Shane Fell

Hey guys, welcome to Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. I am still sick. Still sound like this, but the show must go on, so right now and True Crime. First thing is first, the Lori Valo trial that was said to take place in April, shortly following Chad's trial, is going to be rescheduled, which we knew it was because a lot of the same people are going to have to be present at both trials, be witnesses at both trials, and there's no way that they can coincide and happen at the same time. So her trial is going to be rescheduled for a later date. I know there's a timeframe in which they have to do it, but it's not going to be in April, and we are glad about that because we need the sole focus to be on Chad's trial on April first, so that way we can get justice for all the people, and then we'll move on to LORII and finish getting justice for Charles and Brandon Boudreau. So that is that in the Lori Valo news. Moving on to the Savannah Soto and Matthew Gerer murders, they arrested nineteen year old Christopher Precioto and his father, Ramon Presiato, in connection to the double homicide that was allegedly a drug deal gone wrong and they were both shot and they found the what they believed to be the murder weapon inside of the home of the suspects. So Christopher basically said that he was trying to buy marijuana from Matthew Guerrera and for whatever reason, it went awry and he ended up killing both of them. Which why are you going to kill someone over weed? I have a big problem with that. Two people and one is pregnant. What is wrong with you? What is not freaking worth it? So Christopher basically said that Matthew had allegedly tried to point the gun at him, but Christopher was able to manipulate the weapon in order to shoot Savannah and Matthew in the head. But an arrest affidavit for Christopher said that the wounds to the head and other evidence were inconsistent with his story and determined that Christopher shot Savannah and Matthew with the intent to kill. Now, the surveillance video that they had released initially in order to try to identify the suspects, there was a towel that was being thrown out of the window of one of the vehicles, and there's a lot of speculation online that there's a third person involved, and the authorities have said that that's something we're still looking into, and it's something that has been brought up in conversation, and he said that the investigation would need to be determined that this alleged third person's involvement, and he didn't want to say that there would be a third arrest, but he said that it was a possibility. And they are going to indict Christopher on capital murder and if this is the case, then a capital crimes committee would be able to determine if death penalty would be an option for Christopher. Again, he's nineteen years old, he had no priors before he was arrested. I am not excusing his behavior whatsoever, not at all. It's just crazy to me that all of us happened because of a drug deal. And it's just not worth it. A baby who hadn't even gotten a chance to be born yet lost his life because of marijuana. What the heck? Okay, now we have to talk about Gypsy Ros Blanchard because everyone is talking about Gypsy Rose and I've always been a big supporter of her. I am still a supporter of her her lifetime. I guess docuseries is what we're calling. It aired Friday night, and it was so interesting, so captivating, and I just don't even have words for what a monster her mother was. And again I'm not excusing what Gypsy did, but you have to look at the whole picture and the psychology that goes into something like that. This girl, from the time she was able to speak, was manipulated into thinking that she was severely ill, manipulated into thinking she couldn't walk, manipulated into thinking she couldn't eat and had a feeding to place. She thought that she had cancer. Her head was constantly being shaved to keep up with the facade that she had cancer. Her mom was forcing her to be confined to a wheelchair, cutting her off from the outside world, basically forcing her to be younger than she really was. When everything was coming out, Gypsy realized that she was nineteen years old and her mom had been forcing her to believe that she was only thirteen and making her into this young girl, trying to stop her from growing up. And I think that's where d D the mom really started to lose control because Gypsy was realizing that, wait, something isn't right. I'm not really sick. I can walk, I can move my legs, and she started to explore that and that's when everything got out of control and should hit the fan and what happened happened. But this girl was manipulated in the worst way by somebody that claimed to love her, her mother, and I do think like Dede obviously cared for her daughter, but she was ill as well, so she had severe you know, munch hounce is by proxy that just completely took control over her and made her do things that completely terrorized and manipulated her daughter. And it is just really really sad. So I don't think we know the half of what that poor girl went through. And she literally only saw one way out and that was to kill her mom. And not excusing that behavior at all, I know, it's something that she says she you know, has to come to terms with, is that she felt that that was her only way out because it was always just her and her mom, and the one time that she tried to run away, her mom caught her and handcuffed her to a bed like that is not normal behavior and when all of this happened, Gipsy was young, like she was very young in the grand scheme of things, and also she had been made to think that she was sick her entire life and been fed all of these thoughts. It is the biggest manipulation ever, Like, you can't put yourself in that position unless you've been in that position. It is just crazy. So I do feel like she's getting a lot of public attention and publicity, which I think is good. But I also hope that she does seem like she's in a good place. She seems like mentally like she's in a good place. I know she's done a lot of therapy and is still continuing to do therapy because she has to now navigate this new outside world and her new normal where she's getting attention for basically being traumatized as a child and having to commit a heinous crime to get out of it. It's really interesting, and I think the psychology of it fascinates me the most