NCIS / Exhuming The Past

Summary

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Cold Case Files – “NCIS / Exhuming The Past”

Podcast: Cold Case Files (A&E / PodcastOne)
Date: May 5, 2026
Host/Narrator: Marisa Pinson

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Episode Overview

This episode of Cold Case Files features two extraordinary investigations:

1. The decades-old disappearance and murder of Ensign Andrew Muns aboard a U.S. Navy ship during the Vietnam War era, culminating in a confession more than 30 years later following creative detective work by NCIS.
2. The 1981 murder of college student Susan Shumake in Carbondale, Illinois—originally attributed to a local serial killer, until modern DNA techniques exhumed the truth and delivered closure nearly 25 years after the crime.

The show delves deep into how relentless family members, cold case detectives, and advances in forensic science managed to bring resolution, belated justice, and peace to the victims’ loved ones.

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Case 1: The Disappearance of Ensign Andrew Muns (Arlington National Cemetery, 1968–2005)

Introduction and Background

• Mary Lou Taylor visits her brother’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery, reflecting on decades longing for answers ([01:41]).
• Andy Muns, disbursing officer on the USS Kakapon, disappears in the Philippines in 1968; $8,600 is missing from the ship’s safe.

Notable Quote

"From 1968 to 2000, we had no answers whatsoever. We just had a lot of suspicions and questions."
– Mary Lou Taylor ([02:26])

Initial Investigation and Suspicions (1968)

• Special Agent Ray McGady (Naval Investigative Service) is assigned to search for Muns ([02:43]), investigating whether Muns deserted or was a victim.
• Ship's crew, including Michael Le Brun (Muns’ subordinate), interviewed. Le Brun’s “midnight scuba diving” theory is met with suspicion ([05:10]).
• The Navy officially declares Muns a deserter, devastating the family and leaving them stigmatized ([05:50]).

Notable Quotes

"He was officially labeled a deserter... actually looking for him in regards to a larceny."
– Mary Lou Taylor ([05:50])

"That probably is the hardest thing for me to swallow, is that this man died believing that his son was wrongly accused and that no one had shown otherwise."
– Ray McGady ([06:27])

Cold Case Revival (1998–99): The Family’s Relentless Advocacy

• In 1998, Mary Lou Taylor contacts NCIS Agent Pete Hughes, reigniting the case ([07:20]).
• The family’s unresolved grief centers on Andy’s "deserter" status and lack of honorable recognition ([07:55]).
• Hughes, moved by Mary Lou’s persistence, reviews the original files and immediately finds Michael Le Brun’s statements odd ([09:40]).

Notable Quotes

"It meant a lot to me that you would let me talk, that you actually were listening to every detail."
– Mary Lou Taylor ([07:55])

"That flag was a great symbol to me of Andy's honor... because I thought he deserved a flag at his memorial service."
– Mary Lou Taylor ([09:10])

Breakthrough: Interrogating Le Brun (1999–2000)

• Le Brun, now in Kansas, is re-interviewed; NCIS agents use a relaxed, retrospective approach ([11:04]).
• Le Brun starts speaking in hypotheticals, hinting at an altercation and accidental death ([11:34]).
• Detectives escalate the pressure, recreating the original ship office in the interrogation room to overwhelm Le Brun ([13:23]).
• Legal strategy is employed—Le Brun is convinced if the act was manslaughter, he cannot be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations ([14:20]). He confesses, believing he’ll evade prosecution ([20:07]).

Notable Quotes

"It was spontaneous. I'm here to tell you there was no premeditation. All right? It was spontaneous."
– Michael Le Brun ([20:07])

"I'd like to think that you didn't plan this out. But you know what? There's indications to me that you might have, that you're a pretty selfish, cold SOB."
– Pete Hughes ([15:06])

Key Segment

• Le Brun’s Detailed Confession and Reenactment ([21:20]–[22:59])—Le Brun describes struggling with Muns, panicking, and hiding the body/money in the ship’s muck tank, later flushed to sea.

Confrontation with the Family and Aftermath

• Mary Lou faces her brother's killer; Le Brun asks for forgiveness and a hug, which she refuses ([22:59], [24:10]).
• "It felt like I was supposed to say, there, there, that's okay. But it's not okay. He killed my brother."
  – Mary Lou Taylor ([23:13])
• Legal struggles ensue over admissibility of the confession ([25:18]).
• Ultimately, following a series of appeals, Le Brun pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and receives a four-year sentence ([28:09]).

Resolution and Justice ([28:34]–[29:46])

• Andy’s family is finally granted a full military honors burial and the long-denied flag ([28:47]).
• Mary Lou expresses gratitude for the investigators, saying:

  "I got two brothers when I lost just one... this whole process has been a gift because I feel like they cared so much about Andy and about his honor that they're part of my family."
  ([28:47])

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Case 2: The Susan Shumake Case (Carbondale, IL, 1981–2006)

The Crime and First Investigation

• 1981: Susan Shoemake is found raped and murdered near the SIU campus ([29:46]–[32:10]).
• Two suspects quickly emerge: serial offender John Paul Phillips and parolee Daniel Wolason.
• John Paul Phillips is the main focus for years due to his proximity, criminal history, and prior convictions ([33:10]–[37:20]).
• Daniel Wolason is also investigated, flees, but is found in prison for unrelated charges ([34:27]–[36:23]).

