Sins & Survivors: A Las Vegas True Crime Podcast - Pure Evil - The Murder of Shauna Tiaffay

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

Shauna worked hard, loved her daughter, and tried to leave. Her husband made sure she never got the chance.Shauna Tiaffay was a devoted mother, beloved friend, and successful Las Vegas cocktail waitre...ss. But behind closed doors, her marriage to firefighter George Tiaffay was unraveling. When Shauna was brutally murdered in her home, investigators uncovered a sinister murder-for-hire plot involving a drifter and a calculated plan that shocked the city.This episode exposes the disturbing depths of George’s deception, the relentless fight for justice, and the hero who helped crack the case. Some crimes are senseless. This one was pure evil.http://www.sinspod.co/episode14sourcesDomestic Violence Resourceshttp://sinspod.co/resourcesClick here to become a member of our Patreon!https://sinspod.co/patreonVisit and join our Patreon now and access our ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content & schwag!Apple Podcast Subscriptionshttps://sinspod.co/appleWe're now offering premium membership benefits on Apple Podcast Subscriptions! On your mobile deviceLet us know what you think about the episodehttps://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2248640/open_sms Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sins-survivors-a-las-vegas-true-crime-podcast--6173686/support.

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Starting point is 00:01:32 After all, they were both attractive and wonderful people that everyone loved. It seemed like the Las Vegas love story that has happened a million times, and in many ways it was. But George and Shauna's friends and family could never have guessed how horribly it would all go wrong. Hi, and welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal with domestic violence. I'm your host, Sean, and Survivors, a Las Vegas true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal with domestic violence. I'm your host, Sean, and with me, as always, is the one and only John. I am the only John in the room. Here we are again. Sometimes it seems that a lot of these
Starting point is 00:02:15 cases are similar in so many ways, but this one is a bit different. Also, there's another detail that we'll discuss later that makes this one feel a lot different. Do you want to get us started by talking about our victim, Shawna Castleton TFA? Sure thing. Shawna Castleton TFA was born on March 13, 1966, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to William and Nancy Thompson. She has five brothers and one older sister, Paula. Shawna lived in Utah until 1978 when she moved to Pennsylvania and then finally to Northern Virginia where she attended middle school and then graduated from South Lakes High School in 1984. Shawna was very popular.
Starting point is 00:02:56 She was a cheerleader in high school who loved reading and drawing and according to her friends, she was a girly girl whose favorite color was pink. She loved to sing and dance and everyone who knew her agreed that she was a girly girl whose favorite color was pink. She loved to sing and dance, and everyone who knew her agreed that she was very generous and caring. She moved to Las Vegas at the age of 28 in 1994 to be closer to her sister, although her sister and brother-in-law eventually moved away from Las Vegas to Nashville. She worked in upscale retail stores like Saks Fifth
Starting point is 00:03:23 Avenue selling cosmetics until she got a highly sought-after job at the Palms when it opened in 2001 as a cocktail waitress. If you've never been to Las Vegas and experienced that world, cocktail waitress jobs can pay extremely well. They make their hourly wage, but most of their money will come through tips. And even back in 2001, she could make up to $500 a night, which would be closer to $850 a night in 2024. If you do the math on that, it could be nearly $300,000 a year in 2024 dollars. So many nights they'll turn in a stack of chips as the greater part of their pay. One of the most common things people had to say about Shauna, beyond what has already been said, is that she was extremely pretty. And in the casino environment, that's going to attract a lot of attention. And in 2001,
Starting point is 00:04:10 it attracted the attention of George TFA. George was six years younger than Shauna. He was born September 15th, 1972, and grew up on a chicken ranch. His father died when he was young and George worked hard on the farm and eventually excelled in school. He was his high school valedictorian and graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1994. His friends and family often said that George was very service-oriented. More than one of them said that George claimed his purpose was to serve in whatever capacity he could. And serve he did. In his career, he joined the Army Corps of Engineers, where he worked on projects like building schools and water systems in third world countries. Eventually, he left the military and took a civilian engineering job, but didn't love working in an office environment.
