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Got anything back and i called and her phone box was full. >> she knelt panic rise in her throat. called her sister and brother. >> said it was very unlikely she wouldnt answer the calls. >> spoke every day 9:00. >> so mom continually tried to contact shannon, finding out what was going on. >> clay called the cops, asked them to check shannons house. >> that was december 2nd in the evening. sheriffs deputies went over, had a good look around outside and left but shannons family insisted somethin...

If there is such a thing as a fate worse than death, then certainly someone seemed to intend that shannon deserved one. >> shannon was posed on her bed in a manner to bring disrespect to her. >> and her family and close friends, as you can well imagine wer not. >> she had so much going for her to all end like that and the way it ended, she did not deserve that at all. she did not deserve that whatsoever. >> im appalled that she was found that way, you can know. awful and its embarrassing for her...

She was beat badly. >> inconceivable. why her? when she was just starting over in life? after calling it quits with clay in 2010 she went back to school to be a dental assistant. >> she presented herself in a very modest, conservative family sortff oway. >> they looked at her as a cross between a den mother and an older sister. >> she was like the the epitome of a dental assistant. her beautiful teeth and that laugh. i can still hear her laugh. i love it. >> as busy as she was, said her school f...

So you believe that your dad is innocent? >> yes. >> reporter: theres no way he could have possibly done it? >> no. >> reporter: arguably the only witnesses with ringside seats to the running drama were their five kids. and those kids, every single one, including the three youngest, seth, marshall and logan, rallied to their fathers defense. >> he didnt do it. hes a nice, caring, loving person. why would you kill your ex-wife? >> that he still loves. >> that he still loves and leave all your fiv...

Worried about the three young children in the family. >> that means they have no guardian then, so we all just decided that it would be best that we try to get custody of the kids and get them out of that situation. >> reporter: but the starbuck children werent going anywhere. austin, just 21, filed to be the guardian for his younger siblings so they could all stay together and fight together for their dad. >> its hard to grieve, you know, over our mother when were fighting for our dads innocenc...

Ambassador marie yovanovitch. yovanovitch told investigators she felt threatened by the presidents comments on that july 25th phone call with the ukranian president. that is what is happening. now back to "dateline." every trial for murder has this simple question at its core -- whose version of the truth will the jury believe? and in the case of chanin starbuck, the two competing realities set for display could not have stood in starker contrast. >> wed been waiting over a year for this momen...

If not for that bias, they said, the investigators would have found the real murderer. >> the evidence is shoddy. >> reporter: and theres so many other possible suspects, they say. take this theory of blakes. not long after clays arrest, there were news reports about a man named israel keys. he was arrested for murdering a young coffee barrista in alaska and later admitted hed killed many more people, some in washington state. a serial killer whose family hailed from, of all places, a town just ...

See her and i remember one of othem saying he was look at her, he said "it doesnt look like mom." and i dont think he even recognized her. >> thats how badly shed been beaten. it made her family furious someone had done that to her. so in the days that followed, they seerks qui, quite unaware d a break. >> they were normal text messages. anden the th then they move under -- moved to sexually explicit. >> and to the top of the list of suspects was the it man that sent her the sexually explicit te...

But heres the biggest reason they dont believe their father is a murderer. it was the childrens bombshell. their mother had been keeping a dangerous secret, they said, a secret life, one austin said he figured out when he was just 8. >> she lived a totally different lifestyle. she lived her church lifestyle, her home lifestyle and her online dating lifestyle. >> reporter: to hear the starbuck kids tell it, their mom known to most as a prim and proper mormon homemaker lived a racy and risky perso...