Born on August 31, 1977 Shannon Rogers, now Shannon Guess Richardson, 35 years old, is an Irish American was raised by her father Terry Rogers after being abandoned by her mother at the age of two. Her Father worked at General Motors in Doraville Georgia. Shannon has been married three times and has six children. The most recent child was born on July 4, 2013, while Shannon was in custody, for the sending of the three ricin laced letters. Five of the children are from previous relationships and their names are Branden, Allen, Taylor, Ethan and Logan. The sixth child is from her currently separated husband, Nathan Richardson. Nathan has filed for divorce. The most recent child was born four months prematurely. His name is Brody Nathaniel Richardson and he is currently in the custody of his father. Shannon Richardson has been arrested for mailing threatening letters,” a violation of 18 U.S. CODE § 876” (Spiropoulos, 2013). This paper will go in to detail on the findings before and after her arrest.
According to her Biography and filmography on IMDb Shannon Richardson is educated in paralegal studies and also has a teaching degree. Her hobbies include playing flute and writing travel articles. She often visited Ireland and also enjoyed travelling other places. She previously wrote articles for www.didyouweekend.com but after doing some searching it seems her writings have been removed from the website. Shannon was also an actress with roles in the following; “The Walking Dead (2010), The Vampire Diaries (2009), and The Blindside” (2011) (Snuffles).
Shannon Richardson confessed to mailing the letters on 6 June 2013 with the claim that her husband made her do it, this was an attempt to set him up. She was arrested on 7 June 2013 in T...
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...rame her husband in the process. Also it shows the competency of the United States Postal Service due to the fact they were able to trace the mail down to its origin and show photos of the items when they were processed.
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The Andrea Yates murder trial was one of the most highly publicized cases of 2001. Perplexing and complicated, it appealed to the public audience for various reasons. A mother methodically, drowns her five children in the family bathtub after her husband leaves for work. Was this an act of a cold calculating killer, or was this the act of a woman who lost touch with reality. Is this a case of medical neglect, and psychological dysfunctions, or is this a battle of ethics and deviant behavior exploiting medical and legal loop holes?
... anonymously and delivered in a way that they cannot be retraced back to her. Were it not for the unfortunate incident of her unknowingly dropping one of her letters, no one would ever be able to retrace the funny incident back to her.
“Help, my daughter has stopped breathing!” she cried out entering the emergency room. In Sickened the autobiography written by Julie Gregory shares her abusive childhood to enlighten her readers about Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. With all the attention to protect children from abuse, how can child abuse not be recognized?
Shane, S. (2011, March 23). Anthrax Letters Mailed by Bruce Ivins, Psychiatrists Agree. The New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2013, from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/us/24anthrax.html?_r=1&
Shannon is not married but has a boyfriend of 5 year; she started dating her boyfriend NAME during her senior year of high school, September 14, 2011. Shannon has no children. Her mother, Sandy, and father, Steve, are happily married. She has one sister, Sarah, who is 24 years old and lives
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...sily solved cases. Most people don’t really care, the article of her suicide was found on the fourth page, sixth column of the newspaper, barely noticeable.
In Corsicana, Texas Cameron Willingham and his family’s home was burned down the twenty-third of December is 1991. According to the report Cameron was asleep when the fire started and survived the accident with only a few injuries, as for his children they were not so lucky, they lost their lives to the tragic accident. At the time of the accident Cameron’s wife was buying presents for their children for Christmas. According to a witness and her Daughter Diane and Buffie from a few houses down went outside and saw Cameron screaming, “My babies are burning up!” Diane and Cameron tried countless attempts to rescue the girls from their room until the fire department could get there. According to the New Yorker “The house, in short, had been deliberately transformed onto a death trap.” According to the reports on December twenty-fourth and twenty-seventh of 1991 the fire was declared arson and they later decided to conduct a criminal investigation. Cameron was questioned by the investigators on December 31st and was then later arrested on January 8th of 1992 for the death his three daughters.
August 30, 2005 China Arnold got drunk after a fight with boyfriend, Terrell Talley, and placed her 28-day-old infant daughter, Pallas Talley, in a microwave and turned it on high for two minutes. Little Pallas Talley passed away the next day from internal burns (Link 15). The autopsy found that not only did Pallas die from the microwave, but her DNA was all over the inside of it. (Link 15). Arnold told the police that if she wasn’t drunk, then she guesses Pallas wouldn’t have died. Arnold’s bail was set at one million dollars (Link 15).
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