Notable Quotes

“Her murder shook the campus. And little did I know that 23 years later, I would arrest her killer.”
– Sgt. Paul Echols ([30:09])

The Cold Case and DNA Exhumation (2001–2004)

• With the case unsolved, Paul Echols (now a police sergeant) reopens the file, focusing on possible DNA evidence ([41:54]–[43:19]).
• Phillips’ body is exhumed in 2001; DNA does not match the profile from the crime scene ([43:32]).

Notable Moment

"They compared it to the unknown male profile in the Susan Chumake case and found that the two did not match. So we essentially eliminated John Paul Phillips."
– Paul Echols ([43:32])

New Focus, New Suspect: Daniel Wolason

• Echols revisits Wolason, now living in Detroit ([44:03]).
• Detectives obtain Wolason’s DNA surreptitiously, via cigarette butts from a sold car ([45:13]–[46:07]).
• Lab confirms a conclusive match ([46:07]–[46:31]).

Notable Quote

"I have the same DNA profile."
– Paul Echols ([46:07])

Resolution and Reflections

• Wolason is arrested, tried, and convicted of first-degree murder in March 2006—nearly 25 years after the crime ([46:41]–[47:35]).
• He receives a 40-year sentence but is eligible for parole after 18 years, a point that outrages the victim’s family ([47:54]–[48:35]).
• Wolason dies in prison in 2024 ([48:35]).

Notable Quotes

"You have to ask yourself, what is a woman's life worth? ... Is that what your life is worth?"
– John Shoemake ([48:14])

"Susan Shumake was just barely 21 years of age when she died. It's been almost 25 years since her murder. Daniel Woolison will spend less time in prison than Susan was alive and less time than she has been dead. And that's really unfair."
– Michael Websick, prosecutor ([47:54])

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Mary Lou Taylor’s unwavering advocacy, which ultimately overturns her brother’s official stain of desertion and brings justice.
• Le Brun’s confession, blending relief, guilt, and legal maneuvering.
• Exhumation of a suspect’s body for DNA—the painstaking and literal exhuming of the past to clear a long-accused man.
• Family closure—even when sentences or justice are imperfect, families express gratitude for simply knowing the truth.

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Key Timestamps

• Andy Muns Case

  • Mary Lou at the grave: [01:41]
  • Agent McGady’s investigation: [02:43]
  • Suspicious statements from Le Brun: [05:10], [10:16]
  • 1998 cold case reopening: [07:20]
  • NCIS interrogation/confession: [13:23]–[22:59]
  • Mary Lou confronts Le Brun: [22:59]–[24:13]
  • Legal battle & resolution: [25:18]–[28:09]
  • Final burial & family tribute: [28:47]

• Susan Shumake Case

  • Crime details: [29:46]–[32:10]
  • Early suspects: [33:10]–[37:20]
  • DNA exhumation of Phillips: [43:19]–[43:42]
  • Obtaining Wolason DNA: [45:13]–[46:07]
  • DNA match & arrest: [46:31]–[46:59]
  • Trial, sentencing, reflection: [47:03]–[48:35]

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Tone & Style

The episode is investigative yet personal, mixing technical details with family voices and emotional reflections. The narrative honors the persistence of investigators and survivors, using direct testimony to heighten authenticity and empathy.

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Conclusion

This episode of Cold Case Files underscores how dogged investigation, advances in forensic science, and family advocacy can—despite the passage of decades—bring truth, accountability, and some measure of peace, even as it reveals the limitations and imperfections that haunt criminal justice.

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Notable Closer:

"I got two brothers when I lost just one... this whole process has been a gift because I feel like they cared so much about Andy and about his honor that they're part of my family." — Mary Lou Taylor ([28:47])

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[Mary Lou Taylor]

Well, we're going to go up the hill to my brother's grave site. It's always hard to find it because there's so many.

[Narrator]

It's 2006 in Arlington National Cemetery, and Mary Lou Taylor walks past row after row of headstones. Each marks the resting place of an American hero. In at least one case, the headstone memorializes a murder victim.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

This is it. In memory of Andrew l. Muns, Ensign, U.S. navy, Vietnam. October 12, 1943. January 17, 1968.

[Narrator]

Andrew Muns was Mary Lou's brother. He was serving on a Navy ship in the Philippines when he disappeared without

[Mary Lou Taylor]

a trace from 1968 to 2000. We had no answers whatsoever. We just had a lot of suspicions and questions.

[Narrator]

The cold case of Andrew Muns dates back to 1968 and the height of the Vietnam War.

[Ray McGady]

Well, in January 1968, I was assigned as a special agent with the Naval Investigative Service at Subic Bay. And my boss gave me a call and told me that he needed me aboard the USS Kakapan.

[Narrator]

In the winter of 1968, a refueling vessel named the Kakapon docks in the Philippines. There's trouble aboard as Special Agent Ray McGady of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service quickly learns.

[Ray McGady]

He gave me a three by five card basically telling me that they. A missing disbursing officer and missing funds from the disbursing office safe.

[Narrator]

Ensign Andrew Muns is the man who hands out pay aboard the Cacopon. He was last seen alive above deck heading to his office.

