Snapped: Women Who Murder - Olicia Lee

Episode Date: March 27, 2022

A former ladies' man has a change of heart when he falls for a pious day care worker, but when his body is found floating in a creek, detectives discover there's more to their relationship th...an meets the eye.Season 27, Episode 19Originally aired: July 26, 2020Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WsLCJWqmIebSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. A loving father had obsessed for life. He loved this kid unconditionally. He was a people person. Like, he was good at just being a all-around father person.
Starting point is 00:00:33 Until one day, he mysteriously disappears. I called and called and called. Never got an answer. He used an answer from me. Fears boil over when a watery grave is discovered and call, and call, and call. Never got an answer. He uses answers from him. Fierce boil over when a watery grave is discovered by a Florida fisherman. Something was in the water.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Wrap in a shower curtain. He realized that there was a body. There was an obvious hole in the head. As the investigation begins, potential motives spring to the surface. He was very flashy. He wore a lot of jewelry. He was known to carry a lot of money. the investigation begins potential motives spring to the surface. He was very flashy, he wore a lot of jewelry. He was known to carry a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Number is like $1,000 or more. But will a secret double life lead detectives to their most unlikely killer yet? He's a hustler. He's going to do what he can to make money. He just said that he did some things, that he's not proud of. It kind of scared me.
Starting point is 00:01:29 Did you not talk to the person, Johnny? I'd be out there with the person who wanted him to die. They were gonna just dump the body. The alligators are eating. They said to say, just ma'am, I'm throwing out like trash. They're reminds me of a person who has no conscience. This was a cold and callous crime. And walked in, and I was like that like trash. It reminds me of a person who has no conscience. This was a cold and callous crime. And what then?
Starting point is 00:01:47 And I was like, holy smokes. I hit the peak mjola. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. February 28, 2001, Uly, Florida. Just north of Jacksonville,
Starting point is 00:02:09 Lofton Creek flows towards the Atlantic Ocean near State Highway A1A. The January of Uly would be classified as that specific area of A1A is sparsely populated. Around lunchtime, 72-year-old James Gillis heads back to the dock after a morning of bass fishing. As he pulls up, he notices what looks like a shower curtain in the water.
Starting point is 00:02:40 There's a lot of activity down there be fishing from the dock or launching boats and with a relatively populated RV park so different items can wind up in the creek pretty easily. But when James steers over to determine what exactly is in the water, he discovers that his quiet day of fishing is over. It looks strange that something was in the water
Starting point is 00:03:04 that Lars wrapped in a shower curtain and strange that something was in the water. That large wrap in a shower curtain and realized that there was a body. The fisherman contacted us and said that there was a body located in Wafting Creek. And he had secured the body to the floating dock in the area. I was assigned to Detective Division, and you leave was my area.
Starting point is 00:03:22 I turned around and went straight to the scene to see what was my area. I turned around and went straight to the scene to see what was going on. As detectives race to the crime scene in Uly, 30 miles away in Jacksonville, Florida, a woman named Emily Sheeling hears a breaking news story about the body found in Nassau County. The news gives Emily a sinking feeling because her 31-year-old son, Paul Shealey Jr.
Starting point is 00:03:48 hasn't been heard from in over a week. I don't know if it's been like a week and a half, but I can't see the data on the kid. I can't see my data on the week and a half. It's been a long time, we. There was some speculation in the family because nobody had talked to Paul for a little while, that something might have happened.
Starting point is 00:04:06 His mother had already had an in her mind that that might have been her son. Paul Shealey Jr. was born on July 17, 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida. Paul was the only child. He loved his mom, that was his heart. He loved the travel, he liked the go out of town. After he graduated high school, he went into the Navy. After four years in the Navy, Paul was discharged for medical reasons and returned to Jacksonville. Paul bounced around jobs, working as a day laborer, a car
Starting point is 00:04:47 salesman, and even a funeral director, trying to find a career that would stick. But Paul's real passion belonged to his social life. He loved to hang out and be in clubs. He loved jewelry. It's a lot of blame that he had on. That's one thing I know he did for sure. He's smelling good, looking good, like, at all times.