Starting point is 00:05:00 So he decided to shift, as people often do in their careers. He joined the fire department in Las Vegas and became an EMT at the level of EMTI, the intermediate level of EMT, just below paramedic. So he was out there helping people and fulfilling the role of first responder, always serving. In 2002, George met Shauna at the Palms, and things must have been going well because their daughter was born about a year later. Their daughter's name isn't important to the story, so as we typically do, we'll just keep her name out of this episode. George and Shauna got married in Hawaii on March 16, 2006,
Starting point is 00:05:35 just three days after Shauna's 40th birthday. There's some video out there of them around the time of their wedding. It was just the three of them, Shauna, George, and their daughter. Things were going pretty well for the couple, but in 2008, you might remember a little thing called the Great Recession, which was the greatest downturn in the US economy since the Great Depression. The main cause of the downturn was the housing crisis.
Starting point is 00:05:58 The housing crisis was bad throughout the United States, but it was particularly bad here in Las Vegas. That was a very difficult time to be living here. Many people were dealing with layoffs and unemployment and eventually having to declare bankruptcy. The housing market crashed and people were choosing to walk away from their homes rather than pay inflated mortgage bills. But one haunting thing for me from the work I was doing at the time was that in 2009, Nevada was number one in the nation per capita for femicide, for women being murdered by men. There were 35 femicides that year, or a rate of 2.7 per 100,000 people. The national average that year was 1.25 per 100,000. So Nevada
Starting point is 00:06:40 was more than double that rate. I moved to Las Vegas in 2011 after the economy had begun to recover, along with the housing market, but it was still pretty bad, with foreclosures happening at a pretty shocking rate. The unemployment rate was 10% nationally, but it got to 14% here in Las Vegas due to the economy's reliance on tourism and construction, both of which dried up really fast in the downturn. If you live here, you probably remember how the Fontainebleau stopped being built and basically stood there like a giant steel skeleton for almost 20 years because of that. In the midst of this, George and Shauna's relationship became very strained, and the
Starting point is 00:07:20 couple started having money problems. There's some evidence to suggest that George was personally affected in the housing crash. It was not at all uncommon at that time before 2008 for people to be heavily leveraged in extra rental properties only then to lose them when the prices crashed. He started acting controlling and they began fighting over money. Shawna moved out in April of 2012 and got her own apartment in Summerlin, something she was very proud of. The couple started co-parenting, sharing custody of their daughter. And that wasn't particularly easy because Shauna worked nights waitressing and George worked long days as an EMT and firefighter. And as a result, their daughter was spending a lot of time with George's
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Starting point is 00:08:48 things were looking up. They were looking a little bit better for them, and they were getting along again, which was a good sign that things might potentially work out. In early September of that year, though, Shauna's apartment was burglarized, and it was a very weird burglary. Someone broke in and used her shower and stole some of her personal items, like underwear and bathing suits. She was understandably creeped out, but must have assumed it wasn't going to happen again because there was no evidence of her making any sort of security upgrades to her apartment or anything like that. Shauna worked the evening of September 28th and early in the morning at 3.01 a.m. on the 29th of September, there was surveillance footage of her clocking out from the Palms and walking to a remote employee lot to drive home. That footage is the last time Shauna is seen alive. Around 9 a.m. on September 29th, George came by her apartment because their daughter needed to
Starting point is 00:09:35 pick something up. When they arrived, he noticed that the garage door was open, which was not normal. George walked in through the garage door and made a horrible discovery. Shauna had been brutally murdered. As an EMT, he immediately recognized that she was gone and called 911 to report what had happened. She was murdered in a horrific fashion, apparently with some sort of blunt object, which the police soon began to assume was a hammer, and this was later confirmed by autopsy. When the police arrived, they interviewed George immediately at the scene. He identified himself as a firefighter and EMT and explained that he had just worked an overnight shift. They checked out his story, and it was true.