[Ray McGady]

This is one of the first places that we went in order to determine what the office looked like and also to take a look see at the safe that was available.

[Narrator]

Muns was last seen around 2am At 8am he failed to report for muster. Later that morning another sailor noticed the ship's Safe Open and $8,600 was discovered missing.

[Ray McGady]

Brought some suspicion as to what happened to the $8,600 that was in the safe at that time. Was he a victim of foul play or did he take the money and run?

[Narrator]

On shore, Agent McGady ducks into local bars with a picture of his missing man. No one has seen him. Then Megadey checks with embassies throughout Southeast Asia.

[Ray McGady]

We checked through Hong Kong, we checked through Kaohsiung in Taipei. We checked Manila. We checked everywhere we could possibly believe that he could be and were unsuccessful. We couldn't find him.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

My mother opened a letter one afternoon that said, we're sorry to say this, but your son's missing. We knew immediately that something bad had happened to him and that he wasn't going to come back. Because we knew Andy and we knew he never would have left that ship on his own. He never would have deserted. That was totally against his character. So for us it was more a matter of trying to get the Navy to believe that something bad really happened to him. That he didn't leave the ship voluntarily.

[Narrator]

Agent McGady seriously considers the idea that Muns might be a victim of foul play. His suspicion grows after a talk with Muns direct subordinate, a sailor named Michael Le Brun.

[Ray McGady]

I do know that during the interview there were some things in the interview that didn't feel right. He suggested that Ensign Muns might. Might have gone scuba diving and was gone for that reason. It did seem ridiculous that Ensign Muns at the middle of the night would go scuba diving. First of all, it would be unsafe. Secondly, he couldn't see anything. And it seemed like it was probably some excuse to offer an explanation for him not being aboard the ship.

[Narrator]

Ray McGady believes Andrew Muns might very well have been murdered. The US Navy's official line, however, states something different.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

He was officially labeled a deserter. There was an FBI form, a deserter document, sent to the FBI and to all the police in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where he lived. So they were actually looking for him in regards to a larceny.

[Narrator]

Munn's status as a deserter is devastating to his family, especially Mary Lou's father.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

That kind of stress really did him in and he died three years later. He died three years after that at the age of 57 with no record of heart disease or anything. He had a massive heart attack.

[Ray McGady]

That probably is the hardest thing for me to swallow, is that this man died believing that his son was wrongly accused and that no one had shown otherwise.

[Narrator]

Years go by, and Marilu hears nothing further from the Navy. Everywhere she looks, however, she sees reminders of her missing brother.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

At that point, Vietnam was such a major part of American life. In all of the airports there were servicemen all over the place. And for years I would kind of comb the faces of all the servicemen in the airports when I'd travel back and forth to college looking, you know, could one of these people be Andy? Is it a possibility that he's still alive?

[Narrator]

Marilu never catches another glimpse of her brother's face. And the mystery of his disappearance fades into memory.

[Pete Hughes]

I was in the office in May of 1998. I was very much part of the Cold Case homicide program and received this telephone call from a lady by the name of Mary Lou Taylor. She introduced herself over the phone and explained to me that her brother Andrew Muns, who was an ensign in the Navy in 1968, disappeared off the USS Kakapon.

[Narrator]

Pete Hughes is an NCIS agent. Thirty years after Ensign Andrew Munns disappeared off the USS Cacapon, Hughes takes a meeting with Muns sister Mary Lou, who refuses to forget.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

In some ways I think that the not knowing and the deserter status was harder than losing him. If it had been, yes, he was killed in action, or yes, this person killed him on the ship and we knew it. We could have gotten on with things. And the question you asked is why should we investigate the murder of your brother? And so you let me talk for 45 minutes. I told you every reason why I thought we should investigate. And I was really. It meant a lot to me that you would let me talk, that you actually were listening to every detail.

[Pete Hughes]

I Remember you sharing with me how you had started your own investigation in this. And to me, that just rings so true of somebody who's yearning for the truth.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

I needed to know what happened to Andy and I needed to clear his name. We finally, we decided as a family that we had never been able to really grieve for Andy because there was never a body, there was never admission that he was dead by the Navy.

[Narrator]

Given his status as a deserter. Andy Munn's family was not given a flag at the ensign's memorial service, an indignity that has stuck with Marilu throughout the years.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

I can't tell you how angry I was at that moment thinking that I couldn't get a flag for Andy's service. So I said, you know, I'm not that old. I got a lot of energy in me and I'm going to get a flag. It may take me years, but I will get a flag for Andy. So that became my passion, was that flag was a great symbol to me of Andy's honor. And so that's when the flag became important because I thought he deserved a flag at his memorial service.

[Pete Hughes]

I just felt compelled that I felt an obligation after having spoken with you to get a copy of the case files. There were a couple people who jumped off the pages that said, look at me. There were unresolved issues. There were questions about what they were saying, and I knew that we would need to go back and revisit those folks.

[Narrator]

At the top of the list is a sailor named Michael Le Brun. LeBrun worked for Muns in the ship's dispersing office. Le Brun came up with a strange explanation. When Muns turned up missing, he suggested

[Pete Hughes]

to that dispersant officer that, well, maybe Andy Muns had gone scuba diving during the night and had gone alone and maybe had drowned, which I thought was fairly bizarre because who's going to go scuba diving between midnight and seven o'clock in the morning in Subic Bay, the Philippines? The officer's response to that was, I know Andy Muns. Andy Muns is not going to go scuba diving alone. So that was one red flag.

