Shane and Sally | 1. A Long, Hot Summer

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On July 4, 1988, sixteen-year-old Shane Stewart and eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly went out for the night in their West Texas hometown of San Angelo. They watched the fireworks, stopped for burgers, and drove out to the lake outside of town. They were never seen alive again. That summer, as their parents waited for news from the authorities, Shane’s father Marshall began an investigation of his own, discovering the teens may have been swept up in the town’s darkest of undercurrents.

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0:33.0	All right, shotgun or whatever we call it.
0:37.0	All right, did you give me direction?
0:39.0	It's late June 2023, and along with my co-host Karen I'm in San Angelo, Texas with Marshall Stewart
0:45.8	piling into his truck about to head out of town. Marshall is in his mid-70s
0:51.0	with neatly combed gray hair and a thick mustache. He's driving us out to see a
0:56.2	place he knows probably better than anyone else on earth, a place he wishes he didn't know so well.
1:02.1	We were talking about that, how you were walking the land out there.
1:08.0	Let me tell you what, that was a long hot summer.
1:10.0	On July 4th, 1988, Marshall's son Shane, who was a month shy of 17 years old, went out with
1:19.4	his girlfriend, Sally McNally. She was 18. Neither of them came home that night.
1:25.0	Marshall spent the evening driving all over St. Angelo, looking for Shane.
1:30.0	The next morning, by a lake northwest of town, a park ranger found Shane's burnt orange
1:36.3	Camaro abandoned.
1:39.3	Officers guessed that Shane and Sally had run off together, but Marshall didn't believe it.
1:44.9	Marshall was convinced that something awful had happened to them, but
1:48.7	Shane's car and where Shane left it were the only leads he had to go on. So Marshall went back
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