Of this. it s so tragic, and i just don t have words for what she s going to have to come to terms with and understand as she gets older. it s really tough. paula plans to make sure the daughter of shauna tiaffay never forgets. we talk about her mom and how much she loved her, and what we concur moment along for her now. that s all for this edition of dateline, i m craig melvin, thank you for watching.
Because we don t know what s that word got out, it can very quickly spread the terror around, like it already had among shauna s coworkers. we did not know if there was a cycle watching us girls working at the palms, and we don t know if any of us were next. the predatory got a boost on that second, i went on a walking path near shawn s house, someone found bits of her purse, i.d., makeup kit, personal things. what crosses your mind when you realize it s someone walking away from the scene discarding things? a stop. or, absolutely, a predator, sexual predator. spread, out that got the rest of homicide involved, days off were canceled. everybody, out they looked everywhere. there was considerable pressure. pressure from media, pressure from our administration. everyone wants this thing solved and put away quickly. and then, quite suddenly, a
Probably as she walked in the house, and was beaten with something blunt and hard. and there was things done with the body that made us think that there was possible sexual assault of some type, and there was posing of the body. some kind of predator at work here? a predator who escaped with a good hunk of cash by the looks of it, shawn s purse was missing. cash and casino chips, they get tipped with casino chips, they are known to make 300, four, hundred five done $2 a night. they make a lot of money especially if they re good. and we did send detective at the palms and interview them, and they said that shauna is one of the best employees that they had. but something happened after she left the pump. so, what? was shauna very beautiful, is someone that saw her at work, and follow her home? of course, as the husband, george would had to be
To express himself at a terrible time. it was all about showing that shauna was loved and cared for. meanwhile, las vegas homicide detectives worked diligently to identify and track down whoever killed her. if we have a predator, and she came home, and they were both rising the house, is there an enemy somewhere that she made that we need to find? and then, they got lucky. a man who called himself big will panics called the crime stoppers. big will have a story to tell. he had spent time in prison and he worked as a maintenance man. but he found satisfaction in helping others coming out of prison and helping them find the right path. one such man, said big will, was a homeless handyman who lived out in the desert, went by the name greyhound. he did a lot of drugs, drink
Complicated life, but with georgia s 24 hour shifts and shauna nighttime at the casino, then, it was september 29th, 2012, 3 am. she walked on tour and the lot. pointed away from the strip. under that full moon, she had no idea what was waiting for her. it was 9 am when george arrived with her daughter. she spent her night here at the firehouse. but why was the garage door open? was that inside? george had grown accustomed to trauma and death, but this? i think i need to report a break-in and a murder. it was a chilling discovery. shauna tiaffay found be into death inside her home and then some of shauna personal items found outside the house. what might they reveal? coming up