Unsolved Disappearance: Shelley Sikes (Revisited Case)

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When a young Texan woman fails to return home after a late night of waiting tables, her car is found—abandoned and blood-stained—in the heart of the notorious Texas Killing Fields. An unexpected lead results in the untangling of a twisted story in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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0:00.0	When a young Texan woman fails to return home after a late night of waiting tables, her car is found, abandoned and bloodstained in the notorious Texas killing fields.
0:10.7	An unexpected lead results in the untangling of a twisted story in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:36.5	I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.
0:41.9	And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott.
0:44.3	A quick heads up. This episode contains mention of sexual assault. We won't go into any graphic detail, but still, please listen with care.
0:52.4	With that being said, this is the revisited and enhanced edition
0:55.5	of one of our early episodes, which features the Unsolved Case of Shelley Sykes. The original
1:00.7	edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded this episode on her case in 2025.
1:07.4	As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last Seen Alive have noticed, our production and audio quality has improved significantly over the years.
1:16.2	Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.
1:19.6	When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time.
1:23.3	However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then.
1:27.3	We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production quality they deserve.
1:32.1	So we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes.
1:35.6	I'm talking totally new recordings with any new info or updates included.
1:39.7	And we'll be releasing these new episodes on what we're previously are off Mondays.
1:45.3	So that means there will be an episode of Last Seen Alive airing every single Monday. It'll alternate between totally
1:50.2	new cases we've never covered before, as usual, and revisited and remade episodes on the Mondays in
1:55.6	between. Yeah, when you were going through the intro to this episode, I was just remembering all
2:01.8	the little pieces and all of the details that really just grinded my gears about this case.
2:08.9	Yeah, and I'm not surprised that you remember a lot of the details after all. This was a case in Texas.
2:14.4	It was our first Texas case, if I remember correctly. Yes, it was. Shelly Sykes was last
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