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2:31

Life is not easy when

2:34

you're the privileged grandson of a car

2:36

dealership tycoon. Sure,

2:38

from the outside it might have appeared as if Eric

2:41

Charles Monde had it all.

2:43

The wife, the kids, the executive position,

2:45

the once in a lifetime hunting trips, the

2:48

five million dollar ten bathroom home

2:50

on the golf course. But rich

2:52

people have problems too, you know. And

2:54

Eric Monde had a big problem. It

2:56

started with a text message he sent to his

2:58

mistress in Nashville, Tennessee on

3:01

February 5th, 2020.

3:04

Good morning, beautiful.

3:06

Looking forward to later today. I'm

3:08

in Nashville. I will meet you in the bar

3:10

like last time. Text when you

3:12

arrive. Eric

3:15

waited for his date at the hotel where

3:17

he always stayed while visiting his son at

3:19

college in Nashville. Right on

3:21

time, 33

3:22

year old Holly Williams walked

3:24

through the bar doors. She looked even

3:26

better than the last time Eric saw her.

3:29

This is Mariah Timms, a journalist at

3:31

the Tennessee newspaper talking to the

3:33

Austin American Statesman newspaper about what

3:36

she had learned about Holly Williams. Holly

3:37

Williams has been described as the perfect

3:39

big sister. As she got older, you know, she was still

3:42

trusting and sweet. Sometimes

3:44

got pulled into things that got her in trouble, Trent

3:46

said.

3:48

Holly Williams didn't know much about Eric more. That's the

3:50

name Eric Monde gave to her. She knew he was 46

3:52

years old. He lived in Texas.

3:56

She wasn't that excited about it, so there

3:59

wasn't much to tell.

4:00

friends. That's how Eric liked

4:02

it. It was their little secret. Holly

4:04

didn't need to know how much he had to lose.

4:08

When Eric Monde returned to his real life in Austin,

4:10

Texas two days later, he said hi

4:12

to his children, kissed his wife, and

4:14

the charade of happiness continued. But

4:17

then about three weeks later, on Sunday,

4:19

March 1, 2020, Eric

4:21

Monde received a text message from

4:23

a man named Bill Lanway. He

4:26

said he was Holly Williams' boyfriend, and

4:28

he knew who Eric Monde was. Not

4:30

Eric Moore, Eric Monde, from

4:32

the Monde Automotive Group. Bill

4:35

had googled the number Holly had saved in her phone,

4:37

which was linked to the business. And

4:39

now, Bill Lanway was demanding an

4:41

unspecified amount of money, or else

4:44

the affair would be exposed. William

4:47

Bill Lanway was a 36-year-old

4:50

auto glass technician that lived in Nashville.

4:51

Tragedy seemed to stalk

4:54

him. As a child, Bill's father

4:56

was imprisoned for holding him and his sister

4:58

hostage at gunpoint during a dispute

5:00

with their mother.

5:02

A week later, Bill Lanway's father was released

5:04

from jail on a day pass for Thanksgiving. He

5:06

returned to the apartment and stabbed Bill Lanway's

5:09

mother to death in front of the children. Years

5:13

later, Bill Lanway would have a child of his own, but

5:16

she died at H5 from a rare brain cancer.

5:19

Friends say Bill was never the same after that.

5:21

He was quiet and angry. He could be violent.

5:24

Holly Williams had seen that side of Bill too many

5:26

times to count throughout their tumultuous

5:29

relationship. In

5:31

January 2020, a month

5:33

before her final meeting with Eric Monde, Holly

5:36

obtained a restraining order against Bill, who

5:38

had been charged with aggravated assault by strangulation

5:41

with intent to kill and false imprisonment.

5:44

Bill Lanway had also stolen and killed

5:46

Holly's dog Max, who was found

5:48

dead on the side of the road four days later. Bill

5:51

was awaiting trial for those charges when he texted

5:54

Eric. How much Holly

5:56

Williams told Eric Monde about her violent

5:58

ex is unclear, but...

5:59

Apparently it was enough for Eric to take Bill's

6:02

threats seriously. A few days

6:04

after receiving the text, Eric Maund

6:06

hired an Austin-based private security

6:08

company called Speartip Security. The

6:11

company specialized in private estate security,

6:13

special event services, armored vehicle

6:16

services, and most importantly, helping

6:18

clients respond to extortion demands. Speartip

6:22

Security was owned by Gilad Paled, a

6:25

47-year-old former member of the Israeli

6:27

Defense Forces. Gilad, or

6:29

Gil as his friends called him, had

6:31

set up shop in Austin after abruptly losing

6:34

his long-time gig as Charlie Sheen's bodyguard

6:36

during one of the actors' meltdowns. For

6:40

the Eric Maund job, Gil Paled

6:42

recruited two former U.S. Marines who now

6:44

worked in private security. Brian

6:46

Brockway was a 46-year-old Austin-based

6:49

security expert whose outgoing voicemail

6:51

message famously greeted callers with, Sorry,

6:54

I can't answer right now, I'm currently

6:57

taking over the world. Brockway

6:59

would be joined by Adam Carey, a

7:02

30-year-old contractor from North Carolina who had

7:04

previously been convicted of impersonating a

7:06

law enforcement officer and possessing weapons

7:08

of mass destruction. Over the

7:11

next three weeks, Paled, Brockway,

7:13

and Carey formulated a plan to, quote,

7:16

do everything at their disposal to stop

7:18

the attempted extortion of Eric Maund,

7:21

who paid them $15,000 up front. The

7:24

Spear Tip crew went to work straight away. Brian

7:27

Brockway and Adam Carey met in Nashville on

7:29

March 9 to do some reconnaissance work

7:31

on the couple. They quickly discovered

7:33

where Holly Williams and Bill Lanway lived

7:35

in West Nashville. They made the note of

7:38

what cars they drove. Brian Brockway

7:40

even downloaded the free text messaging app to

7:42

try and communicate with Holly and Bill, but

7:44

there was no response. All of

7:46

this intel was included in a brief sent back

7:48

to Gil Paled in Austin.

7:52

On March 10, 2020, Brockway

7:54

and Carey followed Bill Lanway to a supermarket

7:57

in a Hertz rental car. There was an

7:59

attempt to corner him. corner Landway and confront him, but

8:01

there were people around or something. Maybe the

8:04

timing wasn't right.

8:05

Whatever the case, Bill Landway got away unnoticed.

8:08

Brian Brockway and Adam Carey would not

8:10

let this happen again.

