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[Music] crime Calhoun Georgia Police and investigators from Clay County North Carolina are looking into The
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Disappearance of Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr of Calhoun Shawn was last seen on Sunday December 20th
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2015 this is when he planned a trip to North Carolina from which he was scheduled to return within a day or two
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a friend spoke to him by phone on December 21st at about 6:30 p.m. and that is the last contact anyone has had
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with Shawn since investigators have interviewed several people pertaining to this investigation
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and are continuing to follow up on numerous leads his rental vehicle a gray 2015 Dodge 1500 pickup truck was found
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abandoned on December 30th 2015 in Clay County North Carolina the detectives in North
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Carolina have expressed concerns of Foul Play in Shan's disappearance due to evidence uncovered in their jurisdiction
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sha Patrick McDuffy Jr is a Caucasian male at the time of his disappearance Shawn was 27 years old with short dark
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hair and blue eyes he is 6'1 in tall and weighs about 140 lbs anyone with information as to the
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whereabouts of Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr is asked to call the coun police department at 706
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6291 123 3 [Music] [Applause] 4 by the end of 2015 Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr according to the state of
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Georgia was officially a missing person on December 20th 20 5 before hitting the
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road Shawn asked his ex-wife if he could take his kids along for a ride to North
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Carolina it was going to be a quick trip to drop off his friend Eric Brown Sean's
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ex-wife well she knew better and she said no because Shawn likely had more than just dropping off his friend in his
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plans around 9:30 p.m. that night Shawn picked up Eric Brown and away they went Eric to Clay County North Carolina and
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Shawn into a missing person's file now Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr his life was not an easy one some kids have a bad
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childhood Shawn he was raised by a monster Shawn's earliest years would be filled with severe violence from the
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start Shawn and his little sister Megan had the odds stacked against them as children life at home was lived on the
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edge and full of fear their father sha Patrick McDuffy senior was a drug addicted tyrant a man who used fear
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tactics and pain to control his wife and children the family only survived because of the kid's mother this is
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Kathy McDuffy while she had stopped loving sha senior a long time ago she stayed with him because he had warned
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her many times about what would happen to her if she decided to leave him so Kathy did everything she could to try to
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keep the peace and try to provide a normal childhood for her children but to do that to keep the peace she she knew
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her and her children they had to follow the rules that were laid down by Sha senior an unreasonable and selfish man
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well not only would he beat his wife but to escalate things even further to torture the children he would beat his
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wife in front of the children now when little Shawn Jr was about 7 years old he would at times this is at the point
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where he's going to begin to stand up to Shawn Senor well one time his dad locked
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Shawn JR out of the house and so Shawn Jun broke a window to get back into the house and he had enough now mind you
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even at this young age he is going to know how to be extremely violent himself because he has witnessed extreme
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violence so much in his young life so Shawn Jr goes and grabs a knife from the kitchen and he takes it over to sha
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Senor and he holds the knife against his father like I said this was when he was
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just seven years old like you can't even you can't even say that things are spiraling out of control in the house
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because by now it's already out of control way out of control and the kids are just s and four years old so extreme
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chaos basically inside this house yeah this is not a house party of violence this is a hotel party of violence so
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staying there eventually became impossible Kathy realized the path her family was on could not continue right
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and what a difficult situation when you have kids involved but you have a situation where if you leave you are
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been threatened with possible the murder of you possibly the murder of your your
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children but you also are stuck in a situation where if you stay this is going to continue oh yeah the violence
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is going to continue and if you if you stay it might be a death sentence as well right it could escalate to that and
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it and it seems to be on that path and you know it took a long time but somehow Kathy She Found the courage to leave but
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you see no one leaves Shawn senior M he found Kathy and he found the kids and he
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ordered Shawn Jr and Megan to sit on the couch and then he explained to everyone
