The Case of Michelle "Shelly Goots - Michaels

IN FEBRUARY OF 1992, SHELLY STARTED TO DATE BURE ADKINS AND NOT TOO LONG AFTER SHE GOT PREGNANT. HE DIDN’T WANT TO MARRY HER AND IN ALL HONESTY HER PARENTS EVEN THOUGHT IT WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA. SO, SHE DECIDED TO JUST HAVE THE BABY ALONE. SHELLY GAVE BIRTH TO A BABY BOY SHE NAMED ALEC, HER MOTHER WOULD DRIVE TO MORGANTOWN EVERY WEEK JUST TO BABYSIT, SO SHELLY COULD GO TO SCHOOL. THE FATHER BRUCE WOULD HELP BUT AFTER THEY BROKE UP, HE KINDA JUST FADED AWAY. THAT IS UNTIL HE OFFERED TO MARRY HER WHICH SHE SAID NO TO BECAUSE SHE KNEW HE JUST ASKED OUT OF JEALOUSY. SHELLY WOULD END UP FINDING LOVE AGAIN. SHE STARTED TO DATE A MAN SHE MET THROUGH SOME FRIENDS. HIS NAME WAS ROB ANGUS AND HE ENDED UP FORMING A TIGHT BOND WITH HER SON ALEC. SHELLY WOULD END UP SAYING THAT SHE REALLY DIDN’T LOVE ROB BUT SHE KNEW IT WAS THE BEST THING FOR HER SON. IN SEPTEMBER THEY WERE ENGAGED AND SHE GOT PREGNANT AGAIN. SHE WOULD END UP GOING TO PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA TO HAVE AN ABORTION WHICH SHE WOULD END UP BLAMING ON ROB, SAYING HE TOLD HER IT WASN’T A GOOD TIME TO HAVE A BABY. DURING FOOTBALL SEASON SHELLY WOULD BE ON A TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA FOR A FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT THAT WVU WAS IN. AFTER A PARTY, SHE STARTED TO FLIRT WITH ONE OF THE TRAINERS. SHE WOULD GO ON TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE PARTY AND IN ALL HONESTY IT SOUNDED LIKE RAPE. SHELLY SAID SHE REMEMBERED FEELING FILTHY AND HUMILIATED, BUT SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER IF SHE CONSENTED TO IT. THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID ENDED HER CHEERLEADING CAREER AT WVU. SHELLY CARRIED ON WITH THE WEDDING PLANS. EVEN THOUGH HER FAMILY URGED HER TO CALL OFF OR EVEN JUST POSTPONE IT, BUT SHELLY BEING SHELLY REFUSED TO DO EITHER. IN JULY OF 1995, SHE MARRIED ROB ANGUS IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. THEY STARTED TO SETTLE INTO THE MARRIED LIFE. SHELLY STAYED IN SCHOOL AND ROB WORKED FOR PARKS AND REC IN MORGANTOWN. NOT TOO LONG AFTER THE WEDDING BRUCE ADKINS WOULD ACTUALLY SUGGEST THAT ROB WOULD ADOPT HIS SON. ALEC ADORED HIS STEP DAD SO EVERYONE JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BEST FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. TIME PASSED AND SHELLY CLAIMED THAT THE MARRIAGE QUICKLY CRUMBLE. SHE WOULD SAY THAT PHYSICAL VIOLENCE WAS ON BOTH SIDE OF THE RELATIONSHIP. HOWEVER ROB WOULD NEVER COMMENT ON THIS PART OF THEIR MARRIAGE. AROUND HALLOWEEN, SHELLY BECAME PREGNANT AGAIN AND WHEN SHE WAS 39 WEEKS PREGNANT, SHE WAS CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING AGAIN. SHE WOULD SAY IT WAS JUST A MISTAKE AND THAT ALEC REALLY WANTED A COSTUME AND HE PUT IT IN HER BAG AND SHE DIDN’T REALIZE IT. HOWEVER SHE WAS FOUND TO BE GUILTY AND WAS GIVEN PROBATION, SHELLY GAVE BIRTH TO THEIR DAUGHTER KYLIE ON OCTOBER 3RD. SO THERE WERE SOME ASPECTS OF ROB AND SHELLY’S MARRIAGE THAT SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT WERE JUST WEIRD. SHELLY LEFT HER SIX-MONTH-OLD BABY GIRL AND HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON WITH HER HUSBAND ROB WHICH SEEMS NORMAL RIGHT? MAYBE TO GO VISIT FAMILY OR JUST HAVE A LITTLE GET AWAY FOR HERSELF.. HOWEVER SHELLY ENDED UP GOING TO MYRTLE BEACH WITH HER FRIENDS FOR SPRING BREAK. SHELLY WOULD GO TO GRADUATE FROM WVU WITH A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN NURSING. SHE WAS OFFERED A JOB AT RUBY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN THE PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. SHELLY ABSOLUTELY LOVED HER JOB AT RUBY MEMORIAL. SHE HAS SAID THAT SHE’S ALWAYS WANTED TO WORK WITH CHILDREN AND THAT SHE LOVED TAKING CARE OF THE BABIES, BUT HER CO-WORKERS THOUGHT SHE WAS NOTHING BUT A FLIRT AND A SHOW OFF. THEY SAID THAT SHELLY WOULD GO AROUND DOING CHEERLEADER MOVES BASICALLY DOING HIGH KICKS OR JUMPING WHILE WALKING DOWN THE HALLS. WHICH I CAN SEE HOW THIS IS ANNOYING TO CO-WORKERS BUT MAYBE SHE WAS DOING THIS FOR THE KIDS ON THE FLOOR AND HER CO-WORKERS TOOK IT AS HER SHOWING OFF. THERE WAS ON CO-WORKER WHO FOUND THE THINGS SHELLY DID EYE ROLL WORTHY. STEPHANIE MICHAEL, A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST, BUT IN ALL HONESTY SHE DIDN’T HAVE ANY TROUBLE WITH HER. STEPHANIE’S HUSBAND JIMMY MICHAEL WORKED WITH THEM ON THE SAME UNIT AS WELL. AFTER A WHILE SHE ENDED UP WORKING ONE OF THE SAME WEEKEND SHIFTS AS JIMMY AND THEY DEVELOPED A FRIENDSHIP, SHELLY CALLED IT AN INSTANT ATTRACTION. JAMES ANDREW MICHAEL, BETTER KNOWN AS JIMMY, WAS BORN IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, IN 1972. JIMMY STARTED COLLEGE AT ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN CUMBERLAND BECAUSE HIS PARENTS THOUGHT HE MAY BE A BIT TOO IMMATURE TO GO OFF SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY TO SCHOOL. SO WHILE THERE HE ACTUALLY BECAME VERY CLOSE WITH HIS ROOMATE REGGIE HOURS. REGGIE SAID THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY TEASE JIMMY ABOUT HIS FASCINATION WITH CHEERLEADERS AND WELL BASICALLY JUST SKINNY GIRLS IN GENERAL. REGGIE SAID THAT IT WAS SO BAD THAT HE WOULD COME HOME TO SEE JIMMY WATCHING THE CHEER COMPETITIONS ON ESPN. IN 1992 JIMMY GRADUATED WITH AN ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE IN RESPIRATORY THERAPY AND HE ENROLLED IN WVU, WANTING TO MAJOR IN CHEMISTRY. SO HIM AND REGGIE MOVED TO MORGANTOWN TOGETHER, BOTH FINDING JOBS AT RUBY MEMORIAL. NOT TOO LONG AFTER STARTING TO WORK AT RUBY MEMORIAL JIMMY MET STEPHANIE, SHE SAID THAT SHE REMEMBERS THINKING HE WAS A BIG OLE TEDDY BEAR. THEY WERE HONESTLY POLAR OPPOSITE OF EACH OTHER HE WAS EXTROVERTED AND SHE WAS INTROVERTED. AFTER BEING A COUPLE FOR A WHILE IN 1993 THE TWO ENDED UP GETTING ENGAGED. BASICALLY SURPRISING EVERYONE WITH HOW QUICK THEY WERE MOVING. BUT, JIMMY JUST REALLY WANTED TO GET MARRIED. HE JUST WANTED TO SETTLE DOWN, AND HE THOUGHT HE FOUND THAT IN STEPHANIE. IN JUNE OF 1993 STEPHANIE WAS PREGNANT GIVING BIRTH TO THEIR SON DREW. EVERYONE SAID THE COUPLE SEEMED HAPPY, BUT LIKE EVERY COUPLE THERE WERE PROBLEMS. THEY DISCOVERED THAT THEY HONESTLY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH IN COMMON WITH ONE ANOTHER. JIMMY HAD A LOT OF PRESSURE ON HIM, THE COUPLE LIVED IN A HOUSE OWNED MY STEPAHNIE’S PARENTS. HE SPENT YEARS WORKING DOUBLE SHIFTS, JUST SO THEY COULD SAVE FOR A DOWN PAYMENT ON THEIR OWN HOUSE AND HE ALSO WANTED TO GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. AFTER HE GRADUATED FROM WVU HE FOUND OUT THE STEPHANIE HAD THOUSANDS IN CREDIT CARD DEBIT. THEN HIS DREAMS OF MEDICAL WERE THROWN AWAY , BY THE FALL OF 1996, STEPHANIE WAS PREGNANT AGAIN AND THE COUPLE KEPT FIGHTING. SHE SWORE OUT A COMPLAINT WITH THE POLICE, ACCUSING JIMMY OF PINCHING HER ARM DURING AN ARGUMENT. THE ARGUING AND FIGHTING KEPT GOING ON AFTER THE BIRTH OF THEIR DAUGHTER JACEY. AS MUCH AS THEY BOTH LOVED THEIR NEW DAUGHTER THEY KNEW SHE COULDN’T SAVE THEIR MARRIAGE. JIMMY AND STEPHANIE SEPARATED WHEN JACEY WAS FIVE MONTHS OLD. JIMMY BOUGHT HIS OWN HOME SO HIS KIDS COULD SPEND THE NIGHT WITH HIM. IN 1998, THE COUPLE DID RECONCILE AND THEY ENDED UP RENEWING THEIR VOWS AND STEPHANIE MOVED INTO JIMMY’S NEW HOUSE. STEPHANIE’S PARENTS DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS AND THEY ENDED UP SHUTTING THEIR DAUGHTER OUT OF THEIR LIVES. JIMMY STARTED TO WORK SOME NIGHT SHIFTS AND THAT'S WHEN HE MET SHELLY ANGUS AND THEY STARTED TO BECOME CLOSE. SHELLY WOULD GO ON TO SAY THAT THE TWO HAD A LOT IN COMMON, THEY BOTH HAD SMALL CHILDREN AND FAILING MARRIAGES. BUT MOST OF THEIR FRIENDS AND CO-WORKS BELIEVED THAT SHELLY PURSUES JIMMY RELENTLESSLY. HIS LONG TIME FRIEND AND COWORKER REGGIE SAID HE KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING THAT SHELLY COULD SENSE THAT JIMMY WAS VERY AMBITIOUS AND A HARD WORKER AND THAT HE WAS MEANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL. REGGIE SAID THAT SHELLY WOULD PLAY UP TO HIS WEAKNESSES, FLIRTING, COMPLEMENTING, AND WELL SHE DEFINITELY PLAYED UP TO THE CHEERLEADER PART OF HIS DREAM. SHELLY WOULD OFTEN COMPLAIN ABOUT HER HOUSE, BECAUSE IT WAS PROVIDED BY THE PARKS AND RECS DEPARTMENT WHERE HER HUSBAND WORKED. SHE REALLY JUST WANTED SOMETHING NICER. STEPAHNIE WOULD END UP REGRETTING HOW SHE MENTIONED THAT JIMMY BOUGHT A NEW HOUSE IN A REALLY NICE NEIGHBORHOOD. BY CHRISTMAS OF 1998, JIMMY AND SHELLY WERE HAVING A FULL BLOWN AFFAIR. REGGIE SUSPECTED THE AFFAIR AND STEPHANIE FIGURED IT OUT ONE NIGHT WHEN SHELLY CALLED THE HOUSE AND SHE ANSWERED AND SHELLY HUNG UP THE PHONE THE SECOND SHE ANSWERED. STEPHANIE NOT RECOGNISING THE NUMBER WROTE IT DOWN. THEN WHEN SHE WAS AT WORK SHE WOULD ASK AROUND TO SEE IF ANYONE KNEW WHOSE NUMBER IT WAS. THEN SHE WAS TOLD IT WAS SHELLY’S NUMBER. BUT SHE DIDN’T CONFRONT HER HUSBAND. SHE DECIDED TO SIT BACK AND WATCH IT ALL UNFOLD BY NOW THE HOSPITAL AND SOME OF MORGANTOWN WERE GOSSIPING ABOUT THEIR AFFAIR, JIMMY WOULD DENY THE AFFAIR TO STEPAHNIE. THEY HAD A LOT OF HEATED ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE AFFAIR AND WELL JIMMY HAD A TEMPER AND STEPHANIE MAINTAINED THAT HE DID NOT HIT HER, BUT HE DID THROW THINGS, PUNCH WALLS, AND RIGHT BEFORE NEW YEARS EVE, HE THREATENED TO PHYSICALLY THROW HER OUT OF THE HOUSE. STEPHANIE FILED