8:12

The next night, around midnight, Eric

8:15

Mons hired security spotted Bill Landway

8:17

and Holly Williams in the parking lot of their apartment

8:19

complex. Brockway and Carey moved

8:22

in with guns drawn. Bill Landway

8:24

resisted. He was shot twice in the

8:26

head, twice in the torso and once in

8:28

the left arm.

8:29

Brockway and Carey loaded Landway's body

8:32

into his own white 2005 Acura.

8:34

They instructed Holly Williams to get into the back

8:36

seat. One of the men drove the Acura

8:39

to a construction site on Old Hickory

8:41

Boulevard, three miles northwest of

8:43

the apartment complex. The other man

8:45

followed in the rental.

8:48

The Acura came to a stop near an embankment.

8:51

The driver turned around and shot Holly Williams

8:53

in the temple and again in the chest. Bill

8:56

Landway's body was placed in the driver's seat

8:58

when the car was driven into a tree. Both

9:01

airbags were deployed. The

9:04

bodies were discovered by construction workers

9:06

when the sun rose. There was obviously

9:09

foul play, but there were no immediate suspects.

9:12

Nashville police announced they were trying to identify

9:14

two men captured on the apartment

9:16

complex surveillance video days before

9:18

the murder. Those men were

9:21

long gone. Immediately after

9:23

neutralizing their targets, Brian

9:25

Brockway and Adam Carey returned the rental

9:27

car, deleted the texting app

9:29

and returned to Texas. Adam Carey

9:32

dropped off Brian Brockway at the airport in Memphis

9:34

and drove the rest of the way by himself. That

9:37

same day, Eric Mon sent $150,000 to Gil Plead and

9:39

he would send more over the

9:42

next several months,

9:44

a total of $750,000. And according to his Google business review of

9:50

Spiritip Security, Eric Mond

9:52

was a satisfied customer.

9:54

gun

10:00

in an expedited time. Couldn't

10:02

imagine using anyone else. I'm

10:05

kidding. Eric

10:07

Monn posted that review using his real

10:09

name on December 7th, 2020. By then he had gotten a

10:12

divorce anyway. Gil

10:15

Platt had purchased a new boat. A

10:18

new life awaited for almost everybody.

10:20

Nine months had passed since the murders and none

10:22

of them had even been questioned. They'd

10:25

gotten away with it. More than a

10:27

few people in Tennessee assumed Bill Lanway

10:29

did it. A jealous ex-boyfriend with

10:31

violent tendencies ends it all. A

10:33

tale as old as time.

10:35

I know people that did not go to Bill's funeral

10:38

because they thought he was a murderer, a friend

10:40

told the Tennessean.

10:41

The detectives weren't as convinced.

10:44

So the investigation continued.

10:47

Federal investigators say a prominent Austin

10:50

auto executive orchestrated a one

10:52

million dollar hit job. Federal

10:54

investigators arrested Eric Monn, a

10:57

car dealer from Austin, Texas. Gilad

10:59

Peled, who claimed to be a former member

11:02

of the Israeli Defense Forces, as

11:04

well as two former special operations

11:06

group Marines, Brian Brockway

11:08

and Adam Carey. Investigators say

11:10

Monn spent $750,000 to

11:14

the others in order to kidnap

11:16

and murder William Lanway and Holly

11:18

Williams.

11:20

About a week after Eric Monn left

11:22

that glowing Google business review of Spear

11:24

Tip Security, federal agents surrounded

11:27

his black Toyota SUV in San Marcos,

11:29

Texas, as he was coming home from a hunting

11:31

trip with a buddy. Eric Monn

11:34

was arrested and ultimately charged with murder

11:36

for hire, conspiracy to kidnap,

11:38

resulting in death, and kidnapping, resulting

11:41

in death. Not all of the

11:43

investigation details have been released, but

11:45

most assume Eric Monn was identified in Holly

11:48

Williams cell phone records. But Eric

11:50

Monn was not physically present in Nashville

11:52

at the time of the murders, nor was he

11:54

one of the men in the surveillance video. But

11:57

ultimately investigators traced the money, which

11:59

Monn

11:59

bond brazenly sent to Gil Plead using

12:02

his personal checking account. Gil

12:04

Plead led to Brian Brockway and Adam Carey.

12:07

All three were arrested on the same day on

12:09

the same charges.

12:11

On December 14, 2022, Gilad

12:14

Plead pleaded guilty to murder for

12:16

hire, conspiracy to kidnap resulting

12:18

in death, and kidnapping resulting

12:20

in death. Each charge carries a potential

12:23

life sentence.

12:24

Plead's sentencing is currently pending.

12:27

He's the only one that has entered a plea so

12:29

far. The others, including

12:32

Eric Monde, have had their trials delayed

12:34

until 2024. Eric

12:36

is currently in jail, held as a flight risk.

12:40

Innocent until proven guilty of course, but while

12:42

behind bars, Eric has picked up an additional

12:45

murder for hire charge. Apparently

12:47

impressed by Spiritip Security's Google

12:49

business reviews, after their arrests,

12:52

Eric Monde offered Gil Plead another $50,000 to

12:55

connect him with Brian Brockway, who

12:57

he would pay $100,000 to

12:59

murder Adam Carey. Adam Carey

13:01

had apparently asked Monde for more money

13:03

after they were arrested. By now,

13:06

everybody knows Eric Monde doesn't like

13:08

being extorted.

13:11

Usually,

13:11

a case this sensational would make

13:14

national headline news, but not this

13:16

one. It was terrible timing, washed

13:19

out in the noise of an unfolding pandemic.

13:22

Oddly enough, a few years earlier, a similar

13:24

case in Austin was bumped from the front page

13:27

after a series of random bombings terrorized

13:29

the city. This story also

13:32

involves love, betrayal, and

13:34

a gaggle of fools. So

13:36

many lives ruined in the blink of an eye, and

13:38

for what?

13:39

Money. The answer to that question

13:42

is almost always money.

13:45

A local jewelry store owner

13:47

is murdered in his home in a

13:49

plot dripping with greed and stupidity

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I'm the

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senior public information officer for the Travis

16:04

County Sheriff's Office. This

16:06

morning, about 4.45 AM, we

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received a 911 call from someone

16:10

inside the residence here in the 9000 block

16:14

of Oliver Drive. The

16:17

resident reported that

16:20

someone had intruded in the home

16:22

and that shots had been fired. We

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responded to the scene as quickly as possible. At

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this point in time, the evidence

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that we have right now does

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indicate that there was an intruder, that

16:35

multiple shots were fired. We

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have a male in

16:40

his 50s who is deceased. And

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at this point in time, we are obtaining

16:46

a search warrant for the opportunity

16:48

to go into the home and start our investigation

16:51

with the crime lab. At this point

16:53

in time, we do not have a suspect

16:55

in custody. So we have every reason

16:57

to believe that we do have a suspect

16:59

at large who is armed. And

17:01

we have good reason to believe that that suspect

17:04

may be injured as well. So

17:07

we expect that this person could have a gunshot

17:09

wound.

