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it was as if this conservative bible belt state somehow needed secret outlets for the more lurid desires. >> he would go on the internet and there were a lot of swinger sites. david would look for people on the swinger websites. >> the swingers club david found was one of many in fayetteville. this particular one catered to couples and singles. >> how did that affect your marriage? >> i think it improved it, because so many marriages fall apart because someone cheats, but it is not the sex, the betrayal, the lies, i don't associate sex and love together. >> in fact, you both liked it a lot? >> we did, we did. >> they often met couples at hotels, sometimes brought them home, trying to be discrete, of course, so the four children wouldn't find out.

the kids would find themselves hustled to a friend's place for the weekend and find the bedrooms rearranged, they had an idea something was going on in their absence. but murder exposes secrets, as we say. and now detective murphy wanted to know if that swinging was somehow connected with what happened in their blood spattered bedroom. >> maybe there was some sort of triangle involved here. is that the idea? >> some type of love triangle. i started to ask questions to couples they might have met, anybody she was involved romantically with that maybe her husband didn't know about or did know about. >> did she offer anything? >> she identified the guy by the name of jeffrey wilson. >> jeffrey wilson? turns out david actually met him first online. jeffrey was also in the army, based at fort bragg like the major. he went by the name black stunt

man. by now, the deputy d.a. was monitoring the investigation. >> online chat friends, chatting about the swinging life-style and that sort of thing. and david actually said you need to meet my wife joan and invited him to a swinging party. >> they all got together at a local hotel, just social that first time, no sex. >> there was a second swingers party that both the shannons and jeffrey attended, and at that party he i think as well as others did have sex with joan. but after this happened, joan and jeffrey started seeing one another. >> that was okay according to the rules they established. as long as it was just sex and nobody got romantically entangled. anyway, wilson was married with kids, and there was no indication his wife knew what he was up to on the side with joan. >> i was doing one on one, what

they call when the other person is not there, but david always knew when i was with jeff, and the relationship with jeff started, it was a sexual only, and in the process it developed into a friendship. >> sometimes joan even brought her new friend by the house, introduced him to her daughters. >> then according to jeffrey and according to daisy, elizabeth. joan fell in love with him, told jeffrey she wanted to runoff with him. >> but this was no love affair, no matter what her curious daughters thought, said joan. she was emphatic about that. whether he knew it or not, she said, jeffrey was nothing more than a friend with benefits. >> but this never became a romance from your point? >> no, no. >> there wasn't really an emotional attachment? >> there was no love there. >> but now of course, police needed to talk to jeffrey wilson. an affair was one thing. now wilson found himself caught

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it was quite an eye opener. that is, when joan shannon told detectives that she and her now dead husband, major david shannon, were regular and enthusiastic swingers. when joan told them she developed a one on one thing with a married man named jeffrey wilson, now that was a real lead. could it be the major was a victim of a jealous lover? detective murphy paid a call on wilson, also a soldier here at fort bragg. >> jeffrey did confirm he was involved in romantic relationship with joan shannon. >> where was he when this murder occurred? >> he was actually working at

the time with a homicide. >> a little checking revealed it was a perfect, unasailable alibi. jeffrey wilson was innocent of murder, that is. but as for a three month affair with joan, wilson was very cooperative. he revealed every lurid detail. >> back in april they were probably meeting for sex about two times a week. in july and of course the murder occurred july 23rd, at least four times a week. >> now deputy d.a. billy wis p began to flip that idea of the love triangle motive on its head. by the way jeffrey wilson was talking, seemed to west the person with reason to kill david was not jeffrey, but joan. >> from jeffrey's point of view, he describes how she was in love with him, that she was not in love with her husband, that she didn't want to be with her husband, she financially could not afford to leave her husband.

