Daily Times Does Story on Christine Sheddy

I received a call the other day from a reporter from the Daily Times. She wanted to ask me about the Christine Sheddy case. I told her I would be happy to provide any information that I had, and be of any help that I could.

I shared with her my disappointment with the MSM in not giving the story the attention that I believe that it needs. She apologized and told me she has been hired since Christine went missing and had just heard about it.

I told her it was my belief that the story’s the reporters stay on top of are the crimes that get solved. She agreed.

She, like I, is concerned why the Mayor of Pocomoke is also the lead detective in this case. She said that it seemed like a conflict of interest. I agreed that I felt this way as well.

Mayor McDermott has made it clear throughout this investigation that Christine was not a virtuous woman, and told me from the beginning that he believed she had ran away from her life. I strongly disagreed with him, then and now. I believe that Mayor McDermott and other officers based their opinions of Christine’s character on the characters of Tia and Jr., the character of her boyfriend, and on her Myspace page. All of which didn’t paint her in a becoming light. However, does the company one keeps determine the amount of money the county spends on trying to find you if your missing.

If your kids go missing, do you have to convince the police that they are really great kids, show them their high school grades, their resume? Mayor McDermott stated that she was a sponge on society, that she didn’t have a work record. How sad.

Gosh, I hope my daughter never comes up missing. Especially, in this economy. She’s had four years of college and there’s no jobs to be had. I would hate to hear what would he would say about her.

The four ponds that are less than a mile away from the Byrd Road farm needed to be dragged. A well organized grid search needs to be conducted on all surrounding properties.

Det. McDermott stated that the property has been searched, but neither Jenny Hopkinson, the Daily Times reporter, or myself have been able to establish from him exactly when the searches were conducted, how many people were involved, exactly what areas the search covered, and how many searches actually took place.

I would still like to see an organized community search conducted, and the nearby ponds dragged. I think it would be very healing for the family and the community. We all need to know that we have done all that we know to do.

Thank you Jenny for getting Christine’s story in front of the eyes of more people than just those of us here in Pocomoke. It is my prayer that you will conduct update interviews with all of those involved, including maybe the last people who saw her.