MURDERED: Shannon Siders
When a young woman vanishes, police think she left willingly. That changes when her body is discovered months later and it’s clear she was brutally murdered. Small town secrets keep this case a mystery for decades…. Until a cold case team is finally able to get people talking.
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Episode Source Material
- Into the Dark: The Murder of Shannon Marie Siders (film). 2011. Directed by David Schock.
- Discovery Plus: On the case with Paula Zahn: Deadly Silence (Season 12, Episode 16).
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Cold case team formed, documentary created, to help solve 1989 murder of Shannon Siders of Newaygo County, by Heather Lynn Peters.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Exhumation of 1989 Newaygo County homicide victim ‘had to be done,’ authorities said, by Heather Lynn Peters.
- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI): Body exhumed in 23-year-old murder case.
- Fox17 (Grand Rapids, MI): Two West Michigan Brothers Jailed for 25-Year-Old Murder, by “agillfillan”.
- Fox17 (Grand Rapids, MI): Brothers Arrested in Cold Case Killing of Newaygo Teen, by “annmarielaflamme”.
- Fox17 (Grand Rapids, MI): Arrests Mark ‘Beginning of the End’ for Father of Murdered Teen, by Matt Erspamer.
- WZZM 13 (Grand Rapids, MI): Court documents detail witness accounts of Shannon Siders’ murder, by Brent Ashcroft and WZZM.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Witnesses tie suspect to woman’s limp body in 1989 Newaygo County murder, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Free to go? Decision looms on 1st-degree murder in 1989 cold-case Newaygo County killing, by John S. Hausman.
- Fox17 (Grand Rapids, MI): Trials begin for brothers accused in gruesome Newaygo Co. cold case murder, by FOX 17 News.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Shannon Siders’ dad, others testify at brothers’ murder trial, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): 2 juries mull brothers’ fate in 1989 sex murder case, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Juries review videos in 1989 sex murder case, deliberate all day, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): 1989 sex murder case brings 2 different convictions for brothers, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): 1989 sex murder victim’s dad sees justice in brothers’ convictions, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Brothers sentenced to prison, one for life, in brutal 1989 death of Newaygo woman, by John S. Hausman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Anatomy of a cold case: ‘Hardy boys,’ beauty of hindsight and jailhouse bombshell, by Heather Lynn Peters.
- Wood TV (Grand Rapids, MI): Brothers appeal conviction in Shannon Siders’ murder. By Rachel Van Gilder.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Court to rule on brothers’ appeal of convictions for 1989 sex murder case, by Stephen Kloosterman.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Appeals court affirms 1989 sex murder convictions of two brothers, by Stephen Kloosterman.
- Cold Case Files: Circle of Friends (Season 1, Episode 7).
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): ‘I was lying:’ Inmate recants testimony that helped convict brothers of Michigan teen’s grisly 1989 murder, by John Agar.
- Fox17 (Grand Rapids, MI): Key witness in 1989 cold case: “I was lying under oath”, by Doug Reardon.
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Convicted in teen’s 1989 killing, brothers seek review by Conviction Integrity Unit after witness recants, by John Agar.
- Who Killed Shannon Siders? (website).
- MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Anatomy of a cold case: 10 breaks that helped solve 1989 murder, by Joel Bissell.
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