WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.560 This episode ma contain content of a graphic nature, including 2 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:20.839 descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. 3 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:37.039 Listener discretion is advised. Hi, this is Tanya. Hi, this 4 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.880 is Shannon, and we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore 5 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:46.920 true crime podcast. Hey Shannon, Hey Tanya. How are you? 6 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:48.600 I'm doing pretty good? How are you? 7 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:54.799 I'm doing freaking fabulous Liday, Thursday, Today, Thursday. 8 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:57.159 I have an announcement you. 9 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.359 Yeah, I may or may not continue with the podcast 10 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:03.759 on if I'm going with the route that this is 11 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:08.920 looking to be. I was playing the lotto online meat 12 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:14.120 and I woke up to be Winter Winter Chicken dinner dollars. 13 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.680 I hit right, the power ball was a five. 14 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.680 Nice, that's what I So it looks like the path 15 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:26.560 is opening now, yes, right, So but I will lottery wins. Yeah, 16 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:28.079 you know what, you know what I do with the lottery. 17 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:32.120 I'm going to get a van and then we'll just travel, Tanya. 18 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.079 We then we'll parlay into a travel podcast that we 19 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.000 just visit different crime. 20 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.920 That would be fabulous. I am there with you, girl. 21 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.599 That is so fun. My husband and child won't mind 22 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.000 if I just go on the road with you like 23 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:53.640 U for my product. We got to give what the 24 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.359 people want. So here we are. We're here to please. 25 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.239 What about you, girl, how are you anything on the 26 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.760 horizon for you? 27 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.000 No? No, just you know, it's been to work week. 28 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:08.039 I can't wait till the weekend. He has every other 29 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.360 work and stuff in this world. Yeah, just same old shit. 30 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.319 So that is so funny. 31 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.960 That is so reminiscent of our bingo days in Canada. 32 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.159 Oh so you know, we live in the Detroit metro 33 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.240 area and before nine eleven we would go to Canada 34 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:26.000 to play bingo. 35 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:28.280 All was humongous. 36 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.879 I was a heavy smoker at the time, and wow, 37 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.560 what a bonanza. You could smoke right at the tables 38 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:40.400 around with hot drinks, you could get daubers. It was 39 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.520 an event. I had taken Tanya, and I'm used to winning. 40 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:48.039 I go there, I expect when even like a small round, 41 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.000 it's just I don't know. 42 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.280 And Tanya is sitting next to me and she's all 43 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:52.000 like nah. 44 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.080 Every time, like someone would call bingo and we'd move 45 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.879 on to the next round, and she's like, oh god, 46 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.719 I never went and I had to just my dabber 47 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.240 down and I looked her square in the face, and 48 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.840 I said, I need you to stop with this negativity. 49 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.759 Okay, I can't draw. I'm a winner. 50 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.560 I'm gonna win and I can't if you're always saying 51 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.599 that you're gonna lose, you're too close to me. 52 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:18.159 You're giving me bad ju juw. I love it. It did. 53 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.159 I'm sure it was something. Oh we won a few times. 54 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.240 It was so great. Do you remember I do? I 55 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.879 do remember when you told me that. I was like, oh, okay, sorry, 56 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:31.319 I need. 57 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.759 You to amp up the positivity. We're in a win 58 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:36.879 the manifestation energy. 59 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.919 So I remember. It was a lot of fun. And 60 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:41.919 that's when I got introduced to gravy fries. 61 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.840 So they're the best gravy fries. 62 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:51.000 Oh yeah. But anyway, anyway, must move on to business. 63 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.120 And what story do you have for I have a 64 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.919 horrific story. Of course, they're all terrible. And before I 65 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.639 get started, I just like to remind everyone to hit 66 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.840 the subscriber follow button on whatever app you're listening to, 67 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:06.439 and I'm going to tell you about the murder of 68 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.879 Shannon Graves. So Shannon Graves, she came into this world 69 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.080 on November fourth, nineteen eighty eight. So that made for Corbiel. 