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to Kathy and to his children that nobody leaves him and he demonstrated what happens when somebody does leave him he
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then proceeded to Slit Kathy's throat in front of his shocked children sha Senor
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fled the scene and the kids helped their mother and called 911 the authorities arrived and transported Kathy to the
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hospital and with three eyewitnesses law enforcement started the case against sha
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Senor and the amount of trauma that these children had to deal with I mean it's unimaginable well this horrible
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crime took place in March of 1996 so sha Jr and his little sister Megan the kids
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they would have only been about like 8 and five or or N9 and six years old at the time so they're still very little
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kids yeah Shan senior he was tracked down and arrested he was charged with and later convicted of aggravated
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assault and two counts of Cruelty to Children for this he gets 20 years in the can Kathy survived this horrific
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attack but the pain was far from over as she suffered through a long rehab from the injuries he didn't get charged with
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attempted murder he may have but the conviction was for aggravated assault so I's not happy about that one
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yeah I don't know what he was charging he should have slit his throat there's some little bits of legal jargon
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involved in those in those charges right no legal jargon if you just slit his throat then send him to the you know ER
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but slit his throat first well these were horrible injuries that Kathy suffered from this attack and she
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suffered through a long long rehab from these injuries as well only to come out the other end of this thing addicted to
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painkillers and as we have discussed on this show so many times and unfortunately we see it on the news
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daily people easily get addicted to things like painkillers to prescribed medication and when they can no longer
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get what they need uh they become Reliant that they've become reliant on or it gets too expensive well Kathy like
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so many others turn to Street drugs to fill her addiction well think a lot big Pharma and this ultimately would mean
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that Shawn Jr and Megan well now they had no one their father's locked up and their mother has come out of this
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addicted to drugs no the kids are going to be placed into the foster care yeah sha Jr he ended up living with one
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Foster family and Megan she was a little bit younger so during the course of her
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childhood she would live with two different foster care families but Shawn Patrick McDuffy senior well his violent
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history it actually started well before he met Kathy and well before he ended up
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having two children with her right in 2007 an old dying man has One Last Wish left and it is something this poor man
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had to wait a long time for because way back in 1985 on February 21st Kelly McDuffy age
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24 and his wife Bobby Michelle McDuffy age they were found dead in their home on
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squirrel Street in the Bonnie Dune Community both had suffered sharp force trauma to their upper bodies authorities
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said news Accounts at the time reported when when they were found a butcher knife was still in Kelly mcduffy's side
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yeah why why wouldn't they just say like stab wounds or or is it because how the
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butcher knife would hit them that I don't know Captain that's a good question I I wondered that myself but
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but all reports State suffered sharp force trauma and with a knife being found in
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one of the victims you would think it'd be fairly obvious that it would they were stabbed to death well I think
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that's the first time we've ever heard that we normally hear blunt force trauma right maybe this is a
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uh I was going to say maybe this is like a a fancy Backwoods term for stabed to death sharp suffered sharp force trauma
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to their upper bodies but now looking at this Captain I think what they what they're calling a butcher knife they
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probably actually mean like a Cleaver yeah that's where my mind went that's what I was thinking a Cleaver so my bad
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you were trying to clean that up for us and that's probably why they use that term uh because of the weapon that was
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used in this attack now Shawn Patrick McDuffy senior he's the brother-in-law to the two murdered victims and he
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actually lived with his brother and sister-in-law at the time of their deaths of their murder so he was
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considered the prime suspect very early on in this investigation now this causes
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him to flee all the way to the State of Arizona well at some point in 1986 he is located and arrested they
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find him in Phoenix and they brought him all the way back to fville so let's just
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be clear we got this violent douche nozzle right and he's living with these two people and they're murdered his
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brother and his sister-in-law right and they're murdered and then he's a suspect
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and then he goes on the Run yeah he goes like force Gump on the run and then they
