‘Romantically Active’ Ex-Wife Placed in Embarrassing Pose After Murder | Chanin Starbuck Analysis

Hello, this is Dr. Grande. Today's question is: can I discuss the case of Clay and Shannon Starbuck? Just a reminder. I'm not diagnosing anyone in this video, I'm just speculating on what might be happening in a situation like this. If you enjoyed this video, please like it. Subscribe to my channel and consider supporting me on Patreon. First I'll put the link to Patreon in the description of this video. I will look at the background of this case, move to the timeline of the crime, and then offer my

analysis

. Clay Dwayne Star was born in September 1964 and eventually lived in Alaska.

He was an oil worker there during a trip to Florida. He met a woman named Shannon and they became

romantically

involved. The couple married in 1990 and lived in Alaska. They had two children together in 2000. The couple divorced. Shannon had a child with a different man 4 months after the divorce, the couple reconciled and Shannon remarried in 20 0 6. They moved to Deer Park Washington, which is 22 miles north of Spokane. Clay was still working in Alaska, therefore, he was away from the family quite a bit. Shannon took care of the children. After the reconciliation, the couple had two girls, bringing the total number of children in the family to five.

In 2010, the couple applied for the The divorce was finalized in July 2011. At that time, Clay was not working because she injured her back during the divorce process. Shannon was awarded primary custody of the two girls and the son she had with another man. children were under 18 years old, the two oldest children live with Clay, both Clay and Shannon continued to live in Deer Park. Less than half a mile away, Clay was ordered to pay both child support and support to Shannon. Her pay was $4,700 a month. There was a restraining order in effect. He was not allowed to go to Shannon's home or workplace despite the restraining order Clay would go to.

Clay owed AAR 9,166 for his child support and maintenance obligations. A judgment was ordered against him in this amount plus $500 in attorney fees. Clay was not very happy about this and sent. text messages from his ex-

wife

that contained an angry theme, she also asked for more time with her children during this time, Shannon regularly had many short-term sexual relationships, this is something she had a history of doing, she found men online and a Only in November 2011 was a large amount of explicit images involved. Shannon had dated at least 10 men and had sex with most of them. She also maintained six email addresses for the pur

pose

of communicating with men regarding her career aspirations.

Shannon hoped to be a dental assistant and to become financially independent now moving to the timeline of the crime on December 1, 2011 Clay Starbuck sent a text message to her children just before 8: a.m. m. stating that his car was not working and that her mother Shannon would have to take them to school. a similar message to Shannon, who then took her children to school at 9:17 a.m. m. A call was made from Shannon's cell phone to 911 during the 35 second call, nothing intelligible was heard by the operator when the operator dialed the number to which the call was returned. voicemail Shannon couldn't pick up her kids from school that day, one of her daughters texted at 2:45 p.m. asking who was going to pick her up a text message came from Shannon's phone 20 minutes later saying dad my head hurts stay there 12 minutes later Shannon's phone sent a text message to Clay reading I just woke up did can you pick up the kids?

Eventually, one of the older children picked up the younger children and took them to Clay's residence on December 2, 2011. Clay called the police and requested a welfare check on his ex-

wife

Shannon because his children were not allowed inside. to his house to get clothes. Police went to the house Shannon was renting and found the doors locked, the lights off, and a package next to the front door. They left without doing anything on December 3, a friend of Shannon called the police and requested a welfare check, this time the police had Shannon's landlord opened the front door when they entered the residence and discovered that Shannon had been

murder

ed. .

This is what police found during the course of their investigation. Shannon's naked body was on her bed. She had a sex toy in her hand and it was deployed consistently. For her main pur

pose

there was an open gun safe near the bed that contained a large amount of sex toys. It looked like someone had tried to display them. The cause of death was strangulation. Shannon had chest wounds consistent with a stun gun. and had been brutally beaten, it appeared that she had died on December 1, 2011, the same day her cell phone called 911, the police spoke with Clay and he told them that his wife was

active

in online dating and had sexual relations with several different men.

Police believe Clay was working more diligently than expected to get this point across. Clay explained to police what he was doing on December 1. He said his vehicle had failed and became disabled approximately one mile from his residence. He walked back and forth to his residence at times to get tools in an effort to repair it, police found it curious that Clay's cell phone was turned off for several hours that day, plus there was a camera mounted on a house along the route Clay would have walked but was never captured on camera, police investigated two of the men Shannon had been dating during the time of the

murder

.

Tom and John were able to verify Tom's alibi right away. I was at work and at a funeral that day the police had to do some work to track down JN, he made efforts to disguise his identity such as communicating with Shannon from public places and using an alias, he was a married high school teacher which may explain their furtive behavior. Behavior John told police that he tried to connect with Shannon on December 1, but she did not answer phone calls or knock on the front door of a residence, so John admitted to being at her home the day police He believes Shannon was murdered when John left, he received messages from Shannon's cell phone, a message inviting him in.

Later that night, he once again went to Shannon's house, but there was still no answer at the door, eventually the police were able to exclude him as a potential suspect because he was at a Starbucks restaurant at the time Shannon's cell phone called the 911, the police believed. that when Jon stopped by Shannon's house later, she was already dead in a strange twist paying for Starbucks prevented Jon from being accused of killing a Starbuck for some reason that remains a mystery, the police did not fully investigate the others men Shannon had been dating. At that time DNA testing was performed at the murder scene, the results revealed that three unidentified men had contributed to the DNA found on Shannon's body.

