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back in together because we started getting along again. >> reporter: and meanwhile, they had this complicated arrangement. shauna worked 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. at the casino. george, as a firefighter, worked long shifts and got lots of days off. their daughter shuttled back and forth between them and when they were both at work, the girl spent nights with george's mother. >> okay. what shift did you work yesterday? >> a 24-hour shift. >> reporter: so he was at work when shauna was killed. of course, they did some checking, just to be sure. >> you know, if he was there on every run. you know, if he had left for any reason. >> but he was on every run. did not leave work. at all. so, not the husband this time. >> he had nothing to do with the attack of shauna. >> reporter: but george did offer a possible lead. >> the garage door was open, which is unusual. so we were worried because my wife's house got broken into a week or two ago.
turn. >> because we're currently separated and planning on moving back in together because we started getting along again. >> reporter: and meanwhile, they had this complicated arrangement. shauna worked 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. at the casino. george, as a firefighter, worked long shifts and got lots of days off. their daughter shuttled back and forth between them and when they were both at work, the girl spent nights with george's mother. >> okay. what shift did you work yesterday? >> a 24-hour shift. >> reporter: so he was at work when shauna was killed. of course, they did some checking, just to be sure. >> you know, if he was there on every run. you know, if he had left for any reason. >> but he was on every run. did not leave work. at all. so, not the husband this time. >> he had nothing to do with the attack of shauna. >> reporter: but george did offer a possible lead. >> the garage door was open, which is unusual. so we were worried because my wife's house got broken into a week or two ago.
mother called with the news about shauna. >> what's it like to hear something like that? >> i don't know that you can describe it. you know, i mean, your heart just drops to your stomach. >> reporter: paula and shauna's family and friends gathered to mourn and remember how much they cared about her. the funeral itself was standing room only. >> it was a beautiful tribute to shauna. >> reporter: george's big sister, maria. >> i could see george was heartfelt and did what he could to express himself at a terrible time. it was all about showing that shauna was loved and cared for. >> reporter: meanwhile, las vegas homicide detectives worked diligently to identify and track down whoever killed her. >> do we have a predator? did she come home and they were burglarizing the house? is there an enemy somewhere that she made that we need to find?
pointed to the white wall and said if i didn't stop screaming, i was going to see my brains all over the white wall. at that point, i really, really thought i was going to die. >> i couldn't sleep. i couldn't eat. all i could imagine, i wasn't going to hear the last thing out of shauna's mouth was, "mommy, help me." i just refused that. >> while her frantic family called police, a beaten and bleeding shauna could see her so-called friend walking back and forth through the hallway. >> i was so exhausted. and i was so scared. that i finally -- i think i just gave up. i think i finally said, this is where i'm going to die and i remember just praying and saying, if i die here, just at least please, please tell my family that, you know, that i love them and that i'm sorry i disobeyed them and just let them know that i'm sorry. >> i just get back in the car from hanging up flyers on a telephone pole. my husband said, they found shauna, found shauna.
done. >> finally shauna's grandmother was allowed access to the traumatized girl but shauna was too terrified to tell officials anything. >> she begged shauna, "please, tell grand marx you've got to talk to grandma." >> no, grandma, they'll kill you, they'll kill all of us, no, grandma, no." she refused to talk for about three hours. >> the hospital sometimes treated shauna more like a drug addict than a rape victim and so did the police, they say. >> "well, we'll investigate this but she's going to have to be in the room alone, her parents can't be there." and brad said, "that's fine, what about a rape counselor?" "nope. we're interviewing her alone or we're not interviewing her at all." well, you know what? after everything she'd been through, i wouldn't let nobody interview her unless i was there, or my husband was there, or brad was there. >> reporter: shauna's medical records outlined the resulting wounds and infection the 16-year-old suffered after three
dennis makes one last call pressuring and threatening both kathy and the man posing as kathy's father. he tells them the fbi and the national media will pursue them nonstop until they find shauna. >> oh, by the way, we are going to be located here conducting searches and if shauna just happens to show up, that's a wonderful thing. >> the volunteer search team stops at a local tom thumb to get soda. shauna's brother austin sees a car pull up in the parking lot of the store. >> i look out and see her in the car. i ran out there. >> i was just getting back in the car from hanging up fliers on a telephone pole, and the phone rings and my husband turns pale white. >> the back seat was down and she was sitting on the backseat. i looked in and went to open the door and it was locked. i reached around and opened the back door up and i was pulling her. >> he was like, "they found shauna." >> i went to pull her out. the dude said she ain't going nowhere. i pulled out my knife and said it's his life or hers.
"she's just being uncooperative so we're leaving." and that's exactly what they done. >> finally shauna's grandmother was allowed access to the traumatized girl but shauna was to terrified to tell officials anything. >> she begged shauna, "please, tell grandma you've got to talk to grandma." >> no, grandma, they'll kill you, they'll kill all of us, no, grandma, no." she refused to talk for about three hours. >> the hospital sometimes treated shauna more like a drug addict than a rape victim and so did the police, they say. >> "well, we'll investigate this but she's going to have to be in the room alone, her parents can't be there." and brad said, "that's fine, what about a rape counselor?" "nope. we're interviewing her alone or we're not interviewing her at all." well, you know what? after everything she'd been through, i wouldn't let nobody interview her unless i was there, or my husband was there, or brad was there. >> reporter: shauna's medical records outlined the resulting wound and infection the
passing day, chances of recovering shauna diminish. dennis makes one last call threatening cathy and the man posing as cathy's father. he tells them the fbi and the national media will pursue them nonstop until they find shauna. >> oh, by the way, we are going to be located here conducting searches and if shauna just happens to show up, that's a wonderful thing. >> the volunteer search team stops at a local tom thumb to get soda. shauna's brother austin sees a car pull up in the parking lot of the store. >> i look out and see her in the car. i ran out there. >> i was just getting back in the car from hanging up fliers on a telephone pole, and the phone rings and my husband turns pale white. >> the back seat was down and she was sitting on the backseat. i looked in and went to open the door and it was locked. i reached around and opened the back door up and i was pulling her. >> he was like, "they found shauna." >> i went to pull her out. the dude said she ain't going nowhere.
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to endure. >> i was at home. they called me and told me there had been an accident. >> didn't know what i was doing at the time. i was scared. all i knew was she was pinned. they said she was alive. >> somehow brittany escapes death despite the truck coming right at her. >> the crash leaves its mark. >> can you see the difference in the knees. you can see the bruises. i have an incision here that i have. shauna sees how the accident happens and why brittany is able to survive. >> what they figured is the cinder block in the front slowed the truck down. he didn't hit it with the full force. we had a computer stand, and