[Narrator]

The NCIS agents believe LeBrun's 1968 statement is bizarre enough to warrant another interview in 1999. They catch up with the former seamen in the middle of the Great Plains.

[Pete Hughes]

Well, the first time around, the approach with lebrun, first time around was very informal, very relaxed.

[Narrator]

Michael lebrun is now working real estate in Kansas. Agent Hughes approaches Le Brun as though he's a witness in Mun's disappearance and he agrees to come to a local police department.

[Pete Hughes]

We would ask him, take yourself back in time, Michael. Take yourself back to 1968. Just relax, close your eyes and tell us what you see.

[Narrator]

Before long, Le Brun describes his role in Mun's disappearance. One in which LeBrun is stealing money from the ship's safe.

[Pete Hughes]

His eyes are half open, half closed and he's saying, I see myself. All of a sudden. He goes, well, I think I hear something. I think somebody's coming in the door. And during this time frame, I'm stuffing money down my shirt and in comes Andy Muns, who I thought was secured for the night. He's saying, I can see Andy Muns confronting me. Hey, you're stealing that money. I'm gonna put you on rapport.

[Narrator]

LeBrun is talking in hypotheticals, saying, maybe it happened this way.

[Pete Hughes]

I hit him, he hits me. Maybe that's what happens. That's what he would say. That's what we were. We were dealing with. He goes, I can't remember that. He goes, but I'm taking myself in time. I can see that happening. But I don't know that happened because I don't remember that happening.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Pete and I have done hundreds of interrogations together and whenever somebody starts this, I don't remember. I could have. I don't remember. It's possible you've got your guy.

[Pete Hughes]

So he was playing these, what I call the cat and mouse games. But clearly he's good for this homicide. We just don't know how he did it.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

I mean, when Pete comes back with the information, we had a roundtable strategy session. We reviewed it. What we decided to do and Pete ultimately said, agreed to was we're not going to play the game the way LeBron wants us to play the game.

[Narrator]

NCIS agents decide they are going to force the action. Over the next year, they learn everything they can about LeBrun to then apply pressure to him.

[Pete Hughes]

I'm really eager to, to see what the old office looks like where we set it up.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Remember the pressure though of actually bringing LeBron in here and knowing this is it. We either get this or the case is over.

[Narrator]

In the fall of 2000, NCIS agents bring LeBrun in for questioning. The strategy is risky. Either secure a confession or drop the case against Le Brun.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

I just remember all the pictures on the walls, you know, and then that

[Narrator]

flip chart here, the interrogation room is filled with poster sized pictures of Michael Le Brun and his shipmates. From the US Kakopon.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

When he walked into this room, he knew we had done our homework because everything, his whole life was out.

[Pete Hughes]

When he walks in, he pans the room, looks at all these pictures on the wall, sits down, sees how we've methodically placed these files. Pretty. Pretty overwhelming.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

As he opened the door and he looked around the room, he goes, this is my life.

[Narrator]

NCIS agents get to work almost immediately.

[Michael Le Brun]

All right, I know you responsible for incident. Yeah, I know that. We can show that. The only issue is, is did it happen in a split second that you planned out. So, premeditation. Premeditation, or was it spontaneous? That's the one question. Quite frankly, I think it's premeditation.

[Narrator]

If the crime was spontaneous, LeBron can only be charged with manslaughter, which has a five year statute of limitations that has long since expired. LeBrun sees the loophole and is quick to try and crawl through it.

[Michael Le Brun]

There's a statute of limitations regarding spontaneous act. I thought there was no statute of limitations on homicide. It depends on how the act was concluded.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Part of our strategy with Michael Le Brun was, look, if it's manslaughter, you can't be charged because the statute of limitation has run five years. And you know what? You get up and you walk out of here today, or it's premeditated murder. And if you plan to kill him, there's no statute of limitations and you can be prosecuted.

[Michael Le Brun]

I'd like to think that you didn't plan this out. I'd absolutely like to think that. But you know what? There's indications to me that you might have that you're a pretty selfish, cold sob.

[Pete Hughes]

I could see the wheels in his brain moving. If it was an accident, if it was something less than premeditation, then that statute of limitations, you can see his brain working. Or did you plan it? Did you plan it three weeks in advance? Did you plan it two minutes in advance? If so, you can be charged.

[Narrator]

LeBron is beginning to believe he. He can admit to killing Andy Muns and walk away a free man.

[Michael Le Brun]

And I never meant to kill Andy Muns. Just saying, come on, let's put it into it. Let's put an end to it.

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[Michael Le Brun]

I never intended to kill anybody. I never have planned to kill anybody. I've never premeditated kill anybody. But it happened with Andy Lyons, isn't that right?

[Narrator]

In an interrogation room, a 55 year old former Navy sailor named Michael Le Brun is about to confess to murder.

[Michael Le Brun]

And if you be man enough and stamp up on the stood plate and say, you know, our guys are spontaneous, we're on the phone going, we have proper statute limitations. It's possible you won't be prosecuted. Am I hearing that I won't be prosecuted?

