Episode 146 Sharon Hammack and Dusty Shuck Part 1 of 2
In mid 1990s Grand Rapids, Michigan, someone was killing sex workers. Sharon Hammack, a mother of two, was hogtied, stabbed, strangled, raped, and dumped on the side of a road. Despite many suspects, her case remained unsolved; all investigators had to go on was semen left behind by Sharon’s killer. A DNA profile from the semen was entered into CODIS, and while it did not identify Sharon’s killer…it connected her case to a murder 10 years later, in which Dusty Shuck was stabbed and dumped on the side of a road. It would take IGG to figure out who the common thread was in the two cases… and it did so just in time.
SPECIAL NOTE: Thanks to a listener's feedback/input, we wanted to make one clarification or correction to something mentioned in this episode. It was mentioned in this episode that "Dusty was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, now known as Bipolar Disorder." The correction is, that Schizophrenia is not now known as Bipolar Disorder. They're completely separate disorders. Bipolar Disorder used to be called manic-depressive disorder decades ago. Schizophrenia is still called Schizophrenia.
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