>> wilson said he kept telling her he was only in it for the sex, didn't want to runoff with her. but if secret sex was all he wanted, joan he said kept pushing for more. >> and the situation actually continued to escalate. i think it was around july 18th, again, that would have been five days prior to the murder, jeffrey describes how he talks to joan and joan says i can't take this any more. i want to be with you. can't we just runoff together. >> david shannon knew of course that joan was seeing jeffrey wilson. after all, he invited jeffrey to join them in the first place, but maybe he wasn't so happy about the cozy friendship joan seemed to be developing. that broke the rules. >> david told joan that she could no longer see jeffrey because he could see that joan and jeffrey had become romantically involved.

i believe it would have been sunday she's actually having sex with jeffrey and actually david is killed early morning hours of tuesday. >> but if you ask joan, and of course we did, wilson just didn't understand. didn't understand the affair was actually winding down. >> why would he say you're in love with him then? >> he's very self centered, into himself, believes the whole world loves him, but i didn't. we were actually pulling apart. it was coming to the end. >> really? detectives added it up, and here is what they had. the story about some shadowy intruder didn't seem to check out. the swinging, the affair, story true or not she wanted out of the marriage. oh, and by the way, she stood to collect $700,000 in insurance money. the detective confronted joan and she, well, given her life-style, she said, she wasn't

surprised at his attitude. >> he's disgusted. he is automatically prejudice against me and focuses on that. he's determined he's going to get me. >> back in north dakota, david shannon's family tried to keep up with all of the shocking information, the murder, revelations about swinging. now joan was telling them she had become a suspect to which they replied joan? not a chance. >> we tried to play the scenario did joan have a part in it. none of us cap see she could possibly have done that. it is just not in her nature to do that. she can't. >> but brenda did have somebody else in mind. >> now elizabeth, i could see it. >> elizabeth? the shannons' 15-year-old daughter?

is it possible she executed her stepfather, the man that raised her, adopted her, provided for her? maybe daze ee and elizabeth were troubled, and when elizabeth hit her teens, watch out. >> david and joan didn't have the tools needed to deal with what those two girls dished out. it was boys, drugs, and violence. if she got angry with somebody, she would destroy something of theirs. >> that was hardly elizabeth's view of things. oh, she conceded she was no angel. she acted out all right, never denied that. but elizabeth always claimed it was the adults that made it ugly and hostile at home where arguments, not affection, were the family routine. joan admits now she was overwhelmed by the task of parenting elizabeth. realized she said she was manipulated easily and often by her daughter. >> and i gave up.

i hate to admit it, but yes, i did. i gave up on that child. i didn't know what to do. >> so joan turned the task of parenting elizabeth over to major david, the military man, who did what he could to keep military order. >> he was definitely the tough one. he was the one that would decide the punishment, how long the grounding was going to be. >> a war of wills. david would ground her. elizabeth would escape. david responded with locks and alarms on her bedroom doors and windows. she squirted out anyway. nothing seemed to work. >> what do you do if you can't keep your kids at home? you can't chain them. >> clear message to david, you cannot control me, no matter what you do. >> that's right. >> in fact, just a couple of weeks before he was murdered, david called home to north dakota to vent, ask his mother

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murder, that most abhorrent of crimes is shocking enough. within mere days of the late major david shannon's passing, the shocks resumed. as disturbing suspicions began to circulate and grow, and by

the time they laid the major in the ground, the question of who did this dreadful thing seemed to be heading toward an early answer. it was elizabeth. david's family was convinced that rebellious elizabeth was so full of hate, she actually shot and killed her own stepfather. an opinion supported by several anonymous calls to the fayetteville pd. >> we had crimestoppers tips coming in saying that elizabeth shannon was actually bragging about the homicide. vera thompson was telling people about the homicide and that she might be involved. >> vera thompson, remember her? elizabeth's best friend staying at the house the night of the murder. police brought her in again for questioning, and this time they grilled her. >> she was extremely emotional. she didn't want to tell. at that point in time, she began to lay the facts on the table.