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find him mhm and he's not charged with the crime no no no they find him they bring him back all the way to fville
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they they charge him they book him and he's jailed for this while they're going to await trial okay you know but what
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ends up being there ends up being an issue here probably some technicality I don't know because I couldn't find the
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exact cause of this with you know and exact details of mcduffy's arrest but a judge at some point said that there was
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no probable cause for the arrest and so he's released the case went cold and it wasn't really being worked I'm so
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confused there's no probable cause he's a he is the number one suspect in this murder well he's a suspect but but you
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have to have probable evidence to arrest the guy and I like I said I we don't have the details of it to so to kind of
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dig through it would be we we we wouldn't know if there was wrongdoing or or if this was rightfully turned over or
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not but what we do know is once McDuffy is released this case goes cold and it wasn't really being worked in my opinion
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it basically just sat there closed until over 20 years later and we've seen situations like this before where the
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the guys and girls that have to go out and work the crime the investigators the police officers mhm they they this is a
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situation where they know who did it basically and a lawyer a prosecutor is saying we can't convict so it's kind of
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a it's kind of a closed case you know it's other cases hit your desk you start working them and you just kind of have
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to be reluctant and and and know that this one might have got past you somehow well right and the fact that they
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collect all the evidence and then they try to bring this guy to trial and it can't happen I mean I don't know how
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much more they could do unless they could get him to slip up and confess you know that that' be a very difficult
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thing to be a part of law enforcement to you know pretty much know 100% that somebody is guilty especially of a
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heinous crime like this right a double homicide and you can't do anything it's like your hands are tied behind your
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back right and so basically it sits closed it's technically an open case but as far as the people working it it's
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kind of a a closed case until over 20 years later this is when Bobby mcduffy's dying father he asked investigators to
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please take one more look at this thing you know so he he actually asked a family friend to contact the Cumberland
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County Sheriff's Office and asked them to reopen the case so with the aid of invest tigators who worked the case back
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in 1985 they got new homicide detectives on this they were all on the job together
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working through this thing pulling you using all their resources together to to get this thing down get it done once and
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for all so they dug through the boxes of evidence looking at investigative notes
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and crime scene photos and even all these years later everything that they had really still pointed to the guy that
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they had suspected Ed all along Shawn Patrick McDuffy senior you would think that there'd be some kind of DNA or
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fingerprint or or something well the interesting thing here is their guy that they like for this double homicide well
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he's not out on the run at this point he's sitting in a Cell uh for trying to kill the mother of his children MH he's
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sitting in a Cell down in Georgia so time would only prove that Kathy had been right all of those years about not
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Crossing sha senior she was right to be terrified of leaving him and setting him
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off on some kind of murderous Rampage because he was he was already a murderer by the time he met Kathy and married her
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and had children with her yeah he was a real prick knows so while he's in prison
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the the police had a chance to question him about the double homicide Cold Case and close close to 24 years to the day
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after the young couple was found slain in their home a grand jury indicted Shawn McDuffy Senor for these two
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murders he was 48 years old by the time the charges came down the wire and the charges wore two counts of first-degree
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murder Shawn McDuffy Senor took the opportunity to then confess to killing both people over a what he referred to
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as a drug dispute uh probably a slippery way for him to avoid the death penalty is my guess what was life like for these
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children living under one roof with a a seething murderer how do how do these kids come out mentally healthy from this
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type of childhood I I cannot even begin to wrap my my head around that it's almost impossible and like we said it
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you know Kathy came out of this situation addicted to drugs but it it took some years but she found the
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strength to beat her addiction and to get her life back on track she she reestablished her relationship with her
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children and she began to live as much of a normal life as she possibly could her relationship with Shawn Jr her son