70 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:20.319 The dark haired, brown eyed beauty was born in historic Youngstown, 71 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:24.160 Ohio two Christine Graves and Ronnie de Paul. When she 72 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.079 was about six, Shannon learned that she had a half sister, 73 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:31.879 Nick Debbie, and Debbie and Shannon shared a father. Okay, 74 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.480 so the sisters were shocked but excited to learn about 75 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.720 one another, and Shannon also had a little brother, aj 76 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:43.000 who joined the family. Shannon was immediately smitten with her 77 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.240 little brother, and the sister brother duo shared a very 78 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.720 strong bond for the rest of Shannon's life. Family meant 79 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.680 everything to Shannon. Debbie, her half sister, says that everyone 80 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:57.319 would gather often for celebration such as birthdays and holidays, 81 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.360 and they even often had Sunday dinner. She remembers the 82 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.120 first time she met Shannon, which was on Christmas Eve 83 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:08.519 at the home of Debbie's aunt Joanne. Debbie, who previously 84 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.839 had believed she was an only child, knocked on the 85 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.519 door and a woman answered, yelling, Shannon, your sister's here. 86 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.319 Shannon ran into Debbie's arms and hugged her tight, and 87 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.879 Debbie remembers thinking that Shannon was full of spunk, calling 88 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.000 her a pitbull. In a chihuahua's body. There was no 89 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.000 half in these relationships. Debbie and aj were simply Shannon's 90 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.759 sister and brother, and she had a strong bond with both, 91 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:38.160 especially AJ two. So Northwest Ohio was always home to Shannon, 92 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.399 who lived in either Youngstown, which was a city halfway 93 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.519 between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, or in small towns nearby. Shannon 94 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.240 was described by many of her large group of friends 95 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.120 as a light, always kind and wanting to help others. 96 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.680 She was even known as Star to her friends because 97 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.879 of the brightness that she exuded. Shannon was just as 98 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.279 likely to london ear or hand to a stranger down 99 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.600 on their luck as she was to help a good friend. 100 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.040 But behind that shine was pain. Shannon had a rough 101 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.600 time growing up and sometimes hung around with a rough crowd. 102 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.120 She lost her mother and all four of her grandparents, 103 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.120 and those passings hit her really hard. Early life events 104 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:22.079 left her feeling ungrounded at times, and her bold personality 105 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.959 mixed with emotional upheaval, built a hardened exterior around her 106 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.480 sensitive and beautiful heart. She liked to have a good 107 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.360 time like most young people, but she gravitated toward people 108 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:35.480 who could be a bit dangerous. And sometimes your friend's 109 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.600 bad habits run off on you. So it should be 110 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.519 noted that young'stown had a reputation as a hotbed for crime. 111 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:47.120 In fact, in the nineteen sixties it was known as Murdertown, USA, 112 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.040 and Youngstown's murder rate was double what the rate was 113 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:54.680 for the whole state of Ohio. Organized crime was involved 114 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.920 in many and afarious activities around the area. So just 115 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.319 let you know this is the environment that Shannon grew 116 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.879 up in. Shannon was arrested in May two thousand and 117 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.839 nine and charged with two felony drug crimes. Eventually, one 118 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.680 of those charges was dismissed and the other was reduced 119 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:14.519 to a misdemeanor drug charge. Shannon pled guilty on July thirtieth, 120 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.519 two thousand and nine, and was sentenced to a six 121 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.560 month suspended sentence plus a fine of one hundred dollars. 122 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.959 The next year, on August eighteenth, twenty ten, Shannon was 123 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:26.839 arrested again, this time for felony theft. In that case, 124 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.800 she also had a felony reduced to unauthorized use of property, 125 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.279 which was a misdemeanor, and she was sentenced to thirty 126 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.000 days suspended and a two hundred and fifty dollars fine. 127 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:40.639 Interestingly enough, that wasn't the end of her legal issues. 128 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:45.240 She maintained that in both arrests, a deputy clerk signed 129 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:49.959 and issued her arrest warrants without establishing probable cause, which 130 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:54.079 is a huge problem wow. She and eight other women 131 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.279 filed a suit against Mahoning County, Ohio, where all of 132 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.319 their arrests were made, with the claims that their sentences 133 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.040 were avoid because of the lack of establishment of probable cause. 134 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.879 This suit focused on their belief that their arrests violated 135 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:13.959 the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. 