A Mother's Promise - The Murder of Jamie Walker - Sins & Survivors: A Las Vegas True Crime Podcast

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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jamie Walker was a member of one of the most
beloved and consequential families ever to have lived on Las
Vegas's historic West Side. Her mother, her father, and her
grandmother were all well known and highly regarded going back
to the nineteen sixties and earlier.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
On Mother's Day in nineteen eighty one, a day when
Jamie planned to spend time with her mom and her grandmother,
the unthinkable happened. She disappeared without a trace, kidnapped, gone.
Her panicked family did what they were told, but they
couldn't prevent the unimaginable from happening to her.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Hi and Welcome to Sinson Survivors, a Las Vegas true
crime podcast that focuses on cases involving domestic violence, as
well as missing persons and uns cases. I'm your host Sean.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And I'm your co host John.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're back this week with the third episode in our
special series on the shocking number of crimes that have
happened in and around the Lake Mead Recreational area over
the decades. In the past two weeks, we've covered missing persons,
unsolved crimes, likely mob murders, and one man who could
possibly have faked his own disappearance. Lake Mead, with its
combination of lack of cell service, remote location, deep waters

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most years anyway, and hidden areas, remains the national park
area associated with a surprisingly high homicide and disappearance rate.
It's not just life jackets we're talking about here, but
that has played a factor in more than a few
deaths on the lake. In this third and final episode,
we're going to cover one of the most infamous events
that ever happened on Las Vegas's Historic West Side. In

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order to give a little context to the story, we're
going to talk a little bit about the historic West
Side and the people who live there and continue to
live there today. There have been books written and documentaries
made about the West Side, and it could easily support
its own multi season podcast, but for our purposes we'll
stick to the basics.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
The Historic West Side was formed around nineteen eleven, the
same year Las Vegas incorporated as a city. It was
formed from the McWilliams town site and became known as
West Las Vegas or just the West Side. It grew steadily,
but the population increased dramatically in the late nineteen twenties
during a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan here in
Nevada and nationally. In nineteen twenty three, the city of

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Las Vegas coerced African American business owners to leave downtown
and moved to West Las Vegas to make way for
population growth and so that they could bring more businesses downtown.
They even threatened not to renew their business licenses if
they didn't leave, so they had little choice but to move.
The West Side at that time was cut off by
the Clark Avenue Railroad. The railroad, of course, was the

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reason that Las Vegas was formed in the first place
back in nineteen oh four, so they were figuratively and
literally on the other side of the tracks now. The
real growth on the West Side began in the nineteen
forties because while black entertainers like nat King Cole and
Pearl Bailey were more than welcome to perform on the strip,
because of local regulations, they couldn't stay there overnight. All

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those talented people would finish their shows then head to
the West Side to hang out, eat, and have what
must have been epic jam sessions with other performers. Obviously
it was the strip's loss. In the nineteen fifties, black
owned clubs started opening that offered the same amenities you
would find on the Strip, and in nineteen fifty five,
the Mulan Rouge opened That was the first integrated hotel

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in the United States. It was featured in Life magazine
a month later, but unfortunately it closed within six months
for a combination of reasons. Strip casinos were desegregated in
nineteen sixty after the aptly named nineteen sixty Mulan Rouge Agreement,
and that led to less foot traffic and revenue for
the growing West Side clubs and businesses. In the seventies

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and eighties, there was a serious lack of reinvestment in
things like infrastructure, which led to high unemployment, poverty, and crime.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Historic buildings were destroyed and not replaced, and the construction
of the I fifteen cut the West Side off further.
Many think intentionally from the rest of Las Vegas, just
like the railroad did. Originally, their efforts to revitalize the area,
and there have been going back to around two thousand,
including the one hundred plan in twenty sixteen. That's the
Historic Urban Neighborhood Design Redevelopment Plan. That plan has improved infrastructure, housing,

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and established museum plans and improved food access. We're hopeful
those improvements will continue and the West Side will continue
to get the attention it deserves. Saran Knight Prettie and
her family have been advocates of the West Side and
civil rights here in Las AGAs for decades. She and
her husband opened a casino which became the People's Choice,
which would eventually be run by her son, James Walker.