Starting point is 00:10:13 George had a rock-solid alibi for the night. Police believed that Shauna had come back from work and someone was lying in wait in her apartment and attacked her. With George's alibi, investigators didn't have any suspects in the murder. They aren't sure at this point if there's some sort of sexual predator or possibly someone stalking casino employees or just some, it was just some random attack. They just don't know and they don't have much to go on. They interviewed people at the Palms but learned very little beyond how great of an employee and friend Shauna was and how much she'd be missed. Shauna's funeral was held on October 6, 2012. She was buried at the Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas,
Starting point is 00:10:58 and her former employer, the Palms Casino, not related to the mortuary, let all of the out-of-town family members stay at the Palms for free. George gave the eulogy. Something was off in the eulogy, though, according to Shauna's friends. According to her former co-workers, George made some comments about how Shauna liked to spend money and also recounted a story about Shauna driving away from a gas station with a gas pump still in her tank. Paula, her sister, said that even before the casket had been lowered, George had taken his daughter's hand and led her away, telling her it was time to go. The optimistic reading of this is that maybe he was trying to spare his daughter more pain, but it seemed very strange to everyone who was there. Shauna's family and friends also held a memorial in Ogden, Utah on November 10,
Starting point is 00:11:39 2012, where they served pink cupcakes in her honor. Shortly after the murder, the police ended up getting a big break, though. A local named Big Will, an ex-convict who had turned his life around and was very passionate about helping others, specifically those people coming out of prison, called Crimestoppers, the very same Crimestoppers we always mention at the end of the show, and reported that a person he knew named Greyh, had bragged to him that he had been paid to murder a woman, and he had done it with a hammer. Although this was very early in the
Starting point is 00:12:12 investigation, and it was even before the funeral, only the police knew about the murder weapon, so they were immediately interested in talking to Big Will, which they did promptly. Big Will explained that Greyhound was a local homeless man who lived in a tent on the edge of the desert. Greyhound often hung around at the nearby Albertsons, where he stole food, and also frequented another nearby gas station where he would sell drugs. As luck would have it, Greyhound was at the gas station when Big Will brought the police investigators there to look for him. Greyhound greeted Big Will like nothing was wrong, and Big Will asked Greyhound to hold on for a minute while he went and got the police. Greyhound said he would be happy to
Starting point is 00:12:52 talk to them down at the station. As the lead detectives on the case, Terry Miller and Dan Long observed, they'd hit the jackpot. It's worth noting that there were no real leads before this, so it's possible that the crime would have remained unsolved without this tip. Big Will is definitely a hero in this story for coming forward with this information. Police learned that Greyhound's real name is Noel Stevens. Noel Greyhound was cooperative and led investigators to his campsite where they thoroughly searched. No direct evidence was found in his tent or campsite that directly linked Noel to the crime. Luckily though, Noel had mentioned to Big Will that he had a second campsite, but Big Will didn't know exactly where it was. Las Vegas Metro conducted
Starting point is 00:13:38 a search via helicopter to locate the second site and discovered it not too far from the first site. They searched around that second campsite on foot and found a rolled up pair of jeans under a bush with bloodstains about 175 feet from the main campsite. Of course, they immediately tested the bloodstains for DNA, and as you may have guessed, the bloodstains were a match for Shauna's blood. This was a pair of jeans that Noel had worn. They also found the bikini bottoms that were a match for a bikini top that investigators recovered in Shauna's apartment. Greyhound was then arrested for Shauna's murder, and during interrogation, he confessed to murdering her. That isn't very surprising since he had previously bragged to Big Will about getting paid to commit
Starting point is 00:14:22 a murder. He told the police where they could find the murder weapon in the desert and led them straight to a broken hammer he'd used to murder Shawna. Also during his interrogation, police went through Greyhound's phone and saw a contact named George. When the police asked who George was, Noel answered, that's my friend George, the firefighter. Greyhound then said that George promised him $5,000 for killing Shauna, but he had only received $600. The police continued their search for corroborating evidence of Greyhound's confession,
Starting point is 00:14:56 and among Greyhound's possessions, they found a receipt from Lowe's for the purchase of a hammer. The police then went to the Lowe's location and viewed the surveillance video, which showed Greyhound and George purchasing dark clothing, a hammer, and a knife together. Knoll also told investigators that George had coached him to purchase a hammer with a fiberglass handle, because a wooden handle would break during the crime, which actually had happened during the attack. Armed with Knoll's confession,
Starting point is 00:15:24 details about George's involvement, and the Lowe's surveillance video, the police went back to interview George again, and they asked him if he had known anyone named Noel Stevens. George claimed that he didn't know anyone named Noel Stevens, but he did know a person named Greyhound, but he knew him as Neil Smith. George had claimed that he and Shauna had been helping him out and that he had been trying to turn his life around and that Noel had done work for them as a handyman. However, during the exchange with the investigators, George inadvertently used Greyhound's real first name, Noel. crypto, or switching mobile providers.