136 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.040 Their suit was initially dismissed, then appealed, and there was 137 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.399 a lot of legal back and forth with the appeals 138 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.279 court reversing the case, dismissal, and pushing the case back 139 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.319 for resentencing. But ultimately Shannon and one other woman, who 140 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:32.000 had pleaded guilty already to at least one charge, had 141 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.840 no change to their outcome because they didn't claim the 142 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.799 lack of probable cause until after they had been convicted. 143 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.120 So her half sister, Debbie, was like a surrogate mom 144 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.639 to her during this tough time, listening when she needed 145 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.879 to talk through problems and giving her advice on how 146 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.159 to get out of a jam and keep her life 147 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:54.519 on track. As you might expect, Shannon didn't want to 148 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:57.600 see the inside of a jail again. She always had 149 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:59.919 a talent for hair and makeup, so she decided to 150 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.440 go to cosmetology school. Shannon buckled down and earned her 151 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:08.919 cosmetology certification in twenty sixteen through Raphael's School of Beauty 152 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.399 in Boardman, Ohio. She was proud of her accomplishment and 153 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.440 she was excited to start her new career. She had 154 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.440 no idea that it would be a short one. However, 155 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:25.840 her sometimes dubious associations extended to her romantic relationships. Unfortunately, 156 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.399 Shannon's attraction to one of the bad boys you know 157 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.879 she liked those that her friend had mentioned, ended up 158 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.799 being her undoing. In early twenty sixteen, Shannon met Arturo Novoa, 159 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.960 a known drug dealer with a bad temper. By September 160 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.440 of that year, Navoa had already moved into Shannon's place. 161 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:51.919 From the very beginning, their relationship was volatile. Shannon was 162 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.039 small but mighty, standing less than five feet tall and 163 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:59.440 around one hundred pounds. However, even she didn't fully understand 164 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:04.120 the depths of Novoa's anger and depravity. Turmoil was a 165 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.679 constant in their relationship, and by December twenty sixteen, Shannon 166 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.000 was done. She kicked Novoa out and he moved in 167 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:15.200 with a woman named Katrina Layton, in a move typical 168 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.120 of Shannon and Novoa's romance. He made it just a 169 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.960 week without Shannon before he was moving right back into 170 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:27.559 her place on Mahoeing Avenue. Katrina Layton was completely obsessed 171 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.879 with Novoa and she was beyond angry that he had 172 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.000 left her to go back to Shannon. She wanted him 173 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.639 back badly. Shannon and Novoa continued to have the same 174 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.000 problems they had had before she kicked him out. In fact, 175 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.679 the turbulence seemed to increase. On the flip side, Shannon 176 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.720 was enjoying her job and still spending time with her family. 177 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:51.480 She celebrated Christmas with her family and that was the 178 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.679 last one that they would all have together. Katrina just 179 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.679 couldn't get over Novoa. He continued his criminal ways, selling 180 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.039 drugs and participating and other illegal activities, but she didn't care. 181 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.759 Her obsession with him and jealousy towards Shannon grew stronger 182 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.360 every day. It isn't clear if he was seeing both 183 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.399 of them at the same time, but he was calling 184 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.480 Shannon his ax as he went back and forth. It 185 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.320 became a lethal balance of the continued problems with Shannon 186 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.720 and Katrina's constant push for him to stay with her 187 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:29.799 that set a plan in motion. Finally, Novoa exploded on 188 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:34.639 February twenty fourth, twenty seventeen. Katrina later said that she 189 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:39.200 was at the home Novoa and Shannon shared when novoah 190 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:44.039 completely lost control, beating Shannon to death in the bathroom 191 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.120 with a hammer. Of course, that sudden decision left the 192 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.600 remaining pair, Katrina and Novoa with a big dilemma. What 193 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.519 were they going to do with Shannon's body? For some reason, 194 00:11:55.600 --> 00:12:00.360 Navoa shaved Shannon's hair off and sent Katrina shop for 195 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.559 big fifty five gallon bins that they planned to use 196 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.639 to store Shannon's body while they came up with some 197 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:10.279 sort of plan. Navoa and Katrina tried a couple of 198 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:14.159 things to hide the gruesome deed. First, they wrapped Shannon 199 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.600 in garbage bags and then stuck her in the trunk 200 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.840 of her own car. They brought her to Katrina's home, 201 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.840 and Navoa reached out to a man named Andrew Herman. 