FILE 472 / 2 March 2024 / 72 MIN / express

Evil Came To Play

Milledgeville, GeorgiaListen

The town

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We're going to Millageville, Georgia, in central Georgia, about two hours outside of Atlanta. about 0:03:36

History, in brief

1842

The Georgia Lunatic Asylum was built here from 1842 and later became the Central State Hospital.

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Town note

Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia for years until after the Civil War, when the capital moved to Atlanta.

about 0:05:40

Town note

Town motto: Capitals, columns, and culture.

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All 6 history facts

1842

The Georgia Lunatic Asylum was built here from 1842 and later became the Central State Hospital.

about 0:05:33

Town note

Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia for years until after the Civil War, when the capital moved to Atlanta.

about 0:05:40

Town note

Town motto: Capitals, columns, and culture.

about 0:04:36

Town note

Milledgeville calls itself the first lady of Georgia.

about 0:05:01

Town note

Georgia College is in the town, where Marianne Shockley and were students.

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The figures, as told

Crime / national average

Marianne Shockley's blood alcohol level at death
0.11

about 1:04:20

Money

Median home value$173,800
Median household income$36,053
All figures and comparisons, as told in 2024

Population

"17,278"

No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 0:04:14

Median household income

"$36,053"

Comparison: "just over half the national average". Direction: above.

As told in 2024 about 0:04:21

Median home price

"$173,800"

No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 0:04:26

Marianne Shockley's blood alcohol level at death

"0.11"

No direction stated.

As told in 2024 about 1:04:20

The reviews

2.5 / 5 · average of 4

4 stars

“Lived here all their life and loves it; knows a face almost everywhere and the lake is always fun to visit.”
about 0:06:01

3 stars

“Likes the town but finds it very boring.”
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2 stars

“The area does not do a lot of outside activities or anything else.”
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1 star

“Only one good neighbour; constant fighting and threats with guns and pick axes, run-down buildings, stray animals, nosy neighbours always watching; does not feel safe.”
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The story

Marianne Shockley was 43 in 2019 and an academic professional associate in the Department of Entomology at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, known round campus as Doc Shock. Her field was edible insects, which she promoted as a low-cost protein source, and she advised bodies such as the FDA and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. She had married and divorced three times and had two children. The two met in the late 1990s as students at Georgia College, where they worked at the same restaurant, but did not date then. In 2017 they met again over a motorcycle ride around Athens and the botanical gardens, and began a relationship. She took him as her assistant on bug-collecting trips to China and Ecuador. His son Carson warned her that his father was a Jekyll and Hyde character on cocaine, and told her to get away.

He was trying to sell a yoga studio. They drank beer, smoked pot and played accordion and conga drums. Marianne got into the hot tub around nine in the evening, all three of them naked.

The men had waited between 45 minutes and an hour to call for help, and investigators believed she had been dead for about two hours. Detectives found glasses, blood-soaked grass and a silver bracelet on the deck, signs of a struggle.

She described a choking fetish as a regular part of their relationship and said he once choked her unconscious. Another ex-girlfriend said he was rough and violent and told her to shut up and take it, and five more women said he had choked them. The autopsy found death by asphyxia from manual strangulation, with burst blood vessels in her eyes, and classified it as homicide.

The case

Murder of Marianne Shockley

Victims

Marianne Shockley (43). Professor of entomology at Georgia College, known as Doc Shock, who researched edible insects as a cheap protein source

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 2 March 2024.

Accused

Accused

Outcome

Other people

Marianne's sister. said choked her sister and that suicide tainted the case
Bill Massey. Baldwin County sheriff
Michael Mabon. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent
Steve Chappell. deputy coroner
Johnny Bud Mitchell. automotive detailer at the car lot, testified about conversations on choking women

The timeline

  1. the late 1990s Marianne Shockley and meet as students at Georgia College and work at the same restaurant (Georgia College)about 0:19:01
  2. 2017 The two reconnect over a motorcycle ride around Athens and the botanical gardens and start dating (botanical gardens)about 0:21:05
  3. 2017 psychology licence is revoked after a female patient complains of a sexual relationship and being given marijuanaabout 0:26:47
  4. around noon on Saturday, May 11th, 2019 The couple's plans change; they are due to fly to Ecuador the following Wednesdayabout 1:05:45
  5. May 11th, 2019 Marianne and are seen bar hopping in Milledgeville on surveillance footageabout 0:24:23
  6. the evening of May 11th, 2019 They go to house, drink beer, smoke pot and play accordion and conga drums (Heindl house)about 0:25:15
  7. May 11th, 2019 gives them ecstasy as they are leaving and the night becomes fuzzy (Heindl house)about 0:28:17
  8. around 9 p.m., May 11th, 2019 Marianne gets into the hot tub with the men, all of them naked (Heindl house)about 0:29:19
  9. midnight, May 12th, 2019 says he went into the woods to collect firewood, later saying he went to dig a hole and bury himself (Heindl house)about 0:32:52
  10. 1 a.m., May 12th, 2019 calls 911 saying Marianne Shockley has drowned in his hot tub (Heindl house)about 0:30:54
  11. 1 a.m., May 12th, 2019 Deputies arrive to find and naked in towels doing CPR on Marianne, who is bleeding from the head (Heindl house)about 0:31:37
  12. May 12th, 2019 goes inside, writes a suicide note and shoots himself in the head in the master bathroom (Heindl house)about 0:42:01
  13. a few days later, May 2019 The autopsy finds death by asphyxia from manual strangulation, classified as homicideabout 0:54:23
  14. at sentencing after the verdict The judge revokes probation for the balance running through October 30th, 2030about 1:08:55

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