HER THIRD COMPLAINT TO THE POLICE. SHE SAID THAT HE THREATENED TO KILL HER, STEPHANIE SERVED JIMMY WITH DIVORCE PAPERS WHILE AT WORK. HIS PARENTS WERE DISAPPOINTED AND ENCOURAGED HIM TO WORK IT OUT WITH STEPHANIE. IN THE LONG RUN STEPHANIE AND JIMMY DIDN’T HAVE A GREAT MARRIAGE, THEY RUSHED INTO GETTING MARRIED, THEY ARGUED ALL THE TIME, IN ALL HONESTY SHELLY WAS MORE THAN LIKELY THE LAST STRAW IN THEIR MARRIAGE. IN JANUARY OF 1999 SHELLY WALKED OUT ON ROB, SHE WOULD SAY THAT THEIR MARRIAGE ENDED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF TRUST, NOT BECAUSE OF THE AFFAIR SHE WAS HAVING, BUT BECAUSE ROB LIKED TO WATCH PORN. BOTH OF THE DIVORCES WERE SETTLED IN THE SPRING OF 1999. RIGHT AWAY SHELLY WOULD MOVE IN WITH JIMMY. STEPHANIE MADE A REMARK ONE DAY SAYING SURE ENOUGH, SHE GOT MY HOUSE. AFTER SHE MOVED IN THEY HAD JIMMY’S FRIEND CARRIE AND HER HUSBAND OVER ONE NIGHT FOR DINNER. CARRIE WAS AN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST, SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS DISTURBED BY SHELLY’S TREATMENT OF JIMMY’S SON DREW BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT HE WAS OVERLY HARD ON HIM, SHE TOLD WHAT SHE THOUGHT TO JIMMY AND HE BLEW HER OFF, BUT CARRIE WAS CONCERNED AND SHE JUST HOPED THAT IT WAS FROM THE ADJUSTMENT TO THE NEW LIVING ARRANGEMENTS. LATER THAT SUMMER, JIMMY TOOK SHELLY TO HIS PARENTS NEW HOUSE IN PENNSYLVANIA. HIS PARENTS WERE NOT WEALTHY, BUT THEY DID HAVE A NICE HOME ON A BIG PIECE OF LAND. HIS DAD DANNY DID THE CONSTRUCTION, AND HE DID A LOT OF THE ADD-ONS HIMSELF. SHELLY WAS REALLY IMPRESSED. RUTH JIMMY’S MOTHER SAID THAT SHE SHELLY WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE HOUSE WHICH SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE ODD AT THE TIME, BUT SHE BRUSHED IT OFF. SHELLY LOOKED AT HER AND SAID “WHY DON’T YOU GO AHEAD AND GIVE US OUR INHERITANCE NOW?” IN THE MEANTIME SHELLY AND JIMMY WERE BOTH STILL IN DIVORCE COURT, WORKING OUT THEIR FINANCES, AND THE CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN. IN FEBRUARY THEY BOTH WORKED OUT JOINT CUSTODY THEY MADE IT TO WHERE EITHER SIDE HAD ALL FOUR KIDS ON THE WEEKENDS AND THE KIDS GOING TO THEIR MOTHER OR FATHERS HOME ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS. IT WAS AN ARRANGEMENT THAT THEY HAD TO MAKE WORK BUT SOON OTHER FRIENDS AND FAMILY WOULD SEE WHAT CARRIE SAW. THEY SAW THAT SHELLY WOULD PICK ON DREW AND HER SON ALEC WOULD EVEN BULLY DREW. WHAT SURPRISED EVERYONE IS HOW JIMMY WOULD JUST TAKE IT IN STRIDE. THE GIRLS KYLIE AND JACEY, WERE LIKE AUTOMATIC BESTIES. THEY THOUGHT THAT THE BOYS WERE JUST NATURALLY COMPETITIVE LIKE ALL STEP BROTHERS CAN BE. OVER TIME DREW’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS SOON TO BE STEP MOTHER SHELLEY JUST GOT WORSE. AFTER ALL OF THIS SHELLY, JIMMY, AND STEPHANIE STILL WORKED TOGETHER AT RUBY MEMORIAL. WHEN STEPHANIE FOUND OUT SHELLY AND JIMMY WERE ENGAGED RIGHT AFTER THEIR DIVORCE AND WAS HURT. SHE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS TOO SOON. I’M NOT SURE IF SHE KNEW IT WAS COMING OR NOT, MAYBE SHE DID BUT MAYBE SHE JUST SAW IT DOWN THE ROAD. NOT RIGHT AFTER THE DIVORCE. NOW STEPHANIE WAS A SINGLE MOTHER TRYING TO PAY HER BILLS AND RAISE HER CHILDREN. SHELLY GOT HER HUSBAND BUT SHELLY ALSO RUBBED IT IN HER FACE BY THREATENING THAT THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY GO BACK TO COURT AND SHE WOULD HAVE FULL CUSTODY OF HER CHILDREN. IN MAY OF 2000 SHELLY AND JIMMY GOT MARRIED, BUT SOON AFTER THE WEDDING. SHELLY MADE JIMMY STOP COMMUNICATING WITH STEPHANIE. ALL OF THE CALLS ABOUT THEIR KIDS HAD TO GO THROUGH HER. IT WAS SO BAD THAT STEPHANIE COULDN’T EVEN GET HIS NEW CELL PHONE NUMBER. SHELLY WAS BASICALLY TAKING OVER JIMMY’S LIFE. SHELLY WAS RAISED CATHOLIC. SHE WASN’T THAT INVOLVED IN THE CHURCH BEFORE SHE MET JIMMY BUT SHE THREW HERSELF INTO HIS FAITH, GOING TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY AND GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND. JIMMY WOULD START COACHING DREW AND ALEC’S LITTLE LEAGUE FOOTBALL TEAM. I WAS HONESTLY SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT ROB ANGUS HELPED HIM. WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE KIDS THERE SEEMED TO BE NO PROBLEMS. IN FEBRUARY OF 2001, STEPHANIE FILED ANOTHER COMPLAINT ON JIMMY. SHE SAID THAT HE TRIED TO HIT HER WITH HIS CAR DURING A HEATED ARGUMENT AND THAT JAYCEE AND KYLIE WERE IN THE VEHICLE WITH HIM. PROTECTION ORDERS WERE FILED, AND JIMMY WOULD END UP TAKING A PLEA BARGAIN OF A SIMPLE ASSAULT SO HE WOULDN’T HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD. LATER STEPHANIE SAID SHE ASKED FOR THE CHARGES TO BE DROPPED AS LONG AS JIMMY TOOK ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES. BY EARLY 2002, SHELLY WAS PRESSURING JIMMY TO BUY A NEW HOME, COMPLAINING THAT THEIR FAMILY SIMPLY OUTGREW THE ONE THEY WERE IN. SHE ALSO COMPLAINED IT WAS TOO FAR TO DRIVE TO WORK EVERYDAY. IT WAS ONLY FIVE MILES OUTSIDE OF MORGANTOWN WHICH ISN’T BAD AT ALL, BUT SHE WANTED TO LIVE IN THE SUNCREST NEIGHBORHOOD OF MORGANTOWN. SO SHE PICKED OUT A HOUSE ON KILLARNEY DRIVE. ITT WAS A FOUR-BEDROOM HOUSE THAT JIMMY WORRIED ABOUT IT BEING OUT OF THEIR BUDGET. SHELLY HAS RECENTLY WENT DOWN TO A PART-TIME POSITION SHELLY ACTUALLY CONVINCED JIMMY TO PAY FOR HER TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR NURSING THEN SHE WOULD BECOME A NURSE PRACTITIONER, THEN SHE’D REALLY BE MAKING GOOD MONEY, BUT UNTIL THEN THEY WOULD LIVE WITH A DECREASED INCOME. JIMMY TRIED TO FIGHT SHELLY ON BUYING A NEW HOUSE BUT SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT UP. BY MAY THEY MOVED INTO A NEW HOUSE JUST A MILE AWAY FROM RUBY MEMORIAL. THE TWO WENT ON TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH NEIGHBORS AND PEOPLE IN THEIR NEW COMMUNITY. LATER SOME WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW SHELLY WOULD WEAR SKIMPY OUTFITS. THEY ALSO NOTICED HOW SHE TREATED JIMMY’S SON DREW. HER PICKING ON HIM MUST’VE BEEN BAD ENOUGH FOR NOT ONLY THEIR FRIENDS BUT NOW THEIR NEW NEIGHBORS ARE SEEING IT. AT THIS TIME JIMMY WASN’T THE ONLY ONE GETTING THE CONTROLLING NATURE OF SHELLY. IT HAD MOVED ON TO THE FAMILIES AS WELL, ANY FAMILY GET TOGETHER HAD TO BE AT THEIR NEW HOME. A FAMILY MEMBER SAID THAT SHELLY GOT WHAT SHELLY WANTED. SHE WAS A PERFECTIONIST, AND SHE WANTED TO LOOK LIKE THE PERFECT BRADY-BUNCH FAMILY. SHELLY HAD TAKEN A TOOK A TWO WEEK VACATION FROM WORK AFTER BEING TOLD SHE WASN’T ALLOWED. A FEW WEEKS AFTER THIS, HER SISTER JENNIFER, WHO WAS PREGNANT WITH HER THIRD CHILD CAME OUT AS A LESBIAN. SHE LEFT HER HUSBAND AND MOVED IN WITH HER PARTNER, JAMIE. JIMMY FELT LIKE THIS WAS AGAINST HIS FAITH AND BANNED HIS CHILDREN FROM SEEING THEIR AUNT. SHELLY WROTE A LETTER ABOUT BEING DISAPPOINTED AND UPSET. SHELLY’S PARENTS ACCEPTED JENNIFER IN HER CHOICES. HOWEVER, SHELLY DIDN’T SHE SIDED WITH JIMMY ON THIS. BUT A FEW MONTHS LATER SHE WOULD ATTEND THE BAPTISM OF THE BABY. APPARENTLY SHELLY SAT IN THE CHURCH FUMING THE ENTIRE TIME. WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT JENNIFER’S PARTNER JAMIE WOULD BE AT THE FAMILY DINNER SHE WAS PISSED. SHE RAN OVER TO JAMIE’S CAR, PULLED HER OUT AND STARTED TO PUNCH HER. JIMMY WAS ABLE TO PULL HER OFF OF JAMIE AND JAMIES WAS ABLE TO GET AWAY FROM SHELLY. THIS IS ACTUALLY HOW JIMMY’S PARENTS FOUND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. RUTH SAID THAT THE WHOLE THING WAS LIKE A BIG DARK SECRET, WHICH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND AS THEIR PARENTS ACCEPTED IT. RUTH DID UNDERSTAND JIMMY’S RELIGIOUS BELIEVES, BUT LIKE OTHERS SHE THOUGHT SHELLY’S OBJECTION WAS DISINGENUOUS. PEOPLE AT THEIR CHURCH WOULD ACTUALLY WHISPER ABOUT SHELLY. IT WASN;T HER SKIMPY OUTFITS, THERE WERE OTHER RUMORS. TO A LOT OF THEM SHE CAME OFF LIKE A FAKE PERSON. ONLY SHOWING UP FOR CHURCH ON SUNDAYS DRESSED UP WITH HER PICTURE PERFECT FAMILY, BUT EVERYONE IN THE CHURCH THOUGHT IT WAS NOTHING BUT AN ACT. A FEW WEEKS LATER JIMMY ACTUALLY PULLED ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS JEREMY FROM CHURCH TO THE SIDE. HE SHOWED HIM A BOX THAT CAME IN THE MAIL. IN THE BOX, WAS ONE OF SHELLY’S SWEATERS WITH A NOTE THAT SAID “KEEP YOUR WHORE WIFE AWAY FROM MY HUSBAND.” JIMMY WONDERED WHY THIS LADY SENT HIM THIS AND WHY SHELLY DENIED IT ALL. HE DIDN’T THINK SHE WAS CHEATING ON HIM. HOWEVER JIMMY THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT JIMMY WAS IN DENIAL. I MEAN JIMMY KNEW SHE WAS A CHEATER AND ONCE A CHEATER ALWAYS A CHEATER. JULY OF 2004 SHELLY WENT ON TO RECEIVE HER PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATE. DESPITE HER HISTORY AT RUBY MEMORIAL THEY DID OFFER HER A FULL-TIME POSITION. HOWEVER IN HER INTERVIEW, SHE SAID SHE DIDN’T WANT TO WORK FULL-TIME THAT SHE ONLY WANTED TO WORK THREE TEN HOUR SHIFTS A WEEK. HER SUPERVISOR WHO WAS THE SAME MAN WHO HAD PROBLEMS WITH HER BEFORE INSISTED THAT THIS WAS A FULL-TIME POSITION. THAT SHE WOULD HAVE MUCH MORE RESPONSIBILITY AND THEREFORE BE ACCOUNTABLE, AND THAT IT JUST WASN’T A PART TIME JOB. SHELLY BEING SHELLY WOULD NOT GIVE IT UP AND THE SUPERVISOR FINALLY GAVE IN AND SAID THAT HE WOULD GIVE IT A SHOT. BY WINTER, SHELLY NO LONGER WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH JIMMY AND JIMMY WAS FRUSTRATED AT WORK. JIMMY TOOK A PHARMACY JOB WHEN HE REALIZED HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. HE