>> and oh, what facts they were. vera was elizabeth's buddy, her bff. they talked about everything, went everywhere together. >> when she started bringing up facts that we were able to corroborate some of the information. >> vera provided plenty of supporting details, how days before the shooting, she went with elizabeth to a field and test fired the murder weapon. cops later found matching shells there. and how elizabeth dumped the begun to a man named humphrey. he was interviewed. he admitted it was true. vera's story added up. >> everything was believable. >> then vera, 15 years old, frightened, no attorney representing her, dropped her bombshell. >> vera eventually became aware of through elizabeth that joan

and elizabeth had some discussions about killing david shannon, that her mother had attempted to poison david shannon, that joan shannon and elizabeth shannon had conspired to kill david shannon and actually was elizabeth that had shot him that night. >> a conspiracy? joan the brains, elizabeth, the brawn? given the tumultuous relationship between the mother and daughter, who would think they could agree on anything, let alone murder. but said vera, that's the story elizabeth told her and it implicated her best friend and joan shannon in a homicide. >> arrest warrants went out for both of them simultaneously. joan shannon was arrested actually before elizabeth was arrested and before elizabeth gave any statement in the case. >> david shannon's family was in fayetteville for the funeral, right there when the cops came,

saw what happened. joan was paralyzed with grief. then arrested? >> they put cuffs on her. i imagine they read her her rights right then, but i don't know. it was another shock. >> joan herself was unshakeable in her insistence she did not do it. she had no part. she swore in any of it. >> i may not be clear on that night. there's a lot i can't be clear on, but i know i didn't kill him. i know i didn't give elizabeth the gun. i know i didn't try to poison him and i know i didn't try to get anyone to kill him. >> so do the police on the day of her arrest, she said nothing at all, on the advice of her lawyer appointed to represent her in the bad elf her life. >> i found it difficult to believe she was involved with the way she presented herself. very quiet, very passive, and joan insisted she had not solicited elizabeth to kill david. she loved david.

>> and with an experienced attorney on the case, joan's loyal in-laws began to relax. >> once they finally started finding real evidence, they would know it was not joan. >> it would eliminate her. >> right, it would eliminate her. >> especially once the police arrested elizabeth. but there was a little problem. elizabeth had quite suddenly disappeared. coming up, the hunt for elizabeth begins. where was she? and would anyone believe her story? >> she was absolutely cold-blooded. >> even implicate her own mother?

on the outskirts of

fayetteville, north carolina, is an old mobile home park. quiet, wooded, secluded. in the summer of 2002, it had a new resident. elizabeth shannon was hold up in a trailer here. hiding. >> we received a cl saying she was at such and such location. when we entered the home, we found her hiding underneath a futon in the living room. >> they arrested her, took her downtown, read her miranda rights, and questioned her without an attorney. at the time, elizabeth remember was barely 15 years old. and what did she say after two hours in that room? >> i told the story. >> the whole story? >> elizabeth confessed it all, every grizzly detail that night in the house. assuming that is what she told the detectives was actually true. >> got to the point where i

finally did for her. >> her, her very own mother, joan shannon. she insisted her mom had wanted david dead for months. first by trying to poison him. then later recruiting one of liz's friends to kill him. and finally. >> she was like would you be brave enough to do this? >> to do what? >> she wanted me to kill my step dad. >> in 25 years on the job, detective murphy never heard a story quite like this. he pressed further, he said, pushing elizabeth to explain how her mother talked her into murder. and the answer, elizabeth says now, was this. it was love given and withheld. >> it wasn't really an affectionate home overall. i wanted that real mother, daughter relationship and it wasn't there. >> several months prior to the

murder, her mom was taking them shopping, they were going out, being a family. there was some type of parental involvement. >> and she liked that? >> she liked it. that was something she was lacking. >> but having finally offered her daughter the maternal affection she so craved, joan threatened to withdraw it unless she got that gun and used it to kill her father, or so elizabeth claimed. >> when somebody is in your ear, let alone your mother, every day, got to the point where it was like normal. i just wanted to do this to please her. wanted to do this so nothing changes between me and her. >> so elizabeth said on that night she took one of her stepfather's many guns, arranged ahead of time for a way to get rid of it, and waited while her parents watched their movie and fell asleep. >> she walked into the bedroom,