Starting point is 00:05:10 He was a people person. Like, he was good at just being a all-around fun person. He always was the party goor. He always loved to hang out, have fun. He was a very, very popular person. Paul was especially popular with women. And by the time he was 30, he had fathered eight children. He was real popular with the ladies.
Starting point is 00:05:36 And we all remember people have eight kids. I mean, this is a lot, but you know, they got to be quite popular to be and get fucked out of eight, you know, I'm saying. Although popular to be getting fucked out of that. Although Paul didn't settle down with any of his girlfriends, he was devoted to his children. That's all he talked about with his kids. He loved his kids unconditionally. Take them shopping, school back to school.
Starting point is 00:06:02 They was his pride and joy. He even had all of his kids tattooed on him. I got every pair of Jordans that came out. The day they came out, he had them. I had them and any of his other kids that was around had them. He was a great dad. Sometimes maybe he didn't show up when I wanted them to, but he always came through. While dropping off one of his kids at a Jacksonville daycare in 1998, Paul became enamored by one of the daycare workers, 26-year-old single mother, Olycia Lee.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Olycia, who went by Lisa, was born in Jacksonville, Florida on March 6, 1972. She had three kids, two sons in a daughter. And I was there and I had kids about her and her kids. For Lisa, her church and her kids were the most important things in life. She was this nice, mild and mellow person. She was really quiet and she was pretty nice.
Starting point is 00:07:03 Paul took care of Lisa and treated her children like his own. He was always always good. Take care of other people, make sure other people was good. Like, that's that was what he did. In the summer of 1998, Paul and Lisa moved in together. He was all that she ever wanted in a man, and obviously he felt the same way about her. But in February of 2001, life takes a disturbing turn
Starting point is 00:07:37 when Paul seems to vanish into thin air. His mom called his phone. I called and called and called. We never got an answer. It wasn't kind of meant because he usually answers phone. Thears deepened on February 28, 2001, when the body of an African-American man is found floating in a title creek. Investigators from the NASA County Sheriff's Department
Starting point is 00:08:03 first consider the possibility of an accidental drowning. The National Council Creek. Investigators from the NASA County Sheriff's Department first consider the possibility of an accidental drowning. Fishermen, swimmers are known to die, known to fall overboard, known to get caught in the rip tide. It does happen. But as Detective Gregory Foster peers down into the murky waters, the victim's injuries suggest something far more nefarious. I had walked down the boat dock to see the body.
Starting point is 00:08:31 I remember that there was actually a fish that came swimming away from this head area, at which time I looked down, and there was an obvious hole in the head. We had a single gunshot wound to the head. Coming up, the search for clues brings theories to the surface. The initial thought is maybe he was robbed and murdered. And the family graces for devastating news. Things like I miss you, if you might want to take a seat.
Starting point is 00:09:00 You prepare yourself because it is one of the hardest things you do. MUSIC On February 28, 2001, detectives with the NASA County Sheriff's Office in Yulee, Florida are attempting to identify the body of a man found floating in loft and creek with a single gunshot wound to the head. It looked relatively fresh.
Starting point is 00:09:32 It did not appear that there was any decomposition at that point. Being a rural county that is bordered to a larger metropolitan area, the first thing that comes into your mind is a potential dump job. There is gang activity up there in certain parts of the Northwest side. It's an area of Jacksmov is known for murders.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Before detectives can determine if the murder is gang-related, they need to identify their John Doe. You want to hopefully find identification on them. That's the best. But he didn't have any. The victim is transported to the DeVal County Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy and a fingerprint analysis. While police await further word from the ME, a dive team arrives at the scene.