17:12

Ted Shaughnessy knew something was wrong when

17:14

he was awakened by his barking rod whilers

17:16

around four in the morning on Friday, March

17:18

2nd, 2018. Their

17:21

neighborhood in Southwest Austin was usually

17:23

as quiet as could be.

17:25

Ted reached into his nightstand and grabbed

17:27

his gun. He walked out of his bedroom,

17:29

down the hallway, towards the kitchen, and

17:32

was greeted with a hell of bullets and shot

17:34

dead before he could even take aim.

17:37

Corey Shaughnessy, Ted's wife, was still

17:39

in the bedroom.

17:40

She had a gun of her own and started firing

17:43

into the darkness until she ran out of bullets.

17:46

Corey, uninjured, hid in the closet and

17:48

waited, but no one ever came for her.

17:51

When the coast was clear, she dialed 911.

17:53

Travis County

17:55

Sheriff Deputies arrived to find Ted Shaughnessy

17:58

lying in a pool of blood near the kitchen.

17:59

A few feet away, more blood

18:02

had collected. It belonged to one of the family's

18:04

dogs who had also been killed. There

18:06

were bullet holes and casings everywhere,

18:09

no signs of forced entry. The

18:11

suspect or suspects had left the same

18:13

way they had arrived, through a window in a

18:15

bedroom on the other side of the very large

18:18

house. Nothing valuable was

18:20

taken. No surprise, considering

18:22

the man who was murdered owned and operated

18:24

the jewelry store. First

18:27

tonight we are learning more about the man killed in a

18:29

home invasion a few days ago. He owned an

18:31

Austin jewelry store.

18:32

Friends of Theodore Shaughnessy say

18:34

he was an owner at Gallery Jewelers on

18:36

West 35th Street in Central Austin.

18:40

55-year-old Theodore Ted

18:42

Shaughnessy had been in the jewelry business

18:44

for almost 40 years. In the

18:47

1980s he started working at a pawn shop in Arizona.

18:49

He married the owner's daughter. According

18:52

to the Austin American Statesman, the

18:54

Shaughnessys moved the family business to Texas

18:56

in the early 90s and decided to specialize

18:59

in jewelry in late 95. Gallery

19:02

Jewelers, located at 35th and

19:04

Jefferson in Central Austin, strive

19:06

to provide exquisite, unique and

19:08

rare jewelry,

19:09

hand-picked by Ted Shaughnessy himself. We

19:12

don't have something for everyone, the Gallery

19:14

Jewelers website read. We don't have

19:17

trendy, we don't have it in all sizes,

19:19

we don't have salespeople, we don't

19:21

have pressure. We're not open on Sunday,

19:24

or Monday for that matter. Ted

19:27

Shaughnessy referred to himself as an old-school

19:30

jeweler, personalized service

19:32

from a family business. That was the goal.

19:35

Ted's wife, Corey, was Gallery Certified

19:38

Gemologist, appraiser and manager

19:40

behind the scenes. The couple's three

19:42

beloved Rottweilers were also listed

19:45

as staff. Outside of

19:47

work, Ted Shaughnessy enjoyed his sports car,

19:49

a black Porsche. It was a passion

19:51

Ted shared with his only son. Nicholas

19:54

Shaughnessy loved telling the kids at school about

19:56

his dad's cool car and his own.

19:59

Nick won a go-kart. racing competition

20:01

as a nine-year-old. Nicholas

20:03

Shaughnessy was 19 years old when

20:06

he received a phone call at 544 in

20:08

the morning from the Travis County Sheriff's Office

20:10

telling him his father had been murdered. Nick

20:13

lived in College Station, Texas with his girlfriend

20:15

Jacqueline Edison who was enrolled at Texas

20:18

A&M University. The couple

20:20

immediately drove two hours to Austin.

20:23

When Nicholas and Jacqueline arrived, sheriff's

20:26

deputies noticed a bit of weird energy.

20:28

Both of them seemed completely calm. There

20:31

were no tears and Nicholas seemed

20:33

very interested in the investigation. Obviously

20:37

it was his father but this was different.

20:39

He told detectives he had rode along with the cops

20:41

in College Station

20:43

and he told them not to bother checking the surveillance

20:45

footage at the nearest gas station because there

20:47

were no exterior cameras in use and

20:50

he was right. Nicholas Shaughnessy

20:52

also insisted on sitting in on his

20:54

mother's interview with detectives and he

20:57

agreed to let investigators search his cell phone.

21:00

Jacqueline Edison reportedly started crying

21:02

when she was told she would be tested for gun residue

21:05

and then her car would be towed. Nicholas

21:08

Shaughnessy seemed unfazed. News

21:10

cameras captured him doing a little hopping 180

21:13

when detectives asked him to turn around so they could

21:15

take photos of his hands.

21:17

Nothing was found. Nick's phone

21:19

was returned so was the car. The

21:21

search for Ted Shaughnessy's killer continued.

21:25

Deputies say they're still searching for

21:27

the person who shot and killed Shaughnessy at his

21:29

home on Oliver Drive Friday morning.

21:31

If you have any information you're asked to call

21:33

the Travis County Sheriff's

21:35

Office. Most neighbors

21:37

thought the murder must have been related to the jewelry

21:39

business. Kind of weird that they had robbed

21:41

Ted's house and not the store though. Maybe

21:44

it was a random attack. Maybe

21:46

Ted was just the first victim. There

21:49

was anxiety in the city. That

21:51

is until a new fear took its

21:53

place. I would hope that

21:56

if this was a random crime that the Sheriff's

21:58

office would be taken. department would

22:00

be issuing some sort of warning

22:04

or urgency about a

22:07

possible suspect in

22:11

Austin, just like they did with

22:13

the bombings.

22:15

The bombings started two hours after

22:17

Ted Shaughnessy was killed on March

22:20

2nd, 2018 at 6.55 a.m. 39-year-old Anthony Stefon House picked

22:26

up a package left on the front porch of his home

22:29

in northeast Austin.

22:30

It exploded before he opened it.

22:58

Anthony Stefon House was pronounced

23:00

dead at the hospital.

