Dateline Revisits the Case of Emory Student Shannon Melendi’s Murder
The killer of Shannon Melendi, Butch Hinton, is currently serving his sentence for the murder of the teen at the Hays State Prison in Georgia.
Butch knew the victim from the softball game; she was scorekeeping the day of her disappearance as the killer was working as an umpire at the game.
An anonymous report was crucial in catching the criminal even though it had been almost ten years. After finding the evidence against Butch Hinton, he first did not admit to having any connections to Shannon’s disappearance.
He had a previous record of being a sex offender, which made the investigators not give up on the lead, and it finally paid off as the killer cracked under the paranoia and guilt and confessed to his crimes.
The court sentenced Hinton to life imprisonment for the murder of Shannon Melendi, and at 61years of age, he is still paying for his crimes.