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You can't read about the historic West Side without hearing
about her family's activism and contributions. James Walker was married
to Eleanor Knight, who was another crusader for civil rights.
She was a past president of the local chapter of
the NAACP, served on local civic boards, and owned her
own insurance business. That brings us to Eleanor and James
Walker's unsurprisingly amazing daughter, Jamie, who was eighteen years old

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and a nineteen eighty one graduate of Park High School.
She was described as being an eighteen year old beauty queen,
and it's definitely accurate.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Jamie was the first black prom queen at Clark High
and according to her mom, her prom king was Danny Tarkanian,
son of the legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, who
led UNLV to seventeen conference championships. She was an honor student,
She was on the school executive council, and she was
the head cheerleader. She was also very religious and took

(05:44):
her faith very seriously. In an interview, her mom told
reporters a story about Jamie which shows the kind of
person she was. She said that Jamie would help the
less popular kids with things like fixing their makeup and hair.
She was also the leader of the NAACP youth and
in many respects, a third jen Neration's civil rights activist.
Very active in her community, she and her family were

(06:05):
referred to as Westside Royalty in many of the articles
we read. Everyone who talked about her agreed she was
a great kid and a beautiful soul.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Another resident of the historic West Side we need to
talk about is Willie Lee Shannon, who, at sixty years
old in twenty ten, was living with his mother in Ellington, Florida.
His neighbors thought he was just another resident, an average
person who was teaching local kids about boxing, fixing bicycle chains,
and going about his job as a landscaper. They said

(06:33):
he was a nice guy who was helpful and charitable.
One neighbor told a story about how Shannon would borrow
his lawnmower and bring it back full of gas. Shannon
was a Florida native who had a very troubled past.
He was born in nineteen fifty two and grew up
in Palmetto, Florida, in a house with a large and
complex living situation with twenty other children. The family situation

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that was a result of two divorces, and it wasn't ideal.
It was clear he didn't get the attention someone needs
growing up. When he was sixteen years old, according to
police reports, he went out joy riding with a group
of older boys. While they were at a gas station,
they committed a spur of the moment smash and grab
robbery where they took ninety three dollars and a single
pack of cigarettes. All the people involved were caught and prosecuted.

(07:20):
In an in depth interview with Shannon from nineteen eighty one.
He shared that at the time in Florida, the state
was very interested in making examples of anyone committing even
petty crimes.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Coming from a very poor family, Shannon didn't have money
for bail or a lawyer, so he was held for
three weeks before he was arraigned. At one point during
the trial, he was told that he could be looking
at three consecutive life sentences, which is insane given that
no one died and the amount of money and items
stolen was under one hundred dollars. In the end, he

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was given fifteen years in prison at age sixteen, and
he ended up being paroled after nine He served from
nineteen sixty seven until nearly nineteen seventy seven. He talked
in that same interview about the horrific conditions in prison,
and of course that type of sentence is pretty unlikely
these days. It was a gross missed carriage of justice,
a complete overreaction. While in jail, though, he went from

(08:13):
one hundred and thirty five pounds to over one hundred
and eighty five pounds, and when he got out he
was an next convict without an education, with limited career prospects,
so he got into boxing. He started fighting locally in Florida,
and in September of nineteen seventy seven won his first
professional fight in four rounds and then went on to
win his next ten fights, to nine of them by knockout.

(08:36):
He was fighting in the heavyweight division over two hundred
pounds even though he was only one hundred and eighty
five pounds, so he was routinely knocking out opponents who
outweighed him by up to thirty pounds. In an interview
one time, he was asked why he fought at heavyweight
in Florida, and he answered because they pay any more
at heavyweight. In October of nineteen seventy nine, he moved

(08:56):
to Las Vegas because at the time it was becoming
the center of the boxing universe.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Willie Lee the Cannon Shannon came into the boxing scene
at exactly the right time. The nineteen seventies and eighties
are considered to be the Golden Age of boxing. The
seventies were dominated by larger than life fighters. Literally, most
of the biggest names then were heavyweights like Muhammad Ali,
Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Larry Holmes. All of them

(09:22):
had huge personalities and fought in giant global events like
the nineteen seventy one Fight of the Century, the nineteen
seventy four Rumble in the Jungle where All Lee beat
George Foreman, and the nineteen seventy five Thrilla in Manila.
Then in the nineteen eighties we saw the smaller welterweights
becoming more popular, people like Sugar Ray, Leonard, Roberto Duran,

(09:43):
Thomas Hitman, Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. These four often faced
each other and were some of the biggest and most
watch fights in boxing history at the time. The fights
were shown on the three major networks ABC, NBC, and
CBS and really became part of the culture. Would watch
them then talk about them at work the next day
around the water cooler. The fighters were treated like rock stars,

