A Little Less Mess: [North Carolina] Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk
Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast
Bless This Mess
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When Shannon disappeared on her birthday, her family was certain something had happened to her. Police search for answers and in the process, uncover a serial killer in the making.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome to bless this mess in the True Crime podcast. I'm Kara. Just Kara. This is A Little Less Mess. It's our regular episodes minus all the banter, side stories, all the things that ex-camper hated are not on this episode. So if you want to hear more of our like about our crews and things |
| 0:40.6 | like that that we just did go check out our regular episodes that come out on Thursday. They're the |
| 0:44.5 | number one numbered ones in the feed. And if you just want the story, these are just short ones. |
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| 1:09.7 | So go check that out. All right, this |
| 1:11.9 | episode or this week's episode is out of North Carolina. So Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk was born |
| 1:18.7 | April 6, 1960. Not a lot is known about Shannon. She was living in Wilmington, North Carolina, |
| 1:24.4 | working at Mott landscaping. Shannon had friends and family who she spoke with frequently. |
| 1:30.4 | Her mother, she would speak to multiple times a day. |
| 1:33.4 | She did struggle with a drinking problem, receiving several DWIs, |
| 1:37.1 | and finally getting her license revoked, |
| 1:39.4 | leaving her only source of transportation as a moped-type electric bike. On April 6, 2014, Shannon's mom, |
| 1:51.1 | Roberta Lewis, went to visit her daughter. It was Shannon's 54th birthday, and she was planning |
| 1:56.5 | on spending time with her. She knocked on her apartment door in Wilmington, however, no one answered. |
| 2:02.6 | This seemed odd to her, but she thought perhaps she had went somewhere with a friend. |
| 2:07.1 | After waiting a while, she decided to leave. She left the balloons and the present on the doorstep. |
| 2:13.0 | She proceeded to call her daughter throughout the day, with no luck in contacting her. The next morning, |
| 2:18.8 | she still had not heard from her daughter, so she was concerned because this was not like Shannon. |
| 2:24.0 | She stopped by the house again and found that the balloons and present were still there. She |
| 2:29.2 | contacted the Wilmington Police Department to report her as a missing person. Officers went to Shannon's |
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