placed the gun over his head, and squeezed the trigger, and placed the gun to the chest, and fired the second round. >> as far as prosecutor billy west was concerned, elizabeth's tale had the ring of truth. >> i think she did it at the behest of her mother and in some respects to please her mother. >> in exchange for her testimony, the da offered liz a deal. instead of life without parole, she could plead guilty and get a sentence of 25 to 31 years. >> we felt that was appropriate to offer joan the same plea deal elizabeth had been offered, so that offer was extended by the state. >> no, i wasn't going to do it. >> why not? >> because when you're innocent, you're not going to say something you didn't. >> besides, as victim david shannon's own mother and sister insisted, elizabeth was a devious, manipulative liar, especially when she got herself in a jam.

>> so it didn't sound surprising that liz would try to set up her mom like that because as a child, if there was trouble, liz was usually there, but she always had to share the blame. >> she would blame somebody else? >> oh, yeah. never took the blame. >> even if she was caught red handed? >> absolutely. elizabeth always shared the blame. >> so now joan shannon's fate would be decided by a jury. the d.a., billy west, told them about joan and david's swinging life-style, joan's affair, jeffrey wilson's claim she wanted to run away with him, financed with insurance money from david's death. then there was the allegation that joan tried to poison david. and testimony from a young man who insisted joan ask elizabeth to recruit him to commit the murder and dispose of the gun. but the d.a. saved his star witness for last. 15-year-old elizabeth shannon herself, who told the jury that joan used a truly devious

weapon, maternal love, given and withdrawn, to manipulate her into murder. >> i am responsible for my role in everything, but she was trying to put everything on me. that's the point i kind of woke up and realized let me just tell the truth. >> was it true? on the stand, elizabeth's accusation was clear and powerful. >> throughout the whole thing i was testifying, she couldn't even look at me. >> joan did not testify. she sat quietly and listened as her attorney followed them saying elizabeth was a ruthless killer when she murdered her stepfather. >> she was cold-blooded, entirely self interested. elizabeth hated her parents. she wanted out. freedom. she would have done anything.

when she killed david, she killed the only disciplinarian she had. then made a deal to get out of it. >> the idea joan manipulated elizabeth wasn't even possible, said the defense, certainly not for either of her parents. >> they couldn't keep her in school, in the house, couldn't get her to do anything. all of a sudden joan is going to get her to turn and kill dave? >> the jury deliberated a day and a half. then. >> they came back guilty. >> my heart dropped. so many things flash through your mind. you realize life as you know it is gone. >> it was so unbelievable. we knew joan was innocent, and she had just been found guilty. it shattered our world in so many ways. >> joan, did you kill your husband? >> joan shannon will spend the rest of her life in prison for

orchestrating the murder. she has no chance of parole. no more appeals. and elizabeth who actually pulled the trigger? she, too, was sent to prison for at least 25 years, courtesy of the deal she cut with the d.a. >> i told the truth. i wasn't gaining anything by lying. i would sabotage my own life in the process. it doesn't make sense. >> they are in separate prisons now, two hours apart by car. but really, a world away. we asked if they wanted to speak to each other, make peace perhaps. look at our camera. we suggested speak from the heart. >> i still love you, elizabeth. it is complicated, very difficult. you're still my daughter. and i know the situation is hard for both of us. and i am sorry i wasn't a better

mother. i can't go back and change that. >> elizabeth didn't like this idea. >> i don't have anything to say to her. doesn't matter what i say. it is like she's not going to change. she's not going to tell people she lied. >> joan shannon's two sons, david's sons, live in north dakota, growing up in the major's hometown. his mother has become in joan's absence their mother and grandmother. the boys believe in joan's innocence, see her sometimes, and talk to her on the phone. they do not speak to their sister. and major david shannon, his remains will spend eternity here just down the road from home, in the old military graveyard, under the black prairie