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PITTSBURGH – Bittersweet news for the friends and family of Laura Thompson, the 15-year-old single mother who went missing back in ’93. Thompson was last seen by her parents getting into a car with some men to go play cards and she was never heard from or seen since — most assuming she had simply run away. She is still listed on National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website along with an age progressed photo, but it is looking like she has been found. Two months ago, Shannon Marshall went to police and informed them that Thompson was dead. She had been raped and murdered and she had been present when her soon-to-be ex-husband, 39-year-old Joseph Marshall Jr., dug up her body back in ’93. She also claimed another man, 38-year-old Sean McDonough, was also involved and had been the one who raped the girl before she was murdered. Marshall helped police with their investigation into her claims, wearing a wiretap for a month, and on Monday both men were in police custody charged with murder. Police have not located Thompson’s remains, but say they are pretty sure they know the location. They are bringing in cadaver dogs and a dig team to help locate them.

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  • Boughtthefarm

    Scared of him??? No. This is selfish bitch only turned him in bacause she was mad at him.

  • Silkprint

    I agree ..she didn’t give a shit about this girls mother or child until she was getting divorced .

  • MadcapMama

    What kind of screwed up person can live with themselves for nearly two decades knowing that a 15 yr old kid was raped and murdered? Better still….it was your freaking HUSBAND who did it ya crazy bitch! And I don’t want to hear about fear…that’s what payphones and anonymous tips are for.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand some people’s idea of loyalty. If my friend, best friend, lover raped and murdered a teenage girl, I’d turn their ass in. There is some shit you just don’t do.

    I know that comment is a little off topic, but I’m just saying.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    That’s exactly what I was going to post. Does she expect people to pat her on the back for bringing this girls body home? She’ll probably claim that she was “scared for her life” all these years and that’s why she didn’t say anything sooner. I hope she gets charged with something as well.

    As bittersweet as this all is, I’m glad that Laura Thompson’s family, if this is all true any way, will finally have closure.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    Hell, I would even turn my own kids in, let alone husband/boyfriend. The only difference is that I would still love my kid and visit them in prison.

  • misssmartypants

    That pretty much sums it up. And whats really awful, she continued to have “relations” with a man who raped and murdered a girl, which she witnessed. Shouldnt she also be charged as an accessory? Even though she turned her honey in years later? And knew about his moving the body? It just doesnt seem fair.

  • Anonymous

    Wtf.

  • John Q. Public

    I like it when “you can hide, but you will be found” turns out to be true.

  • John Q. Public

    None the less she is not the criminal. After the divorce she will be able to testify against her ex-husband. In the end she serves justice.

  • Athena

    Bullshit. “Criminal” is defined by the state. Every state that I know of demands that, if you have knowledge of felony activity, you, too are criminally liable if you fail to report that activity. In the nearly 20 years she let this secret lie, other young women could have (may have) been victimized.

    Fuck her.

  • Anonymous

    She needs to have charges filed too as everyone here pretty much agrees,she will probobly testify for the prosecution and get off with no consequences whatsoever… dirty bitch…

  • Anonymous

    In the state of Pennsylvania, she will most likely be charged with accessory after the fact. She will probably be able to plead out, though in exchange for her testimony.

  • Anonymous

    I hope that all the responsible parties get what they deserve. What a bittersweet way for this family to get some closure.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    If someone can be charged as guilty by association for being in the same vehicle as someone carrying drugs, even if they didn’t know, then this woman sure as shit is guilty! If I were Laura Thompson’s family or friend, I would loathe her just a sliver less then her murdering soon-to-be ex.

    I’m trying to wrap my head around how she could live with that knowledge all this time. Could you imagine? How could anyone be comfortable with kissing the lips of a man who raped a young girl? How could a woman be OK to let a man touch her with hands that she knows raped and murdered a young woman? She probably got a thrill from it, that’s how. She likes the “bad boys”. It’s her type that writes to and has relationships with serial killers. She is nothing but a scuzzy bitch and she deserves to suffer. The only reason she has said anything now is most likely because she’s pissed at her ex.

    If she doesn’t get penalized by the law in any way, I hope Karma bites her in the ass every day for the rest of her life. I also hope that Hell exists so that she can spend eternity there.

  • lisaznola

    “County authorities charged Marshall and Sean McDonough, 38, of Thibodaux, La., on Monday with Thompson’s murder. Marshall is being held without bond in Lawrence County Jail. Lamancusa said he doesn’t yet know whether McDonough will fight extradition from Louisiana.”
    “According to documents filed in the case, McDonough had sex with Thompson before and after he killed her. Marshall told police that he watched as McDonough raped and killed Thompson. ”
    “Lamancusa said Shannon Marshall was about to file for divorce from her husband, from whom she was separated, and she worried about retribution from him.

