Serialously with Annie Elise
217: Diabolical Mistress Sets Up Her Husband For Murder?! | The Disturbing Case of Shawna Nelson
Mon, 25 Nov 2024
Shawna Nelson had it all, she was married, had a family and worked as a 911 dispatcher. But it wasn’t enough…She started having an affair with a coworker and fell head over heels for him, even becoming pregnant with his child. When he said he didn’t want to divorce his wife, Shawna took matters into her own hands… Seed Go to https://www.Seed.com/ae and use code 25AE to get 25% off your first month. Lumen Go to https://www.lumen.me/AE to get 15% off Rocket Money Head to https://www.RocketMoney.com/AE to cancel unwanted subscriptions and start saving Hiya Health Get 50% off your first order by going to https://www.hiyahealth.com/AE Shop the Merch: www.annieelise.com Follow the podcast on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@serialouslypodcast Follow the podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialouslypod/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/annieelise All Social Media Links: https://www.flowcode.com/page/annieelise_ SERIALously FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/SERIALouslyAnnieElise/ About Me: https://annieelise.com/ For Business Inquiries: [email protected] Sources: Oxygen 9 News Greeley Tribune Aspen Times Court TV Audio Sources: Court TV
Chapter 1: What happened to Heather Guerreras?
Aber es war ein bisschen eine Mischung zwischen den beiden. So that evening, Heather hung around the parking lot after work, talking with her coworkers, just starting to unwind from the long day, trying to decompress. But then all of a sudden this stranger just walked up out of nowhere. And right away everyone could tell that something just wasn't right here.
For one thing, the stranger was wearing this black mesh mask, kind of like something that would come with a Halloween costume. They also had on, you know, a black hood or like this robe type thing. So they literally looked like the Grim Reaper. And when this person approached, they pulled out a gun and they walked right up to Heather.
Now, of course, everyone was pretty freaked out by this, so they didn't know what to do. And when the Grim Reaper person went up to Heather, they told her, you know, get on your knees. She was terrified, so she did what she was told. She dropped to her knees. I mean, she didn't want to get shot.
Then, once Heather was down, kneeling on the ground on her knees, the Grim Reaper said something to her like, you ruined my life. Then they pulled the trigger twice. Both bullets hit Heather in the head and right upon that she just kind of slumped over. Then this Grim Reaper person just ran away. So Heather's co-workers, who were terrified, shocked, just freaking out, they called 911 right away.
Sie sagten, jemand hätte nur versucht, unseren Co-Arbeiter zu töten. Du musst hier schnell kommen. Und das Gute an all dem war, dass sie noch wach war. Aber sie war definitiv nicht in guter Form.
215 11th Avenue. 215 11th Avenue? Ja. Jemand wurde erschossen. Jemand wurde erschossen? Ja. Ja, sie ist auf dem Boden jetzt. Jemand hat mich in der Maske verletzt. Und sie hat sie einfach herabgeschossen. Wo sind sie? Sind sie auf dem Fuß? Sie sind auf dem Fuß und sie schießen nach Osten. Sie schießen nach Osten. Sie schießen nach Osten. Sie schießen nach Osten. Sie schießen nach Osten.
Sie schießen nach Osten. Yes, she was shot twice. Where was she shot? I see blood coming out of the head. Okay. I'm not sure. I can't see. I can't tell. Okay, all right. Somebody else is getting them on the way, sir. I'm going to try and help you if we can to get CPR started on her. Okay, let me move over here. Do what? Okay, what do you want me to do? Okay, so is she on her stomach, sir?
Yes, she's on her stomach. Okay. Okay, I need you to roll her over if you can. Make sure her airway is open, okay? Okay, I'll try to remember.
Put the phone down.
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Chapter 2: Who is the Grim Reaper in the story?
Chapter 3: What role did Annie Elise play in the podcast?
Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of the True Crime Podcast seriösly with me, your host, Annie Elise. I hope you guys all had a good weekend and you are ready to be jolted into reality, not only because it's a Monday, but because this case that we're talking about today is definitely gonna jolt you. So I don't know whether you are driving or traveling,
Was auch immer es ist, was du tust, lass uns einen Pause nehmen und uns mental in einen Zen-Platz einsteigen, bevor wir damit anfangen, weil es definitiv ein Problem ist, aber eines, das ich glaube, ist unglaublich wichtig, das wir darüber sprechen. So I'm gonna shut up now, okay? And we're just gonna jump right in.