Starting point is 00:10:22 It makes it difficult in the body of water, but we're looking in the area to see if there's anything that will give us a clue of where they came from or who they are. They recovered a five by seven area rug, a shower curtain, a piece of green cloth, a set of needle-nose pliers, a piece of a gold chain. Detectives also find a pair of eyeglasses. They found some glasses. They look more like a woman's glasses.
Starting point is 00:10:50 At this point in the investigation, as far as any of those items, it was unknown if that was traceable to the victim or not, but that's what they found. The collected items present no immediate leads, but detectives hope the autopsy will. On March 1, 2001, the medical examiner informs detectives that the victim's wound
Starting point is 00:11:14 is consistent with a 38 or 380-kelemer weapon. It was advised by the medical examiner's office. It was a single gunshot wound to the head was the cause of death, and the method was a homicide. Detectives get their first break in the case when the medical examiner runs the victim's prints in the state's database. One of their evidence technicians
Starting point is 00:11:38 advised that he had been identified. There was a gentleman named Paul Shealey that lived in the Jacksonville area. There was a gentleman named Paul Shealey that lived in the Jacksonville area. There are no missing person's reports for Paul, but he does have a record. Mr. Mean is basically driving wild lights to suspended and things of that nature, but nothing violent,
Starting point is 00:11:57 nothing that actually stood out. From there, the next step would be going out to the next akin. You prepare yourself because it is one of the hardest things you do. On the afternoon of March 1st, detectives arrive at the home of Paul's mother, Emily Sheely. It's like I'm a shelly. You might want to take a seat. And when they said that, she just lost it. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief.
Starting point is 00:12:27 She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief.
Starting point is 00:12:35 She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief.
Starting point is 00:12:43 She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. She was in the police chief. other struggles to collect herself, detectives turned to the only other adult at home, Paul's half-brother, Cassius Wilcox. Cassius tells police that after not hearing from his brother for more than a week, this has been the news the family was dreading. We asked, is there anybody that you would think would have done this? We asked about any kind of involvement in the drug trade or use of drugs. He was very clear that his brother that was not one to go out
Starting point is 00:13:10 and hurt people. He wasn't a drug dealer. Everybody who I know that knows my dad, they speak very, very highly of somebody. He was very, very respected. It was very caring, very giving. MUSIC Cassius does admit that Paul had a reputation for being a little flashy.
Starting point is 00:13:32 The victim was known to go out to a lot of night clubs. He was known to carry a lot of money. Numbers like $1,000 are more. He always had jewelry, nice clothes, and money. That's always a cause for concern simply because the initial thought is maybe he was robbed and murdered. Though he was once a social butterfly, Cassia says that Paul hasn't been going out as much
Starting point is 00:13:57 since he met his new girlfriend. We found out that he was living with a girl named Lisa Lee and that they lived in the second avenue area of Northwest San Jacksonville. On March 2nd, 2001, investigators with the NASA County Sheriff's Office arrive at the daycare where Lisa works. She tells police that family members have already informed her
Starting point is 00:14:23 about Paul's death. I remember her to be generally calm. She was cooperative. Obviously she went through periods of sorrow or some emotion that was coming out, but generally she was cooperative. Lisa tells police she last saw Paul three days before his body was found. She said that the last time that she saw Paul was on Sunday the 25th. She tells the police that she saw Paul right before she was to leave the voter church.
Starting point is 00:14:53 And he told her that he was going to be leaving for a few days on a business trip. When detectives ask what kind of business Paul was involved in, Lisa says she doesn't know. She would say that he was often leave town and be gone for a few days, and then he'd come back, and she was not real sure where he had been gone or who he was with.
Starting point is 00:15:17 She indicated that she knew that he was getting money and less than lawful means, but was unable to give us details on what those unlawful means were. Lisa tells detectives that wherever Paul was going, he went well armed. Yeah, two, three-addy automatic pistols, Chrome, that he referred to as his twins, that he would generally carry with him when he went to the local nightclub scene.
