in new ego michigan
single father bob siders leaves to work
the night shift at the local bottling
plant his only daughter 18 year old
shannon spends the evening with friends
when bob returns home the next morning
shannon is gone
i started at midnight
and i got out at 8 30 in the morning
and when i come home
shannon was nowhere to be found
my daughter she was a typical young
child growing up
you know inquisitive
when she was younger my wife decided she
didn't want to stay married anymore so
we ended up getting divorced and i got
custody
so i ended up raising shannon
there were so many different things that
bob did to get the word out about his
daughter he did everything he could in
his power to say hey my daughter is
missing
what do you know about this
i had missing person flyers printed up
and sent copies of the flyers to every
police post in the stage
it was labor day weekend of 1989 two
individuals were out in the woods kind
of in the middle of the forest where it
was off the beaten path and they came
across two separate pieces of
identification
the cards both had shannon's name on it
the area where these things were found
they called it the hole in the woods
it was a well-known party spot for local
kids
i had gone altered myself for my teenage
years but
didn't know that that was the spot where
they went
bob siders went out and looked in the
area
and i at that point
was fearing the worst
i was looking for either a body or a
grave
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in western michigan
deer hunting is a big deal
so a hunter was walking back into the
plantings of the red pine plantation
the hunter went to the state police post
in new ego and reported it we got a
phone call about 10 o'clock
and my girlfriend at the time linda
answered the phone um
and
i had trouble with this part
so she gave me the phone
and she said bob
they uh they found the body up here and
they think it's in
and the police are looking for you
i said okay
and i talked to detective miller
he told me
had i gone up into the woodline
i would have found her
that's where she was
local medical examiner was brought in
the injuries were examined thoroughly
she had several injuries in several
different locations
she was brutally beaten
and ultimately the cause of death was
blunt force trauma to her head
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there was evidence to suggest that she
had been victim to rape due to the
position she was found
on her back with her legs somewhat
spread the skin around her perineum
around her genitalia
appeared to have been incised or cut
there was some
mutilation you're either dealing with a
sick son of a or
or you're dealing with somebody trying
to dispose of some evidence the profiler
unit in lansing believed that shannon
was likely killed by someone within her
peer group and her age group
by more than one perpetrator
and there was a good chance that alcohol
and drugs were a factor
and also that she was likely killed by
someone that she knew there are some
cases where the person responsible for
the murder has taken something from
their victim
kept it as a trophy or some type of
memento
i knew she had a classroom
i know her initials around it and i know
there was an inscription
it was never found in the house
and i was never found where the body was
investigators were looking for the one
person that was last with shannon
and it turns out there were eight people
that last saw shannon alive
investigators talked to all eight of
these kids in detail at police stations
on recording for those willing to taking
polygraphs and tried to rule them out
one by one
from those interviews the original
investigators are able to develop a
timeline
backtracking where she was that night it
was a typical group of teenagers whose
real focus was partying
i would not have called that group her
good friends
the kids told investigators that shannon
got into a car with paul and matt jones
paul and matt jones were brothers that
grew up south of new ego
the original plan was that they were
going to go back to shannon's house and
watch movies and drink beer
the group ended up separating from there
and shannon was with
paul and matt jones at that point
and paul and matt they claimed that they
dropped shannon off at home
they gave a pretty detailed description
of dropping shannon off at her house
anywhere between midnight and 2 am
they described the house the fact that
there was a porch light on they saw a tv
on and they even saw shan's dog running
within the house
the original investigators looked
extensively into man paul jones story
investigators retraced the route that
these kids drove to shannon's house
they saw
shannon's dog moving around inside of
the house
you could see the tv through one of the
windows and that there was a porch light
that led the investigators to believe
that what they were saying was truthful
the jones brothers took a polygraph and
passed it
everybody in the group was looked at
extensively those individuals didn't
provide anything fruitful to the
discovery of who killed shannon
people wanted to think that
it was a stranger that would have been
the easiest
but the fact that she was found in such
a remote spot that was known to local
people
made that hard to stay with
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we had new administration in our
district and they wanted to put a cold
case task force together it was pretty
well known that shannon always wore her
class ring on her right hand
it wasn't in any of shannon's personal
belongings that were left behind at home
the ring is missing
this was something that was held back
the police didn't advertise this
if we could find the ring
we could find the person that killed
shannon ciders
i got off of work at 10
and then i started looking for shannon
the first time i went over there it
would have been about 11 30 11 45 and
she was at home
about every half hour i would go over
again knocking on the door
i even went in at one point
ran up to a room
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and she
wasn't there
the last time that i went was quarter to
3
a.m on the 18th
originally in 1989 paul and matt jones
tell investigators
we took her home
we were going to go in the shannon's and
drink beer and watch tv
when we got there she said she was too
tired she was gonna go to bed
and so we dropped her off
what time of night was it that you last
saw 12-1 and lived after
someone was lying
from the original investigation we began
finding people that had had contact with
paul matt jones during the time of
shannon's disappearance
lindsey bradley came up in the original
investigation as a friend of shannon's
she also dated paul jones
lindsay came in and talked to us
she said that she was in the company of
paul jones riding around in his car with
him
she saw something in paul's ashtray
she said there was a female class ring
in the ashtray in paul's vehicle
she confronted him and said you're
asking me on a date when you have
another girl's class ring
and then he said
let's face it she's probably dead
would he say let's face it she's
probably dead
it doesn't seem like a normal person
would want to implicate themselves
that said to me that maybe that was
shannon's classroom
that paul and matt jones killed her
we believed there was some attempt at
sexual advances and shannon resisted
and they didn't want to take no for an
answer
jenny corrigan was always a friend
so i called her
she came over
and i said
jenny for god's sake you've been my
friend all this time
and you know
i've been working on this case for years
are you kidding me
what do you know about shannon ciders
she tells me
she knew how shannon was killed
jenny told us she may have seen
something relevant to what happened to
shannon that night on the night that
shannon disappeared
jenny corrigan had not been with shannon
in the group of eight kids
she was riding around with dean robinson
they came across a car that was parked
dean ended up having a conversation with
the driver of this other vehicle while
jenny stayed in the car
jenny heard the person identify
themselves as jones
overheard the driver say that they were
looking for a girl
this definitely suggests that shannon
had gotten away from matt and paul jones
at some point
and now they were hunting her
dean and paul jones parted ways
eventually
paul and matt jones were able to find
shannon
they caught up to her
they beat her bad
we believe this was a sexually motivated
crime
and they took turns raping her
and they crossed her skull
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it wasn't just an assault it was brutal
enough where they knew that they were
killing her
later dean and jenny came back through
and they see the same two brothers
standing outside of the car
with a girl laying unconscious or
lifeless on the ground
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dean got out
started to run up to see if he could
help
and tripped and fell
dean recognized that it was shannon
cider's
and that's when he described paul jones
coming over and kicking him in the face
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matt jones is coming around the back of
their car with a hammer of some sort
and then once matt had found out someone
else was in the car
he decided to retreat
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after dean's statement
there's no denying that paul and matt
jones killed shannon citers
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