137: Georgia's First "No Body" Conviction: The Murder of Shannon Melendi

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On March 26,1994, 19 year old Shannon Melendi went on her lunch break - she had been working as the scorekeeper at the Softball Country Club of Atlanta. But Shannon never returned from break, and she was never seen again. Law enforcement treated her disappearance as a runaway and if some high powered politicians hadn't gotten involved, Shannon's killer would never have been brought to justice.

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Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/137-georgias-first-no-body-conviction-the-murder-of-shannon-melindi

PLEASE sign the petition to deny Butch Hinton parole when he is eligible to apply again. Here is the link the Melendi family created:

https://www.change.org/p/victimservices-pap-state-ga-us-keep-shannon-melendi-s-murderer-colvin-butch-hinton-behind-bars-where-he-belongs

Personal letters are very influential and should be mailed to:

Victim Services Office
State Board of Pardons—Paroles
2 M.L. King, Jr. Drive, SE
Suite 458, East Tower
Atlanta GA, 30334
RE: Parole Hearings for:
Colvin C. "Butch" Hinton, III (GDC ID #0001201616

Petitions can also be emailed to:
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1:12.9	But it may be distressing to some listeners
1:15.2	Listener discretion is advised
1:25.8	Most people believe there is no greater tragedy than the loss of a child
1:30.5	It is the deepest grief unending your life changes on a molecular level
1:37.2	Every day may start with a brief moment of forgetting but your torment is back before you've barely opened your eyes
1:43.5	It doesn't matter how old that child was the loss is irreparable
1:49.7	To lose a child by violence has to be the most cruel loss of all
1:54.4	And what if your child goes missing?
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2:02.7	You don't just wake with grief you go to sleep with it
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