Mickey Shunick's Fierce Fight For Her Life - August 9 2024

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird...
0:13.0	Not all victims are targeted.
0:17.5	Some simply happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
0:20.7	when a dangerous individual
0:22.5	makes the decision to take a human life. On August 9, 2012, police announced that the body they found
0:30.2	was identified as the young woman who, months before, went missing after a night out with friends.
0:42.3	So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:44.7	Michaela Shunich, Mickey to everyone who knew her, was a 21-year-old senior at the University
0:50.2	of Louisiana in Lafayette studying anthropology when in May of 2012 she suddenly disappeared
0:58.4	on her way back from a friend's home. Described by loved ones as good and special, on May 19th,
1:06.0	the Shunuch family prepared to attend her younger brother's graduation. And when they went to go get Mickey, they noticed that she wasn't inside her bedroom.
1:15.6	You see, the night before, a Friday, Mickey went out with some friends, but knew that she needed
1:21.4	to be back in time to prepare for the graduation the following morning.
1:25.5	Knowing that she was responsible, kept her commitments, and wouldn't want
1:30.3	to miss her brother's graduation, the family immediately knew something was off, but figured that
1:36.1	she might have accidentally fallen asleep at a friend's home and might just be running a little bit
1:40.9	late. All of that was explained away when the graduation ceremony came
1:46.1	and went and Mickey was still nowhere to be found. Not at home and not answering any of their calls,
1:54.1	the Shunuchs began contacting a few of their daughter's friends and found out that, after hanging out
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