All im thinking is, is shannon really gone . We interviewed her roommates, boyfriends, everybody is a suspect. Then a phone rings. Right. He says ive kidnapped her, i have her. And we ran his criminal history. Thats 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 jawdropping just chilling they started digging and they found womens clothing. It was just escalating escalating there were so many victims, arent 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 carters foundation. Then, suddenly she vanished detectives had a suspect in their sights. But it would take years, and the revelation of another teenagers horrific tale, to unravel the mys
And her mom, yvonne, was with him. and after they were done, luis and yvonne went to his mother s house. we got out of the car, and then my mother i think was my mother or my sister came out and said, shannon s missing. and i dropped to the ground and on my knees, and i said, we ll never see her again. i just saw my father collapse to his knees, and i knew that that i was right in feeling the the fear that i felt. when you heard the word missing, yvonne, what did you think? i kept thinking, no, it can t be. shannon missing, it was beyond all imagination. from the roommate, a rough timeline emerged. shannon was supposed to be in her dorm on a saturday night, but when she still wasn t home by sunday morning, her roommate had started to worry. she said, where is she? so she went looking for her. the first thing she did was went to the softball country club shannon worked part-time at a