(10:05):
larger than life celebrities.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Prior to the nineteen seventies, the two major boxing centers
were New York's Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles, But
in the late seventies and eighties, Las Vegas started to
become synonymous with boxing events. It was a combination of
the lights, the glamour, the high drama, and the spectacle.
In Las Vegas at that time, the marketing was just crazy.
In venues like Caesar's Palace courted promoters like Don King

(10:30):
to get them to hold major events outdoors at their pavilion.
Of course they wanted that because big fights meant whales,
the largest high rollers who would visit and spend a
lot of money during the events. The Nevada Gaming Commission
also worked with the promoters, making fights easy to stage,
and of course, with gambling being legal here in Nevada,
it was a natural fit. Some of the highest profile

(10:51):
fights ever took place here. Ali versus Homes in nineteen eighty,
Sugar Ray versus Hearns in nineteen eighty one, Hagler versus
Hearns in eighty five, and of course in the late
eighties we got Mike Tyson, who still lives here in
Las Vegas and in fact goes to my gym. I
see him a lot there, and it's never not surreal,
even forty years later, the celebrity persists. So this was

(11:12):
the boxing world, and at the time Willie Shannon wanted
in on it. He had the talent and the fourteen
oh to one record with eleven knockouts, so he came
to Las Vegas to fight he won the cruiserweight title
in nineteen seventy nine. Just to note that cruiserweight sort
of bridges the gap between light heavyweight one hundred and
seventy five pounds and heavyweight two hundred pounds. It really

(11:33):
seemed like he had it made in nineteen eighty one.
It was on a great track.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Jamie Walker was on a very different, but very promising
track too, with her activism, her popularity, her intelligence, and
her empathy. Her family and community knew she was destined
for great things. She was headed off to college at UNLV,
ready to take on the world. All of that came
to a screeching halt on May ninth, nineteen eighty one,
the day before Mother's Day, when Jamie was kidnapped right

(11:59):
out of the home she shared with her mother, Eleanor,
Eleanor and James. Her parents weren't together anymore at the
time and were living their own full lives. Eleanor had
a new boyfriend named Lesbie Marshall who went by Pep,
and her dad, James, was running the People's Choice Club
later the People's Choice Casino. Of course, they were all
well known and pillars of the historic West Side community,

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which had slowed down, of course after desegregation, but was
still vibrant. Jamie came home after a date late on Friday,
May eighth, nineteen eighty one, and was kidnapped early in
the morning of May ninth. The circumstances were confusing. The
back door to her home was a jar when her
mother came home, and her shoes were still there. There
was no sign of forced entry, which made it seem

(12:43):
like she might have known whoever it was who kidnapped her,
letting them in. There was evidence of a struggle, though.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
After Jamie was kidnapped, the ransom calls began, three in all.
James Walker got the first call in the early morning
while he was working at the People's Choice. He described
the caller as African America, and he was told I
got your daughter. They demanded seventy five thousand dollars for
a safe return. To confirm they had her. They let
Jamie talk to her dad. She said, Daddy, they are

(13:10):
not kidding. The kidnappers told him not to call the
police and they'd know if he did because he was
being watched. In the second call, he heard the voice
of a second kidnapper, also African American. This one pressed
him on the seventy five thousand dollars ransom. When James
told him that it wasn't easy to just get seventy
five thousand dollars cash because the banks were all closed
on the weekends, he suggested that maybe he should sell

(13:33):
his Mercedes. Some sources we Read said that the second
caller also suggested that he ask Eleanor's boyfriend Pep for
the money. In the third and final call, hours later,
he was able to talk to Jamie and confirm she
wasn't hurt. This call got a little weird, though, this
time the kidnapper told him that there had been a mistake.
He said that they got the wrong girl and they

(13:54):
intended to kidnap Eleanor's boyfriend Pep instead because he burned
someone on a drug deal. After that, the caller promised
that Jamie would be released safely the next day.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
The family followed the instructions and didn't call the police,
but Eleanor did call a friend of hers who worked
at the DA's office, who did call the police, which
prompted them to start looking for her, though they didn't
start searching until about ten hours after they were informed.
Almost immediately they determined that there were likely several people involved,
just based on the number of voices James had heard

(14:27):
in the ransom calls. The next day, May tenth, and
the early morning, three US Marine Corps sergeants were on
military exercises in the Lake Mead recreational area, about thirty
minutes from where the walkers lived. They discovered the body
of a young woman about forty seven feet under a
bridge over a wash on North Shore Road. They called