23:02

At the time Austin police did not rule out

23:04

terrorism but did not believe it to be

23:06

the cause. This seemed like a targeted

23:09

attack. Interim Police Chief Brian

23:11

Manley told the media, or perhaps

23:13

Stefon House accidentally triggered the device

23:16

while constructing it himself. Those

23:19

questions would be put to bed 10 days later

23:21

on the morning of March 12th, 2018 when

23:25

17-year-old Draylyn Mason and his mother

23:27

excitedly opened a package on their kitchen

23:29

table that had been delivered overnight.

23:59

What part of him is hurt? I

24:02

don't know because I can't go

24:02

down the hallway. I'm scared I'll fall. There's

24:06

blood everywhere.

24:09

Draylin Mason died from his injuries. A

24:12

few hours later, just before noon, another

24:14

bomb exploded in East Austin. 75-year-old Esperanza Herrera was severely

24:18

injured but survived. They

24:21

said

24:22

there was a box? Yes, there

24:25

was a box. They think it's like a bomber

24:27

or something.

24:28

Okay. We've

24:31

got a pattern of incidents that have occurred in this community

24:33

over the past 10 days. And so,

24:35

that we believe are related. The

24:38

bombings were linked because the devices were

24:40

powered by foreign batteries that could only be

24:42

ordered from Asia. Law enforcement

24:45

kept these details close to their chests to

24:47

avoid publicizing the progress of their investigation.

24:50

The Austin bomber switched to a new method

24:53

anyway.

24:55

About a week later, on March 18, 2018, two

24:59

men in their 20s were injured by an exploding

25:02

device while riding their bicycles at night

25:04

in southwest Austin. Detectives

25:06

found a tripwire strung across the sidewalk,

25:09

connected to a bomb concealed by a red, caution,

25:12

children at play sign. This was

25:14

clearly a more randomized attack. The

25:17

first three appeared to be

25:20

targeting a specific residence. A

25:22

resident address,

25:24

I should say. And whether they were targeting the person

25:26

at that address or not, we know that they were placed

25:29

on a specific doorstep at

25:31

a specific home. Two

25:33

days later, a fifth bomb exploded

25:36

on the conveyor belt at a FedEx sorting facility

25:38

near San Antonio. A female employee

25:41

was hurt. The package was addressed

25:43

to an Austin address and shipped from

25:45

a FedEx store in Austin. Previous

25:47

packages had been delivered by the suspect. This

25:50

was the first time one had been sent through the post.

25:53

The sixth bomb, meld at the same time,

25:55

was

25:55

intercepted at a different FedEx facility

25:58

before it could be delivered or detonated.

25:59

The fully intact explosive

26:02

device gave a massive boost to the investigation,

26:05

but not as much as the surveillance footage from

26:07

the FedEx store on Brody Lane, from

26:09

which the packages had been shipped. In

26:11

the footage, a young white male wearing

26:14

a green shirt, an apparent blonde

26:16

wig, and pink construction gloves

26:19

is seen shipping the two boxes using

26:21

the alias Kelly Kilmore. The

26:24

suspect's red 2002 Ford

26:26

Ranger pickup truck was also captured

26:29

on video, but the license plate had been

26:31

removed. Still, it was

26:33

a fatal mistake for the bomber. Investigators

26:36

examined vehicle registration records for

26:38

every red 2002 Ford Ranger

26:40

owner in Texas who matched the description.

26:43

They also coordinated with local Home Depot

26:45

stores to scour days worth of surveillance

26:48

video to find the man who purchased those

26:50

very particular pink gloves. There

26:52

was a match. Receipts and cell phone data

26:55

provided more evidence. On March 21,

26:59

2018, Austin PD

26:59

closed in on the suspect to make

27:02

an arrest. Officers

27:04

determined the alleged Austin bomber had

27:06

been staying at a hotel in the suburb of Round

27:08

Rock when they arrived at the red Ford

27:11

Ranger pickup was in the parking lot, and

27:13

a man was sitting in the driver's seat. While

27:16

police waited for reinforcements, the red

27:18

pickup drove away from the hotel and

27:20

headed south towards the city on the I-35

27:23

frontage road.

27:29

Knowing

27:34

that the truck likely carried explosive materials,

27:37

the Austin SWAT team decided to ram their

27:39

cars into it to prevent the suspect

27:41

from entering the interstate. The

27:46

red truck came to a stop. Two

27:48

Austin police officers approached the vehicle with

27:50

guns drawn. The bomb went off. One

27:56

of the police officers was blown back and suffered

27:58

minor injuries.

27:59

shot at the man in the pickup even

28:02

though the explosion had probably already

28:04

killed him. As members of

28:06

the Austin Police Department SWAT team

28:09

approached the vehicle, the

28:11

suspect detonated a bomb inside

28:13

the vehicle, knocking one of our

28:15

SWAT officers back and one

28:17

of our SWAT officers fired at the suspect

28:20

as well. The suspect

28:22

is deceased and

28:24

has significant injuries from

28:27

a blast that occurred from detonating

28:29

a bomb inside his vehicle. We

28:33

cannot name the suspect at this time

28:35

because he has not been positively identified

28:38

yet by the medical examiner and

28:41

next of kin have not yet been notified.

28:46

Mark Anthony Condit was a 23 year

28:48

old, extremely Christian, homeschooled,

28:52

unemployed college dropout. In

28:54

blog and social media posts, he

28:56

identified as a conservative who was anti-abortion

28:59

and anti-gay marriage

29:01

but also claimed he wasn't very politically

29:03

engaged.

29:05

The motive for Condit's string of bombings has

29:07

never been determined or at least

29:09

it hasn't been fully revealed.

29:11

Just hours before his death, Mark

29:13

Condit recorded a 28 minute voice

29:16

memo essentially confessing to the reign

29:18

of terror

29:19

that recording has never been released to the public.

29:22

Interim Police Chief Brian Manley told the media

29:24

that Condit quote,

29:26

doesn't mention anything about terrorism or

29:28

anything about hate. It's an outcry

29:31

of a challenged young man.

29:33

Right. However,

29:36

Tony Plowetsky, not the Austin American

29:38

statesman, spoke with a confidential source

29:41

at the police department who had heard the recording and

29:43

shared some details.

29:45

It's me again. Condit reportedly

29:47

begins before describing himself as a lifelong

29:50

psychopath.

29:51

It did not reveal why certain victims were targeted,

29:54

but he did describe in detail each bomb

29:56

he had built

29:57

and then he expresses anger with himself for the misstep

29:59

of walking.

29:59

into that FedEx store and ultimately

30:02

revealing his identity.

