What's up you guys, I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is inhuman a true crime podcast

Happy first day of May everybody I can't believe we're already in May and that also means that I'm having a baby next month which is

my baby. Yeah, but yeah, happy May and happy Monday if you're listening to this on Monday or happy whatever day it is. Yeah, today we are going to be talking about two unsolved murders of young girls and one unsolved disappearance.

Oh, 20 years have passed and their cases all remain open and nobody has been held responsible for what happened to any of them. What?

Now, I was originally just going to cover one of these cases, the disappearance of Shannon Polk and her case was suggested by JCP. So thank you, JCP for the suggestion. Yeah.

But as I was researching her case, I came across to other girls cases that are similar have been talked about in relation to Shannon's case and are also still unsolved. So I just had to include those as well. So this will be covering three different three separate cases. Okay.

Shannon Polk was 11 years old in 2001 living in Prattville, Alabama. She lived with her family at Candlestick Mobile Home Candlestick Park.

Mobile home community and she was known to be very friendly hang out with neighbors and friends around the area. She just loved to be outside and hanging out with people. Yeah.

On the morning of August 16th, 2001, Shannon's mom left for work and it was summer. There was no school. So Shannon's older sister would basically babysit her at their home.

It was a really nice day out. So Shannon headed outside to play with friends. And this was not abnormal. It's something she did all the time. She loved spending time outside with her friends during the summer. So this was completely normal. Okay.

When her sister woke up at 9 a.m. Shannon had already left the house and she was out all day again, not abnormal for her in the summertime.

But when her mom got home from work, Shannon wasn't home. It wasn't super concerning at first because she would often like play all day until it got dark. Yeah.

But she would always be home before dark. I mean, I used to do that when I was a kid, but obviously, I think it's a lot different back then. Yeah.

When the sun started setting, the Polk family began to get worried. And when it hit 9 p.m. and Shannon still wasn't home, they called the police.

Yeah.

Thankfully, the search for Shannon began immediately. There was no like, oh, maybe she's just playing. It's like, yeah. Yeah. They were like, we need to find her. Okay.

Now, some kids from the neighborhood said that they saw a man talking to Shannon that day.

But these kids 15 years later, as adults, came forward and admitted to falsifying that information.

They were like trying to help the police. That's not helping anything. I know. But when you're a kid and police officers, police officers are asking like, did you see anything?

I can understand why they were like, oh, yeah, we saw this because they're just trying to be helpful. Yeah.

But family, Shannon's family, regardless of what anybody said, knew she had to have been taken. Yeah.

Her big heart was always open and she'd talk to anybody. So somebody must have taken advantage of her friendliness.

...