So on January 23rd, 2007, 37-year-old Heather Guerreras was in the parking lot just outside of the Colorado State Employees Credit Union where she worked. She had just finished up her shift for the day and she was ready to head home. Jetzt lasst mich euch über Heather sprechen, weil Heather absolut wunderschön war.
Sie hatte diese langen, weibigen, dunklen Haare, diese voll runden Eier und wenn sie gelächterte, hatte sie kleine Dämpfe in ihnen. Sie liebte auch, große Statement-Eingriffe zu tragen, welche, Frau nach meinem eigenen Herz, ich lebe für meine Eingriffe. Aber sie war auch sehr verantwortlich. Sie war nicht nur ein Berichterstatter oder ein anderer Eingriffsteilnehmer in dieser Kreditunion.
Sie war Superviseurin. One of the rare people who kind of had a knack for getting along with the people she managed, which doesn't really happen in a lot of situations, right? I mean, everybody at the office really liked Heather. She was also involved with a local Catholic church called St. Mary's.
And it sounds like she took her faith very seriously, because Heather always put everybody else before herself. If you ever needed help with something, Heather was there to chip in. She cared about making sure that everyone around her was taken care of and just really in a good place. Sie lebte und arbeitete in Greeley, Colorado, eine kleine Stadt im Norden von Denver.
Sie war groß genug, um ihre eigene öffentliche Transit und verschiedene lokale Festivals und Dinge zu haben, insbesondere die jährliche Oktoberfest, aber es könnte auch mehr kleine Städte-Vibes hier und da sein. Es war der Art und Weise, wo jeder alle wusste, Gossip hatte eine Art von Sprache. Sprechen wie Wildfire, was in dieser Geschichte später sehr wichtig sein wird.
Aber es war ein bisschen eine Mischung zwischen den beiden. So that evening, Heather hung around the parking lot after work, talking with her coworkers, just starting to unwind from the long day, trying to decompress. But then all of a sudden this stranger just walked up out of nowhere. And right away everyone could tell that something just wasn't right here.
For one thing, the stranger was wearing this black mesh mask, kind of like something that would come with a Halloween costume. They also had on, you know, a black hood or like this robe type thing. So they literally looked like the Grim Reaper. And when this person approached, they pulled out a gun and they walked right up to Heather.
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Chapter 4: How did Heather's murder unfold?
Waren sie männlich? Oh mein Gott, sie kommen weg. Sie sind weg. Oh mein Gott. Okay, sie sind hinter der Allee gegangen. Ich muss dir sagen, was da los ist. Die Person ist hinter der Allee gegangen. Sie sind hinter den Unternehmen hier auf 11th Avenue. Es gibt keinen Weg, sie zu erzählen, was da los ist. Sie sind hinter der Allee gegangen. Sie sind hinter der Allee gegangen.
Sie sind hinter der Allee gegangen. I need to tell you what's the person that was shot. Calm down and I need you to tell me what is going on. Okay, where is the person that was shot? Ma'am, ma'am, I need you to tell me what is going on. Where is the person that was shot? Is it male or female? Ma'am, it's the cop. Okay, we do have everybody on their way to help you.
Okay, we do have everybody on their way to help you. Nicole? Nicole, bist du jetzt mit dem Patienten? Ich bin sorry? Bist du jetzt mit dem Patienten? Ja, ich bin jetzt mit einem der Menschen, der mit mir arbeitet. Es gibt jemanden auf dem Telefon, der mit mir spricht. Es gibt Menschen. Es gibt Menschen. So it definitely seemed like it was a very high urgency situation.
Multiple 911 calls were being made. People were trying to frantically figure out what to do to help Heather, although they were not doing CPR. But even with everybody calling for ambulances right away and trying to get Heather that help, she ended up dying within the next half hour.
And even though this happened right in front of that credit union where she worked, the cops were pretty confident right off the bat that this was not at all about money. It wasn't some sort of bank robbery gone wrong, nothing like this. Because remember, this grim reaper person told Heather, you ruined my life. This was targeted.
This wasn't some get rich quick, rob a bank, shoot the casualties, nothing like that. It seemed pretty obvious that the murderer, whoever they were, had targeted Heather specifically and intentionally. So now the question became whether Heather had any enemies or not. Anybody who might want to hurt her. So the police started by taking a look at her home life.