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healed and they loved and maintained contact with each other Megan the daughter became the rock of the family
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she was the most stable of the three and she grew up to be a great mother a loving and supportive daughter and she
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did her best to be Shawn Jr's sister and friend now Shan was able to he was unable to finish High School it it
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wasn't that he wasn't smart enough to make passing grades he began to take up with the wrong people for Megan she
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escaped her father and entered into foster care at a younger age than her brother and that was what got her out of
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the cycle of violence but Shawn he was in only in foster care for a very short period of time and so it seems like he
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Record cheers to you C well eventually Shawn Jr he fell into drugs and he became deeper involved with
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drugs and when this took place his mother Kathy and his little sister Megan who is now grown realized that they both
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had to take a step back so they didn't get pulled down or sucked into this cycle as well they've already
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experienced this once and more than enough for one lifetime as time went on Kathy kept in touch with Shawn Jr who
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now had kids of his own she was always there you know if anybody needed anything but at a a bit of a distance
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and Megan was there watching from the outside as well because she wanted to keep her own children away from the
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negative influences uh that she saw and her brother because she grew up with this stuff and she was not going to put
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her children or have her children witness the things that she had to experience in her young life now this is
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an interesting case for us Captain because we were asked to cover this one and it it was interesting in a sense
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that we were asked to cover it and there's really no information out there that's easily accessible or readily
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available to to tell the story of this missing person sea McDuffy Jr there if you go online or if you go to the news
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sources you will find mention of him you will find mention of him having gone missing and the his vehicle being found
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ultim Ely though you will find more information on the cases involving his father of the double homicide and of the
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attempted murder of of Shawn Jr's mom but there's really not a whole lot of information on Sha senior either or his
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horrible crimes so and there's even much much less regarding Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr's disappearance so what we
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had to do here is something that we don't get a chance to do with every case we just made it all up yeah and it's a
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really good story no we we what we did was we reached out to some people in the the small town of coun yeah to find out
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what was going on because Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr he went missing in 2015 the reason why we were asked to
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cover this case and I you know I had to tell the person outright I don't know that we can because I don't know that
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there's enough information here for us to be able to tell a story I mean it was literally
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if you look at the stuff it's literally a 5-minute story mhm and so I said all right let's see what we can dig up let's
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get some people involved and see what we can find in Calhoun and what's going on
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there because the reason why we were asked to cover this case Captain with it with him going missing in 2015 we're
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about 2 and a half years into his disappearance the there's the threat of this case going cold and going cold very
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soon and if if things don't start to happen in this investigation we may never know what ended up happening to
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Shawn Patrick McDuffy Jr so we're going to go through stuff that we found and things that we uncovered when we spoke
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to the people of Calhoun so Shawn Jr's path in life may have forever been rerouted when he and
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his cousin DJ were robbed during a drug deal because this would be the first meeting with a woman that we are going
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to call Stephanie mhm now rumor that's not a real name correct rumor has it that Stephanie is a bit of a big deal
00:27:04
regarding the drug scene in coun now I read some statements given that some people think that at one time she may
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have run the meth business in Calhoun according to other Rumors in Calhoun Stephanie had a practice of setting up
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drug deals and also setting up a stage robbery at the same time this way she would get the cash and be able to keep
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the drugs as as well so she she wins pays off some fake robber or robbers and all else involved well they lose and
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they get scammed this was not a uh one-time deal for her either she did this setup job on several occasions on
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one incident it is stated that Stephanie even paid a woman that we will call Sunshine she paid her about $20 or so to
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punch Stephanie in the face after one of these stage robberies went bad because she needed to further stage the scene
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making it look like Stephanie herself was a victim in this situation now remember Shawn and DJ they had been
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robbed by Stephanie during this drug deal so later Shawn and DJ out they they now know what actually went down at some