    “She knew what he was capable of, and she was fearful,” Lamancusa said.”

    http://www.timesonline.com/bct_news/news_details/article/1373/2010/september/28/search-for-murdered-teens-body-to-begin-today.html

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    “She knew what he was capable of, and she was fearful,”Whah-fucking-whah. Maybe they should let him do what “he’s capable of” to her before he goes away for his own medicine. Fuck, this woman just pisses me off. I would not be able to be a cop on this case, I would be fired for beating the shit out of her.

  • lisaznola

    I know.
    She was getting even with him, not afraid.
    More than that, she never gave a damn about this poor girl’s family.
    I can only imagine the complete Hell they have been through, waiting, hoping, praying and never knowing.
    Shannon Marshall is a complete piece of shit for allowing the family to be victimized for years by the sub humans that killed Laura. She could have given them some sort of rest and closure a LONG time ago and she did not.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    Of course not, he was a good penis to her until now……

  • lisaznola

    *shivers*
    Sorry thought about his picture.
    LOL
    Also, and this is SO messed up of me, but that he had sex with Lauren’s corpse.
    Not funny, but,
    I could not have sex with a a dude if I knew he did a corpse.
    I know, stone me for thinking it, but ewwww.

  • RobotSocks

    I was actually thinking the same thing when I read that part. . . Imagine if all the sex was unprotected (GAH!!!)

    As much as it hurts to say, at least Laura’s family knows that she’s dead now and can stop worrying about her, wondering if she’s still alive and if she’s coming home. At least they know what happened.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BTYN5SIVHWNRENFLKYBXYNVYVE Avie

    Waitaminute. She actually KNEW where this girl’s body was for the past 17 years and only now divulged the information? What a bitch. For 17 years, this girl’s family and friends have been in a metaphorical limbo, wondering if she’ll walk in the door one day, wondering if she’s being held prisoner, wondering if she’s dead, not knowing her fate. This woman knew what became of this girl and sat on it for 17 years?! She’s just as evil as the men who raped and killed the girl. She said she was afraid? Probably not as afraid as that poor girl. Selfish, evil bitch.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BTYN5SIVHWNRENFLKYBXYNVYVE Avie

    Waitaminute. She actually KNEW where this girl’s body was for the past 17 years and only now divulged the information? What a bitch. For 17 years, this girl’s family and friends have been in a metaphorical limbo, wondering if she’ll walk in the door one day, wondering if she’s being held prisoner, wondering if she’s dead, not knowing her fate. This woman knew what became of this girl and sat on it for 17 years?! She’s just as evil as the men who raped and killed the girl. She said she was afraid? Probably not as afraid as that poor girl. Selfish, evil bitch.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

    How convenient.. it only took her all of 17 yrs to gain a conscience? this douche reeks of self serving bullshit.. she was present – a witness to a young girl being brutalized killed and rape and did not and was mute for all these yrs..
    The thing that SUCKS is that most likely she will be excluded as an accessory since he is providing this info.. I have a sick feeling she is one of those bitches who got off watchdog her husband “doin his thing” with this defenseless girl and could have possibly been the one to lure to girl to him as well..evil sick trash

  • plainbelliedsneetch

    Did she witness the murder? I thought she witnessed him digging up the body after the fact.

    It pisses me off to think some child spent 17 years thinking their mother might have left because she didn’t want them.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    No, she was there when her then boyfriend dug up her body to relocate it somewhere further away from the crime scene. It makes no difference though really. She knew what happened to that poor girl and still stuck with her boyfriend who she ended up marrying and is now divorcing.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    No, she was there when her then boyfriend dug up her body to relocate it somewhere further away from the crime scene. It makes no difference though really. She knew what happened to that poor girl and still stuck with her boyfriend who she ended up marrying and is now divorcing.

  • Parrot Toes (kathybird)

    No, she was there when her then boyfriend dug up her body to relocate it somewhere further away from the crime scene. It makes no difference though really. She knew what happened to that poor girl and still stuck with her boyfriend who she ended up marrying and is now divorcing.

  • Anonymous

    I’d have to feed them both a nice dinner with a hint of “Ode de Drano”, then go to the police the day I found out. Could be that she was so dumb that she believed she would get in trouble for being there when the body was dug up and that’s why she didn’t go sooner.

  • Anonymous

    I’d have to feed them both a nice dinner with a hint of “Ode de Drano”, then go to the police the day I found out. Could be that she was so dumb that she believed she would get in trouble for being there when the body was dug up and that’s why she didn’t go sooner.

  • Anonymous

    I’d have to feed them both a nice dinner with a hint of “Ode de Drano”, then go to the police the day I found out. Could be that she was so dumb that she believed she would get in trouble for being there when the body was dug up and that’s why she didn’t go sooner.

  • Anonymous

    nevermind, I take that back.. they all need Drano

  • Anonymous

    nevermind, I take that back.. they all need Drano

  • Anonymous

    nevermind, I take that back.. they all need Drano