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Starting point is 00:16:32 to upgrade your investing. Online brokerage services are offered through Q-Trade Direct Investing, a division of Avizo Financial Inc. It's pretty damning because George had just claimed to know Greyhound as Neil, and now George was referring to him as Noel, saying things to the effect of, Noel would do odd jobs for us, or Noel would drink a beer or two.
Starting point is 00:16:56 The police then decided to leak the information that George was about to be arrested for Shauna's murder to rattle George and potentially get him to react. And it had the desired effect. When George learned that he was going to be arrested for Shauna's murder to rattle George and potentially get him to react. And it had the desired effect. When George learned that he was going to be arrested, he had a particularly extreme reaction. On October 8, 2012, just nine days after the murder, George dropped his daughter off at his mother's house and sped off down the Summerlin Parkway, weaving in and out of lanes and driving straight into a concrete barrier where the road dead ends. Police have said this was an obvious suicide attempt. We question that
Starting point is 00:17:30 because when he hit the barrier, he was wearing his seatbelt, so he was only very slightly injured. He was recovering in the hospital, though, when he was informed that he was being arrested for the murder. George was placed under arrest and charged with five felonies. Conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, and, of course, first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. He was also charged with two gross misdemeanors, including possession of burglary tools and conspiracy to commit burglary. Shauna's sister Paula and Shawna's friends from work were not at all surprised that George was a suspect. We didn't mention this earlier, but Paula and her
Starting point is 00:18:11 husband John had been involved from the beginning and were doing their own investigation, and they were convinced that George had something to do with the murder. According to Paula and Shawna's friends, George had put Shawna through years of verbal and physical abuse. They knew that George was violent towards Shauna. This is a quote from Paula. We were careful not to point fingers, but really in my gut and my heart, I've just known all this time that George was somehow involved. Paula said that George would grab Shauna, hold her against the wall, and scream in her face. He was controlling and he would demean her and insult her. Her friends at work had seen the text messages that he would send her where he would text her something nice, but she was busy at work. And if she didn't answer fast enough, he would turn on her and curse her
Starting point is 00:18:53 out. Another friend said that Shauna didn't know who she'd get with George. He was Jekyll and Hyde. And according to Shauna's boyfriend, Alberto, George would be emotionally abusive towards Shauna in front of their daughter, saying things like, your mom doesn't love us. I thought George was responsible immediately, Alberto has said. Even Greyhound, Noel Stevens, said that the couple had been fighting and George said she spent too much money. So it seems a lot of people were aware of what Shauna was going through. However, George's friends and family members were adamant that George was not like that. He was a kind and generous person, and they insisted that he had never been violent. They do not believe he was abusive or that he had anything to do with Shauna's murder.