WAS PROMISED THAT HE WOULD BE MADE A PARTNER IN THE COMPANY AND AFTER THREE YEARS OF WAITING HE DECIDED TO LEAVE AND START HIS OWN MEDICAL SUPPLY BUSINESS. JIMMY ALONG WITH THE HELP FROM A BANK SECURED A PERSONAL LOAN FOR $60,000. HE RETAINED 55% CONTROL IN THE COMPANY AND IN JANUARY OF 2005 HE OPENED MOUNTAINEER HOME MEDICAL. JIMMY THREW HIMSELF INTO HIS BUSINESS. HE WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE AND THE LAST TO LEAVE. SHELLY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THAT NO NEW COMPANY IS GOING WITHOUT SOME PERSONAL SACRIFICES AND ONE OF THOSE WAS THE INCOME THAT JIMMY HAD WITH HIS PHARMACY JOB. AND JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN HER LIFE SHE STARTED TO PUT HERSELF INTO JIMMY’S BUSINESS. SHE CALLED MEETINGS WITH HIS PARTNERS, QUESTIONING HER HUSBAND REPEATEDLY. HONESTLY JIMMY WAS EMBARRASSED AS I THINK ANYONE WOULD BE. AND THIS STARTED THE DOWNHILL RIDE FOR THE COUPLE. IN FEBRUARY OF 2005, JIMMY MET WITH A LIFE INSURANCE SALESMAN AFTER TALKING TO HIS BUSINESS PARTNERS. SHELLY WAS BROUGHT INTO THAT MEETING, AND THEY BOTH DECIDED ON A $500,000 POLICY. THEY ALSO TOOK OUT A $200,000 POLICY ON HER AND SHE HAD A $300,000 POLICY ON HER THROUGH HER WORK. AROUND THE SAME TIME AS THIS, RUBY MEMORIAL STARTED A EXTENSION ON PEDIATRIC WING SO DURING THE CONSTRUCTION SHELLY HAD TO WORK FULL TIME. SHE MET WITH THE HEAD DOCTOR WHO WAS ONCE AGAIN PUT OFF BY HER ATTITUDE. SHE COMPLAINED AND COMPLAINED ABOUT IT. WHEN THE DOCTOR MET WITH HER NURSING SUPERVISOR, THEY AGREED THAT SHELLY WOULD HAVE TO WORK FULL TIME ONCE THE CONSTRUCTION WAS COMPLETED. WITH SHELLY WANTING TO WORK AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE SHE WAS ANGRY THAT JIMMY’S BUSINESS WASN’T PAY ENOUGH YET. SO SHE DECIDED TO STOP TRYING TO KEEP UP THIS PICTURE PERFECT LIFE TO HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY. WHEN FATHERS DAY CAME SHE DIDN’T INVITE EITHER SIDE OF THE FAMILY LIKE SHE USUALLY DID. WHICH JIMMY’S PARENTS FOUND THAT TO BE EXTREMELY ODD, SHELLY ENDED UP BLAMING IT ON JIMMY SHE SAID THAT HE DIDN’T WANT THEM THERE. AND WELL THEY KNEW HIM WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS A LIE. WHAT SHELLY DIDN’T KNOW AT THE TIME IS THAT JIMMY’S BUSINESS WAS TAKING OFF BUT THINGS WERE STILL BAD AT HOME. PEOPLE NOTICED HOW SHELLY’S COLDNESS TOWARDS HIM, AND BECAUSE OF THIS JIMM WAS USUALLY DEPRESSED AND UPSET. SHELLY SAID SHE WAS UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE AT WORK TRYING TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FULL TIME HOURS SHE WAS HAVING TO WORK. SO SHE DECIDED THAT IT WAS THE PERFECT TIME TO HAVE ANOTHER CHILD. THE THING IS THAT JIMMY HAD A VASECTOMY YEARS BEFORE THEY EVEN GOT MARRIED, IT WAS AFTER HIS LAST CHILD WITH STEPAHNIE WAS BORN. JIMMY IN ALL HONESTY HAD NO INTEREST IN EXPANDING THEIR FAMILY, HE DEFINITELY HAD NO INTEREST IN HAVING THE REVERSAL SURGERY. WITH SHELLY BEING THE WAY SHE IS SHELLY WAS ADAMANT, AND THIS CAUSED MANY FIGHTS TO HAPPEN. EVERYONE AROUND THEM THOUGHT THIS WAS SHELLY’S WAY TO GET OUT OF HAVING TO WORK HER FULL TIME HOURS. AROUND THIS TIME JIMMY STARTED TO QUESTION SHELLY’S FAITHFULNESS AGAIN. SHE ENDED UP GOING TO THE ITALIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL WITH AND FRIEND AND WHEN SHE RETURNED THAT NIGHT JIMMY ASKED WHERE SHE HAD BEEN. SHE TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NONE OF HIS BUSINESS. SHE WASN’T EVEN TRYING TO HIDE WHAT SHE WAS DOING ANYMORE. THERE WERE WHISPERS AROUND MORGANTOWN AND JIMMY TRIED TO IGNORE THEM BUT THEY WERE NOW GETTING TO HIM. IN SEPTEMBER OF 2005, SHELLY WAS SUSPENDED FROM WORK AGAIN FOR TAKING SOME MORE UNAUTHORIZED TIME OFF. IN OCTOBER, SHELLY WENT TO JIMMY AND TOLD HIM THAT DREW WAS MISBEHAVING, WE AREN’T SURE WHAT SHE ACCUSED HIM OF BUT WE DO KNOW THAT DREW SAID HE DIDN’T DO IT AND HE CALLED SHELLY A LIAR. THAT WAS IT FOR JIMMY HE SNAPPED AND HE BEAT DREW WITH A BELT. HOWEVER IT DIDN’T TAKE JIMMY LONG TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE DID AND HE WAS UPSET WITH HIMSELF. HE CALLED HIS FRIEND FROM CHURCH JIMMY ALMOST HYSTERICAL. THE NEXT SATURDAY, DREW HAD A SOCCER GAME AND STEPAHNIE NOTICED BRUISING ON DREW'S ARM. SHE ASKED HER SON WHAT HAPPENED AND HE TOLD HER WHAT JIMMY DID TO HIM. WHEN SHE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT, HE BECAME EMOTIONAL AND APOLOGETIC, STEPHANIE, WAS ALWAYS ONE TO FORGIVE, AND SHE DECIDED TO LET IT GO, SHE COULD TELL JIMMY WAS TRULY SORRY FOR WHAT HE DID AND SHE BELIEVED HIM. JIMMY WENT TO STEPHANIE’S HOUSE TO TALK TO DREW. DREW LIFTED UP HIS SHIRT SO HE COULD SEE THE BRUISING. STEPHANIE SAID THAT SHE COULD SEE THE COLOR DRAIN FROM JIMMY’S FACE AND HE FELL TO HIS KNEES CRYING AND BEGGING FOR FORGIVENESS. DAN DREW’S STEP DAD STEPPED IN TO TALK TO JIMMY. HE SEEMED LIKE HE UNDERSTOOD THE PRESSURE JIMMY WAS UNDER AND HE DIDN’T WANT TO PUNISH HIM BECAUSE IT WAS CLEAR THAT JIMMY FELT AWFUL. HE DID TELL JIMMY THAT HE NEEDED TO START COMMUNICATING WITH STEPHANIE. DAN AND STEPHANIE BOTH THAT THERE WERE A LOT A PROBLEMS CAUSED BY SHELLY INSISTENCE THAT STEPHANIE ONLY WENT THROUGH SHELLY. THEY ALL DECIDED RIGHT THEN AND THERE THAT IT WOULD STOP. SHELLY WOULD NOW BE OUT OF THE EQUATION AND LATER STEPHANIE AND DAN SAID THAT THIS REALLY IMPROVED THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH JIMMY. JIMMY SEEMED LESS STRESSED AND IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE GOT ALONG BETTER, EVEN THOUGHT JIMMY WAS FORGIVEN BY HIS SON AND STEPHANIE A TEACHER AT DREW'S SCHOOL SAW THE BRUISING AND CALLED CPS. AFTER THIS PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY SAW JIMMY SAID THAT HE SEEMED DEPRESSED OR DISTRAUGHT. MANY BELIEVE THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF SHELLY’S ACTIONS. IN THE MEANTIME SHELLY WAS PURSUING A EMBROIDERY COMPANY. SHE WAS DOING A LOT OF RESEARCH AND ENDED UP SIGNING HER AND A FRIEND UP FOR A SEMINAR IN CHICAGO. WHEN SHE GOT BACK SHE WAS IN A MINOR CAR ACCIDENT THEN SHE FELL DOWN THE STAIRS. OF COURSE THESE TWO THINGS PUT HER OUT OF WORK FOR THREE WEEKS. EVEN THOUGH SHE DIDN’T HAVE ANY INJURIES OR BROKEN BONES. TO ME I THINK SHE JUST SAID THIS TO GET OUT OF WORK SINCE WE ALL KNOW SHE DID NOT WANT TO WORK FULL TIMES HOURS AND THEY WOULDN’T LET HER TAKE ANYMORE TIME OFF. DURING THIS STEPHANIE HAD A BABY AND EVERYONE SAW A CHANGE IN THE WAY SHELLY WAS TOWARDS HER. WHEN STEPHANIE CAME TO PICK UP JAYCEE AND DREW SHELLY BEGGED TO HOLD THE NEW BABY. WITH THIS STEPHANIE JUST HOPED THAT THINGS GOT BETTER. BUT THE REAL REASON SHELLY WAS HAPPY IS BECAUSE FLOTATION STATE BETWEEN HER AND BOBBY TEETS WHEN THEY WENT TO CHICAGO FOR THE EMBROIDERY SEMINAR, SHE ONLY BOOKED ONE ROOM. THEN THEY TURNED THE TRIP INTO A LOVERS GETAWAY. CAMERAS IN THE HOTEL CAUGHT THE TWO KISSING AND HOLDING HANDS. SHELLY SAID LATER THAT SHE FELT GUILTY AND WAS JUST SUCKED INTO IT. HOWEVER BOBBY WAS GUILT RIDDEN. NOT FOR HIS WIFE KELLEY BUT FOR JIMMY AS WELL. JIMMY GAVE HIM A JOB AND THEN JIMMY STARTED TO ACT DIFFERENTLY. ON THANKSGIVING DAY, JIMMY AND SHELLY ATTENDED A MOUNTAINEER FOOTBALL GAME. SHE WOULD LATER SAY THEY DISCUSSED HOW THE BUSINESS WAS DOING, HE TOLD HER THAT HE WAS LEAVING THE FOLLOWING NIGHT TO GO HOME TO GO ON A HUNTING TRIP WITH HIS DAD AND COUSIN. HE ALSO TOLD BOBBY TEETS THAT HE WOULD BE OUT OF TOWN AND NEEDED BOBBY TO BE ON CALL. HE CALLED STEPHANIE TO SEE IF HE COULD TAKE DREW WITH HIM EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW IT WAS THANKSGIVING AND SHE SAID NO JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS A HUGE FAMILY GET TOGETHER WITH THE NEW BABY AND SHE REALLY JUST WANTED ALL OF THE KIDS THERE. SHE SAID THAT JIMMY WAS UNDERSTANDING AND HE WISHING HER A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND HUNG UP. THIS WOULD BE THE LAST TIME JIMMY AND STEPHANIE SPOKE TO EACH OTHER. JIMMY LEFT THAT FRIDAY AND AS SOON AS HE WAS GONE SHELLY MADE A PHONE CALL TO BOBBY. HE CAME STRAIGHT OVER AND THEY HAD SEX IN JIMMY’S BED THEN BOBBY WENT HOME TO BE WITH HIS WIFE. DURING THE HUNTING TRIP JIMMY’S DAD AND COUSIN SAID HE WAS HAPPY AND SEEMED VERY UPBEAT. HE WAS SUPER EXCITED ABOUT HOW WELL HIS BUSINESS WAS GOING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A VERY LONG TIME, IT REALLY SEEMED THAT HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS FUTURE. HE CAME HOME SATURDAY NIGHT AND HIM AND SHELLY WENT TO A MOUNTAINEER’S BASKETBALL GAME WITH BOBBY AND HIS WIFE KELLY. BOBBY LATER SAID THAT HE FELT AWFUL LOOKING AT HIS WIFE AND BOSS AND HE CAME TO THE DECISION THAT IT WOULD END WITH SHELLY. THAT SUNDAY, JIMMY WENT AND WORKED A SHIFT AT PRESTON HOSPITAL. HE WAS STILL PICKING UP A FEW SHIFTS FOR EXTRA MONEY. AFTER HIS SHIFT HE STOPPED BY HIS PARENTS HOME AND HE PROMISED HIS DAD THAT THEY WOULD GO HUNTING AGAIN ON MONDAY MORNING. THAT MONDAY THEY DID JUST THAT, WHEN THEY WERE DONE. HE GOT BACK IN HIS CAR AND DROVE BACK TO MORGANTOWN, WHILE HE WAS DRIVING REGGIE CALLED AND ASKED JIMMY IF HE COULD GO AND SET UP A SLEEP APNEA MONITOR FOR A NEW BORN BABY AT RUBY MEMORIAL. JIMMY SAID HE WOULD DO IT FIRST THING THE NEXT MORNING. AROUND 10 PM HE CALLED BOBBY TO ASK HIM HIS SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT DAY BUT BOBBY DIDN’T KNOW YET. HE SAID BOBBY BROUGHT UP THE EMBROIDERY BUSINESS AND THAT THEY WOULD BE SEEING A LOT OF EACH OTHER, AND LEFT IT AT THAT. HE SAID THAT