30:05

Mark Condit knew the police were closing in on

30:07

him. In the video he reportedly

30:09

says if they got too close he would blow himself

30:11

up inside of a crowded McDonald's with

30:14

no remorse. Quote, I

30:16

wish I were sorry

30:18

but I am not. Anyway

30:21

back to our regularly scheduled programming.

30:24

The case that's gone unsolved and

30:26

it's been more than a month since a well-known

30:29

business owner was shot and killed in his

30:31

southwest Travis County home. Police

30:33

say Ted Shaughnessy, a jeweler, was

30:35

the victim of an apparent home invasion.

30:39

A month had passed and no arrest had been

30:41

made in the Ted Shaughnessy murder. The

30:43

investigation was ongoing but

30:45

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30:48

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Ted and his wife used to come

31:15

in when their son was real little.

31:17

He would get into the racing

31:19

with his son. Ted was pretty proud

31:23

of Nick. He was pretty proud.

31:24

Ted and Corey Shaughnessy

31:27

adopted Nicholas from Russia in the spring

31:29

of 2000 when he was 16 months old.

31:32

Even as a kid he had money on his mind.

31:35

According to the statesman, Nick sold candy

31:37

bars out of his middle school locker. In

31:39

high school he owned and operated the car detailing

31:42

business with four employees. Nick

31:44

Shaughnessy told the high school newspaper that he wanted to

31:46

trade stocks when he was older and quote, make

31:49

money in my bathrobe at home.

31:52

Jacqueline

31:52

Edison moved to Austin Texas

31:54

from New Jersey to live with her father when

31:57

she was a junior in high school. Once

31:59

quite popular. in the Garden State. All

32:01

of a sudden, she was a nobody. Jacqueline

32:04

gravitated toward Nick Shaughnessy and his generous

32:06

family. Jacqueline's father could

32:08

be pretty abusive, allegedly. She

32:11

was always welcome to stay at the Shaughnessy home.

32:13

It's also been reported that Jacqueline

32:16

Edison had won an $850,000 settlement after a

32:19

fall at an amusement park. That

32:21

money set in a trust she couldn't touch until

32:24

she was older. Nick Shaughnessy liked

32:26

that about her.

32:28

A month after graduating high school, Nick

32:30

and Jacqueline secretly married before

32:32

moving to College Station, Texas, where

32:34

Jacqueline could continue her education. The

32:37

newlyweds never told their parents about the marriage.

32:40

They were waiting for the right time. They'd

32:42

miss their opportunity. Eight months

32:44

later, Nick's dad was gone.

32:47

After Ted Shaughnessy's murder, Nick and Jacqueline

32:49

moved back to Austin to live with his mom and

32:52

help her cope. Like always, Cori

32:54

Shaughnessy welcomed her new daughter-in-law with

32:56

open arms. When she found out about the

32:58

marriage, Cori gifted Jackie a diamond ring

33:00

that belonged to Nick's grandmother. She

33:02

didn't know any better. Unbeknownst

33:05

to Cori Shaughnessy, the Travis County

33:07

Sheriff's Office investigation of her husband's murder

33:10

had uncovered some startling revelations

33:12

concerning their son and his wife. Nicholas

33:15

and Jacqueline were having some financial difficulties

33:17

back

33:17

in College Station. Nick, the

33:19

son of Joelers, had sold a gold bracelet

33:22

his grandparents had given him for $530. At

33:26

one point, Jackie had texted screenshots of

33:28

her bank accounts to her friends that showed the

33:30

couple collectively held less than $4.

33:33

And it's not

33:35

like they hadn't received help. One

33:37

of the Shaughnessy's neighbors in Austin loaned Nick $2600, which he

33:39

never paid back. When

33:42

the neighbor confronted Nick via text message,

33:45

he ignored it for as long as he could, or

33:47

finally telling her that he didn't owe an explanation

33:50

and would repay it the next time he was in Austin,

33:52

but wouldn't make a special trip.

33:56

Nick Shaughnessy's parents also loaned him money, $30,000 to

33:58

be expected.

33:59

Act.

34:00

The money was used as startup funds

34:03

for Nick's day-trading business. Corey

34:05

Shaughnessy argued with Nick about the money a few days

34:07

before Ted was murdered.

34:09

When detectives asked Nick why he hadn't paid

34:11

his parents back, he said the payments would

34:13

have held him back and that quote, sometimes

34:16

greasy shit happens. After

34:19

Ted Shaughnessy's murder, Nick and Jacqueline

34:21

stopped paying the rent at their college station apartment.

34:24

He told the manager that his accounts were frozen

34:26

because of the investigation, but that wasn't

34:28

true.

34:29

Nick also told detectives that he hadn't been in

34:32

Austin for two weeks before the murder. Another

34:34

lie. Nick's cell phone had pinged

34:36

a tower near his parents' house a few days

34:38

before the murder. Almost as if he was

34:41

going to kill his parents himself but chickened

34:43

out.

34:45

Investigators interviewed the young Shaughnessy's friends

34:47

and discovered that Nick had been transparent

34:49

in his desperation to collect a big payday.

34:52

He joked with one about faking his own death and

34:54

told him to look up how to start a Ponzi

34:56

scheme. When neither of those ideas panned

34:59

out, investigators say Nick Shaughnessy

35:01

resorted to what he referred to as Plan

35:03

B. Nick was the sole beneficiary

35:06

of a $2 million insurance policy.

35:09

Nick estimated to friends that he would collect about $8 million

35:12

total after selling the home and jewelry

35:14

business

35:15

if something were to happen to his parents.

35:17

God forbid. One

35:19

informant told the sheriff's office that Nick Shaughnessy

35:22

offered him $10,000 a month to

35:24

kill Ted and Corey Shaughnessy. An

35:27

employee at the apartment complex where the couple

35:29

lived said Nick sent her a message on

35:32

social media two weeks before the murder, asking

35:34

if she wanted to make some extra cash. How,

35:37

the girl responded. Illegal activities,

35:40

Nick replied. Anything from strippers

35:42

to murder. Nick Shaughnessy

35:44

reportedly

35:45

offered the apartment complex employee $20,000

35:47

a head and a $15,000 bonus.

35:51

He included three skeleton emojis to show

35:53

that he was serious. The apartment

35:56

lady stopped responding. This

35:58

is Caleb Miller, one of Nick's friends.

35:59

and Jackie's neighbors in College Station. He

36:03

told me his father passed away, so I expressed

36:05

my condolences. And something that

36:07

I found a little odd is that he sent me the police report

36:09

in Austin of what happened and

36:12

he basically told me his father was murdered,

36:14

so I felt incredibly awful for him as

36:16

a normal person would. Everyone grieves differently.