because there's so many layers to this story and it's just continuing to unravel. And she does seem like she's good. She seems pretty well adjusted considering everything she's been through. I don't know how she functions, honestly, being that she went through everything that she went through. When she says that she felt more freedom in prison than she ever felt in her regular life, that right there is all you need to know about anything. And we support her. I support her, I wish the best for her, and hopefully she continues on the path she's on and she's able to kind of just settle in and figure out what her new normal is. Okay, I'm sure there's more, but we are going to go ahead and get into today's episode. Okay, guys, jumping into a new case today. This one popped up for me on Facebook and it kind of felt reminiscent of another case I've covered, which is the missing person's case of Brandon Lawson. It also reminded me of a story that True Crime in Headlines did on a missing man from Texas. It just kind of was reminiscent of that to me, and I feel like it's a really interesting story. And again, this happened in twenty eleven, so we are twelve years out, well, thirteen years out now I can't do math. It's twenty twenty four, so thirteen years out from this man being missing, and we still do not have any answers. So today we are going to be talking about the disappearance of a thirty six year old man named Shane Fell from Louisiana. So this all occurred on Thursday, June ninth of twenty eleven. Shane had gone out with his brother Brett, and they had met up at a local daker shop in Marrero, Louisiana, and they played pool and then they left in separate cars around twelve thirty am. So between the time that Shane left and getting home, he lost control of his car while he was driving on a winding road called River Road, and he ended up flipping his car and he ended up in a ditch between Clin Road and Morrero Road. So the car flipped, Shane is coherent and cognizant enough, and he's able to climb out through one of the windows of the wrecked car. So in the midst of all that, Brett called his brother to make sure that he got home safely, and Shane had said, Hey, I just got in an accident. This is where I'm at, And Brett immediately headed for the scene of the accident and he got there about twenty minutes out after it happened, and Shane was nowhere to be found. There were a few police officers that got there around the same time and they all searched, but they were unable to locate Shane. They did find one of his shoes stuck in mud near the car, but Shane was nowhere around and they from there tried to call Shane and he did not answer any of the cell phone calls and he has not been seen since. So Brett said, when he spoke with Shane, which is like right after the accident, he said, he sounded fine and he was coherent. He didn't act like he was scared. He knew where he was, and Shane had told Brett that he was going to try to find a way home from the accident site, but Brett had said, hey, I'm on my way, just wait for me. Assumed that Shane was going to wait for him, but he obviously didn't because by the time Brett got there, Shane was gone. So Brett said that a few minutes after he spoke to Shane, Shane had actually called him back and he sounded pretty panicky on the call, but Brett just thought it was because he was a little shaken up from the car accident, and Shane had wanted to make sure that Brett was still on his way to the scene of the accident, and Brett said, yeah, I'm gonna be there shortly. Like Brett was not too far away. So Brett said that when he got there, there were already some officers and EMTs at the scene because a driver by had seen the car in the ditch and called the cops and said that he saw that the windshield wipers on the car were moving and thought that there potentially could be somebody inside, so that is why they sent out the police and the ems. But within the time that Brett had talked to Shane and the call came into nine one one, Shane had completely vanished. So the accident report stated that the police officer started searching the area at one point thirty in the morning trying to find Shane, but couldn't find him. They sent officers to Shane's home, thinking that maybe he hitched a ride and was back at home, but of course he wasn't. They checked the different local emergency rooms to see if he had gone there to seek medical attention, because obviously he had been in a car accident, there was no luck finding him there, and then they started to kind of investigate a little further, and they thought that alcohol probably played a pretty big role in this car accident and thought that because of that, Shane was probably hiding out to avoid being charged with aduy, which is understandable, but why would he still be missing all these years later. It just doesn't really make sense. And Shane's family didn't fully believe this either. They thought that he wouldn't be one to really hide from police, and if he could get in contact with them, he would, and he the last time they knew, had his phone on him, and they were very concerned for his safety and they spent the next three days trying to search for him, and they were checking in ditches and abandoned buildings and they were just trying to search anywhere they could to see if they could find Shane. And the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office also did searches in the wooded area near where Shane had wrecked his car, and they said that they didn't believe that his disappearance was due to foul play, and they talked about how Shane had told his brother that he was going to try to find a ride home, and they thought that that's what had happened, and thought that he kind of just went off on his own volition and would show back up when he felt like it, which we hear so often when adults disappear. Well, they have the right to leave if they want, and they'll come back when they're ready, But it's not always like that, especially when it's out of the ordinary for someone to be in a situation where they just want to walk away and the circumstances that lead up to it, it just doesn't fit. And you have to think about the fact that he was in an accident. Even though he had told Brett that he was fine, he was still in an accident. He could have had a head injury, he could have had internal bleeding, he could have been when he was talking to Brett in a state of just