Speaker 1: It brought back sleepless nights for me after you called me,
Speaker 1: I dreamt about it. The sounds of their voices, the
Speaker 1: looks on their faces. That's a trauma that I can't
Speaker 1: wrap my head around, but I sure heard it.
Speaker 2: San Angelo, Texas, July fourth, nineteen eighty eight. Shane Stewart's
Speaker 2: Camaro was parked just outside of town at O. C.
Speaker 2: Fisher Lake. Shane and his girlfriend Sally McNelly reclined on
Speaker 2: the hood, looking into the night sky. They dreamed aloud
Speaker 2: about their future together, a fresh start. That night, they
Speaker 2: never came home. Their bodies were found four months later.
Speaker 2: What happened to Shane and Sally is still a mystery,
Speaker 2: but there were witnesses and warning signs.
Speaker 1: She said, you don't hear from us in a couple
Speaker 1: of months than my dad and.
Speaker 2: I recall telling them, you guys better be careful. You're
Speaker 2: going to piss off the wrong people.
Speaker 3: We talked about.
Speaker 1: Could have been satanic, Possible, could have been a drug
Speaker 1: deal in went south. Possible, could have been they were
Speaker 1: out there and they saw something they weren't supposed to see.
Speaker 2: Shane and Sally loved hanging out with their friends. Speeding
Speaker 2: around San Angelo at night. But at some point their
Speaker 2: mischief with friends crossed over into something much darker, much
Speaker 2: more dangerous. Shane and Sally worried they were in over
Speaker 2: their heads.
Speaker 3: This is the devil's playground down here, and you have
Speaker 3: to be very careful. Me and my brother told him
Speaker 3: just leave that one alone, Just live your life. Leave
Speaker 3: it the fuckalo.
Speaker 1: You don't want to find him.
Speaker 2: It's just there's something ominous about this whole case. For
Speaker 2: thirty five years, Shane's father, Marshall, has been searching for
Speaker 2: answers and struggling to understand how so many people could
Speaker 2: hold these secrets for so long.
Speaker 4: You have that memory of I was there and I
Speaker 4: saw this, and I'm guilty. Whatever the reason that you
Speaker 4: can't come forward, were you in an altered mind state?
Speaker 4: Have you done bad things since that point in time?
Speaker 4: You need to act like an adult and deal with
Speaker 4: the consequences and let these families have the closure that
Speaker 4: they're really looking for.
Speaker 2: My name is Rob Demko. My reporting partner Karen Jacobs,
Speaker 2: and I started looking at this case five years ago.
Speaker 5: Marshall took us out to where it all happened.
Speaker 4: Looking for evidence, anything that was oble. This is eight
Speaker 4: eight and we call it the Lake Road.
Speaker 5: And he showed us where to look. We interviewed investigators
Speaker 5: and knocked on suspects doors, track down Shane and Sally's friends,
Speaker 5: and pretty much called everyone involved.
Speaker 2: Hi, Carol, this is Rob Demka. I'm a journalist here
Speaker 2: in Texas and what Hi. This is Rob Demka. Hi,
Speaker 2: this is Rob Demka. Okay, thanks Carol. I appreciate its godless.
Speaker 5: We also have a good idea of who's telling the
Speaker 5: truth and who isn't. Even the investigators have become targets.
Speaker 1: I don't want to slander of anyone, but I want
Speaker 1: to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: They don't want to have to go back and say, oh,
Speaker 3: look at all these dirty cops we had, that we celebrated,
Speaker 3: that we gave awards to.
Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned a name to me that we need
Speaker 1: to talk about. And there are some things about this
Speaker 1: that are just not right.
Speaker 5: And the trail has taken us far beyond the town
Speaker 5: of San Angelo, Texas.
Speaker 2: That's the advantage in finding people hearing the Philippines.
Speaker 5: People love to talk well.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I could get enough to get a
Speaker 3: Warren on him, I could extradity while they were saying,
Speaker 3: you know, might as well be on the moon.
Speaker 2: This is a story about two teenagers who are trapped.
Speaker 2: It's also about betrayal and revenge.
Speaker 5: And it's about a parent search for answers because someone
Speaker 5: out there knows exactly what happened and why.
Speaker 1: And so that's where I say the value of podcast,
Speaker 1: like what you're doing, is that someone listening to it
Speaker 1: may say, wait a minute, I know that guy.
Speaker 3: So I almost backed out of this. I really did,
Speaker 3: but I can't do that, not for myself. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to do that. And these other girls deserve it too.
Speaker 3: It deserves justice. These guys all me to go to jail.
Speaker 2: Everyone at all from Texas Monthly. This is Shane and Salad,
Speaker 2: you know, and asks the small screwed case I've ever
Speaker 2: seen is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Coming March nineteenth,