CONVERSATION SEEMED ODD DUE TO THAT FACT THAT HE SEEMED REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF SHELLY’S BUSINESS BUT HE WAS NO LONGER WILLING TO FOOT THE BILL FOR IT. SHELLY JUST NATURALLY ASSUMED THAT JIMMY WOULD INVEST MONEY INTO HER BUSINESS FROM HIS BUSINESS, HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE WOULD NOT BE DOING THAT. SO SHELLY WENT TO THE OFFICE ON MONDAY TO USE THE FAX MACHINE AND SENT OUT AN EMAIL TO EVERYONE IN THE COMPANY ABOUT HIS CHANGE OF MIND, SAYING THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD IF ANYONE WANTS TO CHANGE THEIR MIND AND BACK OUT. THEN SHE CALLED BOBBY AND TOLD HIM TO BRING THE TAX RETURNS TO HER THE NEXT DAY AT WORK. THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO FINANCE THE EMBROIDERY BUSINESS ON THEIR OWN. BOBBY AGREED AND THEY HUNG UP.. ON TUESDAY MORNING, SHELLY ARRIVED TO WORK AT 6:30 A.M., SHOCKINGLY EARLY FOR HER SHIFT, SHE MADE SURE THAT SHE WAS SEEN PINCHING REGGIE HOURS ON THE BUTT. THEN SHE CHECKED INTO THE NURSES STATION WHICH SHE NEVER DID. SHE CALLED JIMMY’S CELL PHONE AROUND 7:30 A.M. REMINDING HIM TO PACK LUNCH FOR THE KIDS BECAUSE KYLIE WOULDN’T LIKE WHAT WAS ON THE LUNCH MENU THAT DAY. SHELLY ALSO MADE A POINT TO CALL THE HOME PHONE TO SEE IF ANYONE WOULD PICK UP. AFTER THIS SHE TOLD THE CLERK AT THE PEDIATRICS WING THAT SHE HAD LEFT HER PAGER IN THE CAR AND THAT SHE WOULD BE RIGHT BACK. THE CLERK THOUGHT THIS WAS EXTREMELY ODD BECAUSE SHELLY NEVER WORE A PAGER. AT 8:11 A.M. SHE WAS SEEN ON SECURITY CAMERA LEAVING THE PARKING LOT OF RUBY MEMORIAL. SHELLY AND JIMMY ONLY LIVED A MILE AWAY FROM THE HOSPITAL AND HIS STAFF STARTED TO GET CONCERNED WHEN HE WASN’T AT THE OFFICE YET. LIKE WE SAID IN PART ONE HE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO SHOW UP AND HE WAS THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE. BY 8 A.M. HIS STAFF WERE READY TO DO SOMETHING. IN ALL HONESTY THEY WEREN’T JUST CONCERNED ABOUT JIMMY, BUT HE HAD AN APPOINTMENT TO SET UP A SLEEP APNEA MACHINE FOR A NEWBORN BEFORE THE BABY WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. THEY KNEW IT WASN’T LIKE JIMMY TO MISS AN APPOINTMENT. WHEN THEY CALLED THEY WERE WORRIED BECAUSE THEY KNEW JIMMY ALWAYS HAD HIS CELL PHONE ON HIM AND THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS ANSWER. AT THIS POINT BOBBY TEETS WAS OUT FOR A DELIVERY. THE OFFICE MANAGER CALLED HIM AND EXPLAINED WHAT WAS GOING ON, HE STARTED TO CALL JIMMY HIMSELF. SHE ASKED IF HE COULD STOP BY HIS HOUSE TO CHECK ON HIM, SO HE DID JUST THAT HE DROVE OVER TO CHECK ON JIMMY. TWO UTILITY WORKERS WHO WERE ON KILLARNEY DRIVE NOTICED SMOKE COMING OUT OF JIMMY MICHAEL’S HOME. THEY CALLED 911. AROUND 10:27 A.M., THE WINDOWS TO THE UPSTAIRS BEDROOM BLEW OUT, SMOKE AND FLAMES STARTED TO FLOOD OUT OF THE WINDOWS. WHEN BOBBY ARRIVED TO CHECK ON JIMMY, THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS WERE ON THE SCENE. BOBBY SAW THAT JIMMY’S CAR WAS STILL IN THE GARAGE. HE STARTED TO SCREAM THAT JIMMY WAS IN THE HOUSE. HE ENDED UP BEING SO UPSET THAT THEY PUT HIM IN A PATROL CAR. AROUND 10:35 A.M., BOBBY TRIED TO CALL SHELLY. EVEN THOUGH SHELLY WENT BACK TO GET HER PAGER HE COULDN’T REACH HER. SO BOBBY CALLED IS WIFE KELLEY TO SEE IF SHE COULD GET AHOLD OF HER. FINALLY KELLEY GOT AHOLD OF SHELLY. SHE HAD TO CALL THE HOSPITAL TO EVEN GET AHOLD OF HER. KELLEY TOLD HER THAT HER HOUSE WAS ON FIRE AND THAT SHE NEEDED TO LEAVE WORK AND NEEDED TO GET HOME. SO SHELLY CALMLY TOLD THAT CLERK OF THE PEDIATRIC WING THAT SHE NEEDED TO LEAVE AND EVERYTHING HAPPENING. INSTEAD OF LEAVING RIGHT THEN AND THERE, SHE WENT TO HER OFFICE AND CALLED JIMMY’S CELL PHONE AND LEFT ANOTHER VOICEMAIL, THIS TIME SHE SAID THAT THE HOUSE WAS ON FIRE.. WHEN THE CLERK SAW HER LEAVE, SHE SAID SHE WASN’T IN A RUSH TO LEAVE. AT THE MICHAELS HOME FIREFIGHTERS HAD FINALLY MADE THEIR WAY BACK TO THE BEDROOM. THEY REALIZED THAT THERE WAS A BODY, SO THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO PUT OUT OF THE FIRE TO PROTECT THE BODY, WHICH WAS ALREADY SEVERELY BURNED. SO THEY CALLED DETECTIVES TO THE SCENE. DETECTIVE PAUL MEZZANOTTE AND FIRE LIEUTENANT FEN TENNANT WALKED INTO THE BEDROOM. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS TOLD THE DETECTIVE THAT THERE WAS A BODY ON THE BED, HE HAD TROUBLE SEEING IT. JIMMY’S BODY WAS BURNED PAST RECOGNITION, BUT WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARED OUT OF THE ROOM HE FINALLY SAW JIMMY’S TEETH. THEY ALSO SAW THAT THERE WAS A TRAIL FROM THE BEDROOM TO THE BED. BASICALLY YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT THERE WAS A FIRE IF YOU WERE ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE HOUSE. BY NOW SHELLY HAD SHOWN UP AND IT’S SAID THAT SHE WAS ACTING CRAZY.. HYSTERICAL EVEN. ROB ANGUS HER EX HUSBAND HEARD ABOUT THE FIRE AND DROPPED EVERYTHING HE WAS DOING AND RUSHED OVER TO THE SCENE. HE WAS COMFORTING HER WHILE DETECTIVES TOLD HER THAT HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED. HOWEVER THEY DID NOTICE ONE THING ABOUT HER SHE HAD NO TEARS. WHICH I MEAN WE KNOW EVERYONE HANDLES SHOCK DIFFERENTLY BUT THIS MADE DETECTIVES AND SEASONED FIREFIGHTERS THINK THIS WAS STRANGE. SHE WAS TAKEN TO A NEIGHBORS HOUSE AND SHE LAID ON THE COUCH UNDER A BLANKET, SHE WOULD STAY THERE AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS CAME THERE TO SEE HER AND CHECK ON HER. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE QUESTIONED SHELLYS EXHUSBAND AND HER NEW LOVER ROB AND BOBBY TEETS, WHO BOTH KNEW JIMMY WELL BOTH OF THE MEN WERE UPSET WITH WHAT HAPPENED. THEY BOTH TOLD DETECTIVE MESONAT THAT JIMMY DID NOT DRINK, HE DID NOT DO DRUGS, AND THEY KNEW HE WOULD NEVER COMMIT SUICIDE. HE WENT ON TO QUESTION OTHER PEOPLE THAT KNEW JIMMY AND THEY ALL SAID THE SAME THING. THAT JIMMY WAS A STRONG RELIGIOUS MAN, A HARD WORKER, AND THERE WAS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD EVER DO THIS TO HIMSELF. HOWEVER ONE REASON DETECTIVE MOSONAT KEPT PUSHING WAS DUE TO THE WAY JIMMY’S BODY WAS POSITIONED ON THE BED. IT WAS LIKE HE WAS JUST ASLEEP. HIS BODY WASN’T FOUND IN THE POSITION OF SOMEONE WHO WOULD TRY TO ESCAPE A FIRE, OR EVEN ONE THAT HAD BEEN BURNED. WHAT WAS LEFT OF JIMMY SHOWN THAT HE WAS ASLEEP ON HIS BACK AND THAT HE NEVER MOVED. TO DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE THIS JUST SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. BUT JIMMY WAS A TRAINED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST AND HE WORKED IN MEDICAL SUPPLIES. SO MAYBE JIMMY INJECTED HIMSELF AND SOMEHOW STARTED THE FIRE. BUT THE ARSON INVESTIGATORS DID NOT BELIEVE THIS TO BE WHAT HAPPENED. BY 12:30 PM JIMMY'S PARENTS GOT TO THE SCENE. THE POLICE WERE ABLE TO STOP RUTH BUT THEY COULDN'T STOP DENNY. HE HAD TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS SON. BUT HE ENDED UP GETTING INTO A FIGHT WITH A POLICE OFFICER AND HE DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE HOUSE. SO THEY DECIDED TO GO SEE HOW SHELLY WAS. THEY BOTH NOTICED THAT SHE WAS JUST LAYING THERE THAT SHE WASN’T CRYING OR UPSET. EVERYONE NOTICED THE LACK OF EMOTION COMING FROM SHELLY. TO EVERYONE IT WAS HONESTLY UNSETTLING. WHILE DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WAS QUESTIONING JIMMY’S EX WIFE STEPHANIE SHE WAS EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL. SHE DESCRIBED HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER EX AS GOOD, BUT DID SAY THERE HAD BEEN SOME PROBLEMS AND SHE DID NOT LIE ABOUT THE CPS INVESTIGATION AFTER JIMMY WHIPPED DREW. SHE INSISTED THAT JIMMY WAS A GREAT FATHER. WHEN DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WENT TO TALK TO SHELLY SHE SNAPPED AT HIM FOR TALKING TO EVERYONE BUT HER FIRST. HE HONESTLY FOUND HER TO BE CALM AND TRYING TO CONTROL THE SCENE. SHELLY’S OWN MOTHER DESCRIBED HER AS VERY DETACHED. THE ENTIRE TIME RUTH WAS THERE SHE WAS WATCHING HER DAUGHTER IN LAW LIKE A HAWK. RUTH SAID “SHE JUST SAT THERE. SHE DIDN’T CRY. SHE JUST SAT THERE.” WHEN CARRIE WHITAKER, ONE OF JIMMY’S OLDEST FRIENDS WALKED IN. SHELLY’S FIRST WORDS TO HER WAS I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT. DID YOU GET IT AT B MOSS? ANOTHER FRIEND ASKED SHELLY IF THEY COULD GET HER ANYTHING AND SHE REPLIED WITH, A NEW HUSBAND. INVESTIGATORS FOUND OUT THAT IT WOULD BE HARD TO MOVE JIMMY’S BODY FROM THE BED WITHOUT CAUSING MORE DAMAGE. IT’S LIKE HE WAS MELTED INTO THE BOX SPRING. ONE LEG WAS BURNED TO THE POINT IT WAS COMPLETELY GONE ALONG WITH OTHER BODY PARTS. A HOLE WAS IN JIMMY’S CHEST THAT WAS CAUSED FROM EXTREME TEMPERATURES BASICALLY CAUSING A BLOWOUT TO HAPPEN. SO INVESTIGATORS NOTICED ONE THING ABOUT JIMMY’S BODY HIS MUSCLES NEVER CONTRACTED LIKE THEY WOULD IF YOU WERE CONSCIOUS WHILE BEING BURNED ALIVE. WHILE THEY WERE TAKING HIS BODY TO THE AMBULANCE HIS FATHER DENNY BEGGED THEM TO STOP SO HE COULD LOOK AT HIS SON. THE TOLD DENNY THAT HE WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE BUT DENNY KNEW WHEN THEY TOOK HIM TO THE MORGUE HE WOULD NEVER SEE JIMMY AGAIN. JIMMY’S MOTHER RUTH SAID THE HARDEST PART FOR HER WAS THAT SHE NEVER SAW JIMMY AFTER THE FIRE AND THAT IT JUST DIDN’T FEEL REAL TO HER. WHEN THEY GOT JIMMY’S BODY TO THE MORGUE FOR HIS AUTOPSY, MOST OF HIS SKIN HAD BURNED AWAY, HOWEVER THERE WERE STILL A FEW PATCHES ON HIS BACK, AND NOT ALL OF HIS ORGANS WERE BURNED. THEY KNEW JIMMY WAS DEAD BEFORE THE FIRE. THERE