shock and functioning only because of that shock and able to say yeah, I'm fine. But there could have been something more going on. And his family definitely thinks that if he was able to, he would have contacted them, and they think that he was either a victim of foul play or something else happened after the accident and he was not able to contact them for whatever reason, whether his injuries or he happened upon someone and they did harm to him, whatever it is, And they did determine that Shane was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident, So the fact that he was able to get out of the car and seemingly walk away from the accident is a pretty big miracle. However, it does open the case of he might have had a lot more serious injuries than he even realized that being a head injury or internal bleeding or god knows what else, because a seatbelt is super super important when you're driving to prevent any life threatening injuries. We hear all the time. So Shane had recently moved back to Louisiana to be back around his family from Savannah, Georgia. He did not have a lot of friends in Louisiana because he had just moved there from Savannah, so he spent a lot of time with his family. His family was his lifeline. So for him not to be in contact with his family, his family knew that something had to have happened, and his sister in law felt that he had either because he was injured, stumbled and fallen into the river and could not get back out, or that someone had picked him up and saw him as a easy target to try to harm. He was very dedicated to his work and wasn't the type of person to not show up to his job, not call in and say Hey, I'm going to be late, I'm sick, I can't come. This was very out of character for him, and they literally heard nothing from Shane after he disappeared. Nobody heard a thing from him. So they did bring some search dogs in to kind of comb through the scene of the accident. Now it had rained and the grass in the area had been mowed after Shane's accident, and that made it really difficult for the dogs to determine what direction Shane had gone in. They also had helicopters out, but they were not able to find anything. It's literally like Shane vanished into thin air. They held a candle light vigil on June seventeenth of twenty eleven at the site of the accident to basically just raise awareness in the community about Shane's disappearance, and Brett took a leave of absence at his job to really focus on trying to find his brother and devote all of his time and attention to the search for Shane, and he had told reporters, quote, I would give anything I have to find my brother. Without him, my life isn't the same and it will never be the same end quote. So his family and friends were really very vigilant and trying to piece this together and figure it out. So they went out the night before the vigil and they spent some time on the road where the accident occurred, at the exact same time that the accident occurred, and they wanted to see kind of the flow of traffic, how many people were around, Was it real busy, was it real slow? And they counted how many cars passed at that time, and they came up with the fact that there was enough traffic on the road at that hour that someone should have seen Shane as he walked away. And they knew that somebody probably had information and didn't even realize that they had information, and pleaded with them if they saw anything on that road around that time on that day, to please come forward. And Brett's biggest fear in all of this is that people are going to forget about his brother and his brother's case. And I see that so often when I'm researching these cases, that the family thinks that people are going to forget about their family member. And unfortunately, as time goes on, and that is true, people share less and less. It's less out there, it's less in your face, and slowly it just starts to fade. And it really is unfortunate and sad that the families of these victims are the ones that have to keep the stories at the forefront and keep talking and keep sharing. And that's kind of how things get into my hands as I see it, share it somewhere, and I decide I'm going to look into it a little further. So it does happen where these stories just kind of fade to the background and you don't really ever hear anything else about it, and people forget and people aren't on high alert as they were, you know, back when it happened. So it's really sad and really unfortunate, but it does happen. So when everything first happened, the family was in contact with Texas Equisearch and they were involved in kind of canvassing the area to try to find any clues that would lead them to help them be able to find shame and they are a really really important organization. I talk about them a lot on this podcast. They are imperative in helping the families of missing people try to find their loved ones, and I think they are such an important part of all of this. And the founder of Texas ecusearch is Tim Miller, and he himself said that this case was one of the most perplexing ones that he had ever seen, and he personally didn't think that Shane had fallen into the river and was hoping that they could do more searches in the area to kind of find clues as to what happened to him. And let me tell you, Tim Miller is the man that you want on your side. If you, god forbid, ever have a family member or a friend who is missing, you want Tim Miller and his organization on your side, because they, like I said, are imperative to helping these families get closure. So about three weeks after Shane vanished, his family had gotten together and raised money to have a billboard placed on Interstate ten near where he went missing. And they were hoping, of course, that the billboard was going to bring attention and it would get people to kind of remember if they had seen something that night and not even realized it, and tips were coming in, but they pretty much had exhausted everything, all the leads, and they really didn't have any more clues as to what had happened to Shane. It was literally like he had vanished into thin air. Shane's cell phone and his bank accounts have not been used since he went missing that night. Nothing has been touched, nothing has been used, so it literally is like he vanished into thin air. The last person he spoke with was his brother, and twenty minutes later he was gone. So reminiscent