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

As you see, about 15 or 18 minutes into the interrogation, he started listening and he started shaking his head yes, and he understood what we were saying, and it started to make a little bit of sense to him. And he started to figure out, you know what? These guys have got me. That was my perception. They got me. And my only way out is to admit to a manslaughter.

[Michael Le Brun]

I'm here to tell you there was no premeditation. All right? It was spontaneous.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Okay, well, once LeBron thought he wasn't going to be prosecuted because he committed what he perceived was a manslaughter, he decided to go ahead and confess.

[Michael Le Brun]

My killing Andy Muns was not intentional. There was no intent on my part to kill him. I don't recall the exact time that I killed him. Tell us why you killed him again. Tell us what we already know. Self preservation. To protect myself from being caught. Being caught. Being caught, you know, messing in the safe.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Andy Munn saw him do that. And Andy Munn said, okay, I've got you, you're on report. And that's when that intent of premeditation came in. Right then it only takes seconds to form intent. And that's when he knew he had to kill him or go to the brig. And that's what he told us.

[Michael Le Brun]

Safe doors open. None of this is premeditated. None of this. I mean, I'm, I see, all of a sudden I see the safe door open. It's Kind of like, oh, yeah, I opened the safe. I. Look.

[Narrator]

NCIS agents understand that the issue of premeditation will be key to their case. They ask LeBrun to stand up and reenact the moment of murder.

[Michael Le Brun]

See? What are you doing? Oh, shit. Just. And then. Just show him how you grab him, please. How'd you grab him? Grab him? What does he do? He grabs back. Where do I grab you? I don't know. You just grab, you know, and then I just kind of like, we can't. No, you can't. I'm learning. I just. I can't do this. I can't see this. You can't tell anybody. And boom, boom, boom. No, this can't happen. Leave me alone. I can't have this. Whatever. I don't recall exactly what I'm saying. I'm just panicked. He's struggling, he's kicking, he's pushing. What stops him from doing that? I'm. I'm stronger than he is. Right. What am I gonna do? My first thought was, I gotta get rid of this body. Throw it over the side. I went out to the foot in the well. Decker. Must be a splash. It'll float. I'm a deep shit. Here, I've got this. What am I gonna do? Tank. Remember we mucked tanks. We mucked tanks. When I. Matt Panai. What does that mean? Muck tanks. Oh, we went down. They never go in these tanks for a year and a half.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

And then he had to figure out what to do with the body and what to do with the money. Why throw away $8,600? Why not just keep it? Well, LeBrun already starting to figure out how I need to cover this crime up, was thinking about latent impressions. Hey, my fingerprints are on this money. I need to get rid of this money.

[Narrator]

LeBrun tells agents he panicked and dumped the money along with Mun's body into the ship's muck tank, where it was later flushed out to sea. After he confesses to the NCIS agents, Mary Lou Taylor, Andy Munn's sister, is brought in.

[Michael Le Brun]

There's some truths that I've had to face here, just even today. And I've come to realize that I was responsible for Andy's death. And I'm sorry to you for that.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

It was awkward for me because it's. It felt like I was supposed to say, there, there, that's okay. But it's not okay. He killed my brother. And so just confessing isn't okay.

[Michael Le Brun]

It's something that I haven't even been willing to face for the last 30 some years. I don't know what else to say. I'm so sorry.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

It was hard to say. Oh, yeah, I understand. I didn't understand he killed my brother because he was stealing money and he got caught. I don't understand that.

[Michael Le Brun]

I'm glad to be able to lay this to rest. Oh, God, I'm glad. It's for you and them. And it's partially made to rest for me, but it's not done yet.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

At the end when we were leaving and he said, may I give you a hug? I don't forget his exact words, but it was something like, can I hug you? Or may I give you a hug? I was totally taken aback and I certainly wasn't ready to say, oh, sure, I'm sorry.

[Michael Le Brun]

Can I give you a hug? Is that okay?

[Mary Lou Taylor]

No, I'm sorry.

[Michael Le Brun]

Okay, that's fine. I'm in.

[Narrator]

Cold case agents do not immediately arrest their suspect. Instead, Michael lebron goes home thinking perhaps that he's gotten away with murder.

[Matt Whitworth]

He believed that he could only be charged with a manslaughter charge. I'm convinced that he thought that he was going to get a pass on this.

[Michael Le Brun]

This.

[Narrator]

Matt Whitworth is a deputy U.S. attorney in Kansas City. In the fall of 2000, he reviews Michael Le Brun's taped confession and concludes he could be prosecuted not for manslaughter, but for felony murder. There are, however, some problems.

[Matt Whitworth]

My first concern that I had was I knew that they had, you know, inflated or misled him concerning the amount of evidence they had that implicated him in the crime.

[Michael Le Brun]

I know you responsible for Ensign Mons. Yeah, I know that we can show that.

[Pete Hughes]

Did we push the envelope a little bit in there? Sure. I mean, this is a murder. We're talking to somebody we strongly suspect committed a murder.

[Narrator]

Whitworth suspects the confession might be vulnerable to a motion of suppression at trial and tells NCIS to prepare for a legal fight over the tape. It's a fight the prosecutor is willing to take on.

[Matt Whitworth]

You never yelled at him, you never had your guns out or. There were no weapons present. There was never any physical force.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

Told him he was going to go

[Pete Hughes]

home several times, and we took him

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

home and he went home.

