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She can t. but brenda did have somebody else in mind. now, elizabeth? i could see it. elizabeth? the shannons 15-year-old daughter? is it possible she was a cold-blooded killer who executed her very own stepfather? the man who adopted her, raised her, provided for her? maybe, said david s sister brenda. daisy and elizabeth were always troubled, said brenda. and when elizabeth hit her teens, watch out. david and joan did not have the tools needed to deal with what those two girls dished out. it was boys, drugs, and violence. if she got angry, she would destroy something of theirs. that was hardly elizabeth s view of things. she conceded she was no angel. she acted out all right, never denied that. ....
That was about, joan gave investigators a completely unexpected and surprising answer. i told them that david and i were swingers. and suddenly the investigation turned on its heel and headed in a whole new direction. they would meet couples on the internet. and her husband would prearrange it, then they would engage in some type of sexual relation or intercourse with the couple, itself. did that make your invective mind click? the person who shot david shannon might be familiar with joan shannon. maybe the swinger lifestyle might have had something to do with that. finally, a possible lead. had the shannons unusual sex life created a motive for murder? coming up, an intriguing new lead. . david actually said you need to meet my wife jane. ....
. right. in fact, you both liked it a lot we did. we did. the shannons often met couples at hotels. sometimes they even brought them home. always trying to be discreet, of course, so their four children wouldn t find out. they would often find themselves hustled off to a friend s for the weekend and come home to find their bedroom rearranged. their daughters had an idea that something was going on in their absence. but murder exposes secrets, as they say. and now detective murphy wanted to know if that swinging had something to do with that blood splattered bedroom. maybe there was some sort of triangle involved here? some type of love triangle. i started asking questions, of the couples they might have met, anybody that she was involved romantically with that maybe her husband didn t know about or did know about. did she offer anything? ....
Everybody getting along, or fighting, as you do. he loved them, definitely. soon the shannons became six, with the birth of their two boys. and in 2000, david took the family south to fayetteville, when he was transferred to ft. bragg. david loved the military. he loved being the soldier. you talk about somebody having a first love or something they loved more than anything. he loved that uniform. and the military had been good to david. he was major shannon by now, well on his way to becoming a colonel. and that was the phone call the shannon family was really looking forward to from ft. bragg. not the one they got that devastating morning in july 2002. they said david s been shot. he s been murdered. no, it couldn t be, he was in special forces, he must have been into something odd, there must have been something with ....
Least so ordinary, even exemplary. a good marriage, four attractive kids. but murder investigations have a way of shattering what seems to be. and now the shannon family secrets were spilling out. of course, you can have no idea what might exist behind the photo of family values. that s what detectives are for, after all. the shannons may have moved to the bible belt, here to fayetteville, north carolina. lots of churches here. but there are also other activities that occurred at night that had nothing whatever to do with family values. joan and david shannon were swingers. enthusiastic members of clubs whose sole purpose is to organize various combinations of spouse swapping. in fact, as joan told police, she and david had been swinging ....