The Trail Went Cold - Episode 258 - Shane Stewart & Sally McNelly

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

July 4, 1988. San Angelo, Texas. 16-year old Shane Stewart and his 18-year old girlfriend, Sally McNelly, go out to watch a fireworks show together, but never return home and Shane’s abandoned car is found in a park the following morning. Four months later, the couple’s skeletal remains are discovered in a remote pasture and they have both been murdered by shotgun blasts to the head. For years, rumours circulate that Shane and Sally were members of a Satanic cult and were killed for attempting to leave the group. In 2017, a person of interest is named after evidence which seems to be connected to the crime is found inside his residence, but no charges are ever filed in relation to Shane and Sally’s deaths. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved double murder of a young couple which was sometimes overshadowed by Satanic panic. If you have any information about this case, please contact San Angelo Crime Stoppers at (325) 658-HELP (4357). Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Sally_McNelly_and_Shane_Stewart https://unsolved.com/gallery/sally-mcnelly-shane-stewart/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Shane_Stewart_and_Sally_McNelly https://archive.gosanangelo.com/news/unsolved-murder-haunts-father-investigators-ep-440761552-357255691.html https://archive.gosanangelo.com/news/dna-evidence-eyed-in-1988-slayings-ep-458032062-354911441.html http://archive.gosanangelo.com/news/officials-make-developments-in-cold-case-ep-503215001-354714431.html https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/local/2017/06/22/new-evidence-found-29-year-old-cold-case/421822001/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/06/25/blood-fingernail-found-at-home-of-texas-man-link-him-to-1988-slayings-of-2-teens-authorities-say/ https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2018-07-04/30th-anniversary-unsolved-murders-shane-and-sally-remembered “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	July 4th, 1988. San Angelo, Texas.
0:06.0	16 year old Shane Stewart and his 18 year old girlfriend Sally McNally go out to watch a fireworks show but never return home and
0:13.4	Shane's abandoned car is found in a park the following morning.
0:16.5	Four months later, the couple's skeletal remains are discovered in a remote
0:20.6	pasture and they have both been murdered by shotgun blasts.
0:24.0	For years, rumors circulate that Shane and Sally were murdered because they were involved in a satanic cult.
0:30.0	In 2017, a person of interest is named after evidence which seems to connect him to the crime is found inside his residence, but no arrests are made, and the murders continue to remain unsolved.
0:41.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:23.2	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to start off 2022 with an episode about an Unsaw Mysteries case
1:29.6	which I've been wanting to cover for a long time.
1:32.2	The 1988 murders of Shane Stewart and Sally McNally.
1:36.1	Quite frankly, one of the main reasons I've waited so long to do an episode about this story
1:40.4	is because I was hoping I wouldn't have to, as it seemed like this crime was on the verge of being solved four and a half years ago
1:46.8	Shane Stewart and Sally McNally were a young couple who went missing on Independence Day in
1:51.4	1988 before their skeleton remains were found in a remote area four months later.
1:56.7	They were both murdered by shotgun blasts and in the months prior to their deaths it seemed apparent that
2:01.6	Shane and Sally had gotten involved with a group of young people which may have put their lives in danger.
2:07.0	During the earliest years of the investigation, the story was dominated by a phenomenon which popped up in a number of criminal cases during the 1980s and early 1990s
2:16.6	Satanic panic
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