[Matt Whitworth]

As a prosecutor, if I had agents in an interview lying about what the law was, then I would take a. You know, I don't think I'd file a case because, you know, there's a fairness issue there that I would have to take into consideration. But that wasn't the case here. They didn't mislead him about what the law was.

[Narrator]

In March of 2001, Michael LeBrun is charged with felony murder and his defense moves to suppress his confession. The district judge rules in lebrun's favor so the jury will not hear his statement. The following year, a federal appeals court affirms the lower court's decision.

[Pete Hughes]

I thought we were done. And then you call back and you say there's this process called en banc. You said, I feel like you guys pushed the envelope, but you did not cross the line and you stayed within the limits and we're going to take a shot at him.

[Narrator]

En banc is an appellate hearing before the entire 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Five years after Michael lebrun's confession, the circuit court hears the case.

[Matt Whitworth]

We got to argue the case in front of the full court in bank. And we won this time, seven to four. And that was a great day when we finally got that decision. You know, in all honesty, and I've told Pete and Jim this, I wish I would have had a little bit more input on how the interview was conducted before it happened.

[Pete Hughes]

Always felt somehow things were going to turn out right. Yep, things were going to turn out okay. Why? Because we knew we didn't violate his rights.

[Matt Whitworth]

Hey, listen, next time you have one of these cases out here, though, wouldn't you call me first?

[Pete Hughes]

We promise.

[Jim (NCIS Agent)]

We had a lot of critics in this case. And all I can say to the critics, God forbid that any of them ever lose a loved one the way Mary Lou Taylor and her family did. I can guarantee you they'll want us to do the same thing we did in this case and pull out all the stops, get down to it, get hard, get gritty, get dirty, but get to the truth.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

I was there. And I believe that those officers did, or those agents did everything they could possibly do to do a legal and honorable and ethical confession. It's hard to get somebody to confess after 30 years. They couldn't just say, well, did you do it?

[Narrator]

In the fall of 2005, Michael Lebron pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and is sentenced to four years in prison.

[Matt Whitworth]

I was just pleased that we were able to get justice for Mary Lou Taylor and her family. And I just remember they were how pleased they were that we finally won. Here's this picture right here. You know, Andy munn.

[Pete Hughes]

That's what it's all about.

[Matt Whitworth]

That's what it's all about.

[Narrator]

For Andy Munns family, the final chapter plays out at Arlington national Cemetery with a Memorial service for Ensign Andrew Munns and a flag for his family.

[Mary Lou Taylor]

The ceremony itself was one of those perfect days of sunny, warm Washington Day and the caisson with the horses and the Navy band and an admiral at the head of the honor guard. It was just. It was absolutely what Andy deserved. It was perfect. I have gotten to really love and know Pete and Jim. And in a way, I got two brothers when I lost just one. And so it was a real gift for me. This whole process has been a gift because I feel like they cared so much about Andy and about his honor that they're part of my family.

[Paul Echols]

On August 17, 1981, I'd been a Carbondale police officer for one week. That's the same day that Susan Shumake was murdered. Susan and I had a class in one of the buildings behind me here in 1981.

[Narrator]

Sergeant Paul Echols is 21 years old. The rape and murder of a local student named Susan ShoeMake marks his second week on the job.

[Paul Echols]

I actually was in the police training at one week. I got hired one week to the day before she was murdered. It was a scary thing here. It was the first time and first time ever that I'm aware of that an SIU student was murdered on campus. Her murder shook the campus. And little did I know that 23 years later, I would arrest her killer.

[John Shoemake]

One of her friends called me up there to tell me that they couldn't find Sue. I knew that they felt something wasn't right.

[Narrator]

John Shoemake is Susan's older brother. On August 18, he gets a call. His sister is missing from the campus of Southern Illinois University.

[John Shoemake]

She was supposed to meet a friend for a. They were going to have dinner together and she didn't show up. And that's when they knew something was amiss.

[Narrator]

As John Shoemake and his parents drive to Carbondale, a campus wide search for Susan is underway.

[John Shoemake]

I kept trying to reassure them and tell them, oh, she's with a friend. Don't worry about it. I'm sure she's okay. And I don't know at what point I stopped believing that.

[Hank Banneke]

Well, this is known as Thompson Woods. There's footpaths and trails that have been through here for years. Some of them lighted, some of them not. And it was common for students to cut through when traveling across campus.

[Narrator]

Hank Banneke is a student police officer for the university, one of a half dozen who scout the area.

[Hank Banneke]

Obviously you can see that it's a lot of undergrowth. So that is what we were asked to do to start just walking the footpaths and searching through the woods as best we could.

[Narrator]

Just before midnight, searchers discover Susan's body off a campus shortcut called the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

[Lowell McGee]

Cause of death was strangulation. Now, there was no ligature mark, so you're probably talking manual strangulation.

[Narrator]

Frank Cooper is a crime scene tech with the Illinois State Police. He's called out to the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the body of Susan Shoemake.

[Lowell McGee]

After we turned her over. Then she had obvious injuries to her face. She had a cut lip, bruises on her face. So she had been hit hard and hit several times. The guy that did this was an animal. That's all you could say about him.