(14:47):
Las Vegas Metro, telling them they thought she might be
around twenty years old. Tragically, it turned out to be Jamie.
She'd only been missing less than thirty hours, and it
seemed like she'd been thrown off the bridge. Her cause
of dea death was a massive skull fracture on the
rocks below. She'd been raped and murdered. There was some
speculation that she was trying to escape her kidnappers when

(15:08):
she was murdered, but that was never proven. One of
the first reporters on the scene was George Knapp. It
was his first day on the job with news Channel
eight and the first murder he had ever seen. It
stuck with him his whole career, and he's reported on
it many times over the years. Given who was involved
in the family's high profile, it was huge news.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Initially, the police took some criticism that they didn't take
any action until ten hours after they were informed Jamie
was missing, and there was some speculation that they delayed
because of persistent but absolutely unproven rumors that the Walker
family was involved in drug trafficking. In this case, as
it turned out, the criticism of Metro wasn't really warranted.
They interviewed fifty five potential suspects, held dozens of lineups,

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and ordered polygraph exams. Not only that, but importantly, they
preserved evidence from Jamie's sexual assault. And I'm sure you
realize by now if you and often, that that will
be important later. It wasn't only Metro that was investigating,
though Eleanor was as well. She was absolutely relentless supplying
Metro with many of the tips they acted on. She
had dozens of pages of single spaced type notes with

(16:15):
descriptions of people who could potentially be involved. Right at
the top of Eleanor's list was, in her words, a
boxer that lives nearby named Willie Lee. The canon Shannon.
Eleanor explained that Shannon had met Jamie through Jamie's brother James,
who was taking boxing lessons from Shannon, and that when
they met, Shannon flirted with Jamie. Keep in mind that

(16:37):
in nineteen eighty one, Shannon was twenty nine and Jamie
was eighteen. Jamie wasn't having it, though. She didn't like Shannon,
and she didn't keep it a secret. The first time
Eleanor met Shannon, it was at the People's Choice Club
and she got a weird vibe from him too. Shannon
apparently warned her that it was dangerous for two women
to live alone, and he told her that he was
always looking out for Jamie because there are a lot

(16:58):
of weirdos around. On the very day of the kidnapping,
Shannon reportedly came to Eleanor and Jamie's house to sign
some insurance papers, but he acted very strangely, just getting
up and leaving, saying that he had an errand to run.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
As we mentioned earlier, nineteen eighty one was when Jamie
was murdered, and also when Shannon's career hit the skids
and never recovered. A month after Jamie was murdered, and
just after that article was written about him in Boxing Today,
he defended his welterweight title against a fighter he should
have beaten easily, but he barely won in a nine
round decision. In his next fight two months later, Shannon

(17:34):
was beaten so badly by Marvin Cambell, the WBC Cruiserweight champion,
that he had to be rescued from a pummeling in
the third round of the fight, and he lost his
title in October of nineteen eighty three. The next time
he was scheduled to fight, he didn't show up for
the way in because he had been arrested. But not
for what you might think, but it's going to sound familiar.

(17:56):
He was arrested for kidnapping and battery of a woman
he was dating in nineteen eighty five. He was sentenced
to thirty years in prison for the crime. He ended
up serving thirteen years and was paroled again in nineteen
ninety eight. While Shannon was in prison between nineteen eighty
six and nineteen eighty seven, he allegedly had several conversations
with another inmate named James Phillips, where Shannon allegedly admitted

(18:18):
to Phillips that he had killed Jamie Walker. He also
repeated the allegations about the Walkers being involved in the
drug trade, and claimed that he gave James Walker some
heroine to sell, but Walker had burned him, keeping either
the drugs, the money, or both. Of course, the Walker
family denies any involvement in this, and there has been
no proof of that. It does seem to be consistent

(18:40):
with Shannon being involved, though, given all the allegations that
the kidnappers made about someone being burned on a drug deal,
so it does seem like Shannon did consistently claim this.
Phillips later recanted this whole story, and because there wasn't
enough corroborating or physical evidence, no charges were brought.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
After Shannon was paroled in night ninety eight at age
forty six, he headed back to Florida again, where he
kept his head down for twelve years until twenty ten,
being a good neighbor and keeping out of trouble. The
problem for him was that Metro had done a good
job of preserving the evidence from Jamie's rape and murder,
and there is no statute of limitations on murder. They

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had suspected him from the beginning for many reasons, and
he was right there at the top of the file,
and they were just waiting for the break in the
case that meant they could get him. In two thousand
and six, the Cold Case Detectives paid Willie Shannon another
visit in Florida. Another DNA test had been performed that
was a partial match with Shannon due to degradation and
the state of DNA analysis. In two thousand and six,