202 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:30.159 Herman and his wife, Michelle Iholmfeld, help Navoa dismember Shannon's body. 203 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.600 They put her arms and legs in one of the 204 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.919 bins Katrina had purchased, and used another of the bins 205 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:40.000 to store Shannon's torso and head. Sometime around the first 206 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.399 week of March twenty seventeen, those bins were taken back 207 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.600 to Shannon's home on Mahoeing Avenue. By then, Katrina had 208 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.240 moved herself in to that home along with her thirteen 209 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:53.879 year old and ten year old children, and they were 210 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.480 living there with Novoa. She basically took over Shannon's life, 211 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.240 driving her car, using her credit card cards, and taking 212 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:06.240 care of Shannon's beloved dog, Molly. Novoa and Katrina continued 213 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:09.360 to keep the body at the Mahoing house in a 214 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.960 freezer for months while they continued to think of ways 215 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:17.080 to dispose of it and how to dispose of Shannon's belongings. 216 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:20.279 Navoa didn't want to dump her in the nearby river 217 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.360 because bodies put their tended to float up. Eventually, Navoa 218 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.919 and Katrina knew they had to get rid of Shannon's 219 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.320 body and belongings like time was a ticken, right, somebody's 220 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.879 gonna notice that she's missing. They were apparently fans of 221 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.080 the series Breaking Bad, and they talked about how there 222 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.159 was a storyline that was focused on the use of 223 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.320 acid to melt a body and to get rid of evidence. 224 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.679 So Katrina jumped online and, using the screen name Chickenman, 225 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.600 ordered twelve gallons of sulfuric acid from Walmart. I didn't 226 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:55.600 know you could get sulfuric acid from Walmart. Yeah, she 227 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.039 used an alias, but when she arrived at the store 228 00:13:58.039 --> 00:13:59.720 to pick up the order, she was told that she 229 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.000 had to show her actual ID before she could complete 230 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.879 the purchase. Katrina did so and took the acid back 231 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.960 to the house that Novoa and Shannon had once shared. However, 232 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:14.519 these numb nuts had underestimated the amount of sulfuric acid 233 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.240 that it took in real life to dissolve an entire 234 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:21.200 adult body. Novoa and Katrina started with the huad, but 235 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.200 they weren't even able to get the head completely dissolved. 236 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.120 They put what was left of Shannon's head back into 237 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.519 the freezer and the rest of her body and they 238 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:33.799 put their thinking caps on Shannon's family, So you're probably wondering, like, 239 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:38.919 what's on Shannon. Yeah, So, her family had been asking 240 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.000 Novoa where she was, and he kept telling them that 241 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.840 Shannon had taken off with another man and gone to Columbus, Ohio. 242 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.759 Then he changed his story and said that when Shannon 243 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.200 and the other man had reached Columbus, that she took 244 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.399 up with yet another man. But that didn't sound like Shannon. 245 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.480 Her family's feet. Debbie, Shannon's sister, was getting suspicious. It 246 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.240 wasn't unusual for Shannon to take off for a while 247 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.639 without telling her family or friends, but she never missed 248 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.679 a birthday or holiday, and she didn't show up for 249 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:12.519 Debbie's March birthday or the family's Easter celebration. Debbie sent 250 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.559 Shannon a text about brother AJ and the reply her 251 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.519 text made her blood run cold. It said, quote, I 252 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.639 don't have a brother end quote And they were tight. 253 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.799 Remember I told you? Yeah? Yeah. So Debbie knew Shannon's car, 254 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.559 dog and cell phone were still at her home, but 255 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:34.200 Shannon wasn't. She would have never left Molly behind her dog, 256 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.279 and that text about not having a brother just sealed 257 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:40.200 the deal for her, and Debbie reported Shannon missing on 258 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:44.240 June twenty second, twenty seventeen. Police wanted to know about 259 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.559 the people in Shannon's life, and Debbie said that one 260 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.480 of her exes, a man named John, would know Shannon 261 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.080 better than anyone. He said he and Shannon had been 262 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.840 together for a couple of years previously and worked together 263 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.279 in John's roofing business until he was busted on drug 264 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.720 charges and to prison. John really wanted to start right 265 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.039 back up with Shannon once he was out, but he 266 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.320 found out that she had started dating Novoa. He said 267 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.960 he last saw her on Valentine's Day twenty seventeen. He 268 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.600 