is that cap bell s brother, robert campbell, is going to retaliate and do what he has to do to get back at him. so officer yip decides to visit robert campbell who is housed in a different unit from timothy s to assess his temperment. both campbell brothers are awaiting sentencing for crimes including attempted assault with atempt to cause physical injury and attempted robbery. your brother got into a fight. uh-huh. you know with who, right? i have no idea. despeines. he is a blood. your brother is latin king. you are latin king.