(19:41):
the detective said he was uncooperative, which isn't really shocking,
and they came away saying he thinks he's gotten away
with it. The detectives had seen DNA technology steadily advanced,
so they knew their time would come. In twenty ten,
they got their big break in the form of a
five hundred thousand dollars grant to revisit cold cases where
it DNA was available, having them analyzed using the newest,

(20:02):
cutting edge DNA analysis technology. Again, they submitted the DNA
for analysis and got a much better match. Metro decided
that it was time and they could make the case
if they could get a fresh sample to match what
was left of the original nineteen eighty one evidence. The
Cold Case detectives decided to make the trip to Florida
again with the goal of getting a fresh DNA sample

(20:23):
from Shannon to help make the case airtight. Initially, though
it did not go well. There was an incident where
Shannon's parole officer tipped him off by mistake that the
police were going to be trying to get a sample
of his DNA, but they did finally succeed in getting it.
On November third, twenty ten, they got a conclusive match,
and on December seventh, twenty ten, Shannon was arrested for

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the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Jamie Walker while he
was on a job site in Palmetto, Florida. He was
held in a Manatee County jail while he awaited extradition
to Nevada, and finally made it to Nevada State Prison,
where he would stay for the next five years waiting trial.
The trial itself was surprisingly quick. In January twenty sixteen,

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Shannon was offered an Alfred plea, which means he didn't
admit to the crime, but he did acknowledge that the
prosecution had enough evidence to get a conviction if the
trial were to proceed. Another tragic aspect of this case
is about Jamie's mom, Eleanor. She was a tireless voice
for her daughter right from the beginning, beating metro tips
and information, working with them, and keeping in touch with

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the cold case detectives for over thirty years. She wanted
so much to see her daughter's murderer brought to justice.
She was relieved when Shannon was finally apprehended, but endured
five years of waiting for justice to be served to him,
and sadly, on the very day when Eleanor was to
be deposed in the case, she passed away. Shannon's sentencing
was on March tenth, twenty sixteen, before Jamie's friends and family.

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Dozens of them showed up for Jamie, wearing Justice for
Jamie t shirts showing how beloved she was. Her aunt,
her uncle, and her cousin all gave heartbreaking impact statements
and said that although they believed it was their Christian
duty to forgive Shannon, they were still working on it.
Shannon was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but because
his plea fell under the law at the time Jamie

(22:16):
was murdered, he was eligible for parole almost immediately after
the sentencing. He applied for parole in twenty seventeen and
was denied, but he was set free just a few
months later. He ended up serving only five months in
jail after being sentenced for Jamie's kidnapping, rape, and murder
only five years total.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
In an interview, Jamie's cousin, Gayla Walker Thornton, talked about
the lifelong impact that the murder has had on her
and the Walker family. She said that, of course Mother's
Day has always been a hard time for the family
after what happened. Currently, Gaala is a school counselor in
Las Vegas and has a daughter named Jamie. The Walker
family believes, just like metropolice do, that there are still

(22:57):
people out there who were involved with Jamie's murder and
she wants them brought to justice. To Loanda Walker, Jamie's aunt,
specifically said that the family believed they know who one
or more of the accomplices could be. On the ransom calls,
James heard three voices, two men and a woman at
the scene. They didn't find Shannon's finger prints. They did
find two other sets of fingerprints they couldn't identify. This

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case leads us to wonder if justice was served for
Jamie and her family. A young woman who was kidnapped,
raped and murdered, and while one of the perpetrators was
eventually caught. He was given only fifteen years and served
only five which might be the shortest sentence for murder
in any case we've covered. It's not clear why he
was offered an Alfred plea, given that the DA had
more than enough evidence to get a murder conviction, which

(23:43):
would have resulted in a more appropriate sentence, especially given
Shannon's previous violent crimes against women. Somehow, this man remains
at large in Florida to this day. Jamie is buried
here in Las Vegas at the Downtown Palm Mortuary. If
you have any information regarding the other other people responsible
for this horrific crime, please reach out to Crime Stoppers
at seven oh two three eight five five five five five,

(24:07):
where you can remain anonymous, or to the Metro Police
Cold Case Division at seven oh two eight two eight
eight nine seven three, or you can email them at
Cold Case Homicide at LVMPD dot com. We also have
a link to Metro's cold case website at sinspod dot
com slash Metro Cold Case. Thanks for listening, and please

(24:28):
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(25:44):
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