36:19

It just didn't seem to face him.

36:22

A search of Nicholas Shaughnessy and Jacqueline Edison's

36:25

chat logs revealed conversations about

36:27

the hit. On February 23rd, 2018, Nick texted Jackie,

36:29

quote, they

36:32

won't budge. She responded, do

36:35

they want 50K or not? We can't afford

36:37

to pay half before. We will see,

36:40

Nick wrote back. Jackie responded,

36:42

I'm sure their casual jobs are around 10. Working

36:46

on it, Nick replied, I'm not their only

36:48

client, love.

36:50

Chat logs from January 30th revealed

36:53

that Nicholas Shaughnessy tried to recruit a friend

36:55

to do the deed. Plastic gloves

36:57

and ski mask, Nick told him.

36:59

No, no, no, the friend replied, fine,

37:02

fine. Just walk in, shoot a family,

37:05

still all their shit. No mask needed

37:07

because they'll be dead. 20 for

37:09

each and 10 extra because 50 is

37:12

a nice whole number Nicholas offered. That

37:15

friend refused the job but remained

37:17

close. So close that on

37:19

March 3rd, 2018, the day

37:21

after Ted Shaughnessy was murdered, according

37:24

to KXAN, Nicholas asked

37:26

that friend if he wanted to see photos of the crime

37:28

scene and joked about being quote, demoted

37:31

from a person of interest since investigators

37:33

had given back his phone. Soon

37:35

after Nick Shaughnessy's internet history was full

37:38

of searches for expensive sports cars and

37:40

accessories, he'd already applied for

37:42

loans at local car dealerships.

37:45

Nicholas Shaughnessy's internet history also

37:48

revealed that he remotely deactivated

37:50

his parents' house alarm the night Ted

37:53

was murdered. A remote login

37:55

from the IP address of Nick and Jackie's apartment

37:57

and college station not only deactivated

37:59

the alarm,

37:59

alarm, but also deleted surveillance

38:02

videos immediately after the crime occurred.

38:05

And if that wasn't indisputable enough, detectives

38:08

found an empty box of ammo in Nicholas' childhood

38:10

bedroom that matched one of the types of shell

38:12

casings found near Ted Shaughnessy's body, the

38:15

same bedroom with the open window from which the shooter

38:17

had entered and exited.

38:19

The other type of ammo used in the murder was found

38:21

at Nick and Jacqueline's home in College Station.

38:24

There was an entire box of it, but six

38:26

bullets were missing.

38:28

By the end of 2018, investigators

38:30

had everything they needed to solve the case,

38:33

except for maybe a smoking gun and a

38:35

diagram of the murder scene.

38:37

An investigator says they found a torn

38:39

up piece of paper in the trash can at

38:42

the son and daughter-in-law's College Station

38:44

apartment. When detectives pieced it

38:46

back together, it appeared to be a

38:48

hand-drawn diagram of the murder

38:50

scene.

38:51

Never mind, but

38:53

they still did not know who pulled the trigger. Authorities

38:56

were confident it wasn't Nicholas.

38:59

On April 27, 2018, nearly

39:02

two months after the murder, Gallery

39:05

Jewelers announced on Facebook that

39:07

it was back in business.

39:08

Good news, the post read. Gallery

39:11

Jewelers will remain open. We

39:13

will be back to normal hours starting on Tuesday,

39:16

May 1st. We are happy to announce

39:18

that Nicholas, Ted's son, will

39:20

be carrying on his legacy here at

39:23

Gallery. Thank you to all of our wonderful customers

39:25

for being so patient. We look forward

39:28

to seeing you.

39:35

Young couple schemes to kill the man's parents

39:37

in hopes of getting a big payout in life insurance

39:40

money.

39:40

That's what police are saying happened to a prominent

39:42

Austin jeweler in March. They

39:44

say the two 19-year-olds hired

39:47

someone to murder his parents. His father,

39:49

Ted Shaughnessy, is killed. Tonight

39:51

they're both in the Travis County Jail. Court documents

39:54

do not say who pulled the trigger, just

39:56

that the son tried to hire three people

39:58

to kill them over a period of time.

39:59

months. On

40:02

May 29, 2018, Nicholas

40:04

Shaughnessy and Jacqueline Edison were

40:06

arrested. They were both charged with

40:09

criminal solicitation to commit capital murder,

40:12

first-degree felonies. Nick's

40:14

bond was set at $3 million. Jackie's

40:16

was set at $1 million but later reduced to $250,000

40:19

for cooperating with the investigation. She

40:23

eventually bonded out. Corey

40:25

Shaughnessy continued to support her son. The

40:28

statement released by the family's lawyer stated,

40:30

quote, We have been working with the Shaughnessy

40:33

family over the last several months as they mourn

40:35

the loss of Ted. These allegations

40:37

are not consistent in any way with

40:39

the young man we have come to know.

40:41

Nick has been living with his mother since the tragedy

40:43

occurred.

40:44

Ms. Shaughnessy stands firmly behind her

40:46

son. As a

40:48

victim of the crime, Corey Shaughnessy was reportedly

40:51

still not privy to all the details of the

40:53

investigation. Maybe she was in denial.

40:56

Can you blame her? Ted's

40:58

side of the family, however, had no hesitation

41:01

in abandoning his adopted son. Ted's

41:04

brother Tom Shaughnessy told K-View, quote,

41:07

He had an opportunity to be a Shaughnessy

41:09

and be part of the family and he pretty much

41:11

ruined that. So what

41:13

do we care about him now? Ted's

41:16

brother Tim told the statesman the kid

41:18

was selfish and greedy, a spoiled

41:21

rotten kid who was given the best of everything.

41:23

It was all just

41:25

so disappointing. Gallery

41:28

jewelers closed again less than a month after

41:30

reopening. Customers understood

41:32

but were blindsided, especially

41:34

those with jewelry stuck at the store.

41:37

Two months later, a SWAT situation

41:40

unfolded in College Station, Texas.

41:42

I've

41:44

never seen like a slut tanger check those

41:46

like, oh my gosh, what's going on? I saw

41:49

these little men jumping out and I was like, what's

41:51

happening? Like what is happening? I've

41:54

seen them at the pool. I've seen the guy. He

41:56

goes to the pool. I thought he was a DJ or something. He's always

41:58

on his laptop and it's big.