Heather hatte eine neunjährige Tochter namens Victoria und sie war auch mit einem Polizisten namens Ignacio Guerreros verabredet. Er ging kurz für Ig. Nun, natürlich, wenn eine Frau getötet wird, ich meine, sagt es mit mir, Leute, ihr wisst, wo ich mit dem gehen. Ihr schaut immer auf den Mann. Ihr schaut auch auf den Freund, wer der Partner ist, wenn es ein Verhältnis gibt.
Ihr schaut immer auf diese Leute zuerst. So it obviously made sense to treat her husband Ig as a suspect in this case, because he might have had a motive to want to kill his wife or hurt her. And in fact, he did. See, from the outside, he seemed like a loving husband and father. He was really involved in his daughter Victoria's life. But the problem was, and this is key, he was having an affair.
It began a little more than three years earlier in 2004. Now, the other woman, named Shauna Nelson, was working as a 911 dispatcher. Now, since she was always sending police officers to respond to different emergency calls, she naturally had to get to know all of these different officers, including Ig. Now, Shana was in her early 30s. She was curvy, she had long blonde hair.
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Chapter 5: What were the details of the affair between Ig and Shauna?
I don't know if it was clear to him exactly how long the affair had been going on or how far things had gone, but he definitely knew something. So basically, Ken and Heather were now asking questions to their spouses, but they weren't liking the answers that Shauna and Ig were giving them. So that's when Shauna and Ig decided to just come clean.
Not entirely out of the goodness of their hearts though, obviously right, but more so because they didn't really have a whole lot of choice anymore. Now, of course, Heather and Ken were both very, very upset. And it probably didn't help that when Shauna's son Christian was born, she put Ig's name down on the birth certificate, not her husband's. She was identifying, this is Ig's baby.
So there was a whole legal mess where Ig had to go to court and say that the baby was his, but that he didn't have any intention of being a father to him. He didn't expect or want custody. Then Ken had to go and file to adopt his own wife's son. I mean, it was a disaster. But somehow, some way, they worked everything out. Both married couples decided to stay together.
And to all appearances, everyone was handling everything like truly a very mature adult. Way more mature than I would ever be in a situation like that. So that should have been the end of it, right? But obviously it wasn't. Because here everyone was now a few months later and Heather was dead.
So you might be hearing this and thinking, okay, Ig definitely had a motive to want Heather out of the way. He didn't want a divorce for whatever reason, but he might have still wanted to be done with her. And we also know he wasn't happy in his marriage, given all of the cheating. He also had the means to carry this out. He was a police officer after all.
So he definitely had access to guns and knew how to shoot them. And it wouldn't have been that hard for him to pull up to the credit union when Heather got off work. But Ig wasn't the only person who had a motive to want Heather dead. Not at all. Shauna's husband Ken also knew about the affair.
And he wouldn't be the first person to find out that their wife was cheating on him and decide that murder was the only solution. I don't know why Ken would want to take his anger out on Heather though, the other innocent person in this situation, you know, rather than take his anger out on Shauna or Ig, who were the actual cheaters.
But it's not like these kinds of crimes are always driven by logic either. Plus, there was a decent amount of evidence that pointed at Ken as the likely murderer. First, he was a bit of a gun nut. He loved going to ranges for fun. He owned a bunch of personal guns, in addition to the one that had been issued to him, of course, when he became a cop as a police officer.
But also, and probably the most damning piece of evidence pointing directly at Ken, was that the person in that Grim Reaper getup, who drove up to the credit union in a truck that belonged to both Ken and Shauna. Technically, it was both of theirs. But Shauna didn't really like driving it because it wasn't a very smooth ride.
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Chapter 6: How did Shauna's obsession with Ig escalate?
Eine schwere Frau, die lange nicht rennt. Ich kann es von der femininen Runde hören. Okay. Wie ein Waddeln fast.
And you hear the same thing from that other co-worker who called 911. The woman who was so freaked out that the dispatcher could barely understand her. Once she calmed down enough to say what had happened, she also said that she thought that this shooter was a woman.
Was it a female that did the shooting? Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Ich weiß nicht. Ich glaube, sie hat sie mitgebracht. Und es war eine Frau mit langen, starken Haaren? Nein, nein, nein. Ich weiß nicht, wie sie aussieht. All ich weiß, ist, dass sie in der völlig schwarzen Runde war. Und, ähm, wie eine Hallowe'na.