DNA was also recovered that could only be identified as coming from a male member of the Starbu family. The DNA could have belonged. Clay or her two oldest children. Again Clay was not the biological father of the other son. Police also found DNA from an unidentified man on Shannon's cell phone. No DNA from a male Starbuck family member was found on his phone on February 6, 2012. Clay Starbu was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The state's theory of the crime was that Clay was waiting at Shannon's house for her to return from dropping the kids off at school.

He murdered her but didn't realize that Shannon had called 911. He then took the time to pose her body to embarrass her and sent text messages from her phone to make it look like she was still alive in 2013 Clay Staruk was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now moving on to my

analysis

, Clay Starbook maintains his innocence and has a large number of followers, including his children, one of his children, his daughter Logan, ended her own life in December 2021, the remaining four children continued to support his father, the state, of course. believed that Clay's conviction accurately reflected his behavior, they argued that he had the motive and opportunity to commit the murder.

This brings me to the question of whether Clay was guilty of murder. Let's take a look at the evidence they both presented against the idea that he was guilty. With the incriminating factors, Clay had a motive to murder his wife, since he owed her more than $9,000. Additionally, he may have been jealous because she was having sex with other men on the day of the murder. Clay said his vehicle broke down, but a camera along the route he would have walked couldn't capture it. Clay left his cell phone off for several hours that day, which meant the phone couldn't be tracked.

This seems incredibly convenient given the circumstances; he suggested the way Shannon's body was posed after her murder. that her killer wanted to shame her why a casual sexual partner would have done it which is more consistent with a killer who had a long relationship with her DNA from a male starbu family member was found on Shannon's body specifically on her neck, face and under her fingernails, if Shannon was murdered at the time she made the 911 call, then the killer must have sent the text messages from her phone, a message that was sent at 3:6 p.m. It contained a nickname for one of her children, how would a casual lover have known about this nickname?

The only person with a motive to kill Shannon and knowledge of the nickname would have been Clay after the murder. Clay seemed very eager to point out how Shannon was getting involved. In multiple sexual relations at Clay's residence, police found Shannon's death certificate on the wall as if he was being displayed moving toward exculpatory factors. DNA from three unidentified male contributors was found on Shannon's body. Some of the DNA was on her neck. Unidentified male DNA was found. It was also found on her cell phone Clay's DNA was not there The DNA of a male member of the Starbuck family on Shannon's body could be explained in many different ways Clay and Sons visited the house often and had contact with Shannon in the moment she was murdered.

She was engaging in many different casual sexual encounters, this lifestyle is not without risk. Strange men frequently came to her house considering the men's main motivation was to have sex, perhaps one of them posed Shannon's body to embarrass her, although it is reasonable to believe that Shannon died at the time of the 911 call. There is no way to know for sure. This call might not have been related to her murder. It's also possible that she was in a heated argument with one of her casual lovers that she called 911, but then things happen. She calmed down several hours later, this casual lover killed her.

This means that Shannon could have sent her messages from her phone. A witness testified that they observed Clay's car on the side of the road, supporting Clay's claim that he interrupted the murder investigation. terribly mismanaged the police did not collect evidence and did not test all the evidence that was collected one of Shannon's sons said he was responsible for placing the death certificate had nothing to do with clay clay owed a lot of money to Shannon but said this was because he was unable to work due to his back injury when considering all the evidence in this case.

I believe Clay Starbu was guilty of murder. In my opinion, he was actually guilty, but I'm not convinced. A reasonable conclusion of DNA from unidentified male contributors cannot be dismissed as inconsequential, especially considering how DNA was found on the victim's neck and on her phone, two areas the killer would have touched. The jury was never allowed to hear evidence about Shannon's vigorous romantic activity. which doesn't make any sense considering one of those casual lovers could have killed her, that's a reasonable alternative theory of the crime, at least Clay should get a fair trial that involves all the evidence being presented, what do I think happened in this?

In case this is just a theory, my opinion when Clay and Shannon divorced for the second time, Shannon let loose a little bit in terms of exploring sexual activity again, she had a habit of doing this, but maybe this last one occasion was even more energetic than usual. Clay became jealous and thought that Shannon was being hypocritical due to her strong religious beliefs when Shannon tried to have Clay sent to jail based on the ages at which he decided to kill her. He knew she would be an obvious potential suspect, but he took solace in the fact. that Shannon had been involved with manydifferent men, all of those men would be potential suspects along with Clay.

He wanted to take advantage of Shannon's behavior that he objected to in order to conceal her murder from him during the commission of the murder. Clay never realized that Channon called 911. Therefore, instead of immediately fleeing, he stayed at his house with her body and sent her messages from his phone. Clay didn't need to pose his ex-wife's body to highlight their multiple sexual encounters, the police would have realized that eventually Clay did this to be vengeful towards him this was about revenge now everyone would know that his wife led a lifestyle risky and did not adhere to his religious values ​​if Clay had simply left Shannon's house after the murder he may not have been convicted, the problem is that he couldn't resist. a chance to embarrass Shannon Now, moving on to my final thoughts, there's a feeling that Clay Starbu overestimated how offended people would be by his ex-wife's romantic behavior.

He thought he could kill her and everyone would come to her defense because his wife had casual sex. With the men he met online, he was fully ready for the police to question all of those men and charge them with murder, but the police kept coming back to Clay. He didn't understand the strength and obviousness of his own motive and how murder is over. offensive than a vigorous romantic life those are my thoughtsOn the case of Clay and Shannon Starbook, please put your opinions and thoughts in the comments section. They always generate an interesting dialogue, as always.

I hope you found my analysis of this topic informative. Thanks for watching.