41:59

outside and I was like oh he's friendly like I've

42:02

always said hi to him. And in

42:04

fact at 1030 this morning there was an arrest

42:06

made in College

42:09

Station. The suspect

42:12

arrested and charged with criminal solicitation

42:15

of capital murder is Johnny

42:18

Roman

42:21

Leon who is 21 years

42:23

old and is a Hispanic

42:25

male. Our investigation

42:28

revealed that Mr. Leon was

42:31

involved with Nicholas Shaughnessy in the

42:34

planning and the execution of

42:36

the incident that occurred on March the 2nd of 2018

42:41

when Theodore Shaughnessy was murdered.

42:43

A confidential informant

42:46

had tipped off investigators about 21-year-old

42:48

Johnny Leon. When questioned,

42:51

Leon denied killing Ted Shaughnessy but

42:53

admitted that he had traveled to Austin with Nick

42:55

on February 28th. Nick told

42:57

him he was going to do it himself but couldn't get

42:59

into the house so they drove back

43:01

that night and Johnny Leon said he hadn't

43:03

been back to Austin since. He told

43:06

investigators he was asleep with his girlfriend

43:08

the night it occurred. However,

43:11

Johnny Leon's cell phone was active in

43:13

Austin on the night of the murder. He

43:15

was charged with criminal solicitation of capital

43:17

murder just like Nick and Jackie. A

43:20

grand jury later indicted all three for

43:22

capital murder. The Travis County

43:24

Sheriff's Office felt confident that Johnny

43:26

Leon was their gunman.

43:29

We do think this is the

43:40

shooter, Sheriff's Office

43:42

spokeswoman Kristen Dark told reporters but

43:46

there is the possibility that there was

43:48

a second shooter. As

43:50

part of the investigation, detectives

43:52

had found communication about the murders between Johnny

43:55

Leon and another 21-year-old

43:57

named Ariane Smith. Ariane's

43:59

phone number also been in contact with Nicholas

44:01

Shaughnessy. Smith told

44:04

investigators that Johnny Leon offered him $200 up

44:07

front and $5,000 a month to

44:09

help murder the Shaughnessys. Ariane

44:11

said he refused to participate and that on

44:13

the night of the murder, he and a friend were staying at

44:15

a hotel and college station. He said

44:17

that his friend let Johnny Leon borrow his car.

44:21

Then how did your DNA and your cell

44:23

phone make their way to Austin that night? Detectives

44:25

asked. Ariane Smith reportedly

44:28

became visibly upset during the interview and

44:30

started to cry. Smith told them

44:32

he had left his phone in the car and that Leon

44:35

was borrowing one of his shirts.

44:37

A son accused in a plot to have

44:39

his parents murdered. Today, more than

44:41

nine months after the murder, a fourth person

44:43

joins the list of suspects involved in what

44:45

authorities call a murder for hire.

44:47

On December 6, 2018, Ariane

44:50

Smith was charged with capital murder. He,

44:53

along with Nicholas Shaughnessy, pleaded

44:55

guilty to a lesser charge of murder on

44:57

April 7, 2021. They were both sentenced

45:01

to 35 years in prison. Mr. Shaughnessy,

45:03

how do you plead?

45:05

Guilty. How do you

45:07

plead, Mr. Smith? Yes. Ted

45:10

Shaughnessy's family submitted an allocution

45:13

statement directed at Nick, which was

45:15

read aloud during the hearing by a court employee.

45:18

Part of it reads, quote, our family

45:20

wants you to know how your decision on

45:22

that day affected our lives forever.

45:24

A selfish and heinous act

45:26

of cruelty. Ted was a vibrant,

45:29

compassionate, respected individual

45:31

that had his life taken from him because of your greed.

45:35

The people that you selected to assist you have

45:37

ruined their lives and their family's lives as well.

45:40

And for what? A payment for a heinous

45:42

act of cruelty? A payment that was never

45:44

made? It would be our hope that you are

45:46

never released from prison. We

45:48

understand this plea, but are not happy

45:51

about it. Hopefully you will

45:53

spend the next 35 years thinking

45:55

about how you have changed our world and

45:57

yours. And we hope that every day is a nightmare

45:59

for you.

45:59

you. As you think about the life that you

46:02

had and the life that you could have had if you hadn't

46:04

made the decision to end your father's life, it

46:07

is so hard to understand that money could make you decide

46:09

to do such a thing.

46:10

What you have done is unforgivable in

46:13

our eyes. None of you will ever serve

46:15

enough time for our family.

46:16

What you have done has changed so many people's

46:19

lives, including your own. You will

46:21

be middle-aged when you get out, and

46:23

you won't have many opportunities afforded to

46:25

you, and that is the way it should be. None

46:27

of you deserve any kind of normal life. Our

46:30

lives are no longer normal,

46:32

and you shall have the same fate. And

46:35

we hope that every day is a nightmare

46:38

for you as

46:40

you think about the life that

46:42

you had

46:43

and the life that you could have had if

46:46

you hadn't made the decision to

46:49

end your father's life. Corey

46:51

Shaughnessy felt differently. In her

46:54

statement, she asked the judge to be lenient

46:56

on her son.

46:57

Corey had concluded that Nick was guilty, and

46:59

she realized he must be punished, but she

47:02

still wanted him to have the opportunity out of life

47:05

on the other side. Part

47:07

of Corey's statement reads, quote, Nicholas

47:09

and Jackie were with me when I went back to the

47:11

house late in the afternoon on the day of Ted's murder.

47:14

They saw the pull of Ted's blood where he had

47:16

laid as he died. The broken glass,

47:19

splintered wood, and bullet holes. They

47:22

went with me to pick up his ashes. They

47:24

lived with me in our home, minus Ted. They

47:27

hid the food that I bought and cooked for them. They

47:29

wore the clothes and the shoes that I bought for them. They

47:32

planned their future of profiting from the business

47:34

that Ted and I had built for over 20 years. They

47:37

took everything that I had to give, after failing

47:39

to take my life. They had even planned

47:41

their wedding, and the first few days after the

47:43

murder they told me that they had secretly married. I

47:46

gave Nicholas and Jackie my mother's diamond

47:48

ring for her engagement ring. Jackie

47:51

was planning the engagement party she hadn't had,

47:54

and her mother flew in for Mother's Day to celebrate,

47:56

while existing in despair and grief at

47:59

just a few days. few weeks to think that there was to

48:01

be a new happiness in my life. My

48:03

son and my daughter in law wanted to be remarried

48:06

in front of friends and family and they were going

48:08

to continue our life's work.

