The Devil Is Good Looking Too

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Discretion is advised. This is ten
minuted murderer. Often the life stories of

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serial killers begin with tragic, dysfunctional
upbringings, but the beginning of Shawn Michael

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Great's childhood was perfectly normal. Born
in nineteen seventy six in Marion, Ohio,

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he did struggle in school was held
back a grade, but he was

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also sporty. He was a social
kid who got along well with others.

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Then, as Sean grew older,
things began to change. When Shawn was

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six years old, his parents got
a divorce, and five years later,

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his mother, Teresa, abandoned her
two children. She left them behind in

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Ohio with their father and moved to
Kentucky to live with her new boyfriend.

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Sewn spent his teenage years resenting Theresa
for this decision, and he indulged in

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elaborate fantasies about killing his mother and
making her pay for what she had done.

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While Shawn and his brother were living
with their father, Seawan began attending

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River Valley High School. At first, he continued using sports as an outlet

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for his feelings and became one of
the school's best baseball players until he broke

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his arm. When the fracture was
X rayed, doctors discovered a tumor,

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which required immediate surgery. After that, Shawn never played baseball again. From

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that point, Shawn's mental health took
a turn. One of his high school

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girls friends remembered that he went through
severe depressive episodes where he would lay on

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the couch for days. Once the
episode was over, he'd continue with his

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life like nothing ever happened. Despite
this, Sewn never had a hard time

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getting a date. His school friend
Amy Smith, said Sean was charming,

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he was always smiling, and he
had those big blue eyes. All the

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girls liked Sean. Sean might have
been considered a heart throb, but he

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wasn't a good boyfriend. As his
relationships progressed, he became more and more

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jealous and controlling, and after a
while, he'd eventually become violent. When

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he was eighteen years old, he
was arrested for the first time after he

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grabbed a girlfriend by her neck during
an argument. His next arrest came the

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following year, shortly after he graduated
from high school, when he was caught

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breaking into a house. He was
charged with a felony burglary and sent to

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four years in prison, but He
ended up being released early. That time

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behind bars did not change Shawn.
If anything, his violent behavior towards women

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only escalated after he was released in
nineteen ninety seven. Two years later,

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Shawn's girlfriend reported him to the police, saying that he had choked her almost

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to the point of unconsciousness. The
girl was seventeen years old and she was

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a few months pregnant with Shawn's child. Shawn's adult life continued the same way.

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He was a ladies man, but
he was a menace to the women

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he dated, often terrorizing his girlfriends
and threatening them whenever they stood up to

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him. If there was one thing
that Sean hated more than anything else,

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it was a woman who told him
no. He briefly got married and became

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a father once again, but only
a few months after the wedding, his

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wife had enough and she filed for
divorce. On September thirteenth, twenty sixteen,

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a nine to one one call came
through in Ashland, Ohio. A

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female caller claimed that she had been
kidnapped two days ago, and since then

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her captiir had kept her tied to
a bed, repeatedly raping her to protect

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the victim's identity. Her name was
never released to the public and she was

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only known by the moniker Jane Doe. And Jane Doe was certain that she

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knew the identity of the kidnapper.
In fact, he was somebody whom she'd

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been friends with for several months.
She told the police that his name was

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Sean Michael Great and she had been
held captive in the abandoned house that he

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was living in. The police rushed
to that address that Jane was calling from,

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and they were able to save her
and apprehend her captor. After her

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rescue, she revealed more details about
her ordeal. She'd met Sean in the

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summer of twenty sixteen at the local
community center and viewed him as an older

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brother type. The two of them
often met up for lunch together or to

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go on walk where they would talk
about the Bible. Jane had been aware

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that Sean was romantically interested in her, but she dodged his advances and even

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refused his attempts to get her cell
phone number. Then, on the eleventh

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of September, Sean invited Jane Doe
to come over to a house in Ashland,

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where she began to read the Bible
sewn left to go to the kitchen,

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and when he came back, Jane
didn't recognize the man she'd come to

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view as a friend. His friendly
demeanor had vanished, and he grabbed the

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Bible, saying quote, you're not
going anywhere. When Jane continued resisting Sean's

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sexual advances, he physically overpowered her
and tied her to the bed. Throughout

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the following days, Sean regularly retied
Jane Doe into different weird positions. On

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one occasion, he told her that
he'd positioned the ropes so that if she

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struggled, she would be strangled to
death. When Sean fell asleep, Jane

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was able to free herself from the
restraints managed to place that nine to one

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one call that saved her life.
When the police arrived at the abandoned house

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where Sean kept Jane prisoner, they
immediately noticed an unmistakable stench. The entire

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house was full of piles of trash, surrounded by swarming flies and maggots,

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But the smell wasn't coming from the
trash. It was coming from the two

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decomposing bodies that Sean had hidden under
piles of dirty laundry. Those bodies belonged

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to two young women, Elizabeth Griffin
and Stacy Stanley. Both of them had

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been strangled to death, and Sean
hadn't bothered to dispose of their bodies.

