Shane Austin's Parent

How old is he in this one? It looks like it's probably his first Christmas, so he'd be about, probably about a month old.

Yeah, here's some of his home run balls.

We was very surprised. And Shane was too when he called us that day. He said, hey, they just come down here, roll me down through here and searched my trailer and brought the dogs. And he was, you could tell he was surprised.

We heard that he was trying to take a picture of her and pretending like he was talking on the phone. But now Shane only had a flip phone, so I don't think he could hold that flip phone up to your head and take a picture of somebody.

He was one of the first boy children in our family. He liked football. He liked baseball. He liked playing cards. He was very competitive. He was my partner in card playing because we're the only two that could get along. His dad plays for fun and we play to win. So we couldn't get along, but we could at cards because we understood what we wanted from each other.

He always wanted to make us happy and make us proud.

He needed more and more pain medicine. And then's when I think we really knew he had a problem.

He was addicted to morphine. And that's what I told the TBI guy when he come to the gate down there. I said, hey, if she'd been made of morphine, I'd said you come to the right place. But no, no way.

You don't think your son had anything to do with it?

You would have to know Shane. He was kind. He likes dogs. He loves his dog. And...

He would pick up strays. He didn't even like to shoot deer, okay? He wanted to be a deer hunter, but he didn't really want to shoot a deer. So I just, I don't believe that for one minute.

That is a far step for somebody that's, I know Shane had a lot of traffic violations and some stuff, but that's a big step. To go from... And take a life. To take a life.

If you don't do it, they're going to arrest him. They've done told me they're going to arrest him. And he said it's going to cost money. 60 plus thousands of dollars. So us three, we talked and we agreed.

If they wasn't here, they was calling him, harassing him. So we didn't have any peace. I mean, the people that's dealing this thing have a lot of power.

People didn't want to have nothing to do with him. He was pretty much ostracized in this community.

That's when he got bad again. I don't know if it was them calling him or whatever, but anyway, his drug use... just escalated and that's uh from that so and christmas last time we see in february 2015 shane austin's body was discovered in a hotel room he had taken his own life our life will never be normal again karen bobo's life will never be normal again or danis

Like I said, this has affected so many lives.

Well, if he was going to take his life over guilt, do you think it would have happened that many years past? But I'm probably going to say he lost his job. He was coming back home to live with his mom and dad, flat broke, addicted to drugs. That's kind of what I think. But, you know, there wasn't a note. I don't believe for one minute that it had anything to do with Holly Bobo's, him killing her.