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point and one night while Shawn and his friend Tyler were out driving around they spotted Stephanie on the streets
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and after they saw her they decided they were going to go and get their drugs back or their money back whichever was
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stolen from them during the stage robbery Tyler wanted to approach Stephanie immediately but Shawn wanted
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to go and get DJ the other person that was robbed in the situation they picked up DJ and later
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they found Stephanie at some kind of hotel now DJ approached Stephanie and demanded drugs or cash or both from her
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because of this robbery so they basically roll up on her and say hey look we know what happened we want our
00:28:57
stuff back yeah Stephanie you little skank we want our stuff back now we either we're either going to get the
00:29:02
drugs back or you're going to give me the money for the drugs right and at that time when they roll up on her she
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didn't have drugs or cash on her but she had an idea and Stephanie supplier is a
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dude that we will call bigan they here's her idea MH she's going to get Shawn and
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DJ in on a little bit of this action she can't give them back cash or give them back drugs so what she's going to do is
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she's kind of a big deal these two guys are small time she's going to let them in on some of her action by introducing
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them to her supplier that we're going to call bigan so what they did was they had
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DJ and Tyler stay put but Shawn Jr decided he would leave and go with Stephanie to meet this bigin character
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while there wherever this rendevu took place they Reed received drugs and that this was supposed to be
00:30:01
the equivalent of what was stolen from them so this is a way of to kind to introduce them to to this supplier and
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as well as give them back some of what they were robbed of okay I'm just trying to follow you we got Shawn Jr we got
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skankasaurus Rex Stephanie and now we have bigan mhm and they're going to give them u a set amount of drugs that will
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but they're not giving it to them they have to sell this this the these drugs I don't know what they have to do with it
00:30:34
it's my understanding that they were given some uh stash of drugs to repay them for the robbery that they were
00:30:41
aware of well this we say that this may have rerouted Shawn Jr's life because there's a chance that this whole robbery
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deal meeting bigan and then Stephanie trying to make amends with Shawn right this could be the start of possibly what
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led to his disappearance because after Stephanie makes amends with Shawn Jr it it starts to look like you know remember
00:31:08
we said Stephanie is rumored to be some sort of boss so from the outside looking
00:31:13
in it actually now looks like Shawn is working with or most likely working for Stephanie at some point that they
00:31:20
developed a working relationship so what this for this new working relationship to begin an old one
00:31:29
had to end meaning Stephanie would not be creating a new position or a new job for Shawn Jr she would actually be
00:31:36
replacing someone with Shawn Jr and that brings a guy that we will call go forth
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into the picture he was a guy that worked dealing for Stephanie and to put it plain and simple go forth played the
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role and played the role that now she had promoted Shawn to so Sha's in go forth is out this left go forth on the
00:32:00
outside looking in and as one as as we all should expect disrespect in the drug dealing business and and these criminal
00:32:07
activities is not would not be taken lightly right so as Rumor Has It Go forth was not going to let what he had
00:32:15
worked so hard to earn be so easily taken away from him by this new Johnny come lately newcomer Shawn Jr so he let
00:32:25
some people know that he was interested in removing Shawn from the drug game and
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if it meant that he would have to have Shawn Jr killed then so be it as reported To Us by many go forth ran
00:32:38
around town letting everyone know what he thought of Shawn Jr and what he wanted done to Shawn Jr now in typical
00:32:47
drug dealer SL drug addict fashion Shawn Jor wanted to make a lot of money and a
00:32:54
lot of money very quickly he had limited fun funds to do so so he had very limited funds for buying a large amount
00:33:01
of drugs that he could turn into even more money so that purchasing a large purchase would be impossible for Shawn
00:33:08
Jr it's rumored that he came up with the idea of stealing a large amount of drugs
00:33:14
so that he could sell them turning that into a lot of money well right well Stephanie showed him how it's done well
00:33:21
and Shan Shawn Jr I guess the rumor is that he decided to rob the only big time drug supplier that he knew this was the
00:33:30
man that he was recently introduced to bigan bigan yeah remember that Stephanie's drug supplier M so here is
00:33:37
what we we have uncovered and this is not definitive it's simply The Narrative as far as what we could dig up at the
00:33:45
local level here but this is to break it down basically the word on the streets okay so someone stole a large sorry you
00:33:54
just said that oh almost as white as possible go ahead I'm ready but but I think that's
00:34:01
the most clear way and simple way to explain the information we have here right what coming from the streets so
00:34:09
anyway someone stole a large brick of meth from biggan and the person who stole this large inv valuable brick
00:34:18
right was Shawn Jr now if this is true well then you don't need to be a drug kingpin to dream up the bad things that
00:34:26
could happen to joh Jr right because not only would this make him a problem for biggan but this is a bad situation for
00:34:34
Stephanie as well because this could only be perceived as her having made a bad judgment call for introducing Shawn
00:34:42
Jr to bigan yeah or it also doesn't Ru out the possibility that she's involved I mean we have this lady drug dealer um
00:34:51
that is stealing drugs and creating these false robberies so so is it possible that
00:34:58