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He'd just hidden them pretty badly and
then gone on a hunt for his next

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victims. Seawan was then indicted for
two counts of aggravated murder for Elizabeth and

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Stacy's death, as well as the
sexual assault and abduction of Jane Doe,

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and lesser counts of tampering with evidence
and breaking and entering. The defense filed

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a not guilty plea by reason of
insanity. Meanwhile, the prosecution announced that

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they would be pushing for the death
penalty. By his twenty eighteen trial,

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Shawn hadn't just confessed to the charges
he was facing, He'd also claimed to

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have killed three other women. After
Seawn revealed details about the additional murders to

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local news stations, the defense and
prosecution joined forces to request a gag order

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that would prevent him from talking to
the media throughout the trial. Shawn showed

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absolutely no remorse. The following month, he was found guilty of both murders

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and sentenced to death. In March
twenty nineteen, Shawn pleaded guilty to murdering

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two other women, Rebecca Lacey in
twenty fifteen and Candace Cuttingham in twenty sixteen.

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He had dated Candace for several months
and even lived with her for a

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while, and throughout their relationship he
admitted to fantasizing about murdering her. Rebecca

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Lacey was also someone that Shawn knew
personally, although he wasn't as close with

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her as he was with Candace,
and all of his victims were killed in

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the same fashion. Strangled to death. Seawn gave investigators directions to Candace's body,

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which was found behind a burnt house
in Madison Township. Rebecca's body had

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been found in twenty fifteen in a
patch of woodland in Ashland County. Before

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Shawn's confession, Rebecca's death was believed
to be an accidental overdose. Now police

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knew that Sean had killed her over
a petty dispute. She allegedly had stolen

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four dollars from him and paid for
it with her life. In September that

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same year, Seawn pleaded guilty to
a fifth murder, a woman whose unidentified

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body had been found in Marion County
in two thousand and six. Shawn's confession

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eventually led to the woman being identified
as Dana Lowry, a twenty three year

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old mother of two. Shortly after
his original trial, Shawn's attorney appealed him

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death sentence, but in twenty twenty
the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed this appeal and

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upheld the sentence. As of October
twenty twenty three, his execution is scheduled

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for the nineteenth of March twenty twenty
five. At Shawn's second trial, the

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family friend of one of his victims
addressed him directly, saying, quote,

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you will die with a needle in
your arm, with no more notoriety than

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a junkie who overdoses in an alley. You will die, you will burn,

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and you will be completely forgotten.
Shawn's mother, Teresa, was approached

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by the media countless times after her
son's arrest. Finally, she agreed to

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give one interview with The Daily Mail. She shared that she believed time behind

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bars had changed Sean into someone she
didn't recognize, but she also believed that

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he had spent his life using his
charming nature to get what he wanted.

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Quote. Yes, he's good looking, she said, but the devil good

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looking too. That's ten Minute Murder
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of November. Halloween just happened,
and I need to ask a question,

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do we not do Halloween anymore?
I bought a bucket of candy and was

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all ready for the trick or treaters. I don't We're not doing it anymore.

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I guess there were like three kids, and at one point I made

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the executive decision to just not get
my hopes up anymore, turned off the

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porch light, and I enjoyed the
kit Kats and Snickers bars myself. I

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don't know, maybe I'm missing something
somewhere. There might have been a news

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release that it was happening on a
different day and I just wasn't paying attention

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to it. But three tricker treaters
for an entire bucket of candy that I

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had, and I do the good
stuff too. I wanted to be the

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house that has the full size bars, the ones when like I was a

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kid, I'd go back and say, Hey, go to this house.

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They've got the full size stuff over
there. They're not messing around. I

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wanted to be that house. But
three trick or treaters. Anyway, that's

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your episode for today. Thank you
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