WAS NO SNOT IN HIS THROAT, HIS SINUS CAVITIES, OR HIS LUNGS. NO CARBON MONOXIDE WAS FOUND EITHER, WHICH THEY KNEW WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE IF HE WAS BREATHING WHEN THE FIRE STARTED. SO THEY TESTED HIS BLOOD AND TISSUE FROM HIS HEART AND THEY SENT IT OFF FOR TOXICOLOGY TESTING. THEY ALSO GOT HIS DENTAL RECORD SO THEY COULD OFFICIALLY IDENTIFY HIM. WHILE EVERYONE WAS GOING TO THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE TO CHECK ON SHELLY. DAN STEPHANIE’S HUSBAND WENT TO BE WITH HER AND TO HELP WITH ALL OF THE KIDS. THIS IS WHEN HE NOTICED SHELLY AND BOBBY TEETS LAYING UNDER A BLANKET TOGETHER. HE ALSO SHOW SHELLY AND KELLY GOING OVER JIMMY’S INSURANCE. WHICH TO ME IS JUST INSANE KNOWING WHAT JUST HAPPENED AND KNOWING EVERYONE IS THERE. BACK AT SHELLY AND JIMMY’S HOUSE THEY HAVE FOUND OUT THE FIRE BURNED SO HOT THAT IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF TESTING. SO THEY BROUGHT IN A CANINE DOG, THAT WAS TRAINED TO SNIFF FOR ACCELERANTS. THE FIRE BURNED SO HOT THAT THE HEADBOARD THAT IT BASICALLY BECAME ENGULFED AND BURNED THROUGH THE FLOORING WHICH WAS HONESTLY THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS A FIRE DOWNSTAIRS. THERE WERE SIX PLACES THE DOG ALERTED TO ACCELERANT WAS IN THE BEDROOM, IT WAS ALL AROUND THE BED WHERE JIMMY’S BODY WAS FOUND. THEY SAW THAT THE BED WAS REALLY THE ONLY THING THAT SUSTAINED THE FIRE. SO NOW THEY KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE BED HAD BEEN DOUSED IN ACCELERANT. SO AFTER TALKING TO THE DETECTIVES, REGGIE WAS THAT FRIEND WHO WENT TO THE NEXT STEP HE CALLED A FRIEND AT THE HOSPITAL AND ASKED WHAT KIND OF DRUGS THEY SHOULD LOOK FOR. ONE OF JIMMY’S FRIENDS DR. MIKE FARABEE, SUGGESTED SEVERAL DRUGS AND WHICH ONE WOULD WORK THE FASTEST, BUT HE DID MENTION ONE IN PARTICULAR, A PARALYTIC DRUG CALLED VECURONIUM WHICH IS GIVEN TO PATIENTS BEFORE THEY ARE INTUBATED FOR A RESPIRATOR. COURTNEY DO YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN HOW THE DRUG WORKS? SURE ACCORDING TO DRUGS . COM VECURONIUM IS USED TO RELAX THE MUSCLES. IT WORKS BY BLOCKING THE SIGNALS BETWEEN YOUR NERVES AND YOUR MUSCLES. IT’S GIVEN BEFORE GENERAL ANESTHESIA IN PREPARING YOU FOR SURGERY. IT HELPS TO KEEP YOUR BODY STILL DURING SURGERY. IT ALSO RELAXES YOUR THROAT SO A BREATHING TUBE CAN BE INSERTED EASILY. SO THE DR. MIKE FARABEE ALSO SAID THAT THIS DRUG WAS EASILY ACCESSED AT THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE IT WAS NOT A NARCOTIC, ESPECIALLY IN THE PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT WHERE SHELLY WORKED AT RUBY MEMORIAL. DR. FARABEE SAID THAT IT JUST SITS OUT TO WHERE ANYONE CAN GRAB IT. SO HE PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF DRUGS TO GIVE TO DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE. WHILE DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WAS TALKING WITH JEREMY MILLER JIMMY’S FRIEND FROM CHURCH. HE TOLD DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE ABOUT THE ANONYMOUS BOX JIMMY RECEIVED IN THE MAIL THAT HAD SHELLY SWEATER IN IT, AND TOLD HIM IT ACCUSED HER OF CHEATING. SO AFTER THIS INTERVIEW DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE KNEW HE HAD TO GO INTERVIEW BOBBY TEETS. DURING THE INTERVIEW BOBBY WENT OVER THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COUPLES AND TALKED ABOUT HOW ALL FOUR OF THEM WERE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS. HE TALKED ABOUT THE EMBROIDERY BUSINESS HIM AND SHELLY WERE GOING TO START BUT HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT THE AFFAIR THEY WERE HAVING. HE DID THAT HE WISHED THE FORE WAS AN ACCIDENT AND THAT HE HOPED JIMMY DIED PEACEFULLY. HE SAID “IT BOTHERS BE EVERYDAY JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. I WOULD BE HAPPIER TO KNOW HE DIDN’T SUFFER. I WOULD BE ABLE TO SLEEP A LOT BETTER.” WE AREN’T SURE IF BOBBY KNEW THAT HOM OR SHELLY COULD BE SUSPECTS IN JIMMY’S DEATH. HE HAD AN ALIBI, SO THE POLICE WERN’T LOOKING AT HIM TOO HARD. BUT ONE THING THEY DID WANT TO FIND OUT ON IS HIS AFFAIR WITH SHELLY. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WANTED PROOF ABOUT THE CHICAGO TRIP SHELLY AND BOBBY TOOK. AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH BOBBY HE CALLED THE HOTEL TO CONFIRM THAT THERE HAD BEEN ONLY ONE ROOM BOOKED, AND HE ARRANGED TO HAVE THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS CHECKED IMMEDIATELY. SO NOW DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE SAT DOWN WITH BOB ANGUS, WHO ALSO TOLD HIM TO DETECT FOR DRUGS. IRONICALLY BOB HAD A CONNECTION WITH RUBY MEMORIAL. BOB’S SISTER SHANNON RUBY, WHO WAS ONCE SHELLY’S NURSING SUPERVISOR. SHE TOLD ROB TO TELL THE INVESTIGATORS THAT THEY NEEDED TO LOOK FOR ONE DRUG. VECURONIUM. THEE FACT TWO DIFFERENT MEN WHO HAD NO IDEA THE OTHER SAID THIS BOTH TOLD INVESTIGATORS TO LOOK FOR ONE SPECIFIC DRUG BASICALLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS THEY NEEDED TO LOOK FOR IT. REGGIE BONELL DECIDED TO HAVE HIS OWN CONVERSATION WITH SHELLY. HE PLAYED ALONG, ACTING SYMPATHETIC, GENTILLY QUESTIONING HER ON WHAT SHE THOUGHT REALLY HAPPENED TO JIMMY. SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE WAS AFRAID THAT SHE LEFT AN IRON ON IN THE BEDROOM AND THAT SHE FELT REALLY GUILTY ABOUT IT. REGGIE TOLD HER THAT AN IRON WOULD NOT HAVE CAUSED THAT TYPE OF FIRE, BUT SHELLY BEING SHELLY WAS INSISTENT ON THAT BEING THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE. SO WHAT REGGIE DID AFTER HIS TALK WITH SHELLY HE IMMEDIATELY CALLED DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE AND TOLD HIM EVERYTHING SHELLY SAID. AFTER THE FIRE SHELLY WAS STAYING WITH JIMMY’S PARENTS IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND. A FRIEND CALLED HER AND OFFERED TO COLLECT SHELLY’S MAIL AND BRING IT TO HER, SHELLY CASUALLY SAID TO JUST LOOK FOR AN ENVELOPE FROM MORGANTOWN BANK AND TRUST. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A BANK CARD FROM THE MEMORIAL FUND. THAT WAS THE ONLY MAIL SHE WANTED TO SEE. THAT SATURDAY JIMMY’S OBITUARY APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPER. THE SAME DAY OF THE VISITATION AND FUNERAL. THE FAMILY ARRIVED FIRST, SHELLY INSISTED ON SEEING JIMMY’S BODY. HOWEVER THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR REFUSED, HE SAID THAT SHE SHOULD NOT SEE HIM IN THAT CONDITION. JIMMY’S FATHER ACTUALLY TOLD SHELLY THAT HE SAW HIM AND THAT SHE DID NOT NEED TO SEEM HIM. SHELLY WAS OUTRAGED AND STARTED TO CAUSE A SCENE. SHE SAID SHE DIDN’T CARE THE STATE OF HIS BODY. SHE WANTED TO SEE IT. CARRIE WHITAKER, WAS AT THE VISITATION. SHE NOT ONLY WATCHED SHELLY HERSELF BUT MANY OF THE PEOPLE HER AND JIMMY GREW UP WITH WALKED UP TO HER AND ASKED HER WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS WRONG WITH SHELLY. CARRIE LATER GAVE HER OWN OPINION TO DETECTIVES SAYING SHELLY JUST SEEMED COLD. DREW JIMMY’S SON WAS INCONSOLABLE AT THIS FATHER’S VISITATION. HE SAT ON TOP OF THE CLOSED CASKET TALKING TO HIS FATHER. STEPHANIE WENT TO TRY TO TALK TO HER SON. SHELLY THREW ANOTHER FIT AND SAID SHE WANTED TO BE ALONE WITH HER HUSBAND AND THAT EVERYONE NEEDED TO GET OUT. SHELLY WOULD EVEN COMPLAIN AFTER ABOUT DREW. AFTER THE VISITATION SHELLY WOULD ASK JIMMY’S PARENTS IF BOBBY AND KELLY TEETS COULD SPEND THE NIGHT AT THEIR HOME. SHE WAS SPENDING THE NIGHT AGAIN AND JUST WANTED AS MUCH COMFORT AS POSSIBLE. THEY AGREED TO LET THEM STAY. OF COURSE JIMMY’S FAMILY HAD THEIR SUSPICIONS ABOUT SHELLY. FOR NOW THEY JUST WANTED TO KEEP PEACE WITH SHELLY. AFTER EVERYONE WENT TO BED DENNY WAS STILL UP HE COULDN’T SLEEP SO HE LEFT THE HOUSE FOR A LITTLE BIT. WHEN DENNY CAME BACK HE DIDN’T WANT TO USE THE FRONT DOOR INCASE HE WOULD WAKE ANYONE UP. SO HE USED THE BASEMENT DOOR AND THAT’S WHEN HE CAUGHT SHELLY AND BOBBY HUGGING AND BOBBY WAS KISSING SHELLY ON THE CHEEK. WHEN SHELLY SAW HIM, SHE PUSHED BOBBY AWAY. SHE WOULD END UP PRETENDING THAT DENNY DIDN’T SEE THEM TOGETHER. AT THE FUNERAL THE NEXT DAY, DREW WAS SOBBING HYSTERICALLY, STEPHANIE WAS CRYING AS WELL AND WHEN SHE LOOKED OVER AT SHELLY SHE SAW THERE WAS NO EMOTION WHATSOEVER. THE FUNERAL WAS VERY HEARTBREAKING AND NO ONE COULD BELIEVE THAT SHELLY WAS SHOWING NO EMOTION. THEY SAID THAT SHE JUST SEEMED SO COLD. THE NEXT MONDAY RUBY MEMORIAL GRANTED SHELLY A SIX-MONTH LEAVE OF ABSENCE. WHAT SHE DID NEXT WAS HEAD STRAIGHT TO THE INSURANCE AGENT. FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING SHELLY WAS THERE TO GET THE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK TO FILE A CLAIM THE $500,000 LIFE INSURANCE POLICY. SHE HAD TO GO TO JIMMY’S OFFICE BECAUSE SHE OWNED 55% OF THE COMPANY AND SHE NEEDED HIS PARTNERS TO BUY HIM OUT. MONDAY AFTERNOON, SHELLY WOULD RELUCTANTLY AGREE TO A MEMORIAL SERVICE IN MORGANTOWN. SHE TRIED TO FIGHT GOING AND TRIED TO GET OUT OF IT, BUT JIMMY’S FAMILY INSISTED THAT HIS LOCAL FRIENDS AND COWORKERS WOULD WANT TO SAY GOODBYE. SHE FINALLY AGREED BUT SHE MADE THEM MOVE IT TO THE FOLLOWING DAY, MAKING IT HARD TO PUBLICIZE SO EVERYONE WOULD KNOW AND THEY COULD COME AND SAY A FINAL GOODBYE TO LARRY. SHELLY BEING SHELLY WAS ADAMANT THAT THEY JUST GET IT OVER WITH. THE MORNING OF THE MEMORIAL SERVICE SHELLY MET WITH THE PASTOR, REVEREND GOODWIN, SHE OF COURSE BROUGHT BOBBY TEETS WITH HER. AND THE TWO WERE HOLDING HANDS IN THE OFFICE THE ENTIRE TIME AS REVEREND GOODWIN WENT OVER THE PLANS FOR THE EVENING. REVEREND GOODWIN JUST THOUGHT THAT BOBBY COULD’VE BEEN FAMILY, BUT KEPT GROWING MORE AND MORE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HOW CLOSE THE TWO WERE. HE SAID “I HONESTLY FELT THEY BEHAVED MORE LIKE LOVERS THAN FRIENDS.” HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW SHELLY HAD NO EMOTION ABOUT THE ENTIRE SITUATION. HE SAID SHE HAD NO INTEREST IN GIVING INPUT ON THE PLANNING AND TOLD THE REVEREND TO JUST TAKE CARE OF IT. WHICH LIKE ANYONE ELSE HE FOUND TO BE VERY ODD. JIMMY’S PARENTS ARRIVED EARLY THAT EVENING FOR THE MEMORIAL SERVICE. THEY WERE MEETING WITH DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE. DENNY BASICALLY TOLD HIM THAT HE THOUGHT SHELLY KILLED JERRY. HE EVEN SAID THAT HE THOUGHT SHE DRUGGED HIS SON. HE DEFINITELY DID NOT KNOW THE TIPS THAT EVERYONE WAS GIVING DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE IT WAS JUST DENNY’S INTUITION. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE CAME TO THE SERVICE SO HE COULD OBSERVE BEHAVIOR, AND HE SAW THAT SHELLY WAS NOT JUST DETACHED BUT SHE WAS OVERLY IRRITATED DURING THE SERVICE. THE NEXT DAY DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE HAD INTERVIEWS SET UP WITH BOTH SHELLY AND BOBBY. HE SET THEM UP BACK TO BACK WITH BOBBY GOING TO FIRST SHELLY WOULD BE SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM WONDERING WHAT BOBBY WAS SAYING. NOW POLICE HAD THE VIDEOS FROM THE CHICAGO HOTEL, AS WELL AS THE FOOTAGE OF SHELLY LEAVING THE HOSPITAL THE DAY OF THE MURDER. IT WASN’T LONG IN BOBBY’S INTERVIEW UNTIL HE BROKE UP AND IMMEDIATELY CONFESSED TO THE AFFAIR HE WAS HAVING WITH SHELLY. HE SAID HE WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH SHELLY AND HE WANTED TO STAY WITH HIS WIFE. HE SAID THAT HIM AND SHELLY HAD SEX NUMEROUS TIMES AND HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE TRIP TO CHICAGO. HE WANTED THE AFFAIR TO STAY A SECRET BIT DETECTIVES TOLD HIM IT COULDN’T, BOBBY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO TESTIFY AT THE TRIAL AND IT WOULD JUST BE SMART TO BREAK THE NEWS TO KELLY NOW. WHEN SHELLY GOT INTO THE ROOM THEY IMMEDIATELY TOLD HER BOBBY’S CONFESSIONS. SHE DENIED THE AFFAIR AND STARTED TO DETAIL THEIR TRIP TO CHICAGO, SAYING THAT ONE ROOM WAS JUST TO SAVE MONEY. SAYING IT WAS A SUIT AND THAT BOBBY SLEPT ON THE COUCH. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE ACCUSED HER OF LYING AND SHELLY WOULD NOT ADMIT TO ANYTHING. SO HE BROUGHT UP THE FIRE. HE TOLD HER THAT JIMMY’S DEATH AND THE FIRE WERE BOTH SUSPICIOUS AND SHE SHOWED NO EMOTION AT ALL. THEN HE SAID THE FIRE WAS THE CAUSE OF ARSON AND SHE REPLIED “YOU’RE JOKING” THEN HE TOLD HER ABOUT THE BLOOD AND TISSUE SAMPLES THEY HAD SENT OFF. HE TOLD HER “WE PRETTY MUCH HAVE AN IDEA FROM THE AUTOPSY ON HOW HE DIED.”SHE SAID OK, CAN YOU TELL ME? DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WAS PLAYING HARD BALL WITH SHELLY BASICALLY ACTING LIKE SHELLY’S FRIEND DURING THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW ROOM. SHELLY WAS EVENING CALLING DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE BY HIS FIRST NAME WHICH WAS PAUL. HE BEGGED AND BEGGED HER TO COME CLEAN, TO JUST UNBURDEN HERSELF, TO HELP HERSELF NOW BY TELLING THE TRUTH. SHE FINALLY SAID THAT UNDERSTOOD HOW HER AND BOBBY’S RELATIONSHIP COULD BE MISUNDERSTOOD AND THAT SHE INSISTED THAT THEY WERE JUST FRIENDS AND NOTHING MORE. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE STARTED TO ASK ABOUT THE DAY OF THE FIRE. HE ASKED SHELLY TO WALK HIM THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED. SHE TOLD THE SAME STORY THAT SHE TOLD HIM BEFORE, WHEN SHE ARRIVED TO WORK, MAKING HER ROUNDS, THE TRIP TO THE CAR FOR THE PAGER. NONE OF HER STORY CHANGED. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE STARTED TO ASK ABOUT THE FIRE, THEN HE SAID, “I HAVE A FEELING YOU KNOW JIMMY DIDN’T SUFFER.” SHELLY SAID SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. THIS WENT ON FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS AND SHELLY DID NOT BREAK DOWN AND CONFESS. AFTER THE INTERVIEW, SHELLY DID CALL BOBBY AND SHE ASKED HIM WHAT HE SAID. BOBBY LIED TO HER AND SAID HE HADN’T TOLD THE POLICE ANYTHING, BUT AFTER THIS CONVERSATION HE NEVER REALLY SPOKE TO HER AGAIN. HE WENT HOME AND CONFESSED EVERYTHING TO HIS WIFE KELLY. HE NOW WAS FULLY WILLING TO COOPERATE AND WANTED TO SAVE HIS MARRIAGE. KELLY WAS ACTUALLY SHOCKED BY HIS CONFESSION. AFTER THIS BOBBY WANTED TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION. HE KNEW HE WAS A SUSPECT AND HE REALLY WANTED TO CLEAR HIS NAME. HE PASSED. NEXT IT WAS SHELLY’S TURN TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH. SERGEANT MERRILL, A POLYGRAPH EXAMINER WITH MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, HE WATCHED SHELLY’S INTERVIEW WITH DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE THROUGH TWO-WAY GLASS. HE WATCHED HER TRY TO CONTROL AND MANIPULATE THE INTERVIEW. WHEN SERGEANT MERRILL GOT SHELLY IN A ROOM, HE USED THE SAME METHOD, JUST PRETENDING TO BE HER FRIEND, HE EVEN CALLED HER HONEY, SAYING HE UNDERSTOOD SHE WAS UPSET. THIS WAS JUST THE INTERVIEW BEFORE SHE WAS HOOKED UP TO THE POLYGRAPH MACHINE. MERRILL WANTED TO GET SHELLY SHAKEN UP BEFORE HE STARTED THE EXAM. THE FIRST TIME HE CAUGHT HER OFF GUARD IS WHEN HE TOLD HER THERE WAS CAMERA FOOTAGE OF HER LEAVING THE HOSPITAL. SHE APPEARED SHOCKED BUT QUICKLY REGROUPED. SHE THEN TOLD HIM THAT SHE REMEMBERED SHE HAD DECIDED TO MOVE HER FORD EXPEDITION TO THE PARKING GARAGE BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING HARD. SO SERGEANT MERRILL POINTED OUT THAT HER CAR WAS GONE FOR ABOUT 17 MINUTES THEN IT SHOWED HER WALKING BACK INSIDE, JUST NOT FROM THE PARKING GARAGE, SHE WAS LIKE YEAH I DROVE AROUND THE GARAGE FOR A WHILE, UNABLE TO FIND A SPOT BEFORE RETURNING TO THE PARKING LOT. HE THEN ASKED HER IF SHE BY CHANCE WENT BY HER HOUSE. SHE OF COURSE SAID NO. SHE WAS CERTAIN SHE HAD NOT. HE ASKED IF ANYONE HAD SEEN HER AT HER HOUSE THAT DAY AND SHE SAID NO. SHELLY SAID SHE DID NOT LEAVE THE HOSPITAL. HE THEN TRIED TO CATCH HER OFF GUARD WHEN HE ASKED HER WHY BOBBY TEETS SAID THEY’VE BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR. SHE DENIED THE AFFAIR BY SAYING SHE HAD NO IDEA WHY HE WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AFTER THE FIRST SET OF QUESTIONS HE EXPLAINED HOW THE POLYGRAPH WORKED. HE TOLD HER THE TWO TUBES GO AROUND HER THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL AREA TO MONITOR HER BREATHING AND A CARDIO CIFF ON HER ARM TO WATCH HER BLOOD PRESSURE. THEN HE SHOWED HER A SET OF NUMBERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND TOLD HER TO CIRCLE ONE AND THEN PUT IT IN HER POCKET. HE TOLD HER HE WANTED HER TO LIE ABOUT THAT NUMBER. TO TELL HIM A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NUMBER. AS HE WOULD READ THEM OFF, SHE WAS TO SAY NO TO EACH ONE. AFTER SHE WAS DONE, HE TOLD HER SHE HAD PICKED NUMBER 5. NOW SHELLY WAS SCARED. SHE HONESTLY DIDN’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE POLYGRAPH AT THIS POINT. HE PICKED HER NUMBER. HE KNEW THE NUMBER SHE LIED ABOUT. SO SHE ASKED TO STOP THE TEST. SO WHILE HE WAS UNHOOKING HER, SHE CONFESSED TO THE AFFAIR. SHELLY SAID “LISTEN, I’M NOT TAKING YOUR POLYGRAPH, BUT I’LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I DID HAVE THE AFFAIR.” TO US WE THIN SHELLY THOUGHT SHE’D WALK IN THE ROOM, MAKE THE INTERVIEW GO THE WAY SHE WANTED, AND PASS WITH FLYING COLORS. WHEN SERGEANT MERRILL PICKED UP ON THE VERY FIRST LIE. SHE HONESTLY HAD NOTHING TO EVEN DO WITH JIMMY, SHE WAS SHAKEN AND BOLTED. SHE LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT BACK TO THE ROOM WITH DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE. A FEW MINUTES LATER SERGEANT MERRILL JOINED THE TWO. THE TONE OF THE ROOM SWITCHED AND BECAME BORE ACCUSATORY. THE DETECTIVES TOLD HER THEY HAD AN EYEWITNESS THAT SAW HER IN THE DRIVEWAY AR 8:20 A.M. THE MORNING OF THE FIRE. SHELLY DIDN’T EVEN FLINCH. SHE KEPT SAYING THAT SHE NEVER LEFT THE HOSPITAL GROUNDS. THE THING IS SHELLY KNEW THAT THE DETECTIVES WERN’T MISLEADING HER. SO THE NEIGHBOR SHELLY WAS TOLD ABOUT IS ACTUALLY A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST AT RUBY MEMORIAL. SEAN AULT HAD BEEN COMING HOME FROM WORKING NIGHT SHIFT. IRONICALLY HE WAS ALSO A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER. IT WAS RAINING WHEN HE GOT HOME AND HE LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM SHELLY. WHEN HE GOT OUT OF HIS CAR HE SMELLED SMOKE BUT NOT LIKE NORMAL CHIMNEY SMOKE HE KNEW IT WAS THE SMELL OF A HOUSE FIRE. SO HE WALKED AROUND HIS HOUSE AND HE KNEW IT WASN’T HIS. SO HE STOOD IN THE DRIVEWAY AND LOOKED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT HE COULDN;T SEE ANYTHING. THE REASON HE COULDN’T SEE ANYTHING IS BECAUSE THE HOUSE WASN’T ON FIRE IT WAS JUST THE BED JIMMY WAS IN. HE JUST COULDN’T SEE IT. SO HE DECIDED TO GO INSIDE AND SHOWER. THEN HE CAME BACK OUT AND DECIDED TO DRIVE TO THE FIREHOUSE. HE WAS COULD STILL SMELL THE SMOKE HE JUST HAD NO IDEA WHERE IT WAS COMING FROM. AROUND 8:20 A.M. HE PASSED SHELLY AT THE STOP SIGN AT THE TOP OF THE HILL ON THEIR ROAD. HE KNEW HER AS A NEIGHBOR AND CO-WORKER SO HE WAIVED AND SHELLY IGNORED HIM. HE HONESTLY WAS NOT SURPRISED BY THIS. IN THE HOSPITAL SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER MOODS. SO