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And little shasta. >> sandy's aunt showed up and said a few words, and we released balloons in memory of the three of them. ♪ when i was there at the memorial, i could look around and see dads holding their children and crying. wondering how a father could do this to his own children.
And you never know when a person can snap or anything, and i, myself, had been in a shelter at one time. i have experienced that. when you have somebody like sandy who's soft and quiet and nice, there's people who prey on that. and then after they get them, the control starts. and then they feel stuck or they've got two children, what are they going to do, where are they going to go? >> it was about 7:30, 7:45, and i heard some gunshots, but that's not really unusual in
The girls were very tearful. red eyed. exhausted. they'd had a long morning trying to get down the mountain to come here. she said shane had been very agitated for about three days. she had had hardly any sleep. she said shane had assaulted her, tortured her, choked her, threatened her with guns. you know, he was threatening to kill her whole family. so she needed to get away. sandy was scared. she said, i'm really afraid that he is going to kill us. i know when i was going through it, i didn't feel like there was anybody i could turn to. i tried to arrange a shelter stay for her, but we weren...
Sandy had apparently told them that on the day of the homicide, sandy was going to tell shane that she wanted to get a place of her own for her and the kids. >> miller has an extensive criminal history. he's a felon. >> he served four years in a california prison and was released in 2007. >> convicted of growing marijuana in 1996. >> felony hit-and-run charge. >> dui and a drunk in public. >> mendocino county. miller was charged with child neglect in 1994. >> they believe he is armed and extremely dangerous. >> this town is, we're afraid. who is he not willing to kill? if he can kill his own f...
Any time. it's just -- it's horrible. it's horrible for us living here and not knowing where he is. >> i think our community came to the point where they started really looking at the emotional side of the murders, and they started talking about how can we help the community heal? >> in june of 2013, the shingletown community center activities council put together a memorial for the girls. >> all right. i'm going to turn over here to show you the library. this is the shingletown library in here, and over here where we have all the picnic tables and the nice little stream is where everybody gat...