Mickey Shunick Day

[CajunFun]

For those of you who are too young to know the story, the decorated bicycles you see around Acadiana-- including the one behind the Nelson Horticulture Center-- are in memory of UL student Mickey Shunnick, who disappeared on this day in 2012.

She fought her assailant, and came close to killing him before he finally killed her. She was a gutsy young lady, and this was a very sad day for the UL community.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mickey-shu...ry?id=17029059

[HelmutVII]

It was a sad sad thing. She should have stayed with her boyfriend that night. He picked her up by the memorial on St Landry by blackham coliseum. She was a gutsy kid. Didn't deserve to die like that. I was shocked that the police released the fact that he buried her in a private cemetery that was never used. The plan was diabolical. You would never think to look for a dead body in a cemetery. Luck and good police work solved the case.

[CajunFun]

It was a sad sad thing. She should have stayed with her boyfriend that night. He picked her up by the memorial on St Landry by blackham coliseum. She was a gutsy kid. Didn't deserve to die like that. I was shocked that the police released the fact that he buried her in a private cemetery that was never used. The plan was diabolical. You would never think to look for a dead body in a cemetery. Luck and good police work solved the case.

His best friend was in the hospital where I worked... I remember walking by and seeing several cops and (I assume) plain-clothes police. The locals knew the perp, so I heard some of the back story.

He left several clues. She stabbed him in the neck, almost nicked a carotid... that would have killed him pretty fast. He drove to Charity-NO for treatment, and dumped her bike in the Basin. Once they found her bike, all they had to do was to go back through the traffic videos and look for vehicles going & returning in the likely time frame.

Then they discovered he had just bought an identical replacement for his truck. When they found the original, they had DNA evidence.

It was good police work, but if she hadn't stabbed him, he might have gotten away with it.