biggan has this missing drugs and they go well we think that it's Shawn Jr but is Stephanie involved in this was just
00:35:08
the whole meeting in general you know concocted by Stephanie in the first place well the other issue too that we
00:35:14
have Captain is we we also have go forth who already is said to have it out for Shawn Jr but but now you know if I'm go
00:35:25
forth okay and I know about this bigin guy being stolen from or robbed right I could make a good name for myself as far
00:35:33
as Ban's concerned and Stephanie hell I I could impress biggan enough maybe I could even replace Stephanie and we
00:35:42
can't say for certain that sha Jr is responsible for stealing this brick of meth but what we can say for certain is
00:35:49
there's a lot of people believe that he's responsible for it yeah and I don't even know how this whole stealing or
00:35:57
robbery thing would have went down um but we did talk to at least one person that said that quote Shawn seemed to be
00:36:06
like a kid in a candy store as he broke up the brick of meth into a large plastic bowl and he was running his
00:36:13
fingers through it well he's a drug addict yeah but more importantly for Shawn in this situation he's a dealer
00:36:21
and what this means no no no no no see that's where people get wrong yes he he's stealing or hypothetically we think
00:36:30
he's stealing this these drugs for money right but the the drug the drug addict always trumps the drug dealer okay I see
00:36:39
what you're saying but the reason why he seemed to be so happy according to this
00:36:44
person was he was thinking about the amount of money he was going to make off of off of acquiring this brick mhm so
00:36:52
now let's get to Eric Brown Eric was the one that was traveling with Shawn just before Shawn went missing and Shawn Jr
00:36:59
met Eric Brown through Stephanie Eric according to several sources is a dealer from North Carolina who comes to Calhoun
00:37:08
to meet his drug contacts and pick up drugs to sell on the way back to North Carolina the easiest way to break this
00:37:17
down for you why this Eric individual would do this is that the meth is so regular readily available in calhon that
00:37:26
he can purchase it for much cheaper than what he's going to sell it to in these other spots because like everything it's
00:37:33
supply and demand these other locations where he's moving these drugs to the the
00:37:40
supply doesn't equal the demand so he can make a bunch of money doing this making this traveling to Calhoun picking
00:37:46
up these drugs selling them on the way back to his home or even selling them in his hometown so during one of Eric's
00:37:54
visits to Calhoun actually to to be perfectly clear Captain this would be like an extended stay and this would be
00:38:01
the last visit that Eric would make to Calhoun before Shawn Jr would go missing but during this Extended Stay Eric and
00:38:10
Shawn they spent their time trying to make money and this of course mostly involving them attempting to
00:38:15
successfully exchange drugs for money and money for drugs after one of these afternoons I guess Eric called Shawn and
00:38:24
asked him to look in his rented 2015 gray Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck this was for
00:38:34
$1,000 this is money that they had made that Eric thought that he had left inside Shawn's vehicle Shawn said that
00:38:42
he checked the vehicle and then later informed Eric that there was no money left in the car now Eric is as we said
00:38:50
rumored not only to be a dealer but he's also a drug addict right and um you know
00:38:54
he call called this being paranoid or whatever but Eric seems to think that Shawn was lying to him and that Shawn
00:39:01
just ended up keeping the $1,000 for himself well this is all also what happens when you hang out with Shady
00:39:08
people if you hang out with people that sell drugs or steal drugs or steal money
00:39:13
you know you get involved in illegal activity this is the kind of stuff happens you know well and there's no
00:39:19
real friends in this situation you know I mean all these people that they're they're Associates because they can make
00:39:25
money or trade drug together but at the end of the day none of them are friends well the funny thing about it is um the
00:39:33
original pilot for the friend's uh TV show was about drug addicts and drug dealers well I don't know if you knew
00:39:40
that the rumor the rumor here though Captain is going to be that Eric has told some people that he considered
00:39:47
Shawn to be a thief that Shawn stole the, from him right and there's no honor among Thieves right so this has led some
00:39:55
to believe that Eric has something to do with Shawn Jr later having gone missing
00:40:01
because Eric has been quoted as saying Shawn stole from me he took money I'm sorry he took food out of my kid's mouth
00:40:09
right now also let he lets his cousin Derek know okay so Eric tells his cousin Derek that he was going to kill Shawn
00:40:22
for stealing from him okay so I'm just trying to keep this clear right so so Sean Jr goes with Eric a couple
00:40:33
times on these drug dealing trips mhm uh we have what's the one guy's name that once to kill Shawn Jr well Eric well
00:40:46
Eric but the other guy go forth go forth so we got two guys and then we have a Poss we have these rumors circling that
00:40:55
Sha is a thief Shan Jr is a thief and he stole from bigan right and now biggin's
00:41:01
out to get him but also connecting it back to Stephanie Stephanie and see Stephanie's kind of the nucleus here if
00:41:08
you're trying to figure this thing out Stephanie gets her drugs from bigan okay and she's the one that introduces Shawn
00:41:14
Jr to bigan and she introduces Eric to Shawn Jr right but when you say it like that and I'm not trying to throw you
00:41:22
under the bus I'm just saying when you say it like that it's like she is the one that introduced no no she stole a
00:41:28
bunch of money and conned these guys and then they caught her and that's when she
00:41:33
introduced them right you know right I still think that's cynical you know there uh there's uh something uh
00:41:41
diabolical with that plan of her introducing these guys to to bigan well for her it seems to me like she needs
00:41:50
people moving and selling these drugs for her and every time you know think of it like a pyramid scheme biggin's at the
00:41:58
top he's giving a bunch of drugs to Stephanie who's then filtering it out to these different Outlets to these other
00:42:04
smalltime drug dealers and then she steals it back from right in some situations stealing it back from them
00:42:10
but all the money Works its way up the uh pyramid scheme you know it it all helps out bigan and then Stephanie and
00:42:17
the trickle down effect to these low-level drug de well could you imagine if I if I set up a fake robbery right
00:42:24
and then I paid you I mean how much would I have to pay you to just punch me in the face um well
00:42:32
according to the stories that I've heard the Goring rate Stephanie setup was 20 bucks okay so I pay you 20 bucks you got
