Pt. 1: Woman's Bathtub Death Raises Suspicions - Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

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a prominent local politician his doting wife a mother of two she was a fantastic mother and their young live in nanny it had the makings of a storybook beginning but it's about to have a gruesome ending okay is she breathing no with LeAnn Shannon dead in the bathtub of her suburban home initial indications were an accidental drowning did she drown was it a suicide I got a call from the Chief of Police from heart Police Department telling me that they had a dead body here but an investigation will soon uncover a family's salacious little secrets and hidden affairs you don't invite another woman into your home well at all point to foul play on the surface Tim Shannon and his 34 year-old wife LeAnn appeared to have a happy marriage the pair met in college and shortly after graduating they tied the knot she felt great influence from her mother that you should get married because you're at a certain age and there's you've had no other prospects Tim's distinguished family was a fixture in the small town of Hart Michigan not far from the lake his father was the only doctor in town and Tim went into politics becoming a well-respected City Councilman her mother was all excited because she felt that her daughter was marrying into a very affluent Shiell family that was gonna take good care of her Leigh Ann went on to work part-time as a real estate agent leaving her time to raise the couple's two children only three and four years old their good fortune even allowed for full-time help from a young live-in nanny named Jamie the minister of the church that they all went to had made a plea to the families that this girl needed a place to stay and spoke specifically to LeAnn and Tim about the possibility of them opening their home to this person which they did it all made for a happy all-american life she was a fantastic mother her kids were her life like she she just loved her children but then tragic news would change everything I got a phone call from my aunt on Sunday evening and she was hysterical and she's crying and she says Deb Leanne's dead I said what do you mean the ends did she said she drank too much and she drowned in the bathtub at the house detectives walk into a grim scene in the bathroom Leanne's bloated body is lying in the family bathtub the water drained her lips a pale blue we talked with the heart police department who investigated the original case and what after talking with them we did have some concerns of a drowning in the bathtub and yet after an initial check at the scene all indications for cops point in the direction of a simple but horrible tragedy we have reason to believe that LeAnn got intoxicated that night we found the empty bottles in the home and her blood-alcohol content when they did the ops Topsy was 0.23 so that would be consistent with her being intoxicated within days detectives wrapped up their investigation Hart County cops reported that LeAnn's death was an accidental drowning they said well we don't really think anything fellas going on it all appeared to be a closed case but not really how often does a person an adult drown in a bathtub it sounded funny soon nearby Oceana County took over the case remember Tim was an elected official and his position as councilman posed a conflict of interest once oceanic County investigators are on the case they uncover startling revelations clues to LeAnn sudden death that didn't go down the drain with the bathwater that horrible Timothy was able to get his wife Leanne to agree to move Jamie in to assist with the raising of the two kids and being nanny at the residence behind closed suburban doors at the Shannon home cops discover a situation brewing that's ripe for a scandal at the center Jamie Hathaway a 20 year old woman who Leanne and Tim had invited into their home her mother told Lee Ann no Leanne you don't invite another woman into your home this is going to be caught this could cause problems at the time no one knew just how many but Leanne's cousin Deborah lariviere II claims the relationship between Tim Leanne and Jamie had some eyebrow raising conditions the thing that was very disturbing apparently this girl was calling Tim and Leanne mum and dad which is sort of odd because she wasn't a child she was she was a woman and she would refer to them as mum and dad not only in the house but out publicly and interestingly Deborah says the couple's seemed to be taking it even one step further Leanne told her mother we're going to adopt Jamie they took steps and even went to see a lawyer to do this but Leanne was about to get the shock of her life from the very woman she now considered a daughter the loving mother learned the nanny had taken on some extra duties igniting a sizzling romance with the man of the house right under LeAnn's nose cops soon learned Tim desperately wants out of his marriage he claimed that his marriage had fallen apart he was going to be filing for divorce but Leanne is distraught and drinking before Tim can file for divorce she turns up dead the largest amount of evidence was the fact that we had a woman dead in the bathtub was it an accident or did someone coming up she and Timothy had decided that she would be moving into the residence alcohol drowned sorrows lead cops to a shocking discovery the land would not be there anymore LeAnn struggled with depression and other issues related to that developed we believe a drinking issue Tim Shannon ultimately decided he wanted to be with the younger woman

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Channel: True Crime Daily

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Keywords: Tim Shannon, lee-ann shannon, leeann shannon, timothy nathanial shannon, crime, ana garcia, crime watch, crime watch daily, crime watch daily with chris hansen, hart, michigan, Jamie Hathaway

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Length: 6min 55sec (415 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 28 2017

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