Annie Burkett-Shell

SODDY-DAISY, TENNESSEE | I researched and wrote this episode, which begins with the fact that many parents innately trust other caregivers of their children. Often we feel more comfortable with a family friend than a daycare. That’s what Tiffany and David Shell did for their daughter Annie. They trusted Brandi Giannunzio. She babysat their two youngest daughters. She was good with their girls. They had no reason to believe Brandi would leave their girls with her boyfriend. They had never met Benjamin Brown. But on August 9, 2018, he was left alone with the Shells’ daughters. And then they had to face the unthinkable.

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