Sins & Survivors: A Las Vegas True Crime Podcast - Pure Evil - The Murder of Shauna Tiaffay
Episode Date: January 30, 2024Shauna 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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Shauna and George Tiafé appeared to be the ideal couple to everyone around them.
Their friends and family were sure they were perfect together.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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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Things were not going well between George and Shauna for a few months. At one point,
she told him she didn't think there was a way that they could get back together.
She seemed to be done with him. We'll talk a little bit more about the possible reasons she
might have said that in a bit. In the summer of 2012, though,
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
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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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