Starting point is 00:15:43 So we started building that picture of, might have been a little bit more into some of the criminal activity in the area. The investigator notes that a 380 is the same round that took Paul's life. Lisa adds that the weapons have been missing since February 25th. When she got home from church, she said that Paul was gone.
Starting point is 00:16:09 The guns were missing. His vehicle was there, but his stuff was gone. She didn't know what happened to him. Given what Lisa says next, this danger might not be over. She started advising us that her house had been burking into that several items have been stolen from the house, but at that time,
Starting point is 00:16:29 she did not report that burdoery. She says that some clothing, jewelry, and a VCR are all missing from the house. Did he have enemies that would go to this extent to actually murder him? She didn't advise me. She knew of anybody. Detectives ask Lisa for Paul's phone number and carrier.
Starting point is 00:16:52 She gave it to them, but she told them that it was Ritsha's, Ritsha's, it's another woman, Aisha James. Lisa claims that she has never met Aisha, but a few weeks ago, the woman called her and threatened her over the phone. Lisa says Aisha told her that Paul was her man, and she needed to back off.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Lisa says she hung up and never heard from her again. Lisa did not get very emotional, but she indicated that she wasn't happy about it. Lisa fears Aisha might not be the only woman who may have taken an interest in Paul. Paul Siali was labeled as a ladies man. He loved to hang out and be in clubs with women. When you start dealing with affairs of the heart and jealousy, it tends to bring out a different side of people.
Starting point is 00:17:48 Coming up, detectives get an unexpected leave. Some people were saying he was there at one nightclub with two women. They went to identify these women who supposedly may have said him up for a robbery. And questions arise about the victim's secret life. She said that he did have some enemies because he was, quote, unquote, mouthy. It was just the Erie Filman, how he was talking.
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Starting point is 00:19:08 Conan. You can listen to these episodes exclusively and add free with one repulse, find one repulse in the one rep or on Apple podcasts. After interviewing Paul Sheelie's girlfriend, Alicia Lee, investigators in Florida believe their murder victim may have been romantically involved with a second woman named Aisha James. On March 5, 2001, detectives locate 20-year-old Aisha
Starting point is 00:19:37 at the Jacksonville area clothing store where she's employed and bring her to the station for an interview. I was pregnant. I was seven months pregnant with my son, my pal. Aisha tells detectives she was devastated by news of Paul's death. I almost fainted.
Starting point is 00:19:56 That news hit me like a ton of bricks. It was a lot of emotion. Even to the state, it's still a lot of emotion. It was a lot of emotion. Even to this day, it's still a lot of emotion. Aisha says she and Paul have been dating for nearly a year and that it all began when Paul walked into her store one day. I like the his personality and I like that his style. You know, we had a real eye for clothes.
Starting point is 00:20:23 As we started talking, he was like, you're nice looking. From that moment, we met. We used to do it every other day. And mostly, mostly on the weekends. We had a good relationship. We asked her when the last time she had seen Paul Shealey and she advised on the same Sunday the 25th in the morning that Miss Lee had told us that she had seen him.
Starting point is 00:20:52 Aisha says that just before he left that morning, the normally light-hearted Paul suddenly turned serious. It was a deep conversation about life and he just said that he did some things, that he's not brought up. And it kind of scared me when he said that. It was just a very filming how he was talking and made it seem like someone was after him. Ms. James advised us that he did have some enemies
Starting point is 00:21:23 because he was, quote, unquote, mouthy and told us about the twin 380 pistols that he had. Just like Ms. Lee had said. So far, Lisa and Aisha's stories line up perfectly. Investigators ask Aisha how much she knew about Paul's other woman. How I found out was through my coworkers. Um, they kept saying, now you know that Paul has someone.
