Baby found alive
— Mark Skinner / Floridan
Searchers head out from their staging area near Brown Street in Chipley Monday.
Published: November 4, 2009
Updated: November 5, 2009
Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock was crying as he delivered the news that baby Shannon Dedrick was found alive.
The Sheriff’s Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement set a news conference around 11:00 p.m Wednesday for 1:00 a.m. Thursday.
Shannon was reported missing at 11:30 a.m. Halloween morning by her mother. Authorities believe she went missing some time between 3:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Saturday from the bedroom of her parents on Brown Street in Chipley.
Wednesday investigators began looking into possible connections between Shannon’s disappearance and the disappearance of her reported baby sitter’s step-son. Susan Baker’s son, Paul, was reported missing in 1987 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, his body was never found. Authorities in South Carolina extradited Susan and her husband Paul from Washington County in 2000 on charges relating to the disappearance but the grand jury did not indict them.
Haddock says Shannon was found in a box under Susan and Paul’s bed around 9:55 p.m. Wednesday. Shannon was rushed to Northwest Florida Hospital. Susan and Paul Baker are in custody. The mother of Shannon, Christina Mercer is also in police custody. The investigation is on-going.
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They should put these idiots in a bow under a bed and leave them and see how they like it, a hand for a hand, and eye for an eye and a box for those who put others in a box!
A bunch of fools and I mean foolish people. Niether of these should be allow to get out of jail any time soon and waste anymore of taxpayers money on a trail…..GUILTY
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