Video spots girl leaving school, never seen again: What happened to Shayna?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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News, True Crime

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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16-year-old Shayna Ritthaler is seen on surveillance tap walking from school to a local hangout, The Coffee Cup. From there she gets into a vehicle, but no one knows what happens next. Where is Shayna Ritthaler? Joining Nancy Grace today: Mark Eiglarsh, Criminal Defense Attorney, Dr Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, follow on instagram at DrBethanyMarshall Cloyd Steiger - 36 years Seattle Police Department, 22 years Homicide detective, Author "Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer-Gary Gene Grant" www.cloydsteiger.com Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author,"Blood Beneath My Feet" Sierra Gillespie - Investigative reporter Crime Online

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0:39.8	A 16-year-old little girl just scrubbed in sunshine. Last seen leaving school. As she always does,
0:49.5	she's caught on surveillance video walking away from school and heading to her favorite spot,
0:56.0	the coffee cup, the local coffee shop texting away like every other 16-year-old girl,
1:02.4	and then somehow everything goes sideways in Shayna Rittholler seemingly vanishes into thin air.
1:19.2	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:26.8	Shayna Rittholler.
1:30.8	Leave school. Surveillance cameras show that. She walks toward her favorite coffee shop, the coffee cup.
1:40.4	Texting away, not looking at anything going on around her, and then goes missing.
1:48.7	I mean, it's he Grace. This is Crime Stories with me, an all-star panel to break it down and
1:55.7	put it back together again. When I say that, I think of someone breaking down a car.
2:00.8	I don't mean in the chop shop sort of way, where you never can't trace it again. I mean literally
2:07.6	taking the case apart, bit by bit, word by word, polishing it, and then putting it back together
2:18.2	again. So suddenly, it all makes sense, and the car runs perfectly. With me, Mark Eiglash,
2:31.2	renowned defense attorney, what's the name of your book?
2:34.4	Be happy by choice. Happiness guaranteed.
2:39.0	Or your misery back. Be miserable.
2:41.1	Be misery back.
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