00:42:39
to come in here come into the garage when Bam's going to be here right we're going to be selling some drugs we're
00:42:46
going to Stage a robbery you're going to have a bunch of guys with you but you got to come in and punch me in the face
00:42:51
I'll give you extra 20 bucks to yeah yeah my my guess is the way that this goes down is either the the stage
00:43:00
robbery takes place at the time of the exchange or just shortly after punch me in the face and then in this situation
00:43:08
if if the other party uhhuh if I suspected that they kind of knew what was going on this is when she's saying
00:43:16
hey behind the scenes you know either right in front of them punch me assault me or behind the scenes at least I can
00:43:22
show up with an injury and I can go look same [ __ ] happened to me right you know
00:43:26
and and then she looks like she looks like a victim as well so I want I want to get into this vehicle situation a
00:43:33
little bit that the rented truck yes okay so a little more information on this rented truck Shawn Jr had received
00:43:42
some kind of settlement for a car accident that he was in and because of the accident Sea's car was in the shop
00:43:50
and he had rented this vehicle this is a 2015 gray Dodge Ram 1500 cool truck at the end of 2015 Eric asked Shawn Jr to
00:44:02
drive him home for Christmas this is so Eric could see his kids for the holidays
00:44:08
now Eric and Shawn well they're not going to make this trip for for no reason at all they
00:44:15
hatched a plan to acquire a bunch of drugs or buy a bunch of drugs in Calhoun and they're going to do in typical Eric
00:44:25
fashion they're going to make multiple stops on the way back to Clay County North Carolina selling the drugs all
00:44:31
along the way M now they could make more money as we stated they could make more
00:44:37
money in these other towns doing this now where are they getting the drugs from this I don't know and this is why I
00:44:43
want to be clear here stating that their plan was to acquire drugs or to purchase
00:44:47
drugs right I don't know if they purchased a large batch or if the large batch that they intended to sell was
00:44:54
that same batch that was stolen from B I'm a little unclear on the time of that of when that went down okay in
00:45:02
comparison to Shawn Jr going missing it sounds to me all of this stuff that we're discussing here now mind you we're
00:45:10
getting a lot of this information from drug addicts drug dealers people that know them uh so the dates are a little
00:45:17
skewed well yeah very trustworthy people they take a lot of notes but the thing is all of this seems to be going down in
00:45:26
a relatively quick amount of time meaning within within the course of month maybe two months right so this is
00:45:32
all Happ happening very rapidly so they're going to make this trip Eric and Shawn Jr and they're going to make you
00:45:40
know sell drugs along the way back to Clay County so on December 20th 2015 Shawn Jr picked up Eric he ended up
00:45:49
picking him up at Derek's house Eric's cousin's house right remember Derrick is the one later that would tell people
00:45:56
hey my cousin Eric said that he he was going to kill Shawn for stealing that thousand bucks right one thing I wonder
00:46:02
about that Captain is that's one of those situations where you wonder about Eric was was that just something said in
00:46:10
a fit of rage like in the Heat of the Moment like I'm going to kill this guy or was it really I don't think it would
00:46:16
say it like that but maybe but no you you know what I mean rather than sitting down and very calm and cool and
00:46:21
collectively saying look I'm going to this Shawn Jr I'm going to wait till the time is right I'm going to take him out
00:46:27
he took a th000 bucks for me it's it's much different you yeah yeah I think you know in passing where it's like oh well
00:46:34
yeah I think this guy stole th000 bucks from me oh really yeah I'm going to kill
00:46:40
that [ __ ] you know what I mean so the thing here is he picks up Shan Jr picks up Eric and they leave Calhoun and
00:46:48
they do sell drugs along the way back to Clay County now the final meeting to sell drugs was with a guy that we will
00:46:55
call called Jericho and as usual this is a lot to keep straight just to let you know no I know and trust me as usual a
00:47:03
drug dealer and a drug deal is never just plain and simple there's usually some some [ __ ] that gets in the way so
00:47:10
apparently Jericho didn't have enough money to buy the drugs from these two whatever amount was agreed upon in
00:47:18
advance he didn't have that oh I I love that you know hey you put something on Craig's List Right or Facebook B
00:47:26
Marketplace somebody shows up you say I'm selling a van right and they're they're offering tradesies they're
00:47:33
offering you a t-shirt well what they're going to do is the three of them would go around to local stops and sell drugs
00:47:42
to make up for some of the difference and when that failed to produce enough funds Jericho decided to barter a couple
00:47:50
of guns a couple handguns in exchange for the rest of the money that he still owed V mhm so after this deal was
00:47:58
completed Shawn Jr dropped off Eric at Eric's parents house and then he started his way back to Calhoun now Eric stands
00:48:07
by his story stating that the last time he had saw Shawn junor Shawn was driving
00:48:13
away in his rented truck all right so they go to make this drug deal we got sha Jr he's hanging out with Eric they
00:48:23
got a bunch of drugs we don't know how they got drugs but Eric is going to visit his family Sean's going to drop
00:48:30
him off but hey we got to make this lucrative right MH got to get lucrative on this trip and then they meet Jericho
00:48:39
right right now Jericho you know he's not wrestling in the WWE anymore so he doesn't have enough money to pay for the
00:48:47
drugs so he has to try to round up drugs he can't get enough money so then he decides hey I got these
00:48:52
guns barter with you drug deal is made it's done at this point we have two people in the rented truck we're back to
00:49:01
sha Jr and we're back to Eric Shan Jr takes Eric to his Eric's family's house and then Shawn Jr is going to head back
00:49:10
home correct and but he's never seen from again well well hang on there and we're
00:49:16
going to what we're going to do here is we're going to squash one big rumor from
00:49:20
Calhoun right away so in Calhoun there's always been this rumor of well Shawn Jr
00:49:26
went to Klay County North Carolina he was killed there and he was never seen again so we can go ahead and squash that
00:49:33
rumor because on his way back to Calhoun Shawn Jr was actually spotted on two different
00:49:41
surveillance cameras the first sighting was at a Walmart store this is where Shawn Jr he bought batteries for a
00:49:48
flashlight and he bought I have conflicting reports here that he bought a holster for one of the
00:49:54
guns or he bought two holsters for the two guns that he had Acquired and he bought batteries for a flashlight