Starting point is 00:21:54 He has a girlfriend, and I was like, okay, at the time I was young, I was just in love and then fatuated with him. I was just like, OK, he's with me now, so yeah. We talked about making our relationship a little further than it was. Like, a little bit after I found out I was
Starting point is 00:22:20 putting it with my son, but we never really got deep into details of that. In fact, Aisha says she only spoke with Lisa once when she called Paul's phone number weeks earlier. She asked her the phone, and I think she questioned me, and I told her who I was. I think at that time she cut me out. She caught me a bitch.
Starting point is 00:22:46 And she's St. O'Cow's phone number. Aisha's story directly contradicts Lisa's account of their interaction. So detectives aren't sure who to believe. We've got a lot of things running through your mind. We were able to speed up records through the phone companies of both Miss James and Lisa Lee and of Mr. Shelly and started tracking down
Starting point is 00:23:09 the people the day it's spoken to. While detectives make their way through phone calls and contacts, they receive a tip from police in nearby Jacksonville. According to Jacksonville detectives, information about Paul's murder case has been circulating in a local convenience store. I recall detectives were just advising me of the convenience store in the area
Starting point is 00:23:33 where a lot of information comes from. So when you start hearing that somebody who's an owner or a worker at a convenience store comes up with information, that's something that picture enters. They spoke to the folks who work there. They'd heard some people were saying he was at one nightclub with two women information. That's something that picture interest. They spoke to the folks who worked there. They'd heard some people were saying he was at one nightclub
Starting point is 00:23:48 with two women, and so the word on the street was that he had been killed by those women. Detectives canvass the neighborhood, hoping the rumors will spark a lead. The investigators talk to a lot of people. They talk to friends. They talk to convenience store owners. They spoke to the folks who worked at these nightclubs. The interviews lead investigators to a man named Franklin,
Starting point is 00:24:14 who claims he was at the Moncree Flounge with Paul on Saturday, February 24th, the day before Paul disappeared. The area where Moncree Fl flanges is one of those areas that there tends to be a little bit more criminal activity. There has been shootings to take place up there. Franklin tells detectives he saw Paul leave the nightclub with the two women. And the rumor on the street is that they killed him
Starting point is 00:24:41 for his money and jewelry. They went to identify these women who supposedly may have sent him up for a robbery. Franklin says he only recognized one of the women, Lamy Trius Mimi Wanten. On March 12, two weeks after Paul's body was discovered, detectives arrive at Mimi's home in Jacksonville. There's no way to know if this person you're talking to
Starting point is 00:25:09 is a witness or are they a potential suspect. Mimi admits that she and her friend Melanie Weatherington were with Paul on February 24. According to Mimi, Paul and a few of his friends had picked up her and Melanie around 9 p.m. She says on the way to a club they stopped at a gas station where a woman approached Paul. The story was given to us that he had at some point left because of confrontation with a woman who was pregnant. Mimi says Paul talked to the woman and eventually got back in the car.
Starting point is 00:25:48 Later that night, Mimi says she and Melanie walked to a different club. And when the bars closed at 3 a.m., they called Paul. Her and her friends were reaching out for Paul to come pick them up, and they couldn't get a hold of them. According to Mimi, she never heard from Paul again. One detail of Mimi's story immediately stands out to detectives, the pregnant woman.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Detectives have to consider the possibility that it could be Aisha James, who is seven months pregnant with Paul's child. Is it a crime of passion? Is it a domestic situation? You've got a lot of things running to your mind at that point. She brought up this pregnant woman, but they couldn't say that this woman actually
Starting point is 00:26:36 did anything to him. I don't ever recall that person ever being identified. Over the next few weeks, detectives interview dozens of associates of Paul, Alicia, and Aisha, but none of the interviews points to a possible suspect. Miss James had not been ruled out, but there was nothing indicating that she or Miss Leite
Starting point is 00:27:02 did it to the point where we'd be able to move on them with a arrest warrant. With no other leads to go on, the case starts to go cold. We had done a lot of leg work on this, done a lot of interviews to find out what would happen, and it was still an unsolved murder. So for it to not come to fruition where we had a better idea of exactly what happened, it's a frustrating situation. Coming up, a cold case tip line presents a new lead. He named the place where it was built,
Starting point is 00:27:34 so that was pretty credible. I think, uh, good, I'm gonna hold it. He's gonna do what he can to make money. MUSIC In November 2001, nine months after his body was found in a North Florida waterway, Paul Shealey Jr.'s murder remains unsolved. To try and drum up new leads, Paul's picture runs in the victim's advocate, a cold case newspaper. It's a reoccurring newsletter and some of the same articles
Starting point is 00:28:14 appear on and on again, particularly when they're missing persons. The hopes were that someone will see this case, have information concerning the case, and in contact with authorities, it's exactly how this happened. On November 13th, 2001, a man calls the tip line after seeing Paul's name and picture in the victim's advocate.
