Shannon Collins Part 1

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When 52-year-old Shannon Lee Collins vanished from his home in Pottsville, Arkansas, on March 12, 2021, there were no tire tracks leading away, no note left behind—just silence. A phone that suddenly went dark. A man who never missed a call simply stopped answering. At first, his loved ones were told he’d left on his own. But as the months passed, the stories about where he’d gone began to shift—and the truth grew harder to ignore. Why hadn’t anyone in his home reported him missing? Why were there so many conflicting explanations about the last time anyone saw him? And what secrets were buried behind those small-town walls? In this two-part series, we follow Shannon’s brother, Blake, and his sister, Holly, as they piece together a puzzle built on contradictions. If you know anything about the disappearance of Shannon Lee Collins, please contact the Pope County Sheriff’s Office at 479-968-2558. To learn more about how you can support Shannon’s family, email ShareShannonsStory@gmail.com, donate to their GoFundMe at gofund.me/6362b47, and follow their ongoing efforts on Facebook at Share Shannon’s Story If you would like to join Coffee and Cases Patreon to support the show and listen to bonus content, please go to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	You know, sometimes the most haunting disappearances don't start with a scream in the night
0:35.4	or a set of muddy footprints at the back door.
0:39.3	Sometimes they begin with silence, an absence that seeps in slowly, quietly, the kind of
0:48.2	silence that steals your peace before you even realize it's there. When someone you love just stops calling, when their voice,
0:57.6	the one you've grown used to hearing every few days, simply fades into nothing. At first, you find
1:04.8	excuses. They're busy. They're traveling. They'll get back to you soon. You tell yourself everything's fine because you
1:12.6	have to believe it's fine. But as the weeks turn into months, that silence becomes heavier than words
1:20.6	ever could be. It begins to whisper questions you're not ready to ask. This is one of those stories, a story about love
1:30.4	and loyalty and the kind of pain that only comes from not knowing. It's about a man and the people
1:37.7	who loved him. His mother, his father, his brother Blake, his sister Holly, people who spent months trying to convince themselves
1:46.5	that the impossible couldn't be true. People who believed in family and trust until both were
1:55.8	broken. This is the case of Shannon Lee Collins. Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee in cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold.
2:40.0	My name is Allison Williams.
2:42.0	And my name is Maggie Damron.
2:44.0	We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement
2:51.3	so justice and closure can be brought to these families with each case we encourage you to continue
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