In 1987, when Sandy heard the bark of the first pistol shot right next to her ear, she bolted and ran for her life. After ducking behind desert scrub brush in the dim glow of the moonlight, she spotted eighteen-year-old Troy Kell and his buddy Billy Merritt standing over the dead body of James Cotton Kelly. Though only fifteen, this was the fourth murder Shaw witnessed in two years.
Touted as the "Show & Tell Killer" by the media because a crooked prosecutor told the press and jury she took classmates to view the dead body, Sandy was immediately mutilated by the press. She was convicted and sentenced to two life terms without parole and became the youngest female ever incarcerated in an adult Nevada prison. Shaw endured twenty-one years in prison and fifteen more on "lifetime parole" for this wrongful conviction before being fully exonerated in June of 2022 by the Nevada Supreme Court. Yet, she lost her entire youth in the process-the best years of her life. She never went to Prom. Never got married. Never had kids. Her dreams were stripped away.
And she has never told her story. Now-being fully free-the time is right to tell it.
Life Without is a crisis-driven tale of violence and murder, tragedy, and injustice, and ultimately-triumph. This book is the almost unbelievable, yet true life story of a woman with extreme bad luck, a childhood ripped away, generations of dysfunction before and alongside her, who endured abuse of all kinds, and who still found her way to freedom and redemption.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: High Anxiety: Seeking a Pardon
- Chapter 2: Turbulent Beginnings
- Chapter 3: Battle Scars
- Chapter 4: Sweet in Small Doses
- Chapter 5: The One that Broke the Camel’s Back
- Chapter 6: My Bridge to Sin City
- Chapter 7: Things We Lost in the Fire
- Chapter 8: Beware of an Enemy Reconciliation
- Chapter 9: “Who You Want to Live With?”
- Chapter 10: Dysfunction: The New Normal
- Chapter 11: Kidnapping Us Back
- Chapter 12: Vegas: Doorway to Disaster
- Chapter 13: Sixth Sense
- Chapter 14: Neon Wilderness
- Chapter 15: Enter Troy Kell
- Chapter 16: Rescuing Baby Nicole
- Chapter 17: Kidnapped . . . Again
- Chapter 18: I Already Got a Sister
- Chapter 19: The Last Kidnapping
- Chapter 20: The Truce
- Chapter 21: Grandma’s Sobering Moment
- Chapter 22: Big Trouble at Rancho Circle
- Chapter 23: Virginia’s Fatal Decision
- Chapter 24: Triple Homicide
- Chapter 25: Alex’s Grand Plan
- Chapter 26: Aftermath
- Chapter 27: The Night Terrors
- Chapter 28: Psychotic Intrusions and Lowlife Friends
- Chapter 29: Halloween Fiasco and Back to Dad’s
- Chapter 30: Another Shooting
- Chapter 31: Enter “Cotton”
- Chapter 32: Fighting Off a Rapist
- Chapter 33: The Stalker: Prelude to Murder
- Chapter 34: Cotton’s Murder
- Chapter 35: A Nightmare, but Not a Dream
- Chapter 36: Booked for Murder
- Chapter 37: Clark County Jail
- Chapter 38: Five-Day Circus
- Chapter 39: On Hold
- Chapter 40: Welcome to the Rest of Your Life
- Chapter 41: Lockdown in the Fish Tank
- Chapter 42: Breaking Point
- Chapter 43: What to Do With Me
- Chapter 44: First Day in the Yard
- Chapter 45: Monica
- Chapter 46: Wall of Noise, Den of Violence
- Chapter 47: Facing a Predator
- Chapter 48: Ordeal in the Prison Kitchen
- Chapter 49: Just a Bar of Soap
- Chapter 50: Return of My Jailhouse Stalker
- Chapter 51: Sheila’s Ordeal
- Chapter 52: First Appeal and Varela’s Contrition
- Chapter 53: Changing My Tune
- Chapter 54: Appeal Denied!
- Chapter 55: Bitter Winter and off to Reno
- Chapter 56: Troy’s Troubled Life
- Chapter 57: The Annabelle Hall Situation
- Chapter 58: Sold Down the River
- Chapter 59: Our Escape Plan
- Chapter 60: What Happened in Between
- Chapter 61: Shakopee Prison and Troy Kell’s Fate
- Chapter 62: Fighting for a Parole
- Chapter 63: The Mob Cop and 2002 Pardons Hearing
- Chapter 64: The Mystery Packet
- Chapter 65: Big Win at the Pardons Board
- Chapter 66: 2007 Parole Hearing
- Chapter 67: On Parole: Forever
- Chapter 68: Last Visits With Dad
- Chapter 69: Back to Prison
- Chapter 70: A Week of Sorrow
- Chapter 71: Judgment Day
- Chapter 72: The Morning After
- Index
- About the Authors
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