Starting point is 00:19:41 The trial began in July 2015 in the 8th Judicial District Court before District Judge Eric Johnson. Paula and Shauna's friends showed up to the trial every day dressed in hot pink for Shauna. The prosecution focused on the relationship between George and Noel Stevens, saying that George had used Greyhound as a tool in order to murder Shauna. Big Will testified about what Greyhound had told him that led him to call in that tip, and Paula testified about George's abuse of Shauna and how she had told Shauna to move out. Prior to the beginning of George's trial, Greyhound had agreed to accept a plea deal where he would plead guilty to the murder and the same six charges that George had been charged with
Starting point is 00:20:21 to avoid the death penalty. One of the requirements of the plea deal was that he would testify against George. Knoll was the key witness for the prosecution. His testimony was blunt and graphic and must have been absolutely horrible for Shauna's friends and family to listen to. He described how George and he had discussed different ways that Shauna could be murdered, different means, different locations, maybe in the parking lot at work or maybe at the house. Greyhound said that he scoped out Shauna's house 20 times and that George had given him a key to the apartment. The prosecution also provided evidence that corroborated and strengthened Greyhound's testimony. They produced mobile phone records that showed George had called Greyhound more than 80 times in the month before Shawna's murder. They showed the surveillance footage from Lowe's that showed
Starting point is 00:21:09 Greyhound and George shopping together for dark clothing, gloves, knives, and a hammer. They even had footage of George having a copy of a key made that prosecutors said was the key that George had given to Greyhound, and they recovered this when they did the search. George had told Greyhound to make it look like a robbery, according to Greyhound. George had also told him that it would look better for George if he and Shauna were getting along, and that it would raise less suspicion if he was getting along well with her, which kind of explains why they were getting along better during the summer of 2012. I want to read one of the most stunning exchanges during Greyhound's testimony.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Prosecutor Mark DiGiacomo asked Greyhound, who told you to make it look like a robbery? And Greyhound replied, George did. And Greyhound went on to explain that he had left the apartment, and when he left the apartment, he left the garage door open. That's a sign, Ray Hound said. DiGiacomo, a sign to whom? George. DiGiacomo, for what? To let him know that it is done. To me, this is one of the most diabolical and twisted parts of this whole story. First of all, when George pulled up to the house that morning with his eight-year-old daughter and he saw the garage was open, he knew exactly what he would find inside. Prosecutors have said he walked his daughter into that house. He used his daughter as part of his alibi. He couldn't have had anything to do with it, right? Because he wouldn't have let his daughter come in the house with him. Also,
Starting point is 00:22:51 he had Greyhound break into Shauna's house a few weeks prior, crafting a way to mislead the police that Shauna's murder was due to a home invasion or a robbery. There are so many twisted aspects to this crime, and you just listed a few of the craziest ones, but they almost got away with it. And that is the thing that really gets me. During the trial, George was represented by a lawyer named Robert Langford. Their case was built around the premise that Knoll had acted alone and they worked overtime trying to impugn Knoll as being crazy as an outhouse rat, exposing that he heard voices and that he was an alcoholic. The defense really tried to poke holes in the prosecution's case. Specifically, while cross-examining
Starting point is 00:23:31 Big Will, they got him to admit that he thought Greyhound was a liar. Also, the actual hammer that Greyhound led police to, the murder weapon, wasn't the hammer that was seen being purchased in the Lowe's security footage. The defense also tried to explain away the security footage of them shopping together as an example of George's generosity. Since Greyhound lived out in the desert, George was helping him out by buying camping gear and supplies. When Greyhound was cross-examined, he admitted to drug use and alcohol abuse. He said that he heard voices, and very importantly, one of the members of the jury submitted a question to Greyhound asking if the voices he
Starting point is 00:24:12 heard told him to kill Shauna. For me, that tells me everything I need to know about where the jury's heads were at about Greyhound. Greyhound answered no firmly without hesitation, and there's video of that. You can see how quickly he answers. One of the things about Greyhound is that his answers were, as Sean said before, very blunt, very direct, very to the point, and completely deadpan, no matter what it was he was talking about. In the footage of the cross-examination, there's nothing at all that I can see to indicate he was lying about that. And I'll add one more thing about the defense's case. There was evidence that Greyhound had stalked Shauna at her job in the time leading up to the murder. And at one point he was stopped by police officers or security on the Palms property and the officers confiscated tools they said would have been used for burglary, including a hammer. So this may explain why the hammer Greyhound had bought with George at the Lowe's was not ultimately the murder weapon, because he had it with him that day, and the officers or security took it from him,
Starting point is 00:25:17 so he had to get a different hammer. On September 3rd, 2015, the jury reached a verdict. George was found guilty on all six counts, including first-degree murder. He was sentenced on December 1st, 2015, to life plus 81 years for Shauna's murder and an additional 32 years for all the other charges. George's attorney, Langford, tried to argue that George's life of service and the good things he had done with his life should count for something. However, the judge, Eric Johnson, was not swayed by this. The judge was focused on how deliberate George had been in planning Shauna's murder, including how he considered what the hammer needed to be made of. The judge said, I can't imagine what it would take to break the wooden handle of a hammer, but you pondered that. You were concerned about that.
