29: Shemaeah Gunnell
Stolen Lives True Crime
Stolen Lives True Crime
4.0 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The murder of Shemaeah Gunnell
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| 0:36.7 | Music More than three decades have passed since the brutal murders of Valerie Gunnell and her two children, |
| 0:51.9 | five-year-old Shemaiah and nine-month-old Dekresha. But despite the fact |
| 0:57.2 | the killer is now on death row awaiting execution for the murders, there are still unanswered |
| 1:03.4 | questions as to what happened to Shemaya. This is a story of a young family who entrusted a man who the mother was in love with. |
| 1:13.7 | He'd only just been released from prison, yet keeping to his parole requirements. |
| 1:20.9 | And from the outside, seemed to be making a fresh start. |
| 1:26.2 | Little did Valerie know she had invited an evil monster into her home. |
| 1:32.4 | This is Shemeyer's story. |
| 1:40.5 | In 1989, five-year-old Shemaya Gunnell lived with her mother, 26-year-old Valerie Gunnell, |
| 1:48.2 | and her nine-month-old baby sister, Lucretia Kirkland, |
| 1:52.3 | in an apartment complex on North First Avenue in Yuma, Arizona. |
| 1:57.8 | Valerie was unemployed at the time, although she had worked previously in a Tucson yarn |
| 2:04.1 | mill. But because she was unemployed, the family relied on food stamps and other government |
| 2:10.8 | assistance to survive. In January 1989, Valerie's new boyfriend, 27-year-old Alvey Copeland-Kiles, |
| 2:23.9 | had just completed a four-year stint in prison after being convicted on aggravated assault. |
| 2:30.2 | He moved in with the family four months after his release. |
| 2:34.3 | Given the time he was in prison and Valerie's daughter being only nine months old to another man, |
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