HE DIDN’T THINK ANYTHING OF IT AND CONTINUED HIS DRIVE TO THE FIRESTATION. HE CONFIRMED THAT NOTHING WAS CALLED IN ABOUT A FIRE ON HIS STREET. THEN HE FELL ASLEEP IN HIS BUNK. HE WAS WOKE UP AROUND LUNCH BY ANOTHER FIREFIGHTER WHO TOLD HIM ABOUT A FIRE ON KILLARNEY DRIVE JUST A COUPLE OF HOUSES DOWN FROM HIS. SO HE CALLED HIS FRIEND REGGIE HOURS WHO TOLD HIM THAT JIMMY HADN’T MADE IT WORK WORK. SEAN TO HIM THAT IT WAS WEIRD BECAUSE HE SMELLED SMOKE EARLIER AND THAT HE SAW SHELLY, BUT THERE WASN’T ANYTHING ON FIRE AT THE TIME. REGGIE DIDN’Y SAY ANYTHING ELSE AND HUNG UP. A FEW MINUTES LATER DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE CALLED SEAM. REGGIE ACTUALLY CALLED DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WITH ANOTHER TIP. SHELLY DEFINITELY WOULD’VE KNOWN THE TIP WAS SEAN SO ALL SHE DID WAS STARE BACK AT THE COPS. SHOWING NO EMOTION WHATSOEVER. DETECTIVE MERRILL SAID ALL HE GOT WAS A COLD STARE. WHILE DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE TRIED EXPLAINING HOW HE WOULD WORD IT TO THE PROSECUTOR, THAT THERE WAS A FIRE, AND SHELLY HAD 17 MINUTES THAT WERE NOT ACCOUNTED FOR, AND THAT THEY KNEW SHE WAS LIKE BECAUSE THEY HAD A WITNESS WHO SAW HER. BUT SHELLY BEING SHELLY JUST STUCK TO HER STORY AND DID NOT BUDGE. DETECTIVE MERRILL ASKED SHELLY HOW LONG HER DRIVE TO WORK WAS, SHE SAID TEN MINUTES. HE SAID, REALLY? THEN SHE CHANGED THE TIME SAYING IT WAS PROBABLY MORE LIKE FIVE MINUTES. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE SPOKE UP AND TOLD SHELLY HE HAD TESTED THE DRIVE HIMSELF. HE HAD MADE IT FROM THE HOSPITAL TO SHELLY’S HOME IN FOUR MINUTES. HE SAID HE WAITED IN THE DRIVEWAY MAYBE THREE TO FOUR MINUTES , PLENTY OF TIME TO RUN IN THE HOUSE, DOUSE THE BED IN ACCELERANT, STRIKE A MATCH, THEN HE LEFT AND WENT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL AND HE ACTUALLY BEAT THE 17 MINUTE TIME FRAME. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE AND DETECTIVE MERRILL SPENT THE NEXT FEW MINUTES PLAYING GOOD COP BAD COP WITH SHELLY. DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WAS PLAYING THE GOOD COP, WHICH MADE SENSE SINCE SHELLY WAS STILL CALLING HIM PAUL. DETECTIVE MERRILL TOLD HER THAT SHE SHOULD TRUST DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY ONE STILL ON HER SIDE, AND THAT THERE WAS NO WAY THEY COULD EXPLAIN THOSE 17 MINUTES TO A JURY WITHOUT HER COOPERATION. FINALLY AFTER ALMOST TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF INTERROGATION, SHELLY DID ADMIT THAT SHE DID LEAVE THE HOSPITAL GROUNDS THAT DAY, BUT SHE CLAIMED SHE JUST HAD TO PICK SOMETHING UP FOR HER SON AND TAKE IT TO HIS SCHOOL. SO I THINK SHE REALIZED QUICKLY HOW BAD THIS LIE WAS. BECAUSE BOTH DETECTIVES ASKED HER WHAT SHE WENT TO THE HOUSE FOR, SHE QUICKLY SAID THAT SHE NEVER WENT IN THE HOUSE, THAT SHE ACTUALLY DECIDED THAT SHE DIDN’T NEED IT. SO THEY ASKED HER WHAT SHE NEEDED. SHE ENDED UP FINALLY SAYING THAT IT WAS THE PAPERWORK THAT SHE NEEDED TO FAX TO THE IMPORTER REFINANCING. THEN THEY ASKED HER WHY SHE DIDN’T GO INSIDE THE HOUSE AND GET IT. SHE SAID THAT SHE ALL OF THE SUDDEN REALIZED THAT SHE HAD IT WITH HER, SO SHE TURNED AROUND AND JUST WENT BACK TO WORK. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OUT OF THIS IS THE FACT THAT THEY GOT SHELLY TO ADMIT THAT SHE DID LEAVE WORK AND WENT TO THE HOUSE THAT MORNING. RIGHT AT THE TIME HER CO-WORKER AND WITNESS STARTED TO SMELL SMOKE. THE DETECTIVES HAD HER NOW. THEY KEPT ASKING HER WHY SHE LIED AND SHE AND SHE SAID THAT SHE DIDN’T WANT HER BOSS TO FIND OUT THAT SHE LEFT THE HOSPITAL, AND THAT SHE WAS SCARED SHE WAS GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE AGAIN. DETECTIVE MERRILL ASKED HER IF SHE WASN’T MORE SCARED OF GETTING ARRESTED, THEN HER INFORMED HER THAT THEY KNEW THE FIRE WAS NO ACCIDENT AND THAT THEY KNEW JIMMY WAS DEAD BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED. THEY KNEW SHE WAS LYING, THAT SHE WAS THE NUMBER ONE SUSPECT AND THEN HE LEFT THE ROOM. AFTER SIX HOURS SHELLY LEFT THE STATION. SHE WAS TRYING TO PLAY IT COOL AND LIKE SHE WAS INNOCENT WITHDETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE, WHO CONTINUED TO PLAY GOOD COP WITH HER. SHE INSISTED THAT SHE ONLY LEFT OF THE AFFAIR WITH BOBBY OUT OF EMBARRASSMENT, SHE ALSO SAID SHE LEFT OUT GOING TO THE HOUSE THAT MORNING BECAUSE SHE FELT GUILTY FOR NOT GOING INSIDE. SHE SAID IF SHE HAD ONLY GONE INSIDE SHE COULD HAVE SAVED HER HUSBAND. LATER DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE AND DETECTIVE MERRILL BOTH AGREED THAT SHELLY WAS ONE OF THE MOST ARROGANT, COLD AND CALCULATING PEOPLE THEY HAVE EVER INTERVIEWED IN 20 YEARS. SHELLY WENT TO HER PARENTS HOUSE THAT EVENING AND TOLD HER MOTHER THAT THE POLICE WERE JUST TRYING TO SCARE HER. HER MOTHER KATHY GOOTS, WAS ACTUALLY SCARED, SHE SAID WE NEED TO GET YOU AN ATTORNEY, AND SHE GOT ON THE PHONE. THE NEXT MORNING DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE GOT A CALL FROM A PROMINENT DEFENSE ATTORNEY FROM CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA NAMED TOM DRYER. TOM TOLD DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE THAT HE WAS NOT REPRESENTING SHELLY AND SHE WOULD NO LONGER BE ANSWERING HIS QUESTIONS. BOBBY TEETS WOULD GO IN FOR A POST POLYGRAPH INTERVIEW. EVEN THOUGH HE DID PASS THERE WERE SOME RED FLAGS STILL. THE INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED HI WHEN HE SAID HE FELT GUILTY BECAUSE OF THE AFFAIR AND HE FEARED THAT SHELLY KILLED JIMMY SO HER AND BOBBY COULD BE TOGETHER AFTER HIS DEATH. AROUND CHRISTMAS BOBBY TOOK ANOTHER POLYGRAPH EXAM. THIS WITH THE INFORMATION ON HIS MOVEMENTS ON THAT MORNING, HELPED POLICE CLEAR HIM AS A SUSPECT. SHELLY WAS OF COURSE GOING IN WITH HER LIFE AS IF SHE WASN’T THE MAIN SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND. SHE WOULD GO BY THE HOUSE AND PICK UP THINGS. ON DECEMBER 13TH, SHE MET WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY AGAIN, WHO TOLD HER THE PAYOUT WAS NOT EMINENT BECAUSE THE FIRE WAS CONSIDERED SUSPICIOUS. SO SHELLY AGREED TO BE QUESTIONED ON TAPE, NOW SHE MENTIONED THE IRON THEORY. SHE TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT SHE IRONED A SHIRT FOR THAT MORNING, AND SOMETIME BEFORE, SHE HAD NOTICED THAT HER IRON WAS AN AUTOMATIC SWITCH OFF IF NONE OF THE FEATURES WERE WORKING. SHE THOUGHT THAT SHE POSSIBLY LEFT IT ON AND IT FELL OVER. THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME SHELLY TRIED TO USE THIS THEORY, SHE TOLD IT TO REGGIE HOURS AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS CRAZY, BIT THAT WAS HER STORY FOR NOW.. SHE SAID THE ONLY PHONE CALL SHE COULD THINK OF THAT SHE COULD THINK OF WAS TO CARRIE WHITAKER, JIMMY’S CLOSEST FRIEND, SO DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE WANTED A PHONE INTERVIEW. CARRIE SAID THAT SHE SPOKE TO JIMMY ONCE A WEEK ON THE PHONE AND THEY WOULD NEVER MISS A CALL. SHE PROVIDED DETECTIVE MEZZANOTTE AS MUCH INFORMATION THAT SHE COULD. SHE EVEN TOLD HIM ABOUT SHELLY TRYING TO FORCE HIM TO HAVE ANOTHER CHILD, SHE ALSO GAVE HIM THE CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF SHELLY’S BEHAVIOR AT JIMMY’S FUNERAL. AFTER THIS TOM DRYER, SHELLY’S ATTORNEY, GAVE INTERVIEWS TO TV SHOWS AND TO AUTHOR JOHN GLATT, WHO WROTE THE BOOK, PLAYING WITH FIRE, AND IN ALL HONESTY HIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE MANY RESOURCES WE USED FOR THIS BOOK. YOU CAN EITHER BUY IT OR LISTEN TO IT ON AUDIBLE LIKE I DID. TOM DRYER SAID THAT HE FIRST MET SHELLY AT HIS OFFICE, HE LEFT THE ROOM FOR A MOMENT AND HE LEFT HIS COKE ON THE ABLE. WHEN HE CAME BACK INTO HIS OFFICE, HE’D BE DAMED BEFORE HE’D PICKED UP THAT COKE AGAIN AFTER IT SAT THERE UNATTENDED WITH SHELLY. HE TOLD JOHN GLATT, “THE FIRST THING THAT CATCHES YOUR ATTENTION ARE HER CHARLES MANSON EYES. SHE’S THE ONLY WOMAN I’VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE WITH ABSOLUTELY BLACK HOLES EYES. LOOK RIGHT INTO HER EYES AND TELL ME IT DOESN’T SEND A SHIVER DOWN YOUR SPINE.” HE SAYS THAT HE USUALLY DEVELOPS A FOND RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS CLIENTS. ON DECEMBER 23RD, THE DOMINION POST RAND THE STORY ABOUT OFFICIALS BEING BACK ON THE SCENE, WHICH PROMPTED THE CLAIM THAT SHELLY HAD NO RIGHT TO BE IN HER HOUSE. THAT CHRISTMAS JIMMY’S PARENTS HAD TO KEEP UP THE FRONT AND SEE HER. DREW JIMMY’S SON ACTUALLY REFUSED TO BE AROUND HER. RUTH AND STEVE JIMMY’S BROTHER, WENT TO DINNER WITH SHELLY, SHELLY WAS MAD THAT DREW AND DENNY WASN’T THERE. STEVE SAID SHE WAS BUBBLY, LIKE YOU NEVER THOUGHT SHE LOST HER HUSBAND LESS THAN A MONTH BEFORE. ON JANUARY, 9TH, SHELLY TURNED IN A 34 PAGE HANDWRITTEN SUMMARY OF EVERYTHING SHE LOST IN THE FIRE TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY. HERE ARE A FEW THINGS SHE CLAIMED. $40 FOR HER FRAMED WEDDING VOWS, $72 FOR A BASKET OF NAIL POLISH. SHE LISTED THE NUMBER OF SOCKS JIMMY KEPT IN THE DRAWER. THE SECOND WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2006, JIMMY’S TOX SCREEN CAME BACK AND HE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE DRUG ROCURONIUM RELATED TO THE DRUG WHICH IS RELATED TO VIRCHURONIUM THAT WAS THE DRUG THE WERE TOLD TO LOOK FOR. THE BLOOD FROM JIMMY’S HEART CONTAINED A HIGH LEVEL OF THIS PARALYTIC DRUG. SO THEY SENT OFF THE LIVER TISSUE FOR FURTHER TESTING JUST TO BE SURE. ON MARCH 4TH, THE SECOND TOXICOLOGY REPORT CAME BACK AND JIMMY’S DEATH