Starting point is 00:26:05 You allowed this to go forward, knowing the most vicious attack that I can imagine was going to happen. The judge also said, why you of all people would do something that you know would be so cruel to so many people beyond just Shauna. My sentence today is not based upon
Starting point is 00:26:23 holding you to a higher standard. My sentence is based upon the fact that this was just pure evil. In 2017, George appealed his guilty verdict. Because of the content of his appeal, his lawyer quit the case and didn't represent him. George submitted the petition himself, and it was over 100 handwritten pages long. The focus of his appeal was arguing that he had ineffective counsel, so you can see why his lawyer had quit. Ironically, George attempted to overturn his conviction by sort of confessing to the crime. He wrote, wife is dead and it's my fault. But he claimed that he had been told by God to kill Shauna in order to protect his daughter. He blamed drugs he was taking because of injuries sustained in
Starting point is 00:27:11 his firefighter job as well as estrogen-blocking hormones that he was taking. He believed his attorney should have raised these facts in his defense during his sentencing. My sense is that his lawyer probably didn't know about any of this because George likely made it up between his conviction and his appeal because he had a lot of time on his hands. The Nevada Supreme Court did not accept these arguments and denied his appeal. They explained in their opinion that George's defense had been that Greyhound acted alone. If his attorney had stated that George was having mental health issues, was taking medications, that would have been an admission of guilt and undone their whole defense about
Starting point is 00:27:50 Greyhound being mentally unstable and a liar. The court commented that George had very likely brought up these facts as a way to explain things to his friends and family. And I agree, this seems like he was making excuses and definitely not accepting any responsibility for what had happened. Also, the court had some scathing words about the circumstances of the crime. George, quote, plotted the murder while he worked, cared for his daughter, and fostered an amicable relationship with the victim in order to avoid any suspicion related to her death. Given the patience, subterfuge, and perseverance involved in this plot, the appellant has not demonstrated a reasonable
Starting point is 00:28:30 probability that he would not have been convicted or would have received a more lenient sentence. Currently, George is serving his sentence at Ely State Prison in Nevada, where he will spend the rest of his life. Noel Greyhound Stevens is serving his 42-year-to-life sentence and is unlikely to be paroled in his lifetime. Shauna's daughter graduated high school in 2023, according to her Aunt Paula. She has been living with George's grandmother since the murder. Paula said she's a well-adjusted and happy young lady.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Shauna's family had her remains relocated to their family's plot in Utah, where Shauna's parents are also buried. Before we wrap this part of the show, I want to give Big Will, William Penix, that's his full name, a shout out. Big Will, thank you. Thank you for calling Crime Stoppers because without you, the homicide detectives may have never solved the case and gotten justice for Shawna. Absolutely. I know the family agrees that Big Will is the unsung hero here. We talk a lot about how people can help with these cases, and it's so important that if you know something that might help the investigation, that you report it, whether anonymously or not. John and I are going to continue this conversation in our very first Swing Shift episode.
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