83: [Charlie Shunick] Living in Grief
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Shunick is a Louisiana educator, co-victim of murder, and advocate for missing persons and their loved ones. The devastating mid-2012 disappearance and murder of her sister, Mickey, altered her life forever. Since then, it is Charlie’s tenacious spirit that has carried her through and enabled her to use her voice for justice and ethical advocacy. Although the road has been difficult and at times debilitating, Charlie has navigated the media, the criminal justice system, and the aftermath of losing her beloved sister, with incredible grace. The Broken Cycle Media team is so thankful that Charlie was willing to share her journey, and her incredible perspective of the true crime landscape throughout it.
Sources:
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System: Reports and Statistics. (n.d.). https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/library/reports-and-statistics
Resources:
Missed Australia: https://missed.org.au/
Shunick Missing Persons: https://www.shunickmp.com/
Resource Association for Missing People: https://ramissingpeople.org/
Texas Equusearch Search & Recover: https://texasequusearch.org/
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/
Project Cold Case:
http://projectcoldcase.org
Charlie Shunick:
Charlie's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/grrrlcharlie
Shunick Missing Persons on TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/shunickmissingpersons
Shunick Missing Persons on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/shunickmissingpersons
For more resources and a list of related non-profit organizations, please visit http://somethingwaswrong.com/resources
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:04.3 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
| 0:07.0 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:13.6 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com |
| 0:20.6 | forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:26.1 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:34.8 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Charlie Shunick is a Louisiana educator, co-victom of murder, an advocate for missing persons and their loved ones. |
| 1:13.6 | The devastating mid-2012th disappearance and loss of her sister, Mickey, altered Charlie's life forever. |
| 1:21.6 | Since then, it is Charlie's tenacious spirit that has carried her through and enabled her to use her voice for |
| 1:28.5 | justice and ethical advocacy. Although the road has been difficult and at times debilitating, |
| 1:36.3 | Charlie has navigated the media, the criminal justice system, and the aftermath of losing |
| 1:41.6 | her beloved sister with incredible grace. |
| 1:45.6 | The Broken Cycle Media team is so thankful that Charlie is here today |
| 1:49.7 | to share her 12-year journey and her incredible perspective of the true crime landscape throughout. |
| 2:07.1 | Hey, everyone. My name is Charlene Chunich, but I go by Charlie. |
| 2:11.3 | I just got my promotion, so I'm officially an associate professor. |
| 2:20.6 | I work in the School of STEM at a community college where I primarily teach anatomy and physiology, but I'm also the biotechnology director, which has allowed me to develop and teach forensic science courses, |
| 2:26.6 | which has been so amazing. The students I get are incredible. Outside of that, I've been running a nonprofit resource association for |
| 2:37.3 | missing people. We're turning 11 in September. And I recently started a consulting business, |
| 2:44.2 | Shunuch missing persons. We're turning one in September. So my life is really a balance between |
| 2:50.6 | educating and academics and also educating |
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