Starting point is 00:28:38 A man came forward to law enforcement authorities to give them information on individuals who may have been involved in this particular murder. On November 15, 2001, the tipster meets with investigators. He says he is friends with a man named Danielle Ducey Reddick and Ducey's girlfriend Patricia Bryant. He says that one night he and Ducey were talking about Paul's disappearance. Ducey had told him about this murder, the murder of Victor. He gave him some information about moving the body.
Starting point is 00:29:14 He talked about how he was paid. According to the tipster, Ducey and Patricia had been hired to dump Paul's body in Uly Creek. He named the place where it was dumped. It was credible to the fact that it body appeared to be moved, and he was saying it was moved. I know he got some of the victims clothing, some of his shoes.
Starting point is 00:29:42 He got the victims clothing, some of his shoes. He got the victims guns, had some jewelry in exchange for get rid of the victims body. Who had paid Ducey and Patricia to get rid of Paul's body? The tipster wasn't sure. All he knew was that Paul had been killed in Jacksonville, not in Nassau County. This new information takes the case out
Starting point is 00:30:08 of the Nassau County Sheriff's hands. We started contacting the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office more about the fact that this might be a murder than taking place in their jurisdiction. Unlike quiet Nassau County, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has a backlog of homicide cases. We are plagued by a violent crime as it stands right now. Mainly, homicides. The gangs have been allowed to fester, and now they're going out through each other back
Starting point is 00:30:41 and forth. We've led the state in homicides per capita. It can be a violent place. After Paul Sheelie's case is handed off to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, it quickly gets lost in the shuffle. As with many cases, the next case comes along and the next case and the next case.
Starting point is 00:31:02 It's extremely frustrating for that take place because it still shows up as a homicide on your books, because you can't prove it happened somewhere else. So technically, you was still a homicide there, Curtin, and Assault County. And we take that very seriously. We don't want unsolved homicides. It's not until February 2003, two years after Paul's body was found, that the Jacksonville
Starting point is 00:31:27 Sheriff's Office has the manpower to tackle the investigation. In one of our case staffings, there was information brought to us, involved in this guy ready for his girlfriend. Now we have some individuals that we can focus on. Detectives run Ducey Reddick's name through a law enforcement database and discover that he is already incarcerated for attempted burglary.
Starting point is 00:31:52 Investigators go to a prison interrogation room to talk with Ducey. He wanted to help himself, and he began the give information on the angle of, if I know something, I'm not involved, but I might know something. Did you not talk to the person who shot Paul Smith? I'm really, I talked to the person.
Starting point is 00:32:18 Who wanted him, the shot. And that made me a whoser. I need to leave. It's not uncommon for incarcerated people to tell you stuff that's not true to put a better light on them. I'm not sure if that's right here. Make you say what you think. No, he's a woman.
Starting point is 00:32:46 He has to. Anybody promise you anything? You're making a promise to the exchange of information? No. As the interrogation continues, Ducey lays out the events leading up to Paul's homicide. Apparently Miss Lee was not happy with Mr. Sheenley. Lisa had been fed up with Paul's actions,
Starting point is 00:33:10 thinking that he was fooling around on her, and she'd had her feel of all of that. According to Ducey, that's when Lisa asked him if he would take care of her problem. He's one of these guys who is, he's a hustler. He's going to do what he can to make money. He asked me what I do, and what was the holiday and the procurement of that.
