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And the ambulance wailed up to the door, it was too late. david shannon, just 40, was dead. all it took was a look, in fact, for lead detective mike murphy to see what happened in david s bedroom was highly intentional. it was an execution. the intruder came in while he was sleeping, placed a gun to his head, and shot him in the chest. and joan? the shock of it didn t help, of course, nor the fact that she was sound asleep when it happened. by the time she calmed down enough to talk to police, she wasn t very helpful. i did not clearly see the person who shot david. i m not sure if i saw or just had a feeling of somebody just leaving the room. but i thought it was a shadow. did you actually see a ....
Corroborate some of the information. vera provided plenty of supporting details. how just days before the shooting, she went with elizabeth to a field and test fired the murder weapon. cops later found matching shells there. and how elizabeth dumped the gun that night with a guy from the neighborhood named dee humphrey who was waiting near the house. humphrey was interviewed. he admitted it was true. vera s story added up. so everything was believable. then vera, just 15 years old, naive, frightened, no attorney representing her, dropped her bombshell. vera eventually became aware of, through elizabeth, that joan and elizabeth had had some discussions about killing david shannon, that her mother had attempted to poison david shannon, that joan shannon and elizabeth shannon had conspired ....
Daughter. and i know the situation is hard for both of us. and i am sorry i wasn t a better mother. i can t go back and change that. but elizabeth didn t like this idea. i don t have anything to say to her. because it doesn t matter what i say. it s like she s not going to change. she s not going to tell all these people that she lied. in the years following their father s death, joan shannon s two sons, david s sons, were living in north dakota and grew up in the major s boyhood home here. his mother became in joan s absence their mother and grandmother. the boys believed in joan s innocence, visited her sometimes, and talked to her on the phone. they were not speaking to their sister. and major david shannon, his remains will spend eternity ....
Sister brenda too when she s in town. oh, how they worried that war might put him here. except war didn t. no, there never was a thought back then about what could happen far from combat, what did happen. all those strange things down south in north carolina. fayetteville is an old town, steeped in revolutionary and civil war history. smack in the middle of the bible belt. but now, cargo planes buzz in and out of pope air force base. all past the confines of the city sprawls the immense ft. bragg, home of david shannon. his house was here, a few blocks off-base. the major, his wife joan, and their four children. it was july, 2002. like a sauna that night, so hot and humid. and ....
Friendship joan seemed to be developing. that broke the rules. david told joan that she could no longer see jeffrey because he could see that joan and jeffrey had become romantically involved. and i believe it would have been sunday, she s actually having sex with jeffrey wilson, and actually david is killed in the early morning hours of tuesday. if you ask joan, and of course we did, wilson just didn t understand. didn t understand that the affair was actually winding down. why would he say you were in love with him then? he s a very self-centered and into himself and believes the whole world loves him. i didn t. we were actually pulling apart. it was coming to the end. really? detectives added it up and here s what they had. a story of some shadowy intruder that didn t seem to check out. the swinging, the affair. the ....