Judgment of Shawna Nelson with Ashleigh Banfield

Police Love Triangle Murder Trial - Police dispatcher Shawna Nelson thought she had committed the perfect crime when she shot her romantic rival Heather Garraus execution style, but she underestimated the abilities of the very police department she worked for to get to the bottom of the murder.

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[janepitman]

The husband is a typical narcissist sitting there enjoying that the focus and attention is on him and not shedding one tear for either his murdered wife or his daughter who had lost her mother in such a senseless and horrific way. So sad 😢 RIP Heather ❤️

[sm]

What was IG thinking? His wife was beautiful, lovely, and kind, and he chose to be with that horrible creature?

[shannonscheffel]

Ignacio deserves to spend the rest of his life alone. He went through the entire trial with a self-righteous look on his face as if he hadn't contributed to his wife's death. She was so out of his league it was mind boggling, and yet he had an affair with Shawa...such an extremely unattractive(in every sense of the word) psychopath, not to mention all the others. And notice he never shed a single tear over Heather. None of this changed him one bit.

[justjessi]

The way he just blurted out "mommy's dead" to his 10yo daughter, speaks volumes to me. Doesn't sound like he has any empathy for his own child no less. He is guilty in his wife's murder too if you ask me.

[chrissyellem]

How can you know someone is going to get murdered and not say anything to the victim or call the police on the perpetrator?

[defiantking]

Clear example why cheating on a spouse is never worth it.

[katmah]

Let's not lessen the blame on Ignacio, he played a huge role in all of the drama.

[oliviashuii]

One of my favourite trials. If someone deserves life without, it’s this chick

[gabrielamartiniuc]

Her best friend discussed ways she can kill without being caught? And she was in Law Enforcement? How is she not in

[rullmourn]

Heather is the only truly innocent person in this disgusting murder case.

[marthawoodworth]

The way Ignacio Garraus told his daughter "Mommy's dead!" tells me this man has very little true empathy. No one with any conscience would blurt that out to their child. To me, he's as culpable as Shawna Nelson. His "gun" was Shawna Nelson. Michelle Moore is a piece of work, too. Her face when she first took the stand is angry, resentful. You can feel that she's a spoiled and was about to put up a "fight" but that didn't happen. She had to face that she was the co-conspirator. At that point she comes on like a sad, poor me act. So Shawna didn't "wanna be in hell." Now she's in heaven: prison.

[CandyQuackenbush]

She really thought she was going to get away with it. After threatening heather, having heather’s husbands baby. What a moron

[josimpson]

What a tragic case. What’s wrong with getting a divorce?
This vile woman has wrecked so many lives - she deserves every single day of her life without parole sentence.

[debraclevinger]

One of the sickest parts is just watching this disgusting man up on the stand because you can clearly observe his body language during questioning how more arrogant he was becoming as if to say yeah look at me ive got two women fighting over me one even kills the other one yeah im a good looking stud yeah baby ew he makes me wanna puke god I just cannot stand men like him. God my heart just breaks for heather. Bless her and her family

[rhondalynn]

She killed an innocent woman over that thing? ugh hes not even attractive rip heather

[marcimonroe]

Shawna trying to frame Michelle is literally the most disgusting, pitiful part. This woman is walking evil.

[fremontpathfinder]

The judge got to the point right away. Shauna's kids are better off without their mom

[nadinekeating]

What makes this tragedy even worse...
In 2015, the victim's daughter, Victoria died in a car crash at the age of only 17. So he lost his wife to murder and then their only child to a car crash seven years after this trial.

[jamescorsey]

Having an affair is super dangerous never know whats on a person's mind

[TEX]

The husband had no respect for his wife/child to carry on with this affair.