00:50:01
correct okay or he bought batteries is assumed for a flashlight now um according to the reports according to
00:50:10
the police reports Shawn was alone in the store at the time there was nobody seen with him how far are these stores
00:50:17
away from where he dropped off Eric um that's that's a good question I didn't include that in my notes mhm um but he
00:50:27
would have been on the road for some time um it wasn't like he dropped off Eric and then drove around the block and
00:50:34
pulled into Walmart right so it could be a half an hour to an hour or so yeah I think it was more like uh 45 minutes to
00:50:41
an hour to the Walmart so he could have he could have made it 30 some miles maybe more well and on top of that
00:50:47
though there was another the second sighting of him was at a gas station and this gas station was even further from
00:50:55
uh where Eric lived now I can say that this small gas station was located in Franklin North Carolina and the gas
00:51:03
station was named Car City there Shawn Jr purchased the can of Coke he paid for it with cash now not only did Shawn have
00:51:13
guns but according to the security footage at the gas station Shawn had a lot of money presumably from the drug
00:51:20
sales that he had just made right so apparently he had a l of money in his pocket that was so large that he was
00:51:27
like having trouble removing it from the pocket to pay for this you know single can of soda that he purchased at the gas
00:51:37
station you go in to buy a Coke I'm just a little thirsty I'm going to stop and get a Coke oh that would be
00:51:45
79 cents sir and you can't get your money out of your wallet well I actually think that the the purchase of the soda
00:51:53
was like a secondary reason for the Stop and we'll get into that in just a minute
00:51:58
now regarding the the W of cash it's actually believed that Shawn had about $1,700 cash on him at this time yeah and
00:52:07
coming from the world of banking I mean depending on what denomination you get that in I mean that can be you know
00:52:15
stack of you know stack of fives stack of tens you know I mean dude I used to bartend for a living I I I would have a
00:52:22
big WT of cash and my friends would be like man you're like I'm like yeah this is
00:52:27
$200 I'm hoping it lasts me the week this you know yeah this all fits in a a suitcase but uh but it's only
00:52:35
$25 yeah uh so now while Shawn was at the gas station he asked for directions and I actually believe this to be the
00:52:44
main reason for him stopping at this uh car car City gas station right because I
00:52:50
believe Shawn to have been lost and we know he was unfamiliar with this area and he's traveling by himself at this
00:52:56
point and he doesn't have a cell phone does he have a cell phone he does he does so he doesn't have GPS on the cell
00:53:02
phone um that I cannot answer that question I don't know if he has GPS or just does not know how to use it right
00:53:08
but for whatever reason he chooses to stop and ask for questions directions my my other guess though too is
00:53:17
um how you know what I mean if he's going to program his phone can does his phone work real well in this location
00:53:24
yeah it could be bad service or I mean or it could just be a cheap phone I mean again he's a drug addict and it sounds
00:53:32
like he if he's doing meth you know to to think that he'd have the new newest updated top-of-the-line
00:53:43
iPhone I I just don't see that happening well from the video at the gas station it was determined that Shawn Jr was
00:53:51
alone in his vehicle now this was on December 21st 2015 at approximately 6:55 p.m. now at this time of year we should
00:54:03
note that it's already dark at this time when he's traveling so just after Shawn
00:54:08
left the gas station he was on his phone this is how we know he he did have a cell phone with him right he was on his
00:54:16
phone with his who this is always difficult in these cases because we see these situations where people are
00:54:23
reported as girlfriends girlfriends Ex-Wives uh he was on the phone with Brandy King okay uh it's been reported
00:54:31
as both ex-wife or girlfriend whatever what we do know is according to his mailing address Shawn Jr was supposedly
00:54:41
living with Brandy at this time all right so there are a couple yeah well we know that he was traveling on 64 West
00:54:50
and this is while he was talking to Brandy King but he would eventually lose cell service now this is one hell of a
00:54:58
phone call because it sounds like Shawn and Brandy were arguing before he even left to go to North Carolina like she
00:55:06
knows what he does right she knows that that he's selling drugs that he uses drugs I think you know he's probably
00:55:12
telling her look I'm just selling them I don't use them uh I think he's also telling her things like look I just need
00:55:19
to make one big score and then I'm getting out right right right and I think he kept telling her hey let me go
00:55:25
do this North Carolina thing and I'm going to get out I'm going to make a bunch of money and then I'm going to get
00:55:31
out and I'll go get a real job and and straight myself out so they're already arguing before he leaves now now he's on
00:55:38
his way back which would make brandy happy however on this phone call he's telling her that he's lost and that he
00:55:45
doesn't know where he's going he he actually tells her he didn't even know what road he was on the road that he
00:55:51
tells her that he's on I don't even know if it was anywhere in the air area because he gives two different numbers I
00:55:57
think he listed something like I I could be on 441 or or or 415 you know he doesn't seem to even know what road he's
00:56:05
on now we do know that he was on 64 West we know this because we see him on the surveillance footage at the gas station
00:56:12
leaving heading on that road right so not even knowing what road he's on but before he drops the call the call drops
00:56:22
Shawn tells Brandy during this conversation to tell his kids he loved them in case something happened to him
00:56:28
now yeah Brandy asked him why he would say that and he responded that he thought he was being followed and then
00:56:36
seconds later he lost cell service so Shawn was on Highway 64 and lost service while talking to Brandy this was at
00:56:43
approximately 7:15 p.m. in the days after the 21st of December Shawn's mom Kathy had been trying to get a hold of
00:56:52
her Shawn through Facebook Messenger for days he never responded which was unlike
00:56:57
Shawn to not respond to his mother from the 21st to the 26th Brandy searched high and low for Shawn she called
00:57:06
everybody that he knew text everybody that he knew she even checked with jails and hospitals to see if he was found
00:57:14
nothing no sign of Shawn but on December 26th 2015 Shawn was reported missing by
00:57:21
Brandy King she knew that if Shawn was not home to see his kids on Christmas day that he was not coming home and
00:57:28
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