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feeling really positive about it. >> he said this bag could only have been sold to this customer. >> phenomenal! >> it was unreal! >> hinton's defense was straightforward. his attorney argued that the states evidence was scant, and circled central. and that he could have not have killed somebody whose body that was never found. >> in his defense, it's not me, you got the wrong guy? >> absolutely. and he never took the stand, he never claimed his innocence on the stand. >> after nearly a month of testimony, hinton's face has to the jury. shush shannon sister waited alongside her parents. >> it's always a moment of high anxiety. what are they gonna do this? >> all they could do was pray. pray that they saw what we saw. see him for the monster that he was. >> the jury deliberated for three days. then the moment that they had been waiting for finally came. >> we the journey find the defendant guilty. >> i'll never forget when they
can still kept up the awareness campaign in the press. until's southern twist! five once after she disappeared. >> the phone rang. it was ten after 11. and a friend in atlanta said, butch hinton's house is on fire. >> investigators determined the fire was deliberately set. and when he filed a insurance claim on the house, he was arrested for fraud. he was convicted, and sentenced for nine years in prison. >> it was great to have him off the streets. but, that just left shannon's family and shannon's friends wondering what happened to shannon? where shannon? >> with hinton now behind bars, shannon's loved ones worried they would never have an answer. but investigators were about to dig deeper. >> coming up! from hundreds of miles north, a critical clue in the form of a bone chilling tale.
2025. when he will be 64. >> i'm carrying this to the very end. until this guy is no longer in existence. i will carry this fight. >> the fight was not only because of shannon, but because the family, and investigators believe that he had other victims. remember those police searches behind hinton's home? they did not find anything from shannon. but. >> it was very, very macabre. they found many items in different locations of women's clothing, all sorts of sweaters, and tops, and blouses. >> this is chilling to hear you say this. >> oh yeah. >> hinted did finally confessed to killing shannon after the conviction. which answered some key questions for investigators. but the body has never been found. >> recovering the remains, how important is it to you at this stage? >> well, i'll answer that question. why do we bring the remains of
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to this day. >> difficult as it was, they can still kept up the awareness campaign in the press. until's southern twist! five once after she disappeared. >> the phone rang. it was ten after 11. and a friend in atlanta said, butch hinton's house is on fire. >> investigators determined the fire was deliberately set. and when he filed a insurance claim on the house, he was arrested for fraud. he was convicted, and sentenced for nine years in prison. >> it was great to have him off the streets. but, that just left shannon's family and shannon's friends wondering what happened to shannon? where shannon? >> with hinton now behind bars, shannon's loved ones worried they would never have an answer. but investigators were about to dig deeper. >> coming up! from hundreds of miles north, a
operandi, and i wanted to assist the melendi's and getting some closure in their situation. >> while the prosecutors didn't have a crime scene, they did have that bag found out the phone booth. it would tell the tale of its own. what did you learn about it? >> it's a little cloth bag. after a number of weeks of trying to determine where this bag came from, we finally found that there was a little community in richmond, virginia, a militia company that produced this bag. >> the company supply those bags through a middleman to only one client in georgia, delta airlines. >> delta airlines is where hinton worked. when we conducted the search at his workplace, on his desk were a number of these bags. the >> prosecutor brought in a forensic expert, who said the back from the phone booth containment alec particles that would've been found at hinton's workplace. >> as i started listening to the scientists, i started feeling really positive about
guilty. >> i'll never forget when they announced the verdict. just the sheer joy and pain that you saw on the faces of shannon's family. it was good to know this monster would be a way. >> the sheriff calls him, i want to hear the click on the cuffs. i took a deep breath and said, this is over. >> but, the family found out that it actually wasn't over. hinton was sentenced to life in president, and the melendi's assumed, he would remain behind bars forever. they were crushed when they learned that because hinton committed the murder in 1994, under looser parole guidelines, he would be eligible for parole in seven years. we >> are the ones who have a life imprisonment without parole. he has hope, just the hope that he might get out. >> they remain determined to do all they can to fight every time his parole comes up. hinton will be eligible again
in 2025, when he will be 64. >> i'm carrying this to the very end. until this guy is no longer in existence, i will carry this fight. >> the melendi's fight, not only because of shannon, but because the family and investigators believe hinted may have had other victims. remember those police searches behind hansen's home, they didn't find anything from shannon, but -- >> it was very, very macabre. they found many, many items in different locations of women's clothing. all sorts of sweaters, tops, blouses. this is chilling -- >> hinton did finally confessed to killing shannon after his conviction, which answer some key questions for investigators. but, her body has still never been found. , recovering the remains, how important is it to you? >> why do we bring the remains
it. >> -- this bag could only have been sold to this customer? >> phenomenal. it >> was unreal. >> hinton's defense was straightforward. his attorney argued that the states evidence was scant and circumstantial. that he could not have killed somebody whose body has never been found. >> in his defenses, it's not me, you've got the wrong guy. >> absolutely. >> look somewhere else. >> he never took the stand. he never claimed his innocence on the stand. >> after nearly a month of testimony, hinton's fate passed to the jury. shannon sister, monique, waited alongside her parents. >> that's always a moment of high anxiety. what are they going to do with this? >> all i could do is pray. pray that they saw what we saw. see him for the monster that he was. >> the jury deliberated for three days. then, the moment they had been waiting for finally came. >> we, the jury, find the defendant, --
"The western people say that they were brainwashed, but they were not. They were well trained intellectuals. They knew what's right and wrong," said Fred Engst, American, son of Erwin Engst and Joan Hinton.