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"shannon's story." >> the portraits, the snapshots, the videos, i documented her life. >> the photographer dad, the camera professional who captured every moment of his daughter's life. >> she loved life. she wanted to do everything. >> these parents didn't know back then how difficult it would be one day to look at these memories. >> when i want to remember her voice, i put on a video. >> that's probably the hardest is hearing her voice. >> i'm shannon melendi, welcome to our special segment on the -- >> when i look at that video, it's definitely a sweet memory. i look back at how just innocent we were. >> shannon was someone that wanted to live. >> but then came that phone call way back in march 1994. shannon melendi's little sister monique was just 13 years old. >> and i received a phone call from her roommate.
>> shannon was midway through her sophomore year at emory university in atlanta. monique answered the call at their childhood home in miami, and on the other end of the line was athena, her sister's college roommate. >> athena was very distraught, and was asking me frantically if -- if i had heard or spoken from shannon. >> shannon hadn't been seen or heard from in more than a day. now, are you starting to do the calculation, even at the age of 13, that this is trouble? >> i was. i knew immediately that -- that something was terribly wrong. >> monique hung up with the roommate and made a few calls of her own. >> i immediately called my godmother, who was living in atlanta, asked her if she had heard from shannon. she had not. i called my aunt that also lived there. she had not heard from shannon. >> monique was gripped with fear. she called her grandparents, and her grandfather came to pick her up. monique's dad, luis, was at work, photographing a baptism,