CERTIFICATE WAS CHANGED BY THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER. JIMMY’S CAUSE OF DEATH AS NOT LISTED AS HOMICIDE BY UNINTENTIONALLY LETHAL DOSE OF ROCURONIUM BY ANOTHER PERSON. COURTNEY I HAD TO LOOK UP THIS DRUG. DO YOU WANNA TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT ? SURE ACCORDING TO DRUGS . COM ROCURONIUM IS GIVEN PRIOR TO GENERAL ANESTHESIA WHILE PREPARING FOR SURGERY. ROCURONIUM HELPS TO RELAX FOR MUSCLES REMPORARILY AND KEEP YOUR BODY STILL DURING SURGERY. RECURONIUM ALSO RELAXES THE THROAT, ALLOWING A BREATHING TUBE TO BE PLACED FOR THOSE WHO NEED A MECHANICAL VENTILATOR. A FEW DAYS AFTER THE DEATH CERTIFICATE WAS CHANGED, DENNY MICHAEL GOT A COPY OF IT IN HIS MAILBOX. THEY HAD SENT IT TO HIM BY MISTAKE. THE POLICE WERE ACTUALLY RELIEVED THAT DENNY GOT IT INSTEAD OF SHELLY, DENNY SAID THAT BETTER GO ARREST HER, OR HE WAS GOING DOWN THERE TO FIND OUT WHY. FINALLY THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT WAS WRITTEN UP FOR MICHAELLE “SHELLY” MICHAEL. THE SAME AFTERNOON, A MAGISTRATE SIGNED AN ARREST WARRANT, AND SHELLY WAS PICKED UP. SHELLY WENT BEFORE THE MORGANTOWN MAGISTRATE COURT AND SHE WAS GRANTED A $100,000 BIND FOR THE ARSON CHARGE, SHELLY WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO JAIL BEFORE SHE COULD EVEN BE CONSIDERED FOR BOND ON THE MURDER CHARGE. THAT CHARGE WAS UP TO THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE. THE NEXT MORNING THE HEADLINE FOR THE DOMINION POST WAS, WIFE CHARGED WITH MURDER, SHELLY MICHAEL ALSO ACCUSED OF ARSON IN FATAL SUNCREST FIRE. THE FOLLOWING MORNING SHELLY WAS GRANTED A $350,000 BOND BY THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE. SIX DAYS AFTER HER ARRESTS, SHELLY’S PARENTS POSTED THE FULL $450,000 BIND AND SHELLY WALKED OUT OF JAIL. SHE WAS TO STAY CONFINED TO HER HOME AND BE ELECTRONICALLY MONITORED. HOWEVER IT WASN’T LONG UNTIL THE CITIZENS OF MORGANTOWN STARTED TO SEE SHELLY. SHE FOUND EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE WAY TO GET AROUND HER RESTRICTIONS. SHE WAS ALLOWED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR,WORK,AND THE GROCERY STORE BUT THAT WAS IT. SHELLY WAS ALSO SEEN AROUND THE MALL AND EVEN TALKED TO THE OFFICER WHO CHECKED HER MONITOR ABOUT MOVING THE MONITOR TO HER THIGH, JUST SHOW IT WOULDN’T SHOW WHEN SHE WORE A DRESS. NO ONE WOULD HIRE SHELLY AFTER THIS SO SHE HAD TO TAKE A JOB IN CLARKSBURG. SHE CONTINUALLY GOT CAUGHT WHERE SHE SHOULDN’T BE AND SHE WAS FINALLY PUT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE SAID THAT SHE HAD VIOLATED REGULATIONS. IT WASN’T SERIOUS ENOUGH TO REVOKE HER BOND. THE HIT SHOW 48 HOURS HAD SET UP CAMP IN TOWN, GETTING INTERVIEWS WITH ANYONE THEY COULD. SOON THE AFFAIR WITH BOBBY TEETS HIS GTGHE HEADLINES. NOW SHELLY WAS HATED BY THE PUBLIC. THE CITIZENS OF MORGANTOWN STARTED TO CALL THE SIGHTINGS OF SHELLY THE SHELLY SIGHTINGS BECAUSE OF HOW OFTEN THEY HAPPENED. THE TOWN BASICALLY WANTED HER HEAD. TOM DYER, HER ATTORNEY, SAID THAT SHE TRIED TO CONTROL EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF HER DEFENSE, WRITING UP HER OWN BRIEFS, CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF JIMMY’S FRIENDS AND FAMILY. SHE EVEN WROTE THE CLOSING STATEMENT THAT SHE WANTED TOM TO USE. THE ONLY THING THAT SHELLY AND TOM AGREED ON WAS THAT SHE WOULD HAVE TO TESTIFY. TOM SAID “IT’S A RIGHT SHE HAS, BUT 12 PEOPLE IN THE JURY DON’T GIVE A SHIT THEIR IMMEDIATE REACTION IS, SON OF A BITCH, THIS PERSON’S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE.” SHE SHELLY WOULD SPEND WEEKS REHEARSING AT Q&A SESSIONS WITH TOM AND HIS ASSOCIATES. JANUARY OF 2007, THEY WON A VERY IMPORTANT MOTION OF GETTING THE TRIAL MOVED TO CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA DUE TO THE PUBLICITY. THE MORGANTOWN INVESTIGATORS HAS CALLED IN THE STATE POLICE, FBI, AND THE ATF TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE FIRE WAS STARTED. THE AFT WOULD COMPILE SEVEN DIFFERENT MODELS FOR THEIR TRIAL. ALL OF WHICH SHOWED THE EXACT SAME THING. THE ONE PROBLEM NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND WAS HOW A FIRE COULD SMOLDER FOR HOURS AFTER SHELLY WAS SEEN AT 8:20AM BEFORE THE WORKER SAW THE SMOKE AT 10:30 AM AND CALLED IT IN. THE ATF MODELS FOUND THAT A FIRE NEEDED OXYGEN. SHELLY DID MAKE A MISTAKE. SHE HAD CLOSED THE BEDROOM DOOR, WITH THE DOOR AND WINDOWS BEING CLOSED, THERE WASN’T MUCH OXYGEN TO FEED THE FLAMES. BUT WHEN THE HEADBOARD FINALLY FELL THROUGH THE BOTTOM FLOOR. THAT LEFT ENOUGH OXYGEN IN FOR THE ROOM TO BECOME ENGULFED AND FINALLY BLEW OUT THE WINDOWS. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS HAD BEEN TO THE SEEM AND QUICKLY PUT IT OUT. THE ATF WERE ABLE TO PROVE THAT THE BED JIMMY WAS ON COULD HAVE SMOLDERED FOR OVER TWO HOURS UNTIL IT GOT ENOUGH OXYGEN TO ENGULF INTO A FULL ON FIRE. IN JUNE OF 2007 SHELLY WAS SEEN GETTING HER NAILS DONE. THE STATE PUT ON A STRONG CASE. THE EVIDENCE WAS CIRCUMSTANTIAL. THE SIGHTING OF SHELLY AT 8:20 THAT MORNING FROM THE HOSPITAL CAMERAS, THE DRUG USED TO KILL JIMMY WAS AT HER DISPOSAL, HER AFFAIR WITH BOBBY TEETS. ALL OF THIS MADE HER LOOK BAD BUT IT DIDN;T PROVE THAT SHE KILLED HER HUSBAND. THERE REALLY WASN’T ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE TO TIE HER TO THE CRIME SCENE, DESPITE THE SYRINGE BEING FOUND WHICH HAD NO FINGERPRINTS ON IT. KNOWING SHELLY BEING SHELLY I’M SURE SHE WORSE GLOVES WHILE SHE INJECTED JIMMY. ONE THING THEY FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE WAS THE SYRINGE CAP UNDER THE BED. WHICH IS NORMAL. WE KNOW YOU MIGHT BE ASKING HOW IS THAT NORMAL? WELL FROM OUR RESEARCH NURSES USUALLY NEVER RECAP SYRINGES SO IT WAS NORMAL FOR SHELLY TO JUST LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR UNDER THE BED. WHICH I’M SURE SHE NEVER THOUGHT OF AGAIN THINKING THAT THE HOUSE WOULD JUST BURN DOWN. IN ALL HONESTY PROSECUTION WASN’T 100% SURE OF THEY HAD HER OR NOT. DURING OUR RESEARCH WE ACTUALLY FOUND THE JOURNAL FROM THE JURY AND WE WERE SHOCKED THAT THEY WERE NOT FULLY CONVINCED THAT SHELLY KILLED JIMMY. A JUROR WROTE ABOUT HOW SLOWLY HER STORY UNRAVELED AND THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE THE LACK OF EMOTION COMING FROM SHELLY. ESPECIALLY WHEN PHOTOS WERE SHOWN. THEY SAID THEY COULD HEAR JIMMY’S FAMILY SOBBING IN THE COURTROOM AND THEY JUST SAW SHELLY SITTING THERE WITH NO EMOTION ON HER FACE. THEY SAID SHE WAS BUSY WRITING NOTES TO HER ATTORNEY. BUT WHEN SHE TOOK THE STAND THE JUROR SAID AT THAT POINT THEY REALLY CONVINCE THEM THAT THIS HUGE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE ON HER WAS WRONG, THAT SHE JUST COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT. HOWEVER NO AMOUNT OF PRE-TRIAL TRAINING WITH TOM DRYER COULD STOP THE REAL SHELLY FROM SHOWING UP ON THE STAND. SHE DOUBLED DOWN ON THEE MOST RIDICULOUS SCENARIOS OF THE CRIME ITSELF, EVEN SAYING THE JIMMY COMMITED SUICIDE. WHEN SHELLY STEPPED DOWN FROM THE STAND, THEY WERE HORRIFIED BUT NO LONGER CONFLICTED. MICHELLE “SHELLY” MICHAEL WAS CONVICTED OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ARSON. IN THE JURY JOURNEL IT DID SAY THEY DID STAY OUT FOR A FEW DAYS BECAUSE INITIALLY THEY WERE SPLIT. BUT GOING BACK OVER ALL OF THE TESTIMONY THERE WAS NOT DOUBT THAT SHELLY KILLED JIMMY. AT HER SENTENCING, SHELLY WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE A STATEMENT AND SHE WENT ON ABOUT SELF-PITTY AND TOLD THE JURY THAT A LIFE SENTENCE FOR HER WAS ALSO ONE FOR HER CHILDREN. JIMMY’S FAMILY WAS ALSO ABLE TO MAKE A STATEMENT, THEY WERE POWERFUL BUT WHAT’S SAID TO BE THE MOST DEVASTATING STATEMENT WAS A LETTER FROM JIMMY’S DAUGHTER, JAYCEE. “SHELLY GOOTS HAS A COLD-BLOODED HEART AND AN EVIL MIND. I HOPE YOU GIVE HER THE MAXIMUM BY LAW” THE JUDGE AGREED WITH THIS AND ALSO SENTENCED HER TO 20 YEARS FOR THE ARSON TO BE SERVED CONSECUTIVELY, MEANING THAT SHE MIGHT GET PAROLE AFTER 15 YEARS FOR THE MURDER. SHE WOULD STILL HAVE TO SERVE 20 YEARS FOR THE ARSON. AFTER THE SENTENCING SHELLY STOOD UP TO GET A FINAL WORD “I MEAN NO DISRESPECT, I AM NOT COLD, I AM NOT CALCULATED, AND I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND.” THE JUDGE REPLIED, YOUR GUILTY AND INNOCENCE IS NOT THE ISSUE IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED. THERE WAS A WEBSITE CALLED JUSTICE FOR SHELLY. WE TRIED TO ACCESS IT THROUGH A SYSTEM AND SADLY WE COULDN’T. HOWEVER THERE IS STILL A FACEBOOK PAGE RAN BY KYLIE, THERE ARE SOME EMOTIONAL POSTS ON THERE BUT NOT MUCH. IN 2023 SHELLY MADE HEADLINES AGAIN. SHE HAS BEEN SERVING HER LIFE SENTENCE AT THE LAKIN CORRECTIONAL CENTER. SHE WENT TO THE MONONGALIA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT IN FRONT OF MORE THAN TWO DOZEN PEOPLE, BEING REPRESENTED BY TIM ROSINSKY. HE ARGUED THAT SHELLY’S THEN ATTORNEY, TOM DRYER, INSUFFICIENTLY CONSTITUTIONALLY DEFENDED HER AND PROVIDED AN INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL. SHELLY’S DEFENSE HAD UNTIL MARCH TO FILE ALL OF THE NECESSARY PAPERWORK IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET HER A NEW TRIAL. FROM THERE THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA WILL HAVE UNTIL AUGUST OF THIS YEAR TO ANSWER. IF IT IS FOUND THAT DID NO CONSTITUTIONALLY REPRESENT SHELLY, SHE WILL RECEIVE ANOTHER TRIAL, AND DRYER WILL BE CALLED TO TESTIFY. IF THIS HAPPENS, WE WILL BE THE FIRST TO UPDATE YOU ON THE CASE OF MICHELLE “SHELLY” MICHAELS