Und, ähm, und, ähm, und sie hatte so schwarze Sachen auf ihrem Gesicht, aber ich weiß nicht, ob es diese Frau ist, die hier ist. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. War sie alleine? Sie war was? Sie war alleine. Sie war alleine und da war jemand anderes da. Sie war alleine und da war jemand anderes da. Sie war alleine und da war jemand anderes da.
Sie war alleine und da war jemand anderes da. Plus, the police found some DNA on the bullet casings that they found out by the credit union where Heather was shot.
Now, the bad news was, these bullet casings got really hot when the gun fired. The heat was bad enough that it damaged the DNA a little bit. It didn't destroy it entirely, but the police couldn't match it to any one specific person. It wasn't in good enough condition. They could tell some things, though, about whoever had held those bullets and loaded them into the gun.
Namely, that the person was in fact female. So again, it now, it couldn't be Ken. It couldn't be Ig. And on top of all of that, before Heather was killed, Heather actually told a bunch of her friends, including her family members, that she was afraid of her husband's mistress, aka Shauna. As it turns out, Shauna was extremely suspicious in a lot of other ways too.
Now I want to go back a little bit and talk more about Shauna's affair with Ig, because as it turns out, there was way more to it than what I covered already. And to put it very, very simply from the beginning, Shauna was completely obsessed with Ig. Okay, also Shana's obsession with Iggy was like completely unhinged.
It was to a degree that Shana actually couldn't accept it when he decided to break things off. So yeah, it was Iggy who made the call that they were going to end things. Shauna came clean to Ken when she got pregnant with Ig's baby, but from the sounds of it, she was actually hoping to break up with Ken and to get together with Ig and that they would raise the baby together.
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Chapter 7: What evidence pointed to Ken as a suspect?
Chapter 8: What were the consequences of the affair?
So, when they saw the truck, they put on their lights, put on their sirens and they pulled Shauna over. And Ken ran up to the driver's seat and he just screamed at her, What have you done? Just freaking out. And he was so angry, in fact, that his partner was worried that he might hurt Shauna. He actually ran over to the car himself to protect her from Ken.
And then Ken and his partner arrested Shauna. The partner drove her back to the station in his squad car and Ken took the truck and drove off. And I know it's super weird that they left him alone with a truck that's evidence in a murder case where the wife is the suspect, but Ken was still acting really worried about his kids, and he sounded like he just wanted to get home right away.
His partner felt really bad for him, he had empathy for him, so he just let him go. Then, when some police officers searched the truck later on, they found that Grim Reaper mask and the black cape inside of it. This all perfectly matched everything that the witnesses saw the shooter wearing. But one thing that they never found was the murder weapon.
And I've got to say, the whole story behind this is shady AF. So, when Ken was supposed to be driving home to go check on his kids, he actually pulled over at the side of the road somewhere out of the way. There were a bunch of high school students in the area and they saw Ken get out of the truck. Then they saw him reach back inside the truck and grab something.
Those high school students didn't have the best view, so they couldn't say for sure what he took or what he did with the thing that he grabbed afterward. But given how the murder weapon was so conveniently never recovered and went missing, it definitely was not a good look for Ken.
And it's wild to me to think that he might have helped his wife cover up a murder, especially right after she basically tried to frame him for the murder. Now I guess in his defense, at this point in time, if he did throw the gun, he didn't know that she was trying to frame him yet, but it was still just a very bizarre move on his part. Whatever happened.
I mean, I get that he loved Shauna, but for this woman to basically stab him in the back over and over and over again, first with the affair, then with this frame-up, and for him to keep just standing by her after all of this... It's pretty mind-blowing, right? But it's also entirely possible that Ken was just panicking and that he wasn't trying to help her at all.
Maybe he really was trying to drive back home and then he saw the gun in the truck and realized it was one of his, so he needed to get rid of it. And maybe he had some sort of knee-jerk reaction like, I don't know, I just gotta toss this, I gotta dump it. Wer kann es wirklich sagen? Es war ein riesiger Schmuck.
Und Ken wurde letztendlich für Beurteilung verhaftet, aber niemand beurteilte sich, weil sie keine Beweise hatten, dass er wirklich die Waffe genommen hat.
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