AN
AN ADOPTED SON -- ACCUSED IN A PLOT TO HAVE HIS PARENTS MURDERED.
THE REASON: POLICE SAY -- MONEY.
08:25
"THAT BOY NEVER WANTED FOR
ANYTHING, EVER."
08:28
NICOLAS SHAUGHNESSY FACES LIFE
IN PRISON AFTER
HIS MOTHER DODGES GUNFIRE IN HER
BEDROOM AND
SURVIVES. HIS FATHER -- LEFT
DEAD ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR.
10:50
"IF THIS KID DOESN'T GET PUT
AWAY WITH ALL OF HIS
FRIENDS FOREVER, HE WILL HAVE
DIED IN VAIN. THEN I'LL
REALLY BE ANGRY."
10:56
TONIGHT -- NEW, NEVER- RELEASED
DETAILS IN A
CASE THAT SHOCKED AUSTIN. TONY
PLOHETSKI HAS THE STORY -- "OF
MONEY AND MURDER."
AN
AN ADOPTED SON -- NOW DISOWNED.
"HE'S
"HE'S NOT
"HE'S NOT A SHAUGHNESSY. HE'S NOT FAMILY. THE REASON: MONEY. AND MURDER.
HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE TO
BE A SHAUGHNESSY AND
TONIGHT
TONIGHT -- NEW, NEVER- RELEASED DETAILS IN A CASE THAT SHOCKED AUSTIN. TONY PLOHETSKI HAS THE
STORY -- "OF MONEY AND MURDER."
AN ADOPTED SON -- NOW DISOWNED.
"HE'S NOT A SHAUGHNESSY. HE'S
NOT FAMILY.
AN ADOPTED SON -- NOW DISOWNED.
"HE'S NOT A SHAUGHNESSY. HE'S
NOT FAMILY.
THE REASON: MONEY. AND MURDER.
HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE TO
BE A SHAUGHNESSY AND
BE PART OF THE FAMILY, AND HE
PRETTY MUCH RUINED THAT. SO
WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT HIM NOW?
NICHOLAS SHAUGHNESSY -- CHARGED
IN A MURDER
CONSPIRACY. HIS MOTHER SURVIVES
A BARRAGE OF
GUNFIRE. HIS FATHER -- DEAD ON
THE KITCHEN FLOOR.
TONIGHT -- TONY PLOHETSKI GOES
INSIDE A CASE THAT
SHOCKED AUSTIN AND WHAT POLICE
SAY LED NICK
SHAUGHNESSY TO ORCHESTRATE A
PLOT TO HAVE HIS PARENTS KILLED.
THEY CALL HIM A "MASTERMIND FOR
MURDER." TED SHAUGHNESSY WAS A
GREGARIOUS
BUSINESSMAN --
HE WAS KIND, AND HE ALWAYS HAD A
SMILE.
-- A HIGH-END JEWELER, A CHARMER
-- WHO OPENED
HIS OWN STORE IN THE MID- 1990S.
HE HAD A BIG SMILE --
HE DONATED TO ANY GOOD CAUSE
THAT HE WAS ASKED TO DO. -- AND
AN EVEN BIGGER HEART.
SHELLEY TODD MET TED SHAUGHNESSY
WHEN HE
OPENED GALLERIE JEWELERS WITH
HIS WIFE,
COREY.
ONCE YOU MET HIM, HE KNEW YOU.
OVER THE NEXT TWO DECADES, TODD
-- A BOARD MEMBER FOR
SEVERAL NONPROFITS -- OFTEN
ASKED TED FOR SILENT
AUCTION ITEMS FOR FUNDRAISERS.
HE NEVER TURNED HER DOWN.
THE COUPLE HAD WORKED IN THE
PAWN SHOP BUSINESS IN ARIZONA.
THEY MOVED TO AUSTIN IN THE
EARLY 1990S TO
BEGIN A NEW LIFE.
JEWELRY WAS THEIR FAVORITE PART
OF THE BUSINESS. IT BECAME THEIR
FOCUS.
HE EDUCATED ME ON ALL TYPES OF
THINGS I WOULD WANT TO KNOW
ABOUT DIFFERENT STONES I HAD
NEVER HEARD OF.
TED
TED SHAUGHNESSY WAS PROUD OF HIS STORE'S SUCCESS. BUT HE ALSO LONGED FOR
SOMETHING ELSE IN LIFE: TO BE A
FATHER. TO BE A FATHER.
THIS WAS THE LITTLE BOY THEY
ADOPTED FROM A RUSSIAN
ORPHANAGE.
THE SHAUGNESSYS BROUGHT NICOLAS
TO THE
UNITED STATES AROUND HIS SECOND
BIRTHDAY.
"NICK WAS JUST A HAPPY GO LUCKY
YOUNG BOY." BRIAN COLFACK LIVES
DOWN THE STREET.
HE ALWAYS SEEM TO BE A VERY
BRIGHT YOUNG MAN. HE WAS
INQUISITIVE ABOUT THINGS. HE
WANTED TO LEARN. NICK AND HIS
FATHER SHARED A LOVE OF RACING.
THE
TWO ENJOYED FORMALA 1 EVENTS AT
THE CIRCUIT OF THE
AMERICAS.
KARATE WAS NICK'S FAVORITE
HOBBY. HE TOOK LESSONS FOR
YEARS AT THIS SCHOOL IN OAK HILL
AND WENT ON TO EARN A
BLACKBELT.
BY THEN -- NICOLAS SHAUGHNESSY
HAD ALSO
DEVELOPED A FASCINATION WITH
FINANCES AND FINERY.