[Narrator]

At autopsy, the medical examiner determines Susan was raped and semen is collected. Her body is released for burial, and Susan's family is left only with a feeling of devastation.

[John Shoemake]

I'll never forget that night. It was just.

[Matt Whitworth]

It was awful.

[John Shoemake]

You know, just realizing that she had been murdered was. It was just impossible. And I was just crying and what else could I do?

[Hank Banneke]

Once Ms. Shoemake was found and the circumstances surrounding her death were known, the community was obviously alarmed, and the police wanted to solve it as quickly as possible. So the police used all their resources to try and solve this.

[Narrator]

One name surfaces as an immediate, immediate suspect. A man named John Paul Phillips has already served time for kidnapping and is considered a suspect in two local deaths. What's more, police can actually place him on campus at the time of the disappearance. Larry Hill is a detective from the Carbondale Police Department.

[Larry Hill]

It was determined that John Paul Phillips was working right here at the women. What was we call the women's gym. But they were doing some repair work on it, and it turned out that he was working here very near proximity of where the body was found down the lake a little distance. So that right there put him in the neighborhood and was just one more indicator of maybe he was the right person.

[Narrator]

Phillips is questioned, and his interview only heightens suspicions.

[Larry Hill]

There were some things that were learned during the interview that made him look still even more viable as the suspects. Some odd scratches on him and some, you know, wishy washy alibi and so on and so forth. And so the detectives gave him a good, hard look.

[Narrator]

Phillips, however, is not the only name on police radar as new evidence places a second suspect even closer to the crime scene. Lowell McGee is a detective for the Southern Illinois University Police Department.

[Lowell McGee]

This is the evidence room of the Sulla University Police Department. This is where Daniel Willison's Tote bag was stored after it was recovered.

[Narrator]

Days after Susan Shoemake was murdered. Just blocks from the crime scene, a bag was found containing prescription drugs, but not the kind issued at your local drugstore.

[Lowell McGee]

The prescription was filled at the Menard Correctional Institution in Chester, Illinois. And that caused a red flag to come up.

[Narrator]

The name on the prescription bottles is Daniel Wolison, a paroled convict who was working less than a mile from the murder site. Wolason moves to the top of the suspect list for Detective McGee.

[Lowell McGee]

This is the King's Inn. Looks like it's pretty well abandoned. Now. Detective Hopkins and I came here to contact Daniel Wilson, and we want to talk to him really about the murder he'd been committed on the campus. He was smoking heavy. He wouldn't make eye contact when we talked to him. Just seemed to be nervous. In fact, you could see he was visibly shaken.

[Narrator]

Wolason claims he is innocent. Detectives leave, but return to the King's Inn the next day. Wolason, however, is gone. In a wastebasket, Detective McKee finds the remnants of a letter.

[Lowell McGee]

I don't understand why it's always me. I know I can't handle prison again, so I know everyone is better off this way. My only regret is hurting my family. If my brother wants anything that I've got, that's who I want to have it. He signs a Note.

[Narrator]

Sorry, Dan McGee believes Wolason to be his killer. Two months later, the detective finds Wolason sitting in the Joliet Penitentiary, picked up on a parole violation.

[Lowell McGee]

Well, Detective Hopkins and I went to Joliet and we interrogated him. All he would say is, I didn't do it. We were sure that when we went there, we could turn him around, get a confession out of him. And when we couldn't, we were very disappointed.

[Narrator]

Without a confession, the trail on Wolofson runs cold. Meanwhile, the case grows more Complex as two more young women are attacked near the SIU campus. In November, 30 year old Joan Weatherall is raped and bludgeoned to death. Then in December, a female student is abducted and raped. She escapes and identifies a familiar suspect as her attacker.

[Larry Hill]

We'd had three murders of Jan Koedz, and we could put him near the scene of every one of them. So when this one came along, we tried the same scenario. Was John Paul near here? Yes, he was working 200 yards away every day. So in my opinion, he was a good suspect.

[Narrator]

John Paul Phillips is convicted in the November and December attacks. And while there is no physical evidence to link Phillips directly to sue Susan Shumick's murder. Susan's family focuses on him as Susan's killer.

[John Shoemake]

So then from there you would have been close to 50, right? We were firmly convinced that John Paul Phillips was the man who killed Susan, so we thought this has to be the guy.

[Narrator]

Twenty years later, however, an officer named Paul Echols finds suspicion and guilt are two very different things.

[Paul Echols]

Many smart people thought John Paul Phillips did it, so that became the first step in this let's either identify or let's eliminate John Paul Phillips.

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[Paul Echols]

I'm slowing down here because right here in front of us you'll see another pedestrian overpass. This is known as the Susan Shumake Memorial Overpass.

[Narrator]

In the summer of 1981, Paul Echols was a rookie officer when 21 year old Susan Shoemake was raped and murdered.

[Paul Echols]

This room here contains our major case evidence. This box on the shelf here is the evidence collected in the Susan shoemake murder from 1981.

[Narrator]

Twenty years later, the case remains officially unsolved. Unofficially, many believe the murder was the work of local serial killer John Paul Phillips.

[Paul Echols]

Initially, my peers or those that were my supervisors in those years certainly felt that John Paul Phillips was responsible for Shoemape just because of the fact that he was a killer he was proven to be a killer and he'd worked within three or 400 yards of the

[Narrator]

crime scene by 2001. DNA testing is solving cases and can hopefully confirm the suspicions of original investigators regarding Susan Shumake's murder.

