where is shannon? is she okay? as the investigation started, police told reporters they were looking at two very different possibilities. either she left on her own or somebody else grabbed her. if police were looking into whether shannon left on her own, the melendis told investigators they were wasting time. we kept telling them, you don t know her. you do not know her. she would never ever run away. she never ran away from anything. the melendis used the media to spread that message, hoping attention focused on the case would yield answers. i m somebody who loves my daughter, and i m going to do whatever i have to do to get this thing happening. so you think to get anything going, it needed your intervention and your passion and your concern? well, i m a pain. i do what i need to do, and i don t care whose toes i step on. shannon s parents said the only thing that made sense was that she d been abducted. gene moss says police were investigating every option. the
wasn t some kind of robbery. shannon s friends called police. they were patched through to the dekalb county police department, where gene moss worked as a captain. you know, we ve worked a lot of missing persons in my day. that was something we investigated a lot. one of his officers was sent out to meet shannon s roommate and friends at the gas station. inside that vehicle, there was no no signs, no blood, no no real signs of anything, a struggle or anything. solution was, you girls take the car home. yeah, take the car. shannon s friends drove her nissan back to campus. the melendis were reeling. the question then is, where is shannon, who s got her? where is she? right. it didn t take long for shannon s friends back in miami to hear that she was missing. anne martinez vazquez found out in the worst way possible. i got up and was getting ready to go to class, and my