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could i have done things differently? absolutely. i made the decision to go with him at the risk of him hurting my family. i don t regret that decision, at all. it may have saved my children s lives. i wish that he would tell the truth, that s it. he created the situation, and it s completely his fault. i didn t kill her. i did. i have lost my life as well. and shannon sentencing in 2010, denita s mom sharon was allowed to speak. all that rage, soil, and pain just came pouring out. i hope you rotten hill. you took something from me. the one thing that i said, and i have since regret it, i never should ve said it, is, that i hope you rot in hell. i don t think there is a ....
why wouldn t jermeir say dna be found. he s a police officer. he made sure his dna would not be. found his cell phone records put him on the phone when he said the assault was going. and i don t believe he was ever talking to anyone on the phone. i know where he was that night. prosecutor david sachs says the rape allegation was thoroughly investigated and jermeir was cleared. he also said shannon could ve taken a plea deal that got out of prison. as soon as the year 2020, her sentence now is life without parole. she has exhausted her appeals. her family still believe shannon is innocent, and hopes to find an independent expert who will confirm it was jermeir savoie s on the tape. the odds are that shannon will die in prison, after years, maybe decades to ponder on what happened on that chilly morning when denita smith was murdered. ....
The lock-up, they had arrested shannon crawling, and charged with the murder of her ex-boyfriends new fiancée, denita smith. investigators had completely taken their eyes off of jermeir. the man who was involved simultaneously with both women. shannon crawlies father, keith, her mother, and her brother keith junior, never doubted her. is it possible that you guys don t want to believe that she is a murderer? no. she is not a murderer. no. not in her nature, not her character. the thought that she is lying about, it no. no. i wouldn t be saying her sitting here if i thought she had anything to do with it. in may of 2007, shannon crawly was out on bail she and her attorney walked into the durham police station. ....
Through work. it got physical. she got pregnant. she had an abortion. and the romantic part of their relationship ended a year before denita s murder. they both agreed to end it in january of 2006. that relationship was over. they both gave the same date, the same incident and reason that it ended. shannon said she didn t think jermeir was capable of murder. and insisted she didn t even know denita smith. then detective pate zeroed in on the last time shannon was in durham. the city where denita was murdered. she said she s never been to durham. i ask her about owning a gun. and she tells me that i ve never owned a gun. i can t stand guns. i m scared of them. i said, okay. i can understand that. a lot of people feel that way. and as for where she was on that chilly january morning? she told me she was at a doctor s appointment with one of her children. that was easy to check out. her supervisor ....
Was on scene and she did tell her supervisor that she was taking her child to the doctor. shannon s story seemed to add up. maybe she wasn t the distraught woman the eyewitness saw leaving the scene of denita s murder 50 miles away from where shannon lived and worked. detective pate was just about out of questions. and then. an interesting thing happened. as we re leaving, getting ready to finish up the interview with her, someone hands me a note. and it s from a supervisor and it says a gentleman, one of her co-workers, would like to speak with you before you leave. and what that co-worker had to say would raise serious questions not just for shannon crawley but also for her former lover, jermeir stroud. coming up. did someone want shannon dead, as well? she says, you know, i m kind of in fear of my life. when internal affairs ....