of Brandon Lawson, like so remnists of Brandon Lawson. It is so bizarre to me the exact same scenario too, where in Brandon's case they thought that he was hiding because the police were there and he had some warrants out so he was going to get arrested, and he literally vanished into thin air. It just does not make any sense to me how you can just vanish like that and nobody sees anything and nobody knows anything. So there have been some tips over the years. The family continues to distribute Missing Persons flyers throughout the area and there like I said, there have been several tips from people who believe that they have seen Shane, and one of the witnesses said that they found this man that appeared to be homeless, he had a head injury and he was last seen near the West Bank Expressway and they thought that this potentially could be Shane. And I guess this person wasn't ever found or they weren't able to track him down. But the family decided that they were going to offer a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to the recovery of Shane or the discovery of Shane. And from there months turned into a year, and they still had no idea where Shane was. They didn't have any more information on his disappearance, and they didn't hear anything from the investigators at all as to the state of Shane's case, and they just wanted answers. The family was of course still hopeful that he was out there, but feared that because so much time had gone on, nobody had seen anything, nobody had really heard anything. That they feared that Shane may no longer be living and they didn't really know where to turn next. So when Shane disappeared, he had recently moved from Georgia to Louisiana, so he still had his Georgia's driver's license, and they thought that maybe he had maybe hitchhiked and made his way back to Georgia, thinking if he had a head injury, he wasn't in his right mind, that he maybe just wanted to go back to Savannah and live there, and thought maybe he had memory loss as to who he was or where he was supposed to go. But they did search kind of all in Savannah too, and they didn't find any trace of Shane there. So the family still continues to this day to search for Shane. Terry Fell, who is Shane's mother, is convinced that he is still alive but doesn't know who he is, so he is living with amnesia, probably homeless on the streets, unaware of his identity. And there have been several sightings of Shane in various homeless encampments, but none of them have been confirmed. Which it's really hard when situations like this happened, because it's really hard to track down somebody who is homeless because a lot of times they're drifters and they go from point A to point B. Really really quickly. So as of right now, I don't believe investigators in Louisiana are actively searching for Shane. Unfortunately, it has been a long time since Shane disappeared, and like I said, things kind of tend to fall off the radar unfortunately, so he is still listed as a missing person. The case has been cold for more than a decade, and that is really really unfortunate because I feel like Shane could potentially be out there. He could be suffering from a severe case of amnesia, he could be living amongst the homeless population anywhere. At this point, it doesn't have to be in Louisiana, and I feel like we all need to be vigilant in really taking in the way Shane looked when he disappeared and what he potentially could look like now if he is still out there, still living. There as a Facebook page that Shane's family has set up. There have been numerous tips reported there. A lot of people will you know, find somebody who is unhoused and homeless and think that it potentially could be Shane. But like I said, it is really hard to track down these people and you know, exclude them as being Shane, because you just never know, and it's hard to track them down. He could be anywhere at this point, and I do feel that if he knew his true identity and who he was, and he had a way to get in contact with his family, that he would like I said, he was very close with his family. He didn't have many other friends in the Louisiana area. He just had his family, and his family was his lifeline. So for him to just walk away and not have any contact with family is very out of the ordinary, and no one can tell me any different that he left on his own. I do not believe that for a single second. And I think that something either happened to him, somebody came upon him, or he is not in his right mind and has no idea who he is and is just living amongst himself in a homeless encampment somewhere. So I'm gonna share pictures of Shane the way he looked when he disappeared, and he is obviously a lot older now. Shane would be forty nine years old now, and I feel like that is so telling to how much time has gone on since Shane disappeared. He was thirty six years old when he disappeared. And he is going to be close to fifty soon, and that is an alarming amount of time to be missing without any contact with your family when you're someone that regularly communicates with your family. So please share this episode, share Shane's photos. I'm gonna live, I think the Facebook page that Shane's family has set up for him. And again, we all just need to be vigilant in spreading the message, knowing Shane's face, keeping his story out there, keeping his name alive in order to bring him home. Regardless of if he is found well and safe, we still need to bring him home for his family so they can have closure, so they can know what happened. To go day to day without knowing what happened to your family member has to be so gut wrenching and I can't even imagine how his family feels on the daily trying to navigate this new normal that they've been thrust into. So these episodes are so important to share and so important to really listen to. And at the end of the day, we need to bring Shane home and that is what's most important in all of this. So thank you guys so much listening. So sorry this episode was probably really choppy because I had to stop multiple times because I can't talk right now and I have to stop and like cough a crap time during this episode. So if it was choppy, that is why I did my best. Like I said, the show must go on. But I appreciate you all listening. I thank you all so so very much for joining and listening to this episode, and I will see you guys next time for a new episode. Bye.