48:11

And then they were arrested and

48:13

my destruction was complete. For

48:16

almost two and a half years I didn't know any more

48:18

than anyone else. The legal procedures

48:20

precluded me from getting the facts that I needed

48:22

to cut my thin string of hope. I

48:24

was a victim. I was the mother. I

48:26

was the wife of the victim. I was a witness.

48:30

But I was not allowed to know. I

48:32

finally learned enough to realize that all four

48:34

deserve punishment. It is with this

48:36

consideration for the young ages at the time of this

48:38

horrific murder, but I accept the punishment

48:41

that has been given to my son Nicholas and

48:43

Arian Smith. As of this Friday

48:45

I do not know what punishments for Jackie and Johnny

48:48

Leon will be. Something went terribly,

48:50

terribly wrong in the minds of these four young adults

48:53

and I think the district attorney for considering

48:55

punishments that while severe will

48:57

allow the possibility for them to have a future.

49:00

Only God can forgive them. But

49:02

Ted is dead and he deserves justice.

49:06

Mr. Leon, how do you plead? Yes.

49:11

Johnny Leon pleaded guilty on April 14th, 2021. He

49:13

was also sentenced to 35 years in prison.

49:18

As for Jacqueline Edison, her hearing was

49:20

delayed. While out on bond

49:22

she used her time wisely by filing for

49:25

divorce from Nicholas and enrolling at

49:27

the University of Texas Dallas as

49:29

a student of mechanical engineering. In

49:32

the summer of 2020 Jackie started

49:34

working for a Volkswagen dealership. Jacqueline

49:37

Edison pleaded guilty to conspiracy to

49:39

commit capital murder on June

49:42

20th, 2023. She was offered deferred

49:45

adjudication, given 10 years

49:47

probation and ordered to serve two days

49:49

in jail on every anniversary of

49:51

Ted Shaughnessy's murder. Corey

49:54

Shaughnessy's attorney, Steve Britton was

49:56

baffled by the lenient sentence telling

49:59

KXAN quote, in the

50:01

close to half a century that I've worked with criminal

50:03

law as a prosecutor and a defense attorney.

50:06

I've never seen anything like this. I

50:08

can't put it together in my mind and I just

50:11

don't understand it. She is evil.

50:13

Britain continued. And in my view, very

50:16

dangerous. This was plotting,

50:19

planned,

50:19

kicked

50:21

around, thought about for a long

50:24

period of time while they were living under

50:27

their roof.

50:28

This time, Corey Shaughnessy spoke in court. Do

50:32

you remember your 19th birthday? She

50:34

asked Jackie. I took you out for lunch

50:36

and a day of shopping in Nordstrom. Your

50:38

husband, Nicholas, surprised you with the coach purse

50:40

that you had wanted. And I gave you a half

50:43

carat diamond solitaire pendant that

50:45

your birthstone. And more importantly,

50:47

it was the first birthday gift that I gave to you,

50:50

my new daughter-in-law, as a way to

50:52

welcome you into our family.

50:54

Today is my birthday. I don't

50:56

have much to celebrate anymore, but I'm

50:58

still alive. I'm alive because

51:00

your plan together with your husband to

51:03

have me murdered alongside your father-in-law

51:05

didn't succeed. Don't get

51:07

me wrong. There are many, many days that I

51:09

wish you had succeeded and that I had

51:11

died. I can't look at photos of your

51:13

husband, my son, or you, my

51:16

daughter-in-law without wondering exactly

51:18

when you began to plan our deaths. Ted

51:22

and I took you when you said you had nowhere to go, that

51:25

your father beat you and you were afraid

51:27

to go home. I guess after you and

51:29

Nick shared all those Sunday dinners with me,

51:31

Ted, Nick's grandparents, uncle,

51:33

and our family friends, you'd go out

51:35

and plot some more to kill us. You

51:38

could have saved Ted with one phone call.

51:41

That's all I would have taken, just one. Ted

51:44

was a good man, a good father, a

51:46

good friend, and my husband of 30 years.

51:49

You conspired with Nicholas to have him killed. We

51:52

opened our home and our hearts to you, and

51:54

you and Nicholas took everything from

51:56

us. How long will it take for you to

51:58

find another family to live? to destroy. How

52:01

long will it be before Bonnie finds

52:03

her next Clyde?

52:05

You are a monster. You

52:08

are evil. And everyone

52:11

needs to know it.

52:12

While Jacqueline Edison gets

52:14

to move on with her life, Nicholas Shaughnessy

52:16

is trying to find his next Bonnie while

52:18

behind bars. He has a profile

52:21

on friendsbeyondthewall.com where

52:23

inmates post personal ads to attract pen

52:25

pals. I've made some major

52:28

mistakes and have had some big setbacks,

52:30

Nick's profile reads. But I learn

52:32

from every experience and work every day

52:34

to be the best version of myself. Time

52:37

does not stop and we cannot get back

52:39

yesterday so I choose to make the most

52:41

out of today so hopefully I can live

52:43

a better tomorrow. Sentenced

52:45

to 35 years for murder, I don't have

52:48

time to waste. I am determined to make the

52:50

most out of my time so I can be a productive

52:52

and successful member of society when I come

52:55

home. I am seeking a connection

52:57

of the opposite gender to pass time with. I've

52:59

been gone since 2018 and miss

53:02

communicating with women. I'm looking

53:04

for a genuine friendship, someone I

53:06

can talk to and learn from. I'm not the

53:08

best at writing intros but if this

53:10

has sparked your curiosity, please

53:12

don't hesitate to reach out. If you

53:14

could tell me about yourself and include a photo,

53:17

that would be greatly appreciated. I

53:19

look forward to getting to know you. Nicholas

53:22

Shaughnessy's expected release date is

53:24

in November 2035.

53:27

So

53:28

now with all the murder for hires, serial

53:31

bombings and rock throwing cases behind

53:33

them, the city of Austin can finally

53:35

relax. Or can it?

53:39

I

53:39

wouldn't leave that drink unattended if

53:41

I were you.

53:42

In the last two

53:44

months, four bodies were found in Lady Bird

53:46

Lake near Rainy Street. 30 year old

53:48

Jason Johns body was found on February

53:51

13th. The body of 40 year old

53:53

Clifton Axtell was found on March 5th. 33

53:56

year old Jonathan Honey was found on April

53:58

1st.

53:59

30 year old John Christopher Hayes Clark

54:02

found on April 15th. Our initial

54:04

information doesn't show anything suspicious. But

54:07

despite police repeatedly saying no

54:09

foul play is suspected, rumors continue

54:11

to swirl of a potential serial killer

54:14

in Austin. One media report even

54:16

calling it the Rainy Street Ripper.

54:22

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