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Episode 269: Nicholas Harley Shinn: It's Complicated

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Harley Shinn was an 18 year old from Ripley, WV. He had an older brother and was named after his aunt. During the day of June 25, 2003, Nicholas was at an apartment hanging out with friends, although he had had a run-in with a guy there a couple years before. The group said Nicholas walked off. He was never seen again.Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForNickShinnCharley Project:https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-harley-shinnNAMUS:https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/55847?navYouTube Map Analysis:https://youtu.be/M6NWwWidu8EUnfound Page for Nicholas Shinn:https://theunfoundpodcast.com/2021/09/24/nicholas-shinn-its-complicated-ep-260/If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Nicholas Shinn, please contact the Ripley Police Department at (304) 372-4711.Unfound supports accounts on Pandora, Audible, Podomatic, iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Deezer, and YouTube.--speaking of YouTube, on Wednesday nights at 9pm ET, please join us for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions.--Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfounpodcast.--You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast--I also need to give a shout out to all the people who have monetarily contributed usingSuperChat during the Live Show on Wednesday nights.--thank you for watching and thank you for donating.--the email address: [email protected]:--The books at Amazon.com in both ebook and print form.--do not forget the reviews.--shirts at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com--or you can track down my assistant Heather in the Facebook Group.--playing cards at makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast--the website: the unfoundpodcast.com--And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nicholas Harley Shin was an 18-year-old from Ripley West Virginia. He had an older brother

0:07.3

and was named after his aunt. During the day of June 25, 2003, Nicholas was at an apartment

0:16.7

hanging out with friends, although he had had to run in with a guy there a couple years before.

0:23.1

The group said Nicholas walked off. He was never seen again.

0:31.6

I'm at Denzel, and this is Unfound.

0:52.5

As a 51-year-old, I don't remember the title of today's episode being a phrase or cliche

1:13.9

or idiom when I was growing up. In fact, I don't even remember it being a popular saying

1:21.2

until the 21st century. People now say it for all sorts of reasons, but the most frequent use

1:28.5

seems to be when somebody gets asked about a current romantic relationship, and Sir Ben Kingsley

1:36.0

used it to comedic effect in Iron Man 3. Whoever says this two word phrase is essentially saying,

1:44.5

I really don't have time to explain, and even if I did, you wouldn't understand anyway.

1:52.4

There also tends to be a sense of, I don't want to tell you because I know you'll judge me

1:57.5

thing going on with the saying as well. The English language, due to its design, tends to lend itself

2:06.6

very well to being able to explain something with very few words. I bring this up

2:13.6

because with the disappearance of Nicholas Shin, although the facts are not numerous,

2:19.4

they could lend themselves to a variety of interpretations, making the analysis, well, it's complicated.

2:30.3

And now a summary of the case, this is brought to you by my friend Megan Lyne as his website,

2:36.1

Charlieproject.org.

2:40.6

Nicholas Shin, for only being 18, was a family guy. He was close to his mother and other family members.

2:49.1

In fact, Nicholas was named after his aunt, and not an uncle. Yes, you heard that right, his aunt.

2:58.5

He wasn't much into sports, but Nicholas loved to skateboard. Despite his good nature, though,

3:06.0

Nicholas had some issues. He dropped out of high school and didn't get a job, so money was always

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