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The Fall Line: True Crime

Trailer: Disappearance of Shy'Kemmia Pate

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this preview of season 5, learn more about the case of Shy'Kemmia Pate, who disappeared from her own street--in daylight--surrounded by dozens of neighbors. Yet, no one has come forward in Unadilla, GA, to solve the mystery of what happened to her on September 4, 1998. Season 5 begins on August 7th, 2019. Fall Line Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast Find our sources here: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Merch can purchased here: https://onestrangething.threadless.com/collections/the-fall-line-podcast Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Jessica Ann, and Kim Fritz/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd Monthly donations are currently going to the DNA Doe Project--please consider supporting their work! 2021 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:07.0

The Fall Line, an investigative podcast focusing on unsolved cases in the Southeast, is back

0:17.0

this August with season five.

0:19.5

This series covers the 1998 disappearance of Shaikimiya Paint, an eight-year-old from

0:24.4

Unidela, Georgia.

0:41.4

Shaikimiya was excited to spend that Labor Day weekend with her family, starting with

0:46.3

attendance of the first high school football game of the season.

0:50.0

In their tiny town of Unidela, Georgia, that was a big event.

0:55.0

That Friday afternoon, Shaikimiya stepped off her front porch and onto the sidewalks

1:00.0

of the street she'd lived on her whole life.

1:03.2

She planned to wait outside for a ride from her older sister.

1:07.0

She was seen by neighbors, friends, family, everyone thought she'd made it to see the

1:11.9

Dually County Bobcats play.

1:15.6

But she never made it there.

1:38.6

She was a great, vanished, right off her own street.

1:41.5

Though her disappearance is as mysterious and as arresting as that of Madeline McCann,

1:47.0

she has received very little attention.

1:49.8

Despite a $20,000 reward and exhaustive work by Shaikimiya's family, Veronica Pate, her

1:55.4

mother, has been left waiting for 21 years.

1:58.4

She made an effort to be optimistic that Shaikimiya would be back.

2:03.5

She kept trying to prove that it's going to be alright, leaving the door unlocked, leaving

2:07.9

a light on because Shaikimiya had come home.

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