Starting point is 00:33:32 And what did you tell him? I told him, you know, you know what? Then I wouldn't do it. Ducey tells police that he thought the issue was done. But on February 25th, Lisa called Patricia her voice shaking. She said she's on the motorway. She's moving, she's on the motorway. She's moving, what's up?
Starting point is 00:33:54 Take care. Lucy came over to her house, to Patricia's house, and then they all went back over to the house. And Paul was in bed. Would you do a bullet wound in the wound? I said no. I'm a pretty good one. She needs help in taking the body out,
Starting point is 00:34:18 so they take Paul's body and wrap them in a shower curtain. and wrapped him in a shower curtain. MUSIC Ducey says that they eventually called two more people, Robert Williams and his girlfriend, LeVita Mitchell, to help load Paul into the back of a truck. They were going to just dump the body of Robert's like, hey, if you take it out there to the Nassau County, the alligator's eating.
Starting point is 00:34:42 They said to say this man was throwing out like trash. When the body was dumped there, some of the victim's goal, jewelry, of which he was known to wear a lot of, was divvied up among some people. Oh, he's getting me down. He's a joy and he's doing a great job. I'm not care about going there.
Starting point is 00:35:02 They remiserable person who has no conscience. This was a cold and callous crime. On April 4, 2003, investigators obtained a search warrant for Lisa's home. I called her up, went over a house, and met with her. And I got a consent form from her. I explained to her in the consent form what we were doing. And I explained to her, you know,
Starting point is 00:35:30 if nothing happened in here, this show nothing happened in here. And she agreed. She was calm. She was collected. She didn't appear to be over the nervous. After Lisa leaves, CSI teams get to work. This was about two years after his death.
Starting point is 00:35:51 We decided we want to illuminate her home. Though it seems like a long shot, after just a few minutes, the technicians get a positive hit in the Master Bedroom. When they told me to ask them hits, I was happy, because it's supportive of what we're hearing. It was blood. And it's not just a little blood.
Starting point is 00:36:13 I walked in, and I was like, holy smokes. You know, I'm like, holy smokes. This, we got drywall, we got wall, we got carved in, we got floor, and I carved in, we got floor and I picked my job. Coming up, police confront Lisa. Why would your property be with his body? She got the shaken. And the disturbing truth is revealed.
Starting point is 00:36:41 The hands of your shaken and the shadows remain. She exhibited that to me, that was evil in her, that she had no conscience of what she did. The End of the World Two years after Paul Sheelie's murder, a lumenall test conducted by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office found a large presence of blood inside the home of his girlfriend,
Starting point is 00:37:12 31-year-old Buwishalee. On September 26, 2003, detectives confront Alicia with the evidence. We've gotten to the heart of the matter about we developed information that you know you wanted to kill. And it's like no, no, no, she kept saying that he left. He went out of town.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Lisa played along the whole time. She proclaimed her innocence. She portrayed a victim in this case. As the interview heats up, Lisa pulls a pair of reading glasses out of her purse. She ended up putting some on, and they kind of looked at each other like, wait a minute. Detectives realize they have seen a nearly identical pair of glasses before, at the dock where Paul's body was discovered. Detectives dig the glasses out of evidence
Starting point is 00:38:08 and show them to Lisa. First, he said, I had something like that. I asked her, who's the one who's the one who's the one? And then she said, those are mine. Detectives tell Lisa where the glasses were found. Why would your property be with his body? She got real nervous. She got shaken.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Lisa saw the walls closing in on her. Lisa had nowhere to go. She had to come clean. We confronted her with the information that we knew and she confessed. After her confession, detectives roll the camera as she confessed. After her confession, detectives roll the camera to get her story on tape. Lisa tells police that she made the decision
Starting point is 00:38:53 to get rid of Paul in early 2001 and reached out to her friend Patricia's boyfriend, Ducey Reddick. She paid him for the advice that he was given on how to kill him. She was paying him for that. If they knew he'd call out, he'd get the pay of what he'd get on both of his plans. Lisa tells police that on Sunday, February 25,
Starting point is 00:39:17 Paul returned from the club just as she was getting her kids ready for church. She said that she was up. She was doing laundry. He came walking in and they say exchange words and she figured it'd disappear today. She was just fed up with Paul being a lady's man. She'd had her feel of all of that.