HE WOULD BE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO
MENTION HIS
MONEY, ALL THE TIME IN CLASS.
TYLER SCOTT -- WHO WAS IN THE
CLASS OF 2017 WITH NICK --
SAYS HE OFTEN FLASHED ROLEX
WATCHES TO TRY TO IMPRESS
FELLOW STUDENTS.
I MADE SOME GOOD INVESTMENTS,
LATELY. MY NUMBERS ARE UP.
A LOT OF IT WENT OVER MY HEAD
HONESTLY.
HIS JUNIOR YEAR -- NICK MET
JACLYN EDISON -- WHO MOVED
TO AUSTIN FROM NEW JERSEY TO
LIVE WITH HER FATHER AND
BECAME HIS GIRLFRIEND.
HIS APPARENT FIXATION WITH MONEY
ALSO LED TO THIS
PROFILE OF HIM IN THE SCHOOL
NEWSPAPER. HE REVEALS A PLAN
TO GET RICH: DAYTRADING AT HOME.
ONE MONTH AFTER GRADUATION -- HE
AND JACLYN
MARRIED IN SECRET.
THEY MOVED TO THIS TOWNHOUSE IN
COLLEGE
STATION. JACLYN ENROLLED AT
TEXAS A&M.
THAT'S WHEN POLICE SAY NICK
BEGAN A SCHEME HE
HOPED WOULD MAKE HIM RICH.
IT WAS A CRIME THAT SHOCKED
EVERYONE WHO KNEW TED
SHAUGHNESSY.
AN INTRUDER MURDERED HIM HERE IN
HIS OWN HOME.
POLICE SAY WHOEVER BROKE IN THE
HOUSE ALSO
INTENDED TO KILL COREY. SHE HID
IN A CLOSET UNTIL POLICE
ARRIVED.
"WE WERE IN SHOCK."
THAT MORNING -- MARCH 3RD --
NICK STOOD OUTSIDE THE
FAMILY HOME, NOW A CRIME SCENE,
WITH INVESTIGATORS.
NEIGHBORS IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT
SOMEONE
TARGETED TED.
THAT BECAUSE HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL
JEWELER THAT
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING
VERY WORTHWHILE TO BURGLARIZE OR
ROB HIS HOME, AND WE ALL THOUGHT
IT MUST HAVE BEEN A BURGLARY
GONE
BAD.
GONE BAD.
GONE BAD. BUT DURING THE NEXT THREE MONTHS
-- DETECTIVES
BUILT A CASE POINTING SQUARELY
AT NICK.
DOCUMENTS SAY HE CONSPIRED TO
HAVE HIS PARENTS KILLED
BECAUSE HE STOOD TO GAIN UP TO 8
MILLION DOLLARS IN
PROPERTY AND LIFE INSURANCE.
INVESTIGATORS SAY HE ASKED A
LIST OF POTENTIAL HIT-
MEN
MEN BEFORE FINALLY FINDING THIS MAN -- JOHNNY LEON -- TO PULL THE TRIGGER.
DETECTIVES SAY SOMEONE ELSE
HELPED NICK WITH HIS
MURDER PLAN -- JACLYN EDISON --
AND THAT TEXT MESSAGE SHOW
SHE WAS IN ON IT TOO.
"DO THEY WANT 50K OR NOT," SHE
IS
IS ACCUSED OF TEXTING NICK.
"WE
"WE WILL
"WE WILL SEE," NICK RESPONDED. DAYS BEFORE POLICE ARRESTED THE COUPLE,
LONGTIME CUSTOMER SHARON JAYSON
STOPPED
STOPPED IN GALLERIE JEWELERS. I WENT IN, AND COREY WAS THERE, SHE WAS DRESSED IN BLACK, AND I
EXPRESSED MY CONDOLENCES, AND I
TOLD HER HOW SORRY I WAS
ABOUT TED, AND SHE INTRODUCED ME
TO NICK, AND TOLD ME HE WAS
TAKING OVER THE BUSINESS.
JAYSON SAYS SHE COULD NOT
BELIEVE IT WHEN SHE
LEARNED A FEW DAYS LATER NICK
WASN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING THE
MURDER.
IT HAS BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE TED
SHAUGHNESSY
WAS KILLED, FOUR SINCE NICK'S
ARREST.
THE 19-YEAR-OLD FACES LIFE
BEHIND BARS.
JACLYN EDISON HAS TURNED ON HIM
AND IS COOPERATING
WITH INVESTIGATORS.
NICK'S MOTHER STANDS BY HIM AND
INSISTS HER SON WOULD
HAVE NEVER BROUGHT EVIL INTO THE
SHAUGHNESSY
HOME.
SHAUGHNESSY HOME. SHARON LINSALATA, WHO WORKS AT
THE CHILDREN'S TOY
STORE OVER THE RAINBOW, KNEW
NICK AS A CHILD.
OF EVERYONE INVOLVED -- THERE IS
ONE PERSON SHE
CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT.
WHEN I THINK OF MS. SHAUGHNESSY,
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW HER
HEART FEELS. I MEAN, IT'S
UNBELIEVABLE. I CAN'T EVEN
CONCEIVE OF THE HEART BREAK SHE
MUST BE GOING THROUGH, AND
JUST THE SADNESS OF HOW THINGS
HAPPENED.
A FAMILY THAT ONCE SEEMED TO
HAVE IT ALL -- NOW
SHATTERED. THE REASON: POLICE
SAY ONE THING -- GREED.
TONY PLOHETSKI, KVUE NEWS.
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