I think everyone thought there was nothing wrong by all accounts Shannon Collins was living a normal life in Pottsville Arkansas working as a delivery man after being medically discharged from the National Guard with his wife Teresa son Josh and stepdaughter Britney they appeared to be the typical American Family he was a big family man he always wanted to make sure everybody was happy but appearances can be deceiving Shannon was secretly having an affair and his brother Blake knew all about it Shannon told his brother that the marriage had been over for some time he'd been
seeing somebody else and that once his son finished College they would split ways he had actually seen that woman shortly before he returned home according to Blake Shannon spend lots of time on the road doing deliveries but he'd often call and check in he started doing deliveries just to sort of make life easier for his family with you know money cuz he spent a lot of on the road driving with the de he would call him he would call their parents and they would spend a lot of time speaking on the phone rather than text
when several months pass and Blake doesn't hear from Shannon by phone or text he reached out to his wife Teresa she tried to explain it away by saying Shannon had walked away from the home that he was texting them but they hadn't spoken to him on the phone Blake's not buying it after 9 months pass with no word from his brother Blake drives from Texas to Arkansas to while a missing person's Report with the Pottsville police he had to physically go to the police station to report him missing with all of the details and also
I don't think the family initially thought that anything was to arai but police question Teresa about Shannon he tells law enforcement that the last time she saw him was when he returned home from Tennessee for making a delivery and that essentially he wed away from the property and that was the last time she had seen him but their daughter Britney has a different recollection her daughter then told investigators that she saw him get into a vehicle with an unknown driver Teresa also informs police that Shannon has been texting her in the family from a different
cell phone number Britney during the police interview also said that um she had spoken to him via FaceTime several times and nobody else was able to say that they'd spoken to him by anything other than text despite the conflicting stories local police don't have enough evidence to move forward but that doesn't stop Blake from continuing to dig Blake learns the whole time that Shannon's been gone his veteran disability checks were being cashed by Teresa she pocketed $ 32,43 and they were getting around 3,000 every month because the Department of Veterans weren't aware that shanon had
gone missing or was not able to bank the funds himself Blake alerts the Department of Veteran Affairs and they immediately put a stop to any further payments she she never tried to stop those payments and she was spending you know the money as as well on various things Teresa and her daughter Britney are now in the crosshairs of the US Department of Veteran Affairs their investigators discovered that the day after Shannon was last seen Teresa contacted the cell service in an attempt to unlock his phone but they wouldn't allow it the next day Teresa used
cash to purchase a burner phone from Walmart the same phone Shannon allegedly used to contact the family investigators believe Teresa used the phone posing as Shannon texting herself and others on several different occasions she then sent a message to her son saying that he was in a VA program and also sent messages reporting to be Shannon saying that he didn't need to access the joint accounts he trusted her to spend the money wisely and that also he could potentially be gone for two years and maybe longer to work overseas as a contractor when authorities tried
to interview Teresa and Britney again both refused to talk and retained counsel so it's clear what the investigators believe happened for now a US Grand Jury has indicted Teresa and Britney Collins but not for Shannon's disappearance the Two-Face charges for defrauding the department of veterans aiding and abetting wire fraud and embezzlement neither Teresa or Britney Fa charges in Shannon's disappearance but investigators are still looking for more clues it's difficult I think to bring a conviction when someone is missing or there's nobody but they have a fairly lengthy list of reasons as to why they believe
he is deceased five long years have passed since Shannon Collins went missing his car still sits in the driveway of his home the odds are not good good that he'll ever be seen again or that police suspicion alone will solve the case they just can't say exactly the circumstances surrounding where Shannon is or what happened to him