was upset that she was with someone else, but still 269 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.799 held out hope that they would find each other. Just 270 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.639 to let you know, this was about four months after 271 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:24.519 he was killed that her sister reported her missing. Okay, okay, 272 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.399 So back to John. He said he last saw her 273 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.879 on Valentine's Day twenty seventeen, and that was about ten 274 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.759 days before she was killed. He was upset that she 275 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.279 was with someone else, but still held out hope that 276 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.080 they would find each other again. Police dug deeper into 277 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.120 John's whereabouts at the time of Shannon's disappearance, and they 278 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:44.720 determined that he had nothing to do with it at all. 279 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.879 For Novoa and Katrina Leyton, the pressure was on. Navoa 280 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.320 had a friend who lived on Sherwood Avenue in Youngstown 281 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.360 and often had bonfires in his yard. He contacted the 282 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.639 friend and said he had some trash he wanted to 283 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.519 get rid of and asked if he could have another bonfire. 284 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.039 Novoa and another friend spent the evening tossing clothes and 285 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.680 other items such as papers and even Shannon's hair, into 286 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.599 the fire. Another item thrown into the flames was a 287 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.400 bracelet with the name Shannon and bossed on it. The 288 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.559 fire was huge, so huge, in fact, the fire department 289 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.599 came to investigate and make sure that it wasn't getting 290 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.880 out of hand. Navoa's friend, who had allowed the bonfire, 291 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.720 was curious as to what Novoa and Katrina had been 292 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.480 pitching into the pit for hours, especially because they both 293 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:36.160 just kept taking things out of baskets and bins and 294 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.400 burning them all like it was like endless, Oh my gosh. 295 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.119 So the next day the friend went digging in the 296 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.359 ashes to see what he could find. He found the bracelet, 297 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:47.880 and he put all the ashes from the fire into 298 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.359 a laundry basket, including the piece of jewelry. The police 299 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.839 eventually recovered the ashes and bracelet later in the investigation. 300 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.680 Katrina had rented a bottom floor apartment and used Shannon's 301 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.960 credit hard to buy a freezer and they moved the 302 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.720 body into that. The landlord was getting suspicious because the 303 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:09.039 lice was signed, but no one seemed to be moving 304 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.640 in like the only thing in this apartment was the freezer. 305 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:14.880 He told the police that he thought something odd was 306 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.079 going on there, and the police got a search warrant. 307 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.440 In a panic, novoa In Katrina knew they had to 308 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:23.720 move Shannon's body out of the apartment. He called a 309 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.400 friend named Kenny Eschenbah and asked if he could store 310 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.519 a freezer in his basement for a while. He told 311 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.440 Eschenbah that his electricity had been cut and the freezer 312 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.480 was full of meat that he didn't want to spoil. 313 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.160 Eschanbah agreed, and novoa In a friend brought the freezer 314 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.240 over at night and brought it through the back door 315 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:44.599 and into the basement. The freezer was at the house 316 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.519 in Campbell, Ohio for a couple of weeks. When Eschenbah's 317 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.680 wife was preparing dinner one evening, she planned to make 318 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:55.200 spaghetti but didn't have any ground beef. Not wanting to 319 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.119 go to the store, she thought that maybe some of 320 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:00.960 the quote unquote meat that no Voa had said was 321 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.200 in the freezer in her basement was ground b for 322 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.799 something that she could use to complete the meal. It 323 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.039 was then that she noticed the freezer had a pad 324 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.079 lock on it. She obviously didn't have the key, but 325 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:16.400 my girl pried it open. She wasn't when going to 326 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.400 the Kroger. No, she was like, I'm not making a 327 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.480 trip if I don't have to. That's right. Plus, Shannon, 328 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.640 if you bring freezer over and there's a lock on it, girl. 329 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.880 Get it out of my house, I know, get it out. 330 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.400 So she prized it open. She lifted the lid, and 331 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.559 she starts moving things around. When she pulled part of 332 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:37.960 a bag out of the way, she saw what looked 333 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:42.880 like a human foot, and the foot bore a scorpion tattoo, 334 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:46.240 one that looked very similar to the one Shannon had 335 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:51.519 gotten in honor of her