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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Disappearance of Shy'Kemmia Pate, Part 2: No Direction Home

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Part one of our re-release of the Shy'Kemmia Pate series includes a brief update, as well as a remaster of the overall series. 

 In episode two of this four-part series, the investigation and the immediate aftermath of Shy'Kemmia Pate's disappearance are examined.


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0:00.0

This June, we're re-releasing our series on Sha Kimia Pate.

0:04.1

Her family has continued to hold a walk in her honor, most recently this May, in 2023,

0:10.4

and we're currently working with one of her family members to get their DNA uploaded to Judmatch.

0:16.2

Her parents DNA and classic profile form is already on file with all major government databases,

0:23.0

and the GBI continues to actively pursue her case. We'll be re-releasing several important

0:29.8

announcements and updates through June and July, so please be sure to listen and share

0:35.5

Sha Kimia's episodes. Her family is still waiting for answers.

0:40.1

Thanks for listening to Sha Kimia's story, and for supporting all the families and victims

0:45.3

featured on our show. They do listen, and they see your kind comments, and your donations to their

0:51.2

Billboard funds, and when you share their posts. It means a lot. This is the second episode in a

0:58.5

four-part series. Please listen to episode one, September 4th, 1998, before listening to episode two.

1:19.6

This is the Fall Line.

1:28.9

I caught the police, but nobody he didn't come, and then when he did come, he said she had to be

1:38.0

missing 24 hours before they were going to look for. So I had another friend, which his name is

1:42.4

Felicia C. She called on and I never even said anything going on, and he came back out, but he didn't

1:48.6

do anything. He didn't report it. Saturday, September 5th, 1998, the night before Sha Kimia,

1:56.0

Shira's paid had vanished. Her mother, Veronica, had searched their neighborhood.

2:02.1

So had their family, like her sister, Lisswanda, Harriet Regina, her cousins, their friends,

2:08.0

their neighbors, everyone calling out her name into the dark, calling the Unidela Police

2:13.6

Department, and calling them again. An officer eventually came by, but declined to take a report.

2:20.8

So the neighbors kept phoning in, raising sin, as Veronica says, throughout the night.

2:26.8

And the Dooley County Sheriff's Office, the area's other law enforcement agency,

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