[Paul Echols]

Everybody knew that he was capable and that he was in the area. And some of them had the opinion if John Paul Phillips was anywhere in the area and somebody was murdered, a female specifically, then he probably did it.

[Narrator]

Forensic testing isolates a male DNA profile from the Shoemake evidence. Phillips, however, died in prison eight years earlier. To get his DNA, detectives must make a trip to the cemetery.

[Paul Echols]

Well, the immediate thought was the only way we're going to be able to do this is actually exhume him.

[Narrator]

In October of 2001, the remains of a serial killer are exhumed, but the DNA results are not what most expected.

[Paul Echols]

They compared it to the unknown male profile in the Susan Chumake case and found that the two did not match. So we essentially eliminated John Paul Phillips.

[Narrator]

With Phillips cleared, Echols returns to his case file.

[Paul Echols]

I went into the case and I tried to find three primary suspects. Start with three, work with three, and then move on to another three. And my intent was to go until we eliminated those suspects.

[Narrator]

Included on the suspect list is ex convict Daniel Wolason.

[Paul Echols]

When you read the case file, Daniel Woolison does stick out.

[Narrator]

Wolason first surfaced as a suspect in 1981 after his bag was found near the murder scene. Now he's living in Detroit. Echols reaches out to the Washtena County Sheriff for help.

[Mike Downey]

This is the auto salvage yard where I was told Mr. Wolason worked at. And this is where I had my first contact with him.

[Narrator]

Mike Downey is a detective with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's department. On Aug. 29, he pays Wolason a visit.

[Mike Downey]

Originally, when I came up the driveway there, he was curious as to why I wanted to talk to him. And then once I explained to him why I was here and I was here on behalf of the Carbondale Police Department, that's when he got nervous and his hands started to shake. He wouldn't keep eye contact with me anymore and he wasn't interested in what I had to say anymore.

[Narrator]

Downey asks Wolison for a sample of his DNA, but Wolason refuses. Detective Downey, however, has a plan.

[Mike Downey]

The plan was to set up surveillance on Mr. Wolfson in order to obtain a cigarette butt to compare it with Carbondale sample.

[Richard Hayward]

We're gonna do it surreptitiously. Hopefully we would Follow him. Wolveson would be driving. We knew we smoked cigarettes. Maybe he would throw a cigarette butt out the window and we'd retrieve the cigarette butt and then take it to the forensic lab for analysis.

[Narrator]

Lt. Richard Hayward runs the surveillance operation.

[Richard Hayward]

For the first few days, we conducted surveillance of the salvage yard that he worked at, hoping to get him to leave and follow him and hopefully obtain a DNA sample. However, that was unsuccessful.

[Narrator]

A couple weeks later, Hayward learns that Wolason had recently sold his car. Investigators tracked the vehicle to its new owner in Detroit.

[Richard Hayward]

And during my interview with him, I asked him if there were any cigarette butts in the car. He stated yes. And I asked him if he smoked or were the cigarette butts in the car when he bought it. He said they were in the car when he bought them.

[Narrator]

Hayward suspects the butts might belong to Wolason and sends them to the Michigan State Police crime lab for DNA testing.

[Paul Echols]

And it was on September 9, 2004. I get a phone call in the morning. He says, look, I have the results of those four cigarette butts. I pull out the Susan Chumate DNA report that has the unknown DNA profile in it, has all the genetic codes there, and I compare it back and forth and voila, there it is. I have the same DNA profile.

[Narrator]

The Illinois crime lab confirms the match. And Paul Echols heads to Michigan to pick up Wilison and charge him with the murder of Susan Shoemake.

[Paul Echols]

I could see the stress in his eyes. I mean, he was giving me the signs that you would typically see in a person that was guilty. He knew he was had. He knew that that day had finally arrived, the day that he had dreaded for so many years and hoped that would never arrive. He knew that that was the day.

[Narrator]

Michael Websick prosecutes Daniel Wolison for murder.

[Michael Websick]

I go back to a description of him in the pre sentence report that a friend or neighbor called him a Jekyll and Hyde type of, of individual. And we saw very much the Dr. Jeckyl part of his personality throughout the proceedings was very polite. Answered the judge, yes sir, no sir. As his attorney said, a model client. And there is a deep, dark side to his heart. Yeah, I could see him as a murderer.

[Narrator]

In March of 2006, Wolason is found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to 40 years under Illinois law. At the time the crime was committed, he could be out in as little as 18 years. It's a fact that didn't sit well with the prosecutors or Susan Shumake's family.

[Michael Websick]

Susan Shumake was just barely 21 years of age when she died. It's been almost 25 years since her murder. Daniel Woolison will spend less time in prison than Susan was alive and less time than she has been dead. And that's really unfair. That's really unfair.

[John Shoemake]

I was actually shocked when I first learned that the maximum sentence could only be 40 years. You have to ask yourself, what is a woman's life worth? If the guy gets 40 years, that means he's out in 20. I think it would be a good question for a lot of women. Is that what your life is worth? That's what their life is worth.

[Narrator]

In the state of Illinois in 2024, Daniel Wolason died in prison.

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