astrological sign. Horrified, the Eschenbos 336 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:54.480 called nine one one at three forty one pm on 337 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:59.039 July thirtieth, twenty seventeen, so ken Eschabab told the authorities 338 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.880 that the freezer wasn't they, and that a friend named 339 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:04.759 Anthony Gonzalez had asked to keep it there because his 340 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.680 electricity was off. So please soon discover that Anthony Gonzalez 341 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:13.279 was really Arturo Novoa. Liice had already talked with Novoa 342 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:17.079 previously when Shannon was reported missing, and they went back 343 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.599 again to talk to him. He denied that the freezer 344 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.160 was his, but police found the exact key that fit 345 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.759 the freezer's padlock in Novoa's pocket. 346 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.240 Dumb ass, there you go. 347 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:31.559 Yeah. Authorities had done a deep dive into Novoa's pass 348 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:34.759 and learned that he had been living with Katrina since 349 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:39.440 about two weeks before Shannon's disappearance. They got a search 350 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.799 warrant for Shannon's former home and found a big meat 351 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:47.160 leaver stuck in a doorframe. Also found was the owner's 352 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:50.640 manual for that very same freezer that held the body 353 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:54.640 in the Ueshanba's basement, and a body search revealed, like 354 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.759 I told you, the freezer's key in Novoa's pocket. The 355 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:01.039 esshanboss said that Katrina had been in their home before 356 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:05.480 with Gonzalez I E. Novoa, and they had heard her 357 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:08.960 threaten to kill Shannon. It was determined that the Eshen 358 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:12.400 boss had no idea that they were storing a dismembered body, 359 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:16.119 and they were not charged, so shannonsas John popped it 360 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:18.880 back up again. He had been asking questions of her 361 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.920 friends and that caught the attention of police. John was 362 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.279 friends with a man named Steve Baringer, the man who 363 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.160 had the huge bonfire. Baringer was brought in and said 364 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.039 that Navoa had told him that he was upset that 365 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:35.599 Shannon had left him for another man, so he wanted 366 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:38.640 to burn her stuff that she left behind. The friend 367 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.160 Navoa had brought to the bonfire was none other than 368 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.720 Andrew Herman. The police believed that this circle of friends 369 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:48.079 was all involved at some point in the murder, dismemberment, 370 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.920 and cover up, and not one of these people stood 371 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:54.920 up for Shannon. In front of a grand jury, Hermann 372 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.079 confessed that Novoah contacted him and forced him to help 373 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:01.559 him dismember Shannon's body and put it in a fifty 374 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.720 five gallon bin. He was also present for the attempt 375 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.200 to dissolve Shannon's head with acid. Hermann said that he 376 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:10.920 was remorseful for his part but he was afraid that 377 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.039 if he didn't do what Navoa said, he would be killed. 378 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:14.519 Next. 379 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.880 Novoa received forty eight different charges. Police tried to get 380 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:22.599 Katrina to tell more of the story, but she kept 381 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:27.200 protecting Novoa. They did get enough information to execute sixteen 382 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.960 more search warrants and move the case along. Novoa and 383 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:34.160 Katrina faced the death penalty, so she ended up making 384 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:36.839 a deal to get the death penalty off the table, 385 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.079 but neither of them would confess to doing the actual killing. 386 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.599 He was sentenced to time served and released. This angered 387 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.039 Shannon's family, who said they didn't know about eddy court 388 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.880 hearings on Katrina's plea deal. They accused the prosecutors of 389 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:57.720 violating Marcy's Law, which they said would have required the 390 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:01.640 family to be notified of every during or plea negotiation. 391 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.319 In the case, it all ended up not being a 392 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.759 major issue because, unfortunately for her, Katrina liked to stay 393 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:10.599 in contact with Navoa while he was jailed, and she's 394 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:14.799 a dumbfuck because she was unaware that all calls in 395 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.559 and out of jail are recorded. She called Navoa thirty 396 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.799 seven times, and with the information police gained from those calls, 397 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:27.559 her plea deal was rescinded, and she went right back 398 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:31.759 to jail. Good people are so stupid, they are Bellinger, 399 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:35.440 the friend who had the bonfire, cooperated with police and 400 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:40.480 gave them Shannon's bracelet. When Michelle Ienfeld heard that she 401 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.440