NBC Dateline’s Shannon’s Story covers the tragic story of Florida teen Shannon Melendi’s murder at the hands of Butch Hinton. Shannon was only 19 at the time of her disappearance from Atlanta.
Born on March 26, 1994, Melendi was a student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was last seen at a softball game keeping score in DeKalb County.
The 19-year-old was born and raised in Miami and was a soccer player who aspired to be a future attorney with dreams of serving on the United States Supreme Court.
Her dreams and aspirations got crushed when she suddenly disappeared with no leads for the next ten years of her life, with her family holding onto the hope of someday finding her.
The teenager’s family’s hopes were crushed once the police and investigators found the killer who brutally murdered their beloved family after sexually abusing her.