Starting point is 00:39:41 A person who has no criminal history whatsoever, they still have a breaking point, and she reached her breaking point that day. Yeah, when you got a baby, they laid out, and then I worked up front, checked on the kids and stuff, and they helped them, you know, taking care of them, they needed for something to drink
Starting point is 00:40:03 and some more food and stuff. So now they're back down, you know, taking care of them with any of you for something to drink and smoke food and stuff. So now, I'm about to go, you know, like you would sleep, and I was back up front and told them, stay up front, and then I was back, and I was back at the back of the room. Lisa says that she took one of Paul's twin revolvers and placed a potato on the end of it. While her children ate in the front room, Lisa stood over her boyfriends' sleeping body. I was kind of low hope, low pain, and we've had to go shaking and get the trouble, and then the pain is slowly. What happened so fast, she put the gun away, she hid the gun in the closet. Happy Shunning.
Starting point is 00:41:00 What? I ran out of the room, and I was on the floor. So I was going to the towel on the floor near right outside of the bed. And I picked it up, wrapped it in the towel, and my first saw my teeth come up to me. So I come on the floor and then we get out of the car and then I'll... She took a gun and murdered with her children present in the same house. And then after that, go to church. She resumes her life as though nothing ever happened.
Starting point is 00:41:38 And that was it. And I'm like, damn, it would have been easier to just let him go. But she didn't. Lisa says that she came home later that afternoon after dropping her kids off at her aunt's house. When she comes back, she has to determine what she's going to do with Paul, who's in the bed dead. Now, so she calls a couple of her friends. She advises them of what she's gonna do with Paul, who's in the bed dead. Now, so she calls a couple of her friends.
Starting point is 00:42:06 She advises them of what she's done and that she needs help in taking the body out. She told us what the other individuals' participation in this was, it enabled us to arrest them. On October 23rd, 2003, police charge Alicia Lee with first degree murder. They also arrest and charge all of her co-conspirators for their involvement in disposing
Starting point is 00:42:36 of Paul's body. A child care worker decides to kill her boyfriend. After the cleanup, she goes back to taking care of somebody's children. She exhibited that to me that that was evil in her, that she had no conscience of what she did. I was really, really devastated. It was devastating, and I felt like it was a car move.
Starting point is 00:43:00 It was speculation that because Mia Hill was involved, that she was jealous, and that's why that she snapped. She was just angry, an angry, angry person. Each of Lisa's co-conspirators takes a plea deal and is sentenced to between three and five years in prison. After accepting a plea deal of her own, Lisa is sentenced to 30 years. How's she gonna get 30?
Starting point is 00:43:32 I don't even understand. Like, she's crazy. That's crazy. I never had my dad again. So, me, we're just a step. Crime's a passion. It tends to be some of your more violent crimes and crimes committed by people that generally wouldn't commit a crime.
Starting point is 00:43:53 My dad just wanted to do right by his kids and, you know, live his life. That's it. That's all they wanted to do. And I was taken from, you know what I mean? Because of somebody else, it's jealous. Yeah, me, because of somebody else jealous. As of 2020, all of Lisa's co-conspirators have served their sentences and have been released. Alicia Lee has served nearly 20 years of her 30-year sentence. She will be 51 years old when she is released in 2033. For more information on SNAPT, go to oxygen.com.

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