The Night Shy Shy Disappeared

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

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Hey Dateline fans, we’re sharing with you a special preview of the next episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Josh Mankiewicz tells the story of Shy’Kemmia Pate, an 8-year-old girl who vanished less than a block from her home in Unadilla, Georgia in 1998. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/dmiast_et

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Mannekerwoods with a preview of Dateline Missing in America.
0:05.2	In our podcast's third season, we share six new unsolved mysteries, and we hope somebody
0:12.3	listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.
0:17.0	Could that someone be you?
0:20.0	Here's Dateline, missing in America.
0:26.0	She was Shishy to everyone who knew her.
0:29.0	Full name, Shikimia Pate.
0:32.0	The day was September 4, 1998.
0:35.0	Shysai was only 8.
0:38.0	She had just started third grade.
0:40.0	The little town she lived in was Unadilla, Georgia, and that Friday a southern summer wasn't close to ending.
0:48.0	It would be 90 degrees and muggy.
0:58.0	That morning,ishai's mom Veronica walked her to school. Unadilla Elementary was just a couple of blocks away and when they got there, Veronica says she told her youngest daughter what
1:05.5	she always had.
1:06.7	I love her and have a good day and I see it when I got home.
1:11.8	For Veronica, that moment remains the dividing line between life
1:16.6	before and after. Because when she got home that night, Shishai wasn't there and that's when the world as
1:24.9	Veronica had known it changed and it still hasn't changed back.
1:32.4	It's a storm that never stopped storming in your life.
1:37.0	What Veronica calls the storm has been raging for more than 25 years. Has there been a day when you didn't wake up and think about where your daughter might be?
1:47.0	I think about that every day and every night.
1:50.0	It's about the worst thing a parent can go through.
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