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In 2001, University of South Carolina students,

Shelton Sanders disappeared while planning a friend's bachelor party and all-out homicide investigation. I'm Vinny Palatan and welcome to the Court TV podcast.

This week we have an audio edition of our original True Crime series,

Someone They New with Tamron Hall, which examines crimes committed by those closest to the victim.

Who would want Shelton Sanders dead and why?

This episode is entitled, Student Body. This is the court TV podcast. This is the court TV podcast. Shelton was the most inspiring person that you will ever meet.

Good kid, good son.

Shelton Sanders.

I had always trusted what he would tell me.

When Shelton went missing, it was very strange.

Everyone felt like he was probably foul play.

Everybody fits me so I tried to stay down a road. Whether or not he killed Shelton, like I don't know, but I really thought he knew more than what he was saying.

Is there such a thing as an accidental death to South Carolina?

If you did not get rid of a body,

you would not ask that question. On the night of June 19th 2001, Shelton Sanders, a promising 25-year-old college student at the University

of South Carolina, called his mother and said he would be home late.

He never made it home. Authorities initially believed he just ran off and there was nothing to worry about. But his family immediately knew something was wrong and began reaching out to those who knew him.

Shelton's mysterious disappearance would eventually go from a missing person's case

to a full-fledged homicide investigation. six years old getting ready to get started with kindergarten.

You know, he was just really curious about different things and so we just said,

this boy going to be a scientist and he became outgoing young man.

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