🔪 The Show & Tell Lie: The True Story of Sandy Shaw and the Man Who Actually Turned It Into a Spectacle
By Richie D. Mowrey | ⚖️ A Sassy Gazette True Crime Feature
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🌵 The Desert Setup: A Fatal Mismatch of Fear, Fantasy, and Firepower
In September 1986, James “Cotton” Kelly 21 years old and cloaked in mystery agreed to meet up in the Nevada desert. He was expecting a girl. Maybe tension. Maybe sex. But what greeted him was six bullets at point-blank range.
The girl? Sandy Shaw. Just 15. Abused. Traumatized. Terrified. She was trying to escape Kelly’s obsession the photos, the calls, the stalking. She told adults. She told police. But no one helped.
So she turned to someone who would: Troy Kell. But Kell didn’t mediate he executed. And in the aftermath, it was Sandy who paid the price.
🧨 The Shooting: Six Bullets and $1,400
Troy Kell shot James Kelly six times in the head and neck. He later bragged about it. Some said it was robbery. Others said it was vengeance. But when the dust settled, Kelly’s body was found in the sand alongside $1,400 in cash.
That detail? The prosecution barely touched it. No motive explored. No deeper questions asked.
👤 James “Cotton” Kelly Or Was It James Thiede?
Rumors swirled for decades that “James Kelly” was actually James Thiede a Canadian national allegedly involved in drug trafficking and under RCMP watch. His family? Supposedly indicted in Canada and Las Vegas.
True or not, we may never know. But it raises one chilling question: Was Sandy unknowingly caught in a trap much bigger than a teenage obsession?
💀 Who Really Turned It Into a “Show & Tell”?
Let’s kill the lie right now: It wasn’t Sandy who showed off the body.
It was David Fletcher a teenage friend who returned to the scene and brought classmates to view Kelly’s corpse. He stole a watch and ring. He posed. He laughed. And then?
He testified against Sandy in exchange for immunity.
The media ran with the “Show & Tell Killer” lie. But it was never hers to begin with.
⚖️ Prosecutorial Misconduct: The Lie That Locked Her Away
Deputy DA Dan Seaton ran a courtroom like a one-act play.
- Ignored recanted testimony.
- Coached vulnerable witnesses.
- Framed Sandy as a manipulative femme fatale.
He never told the jury about Sandy’s trauma the triple murder-suicide she witnessed at 13. He let her drown in a narrative soaked in fiction. Because it made headlines. Not justice.
🕵️♀️ Defense Counsel: More Like Court-Appointed Failure
Sandy’s public defender phoned it in:
- ❌ No trauma expert.
- ❌ No defense theory.
- ❌ No pushback against the “Show & Tell” lie.
He let the prosecution dictate the story. And Sandy? She was swallowed whole by a system looking for someone anyone to blame.
📼 Gladiator Days: Troy Kell’s Violence Didn’t End in the Desert
In 1994, Troy Kell stabbed another inmate 67 times in a racially motivated attack inside Utah State Prison. It was caught on camera and turned into the chilling documentary “Gladiator Days.”
This time, Kell was sentenced to death by firing squad. He remains on death row.
💡 Redemption, Education, and the Long Road to a Pardon
While Kell spiraled into violence, Sandy Shaw transformed:
- 🎓 Earned her high school diploma.
- 🎓 Earned college degrees.
- 💬 Mentored fellow inmates.
In 2022, the Nevada Pardons Board granted her a full pardon. But it wasn’t an apology. The murder conviction still stains her name. She's free but not cleared.
🧩 So What Do We Call It?
We call it what it is:
- A wrongful conviction.
- A prosecutorial performance.
- A courtroom collapse.
Sandy Shaw was no killer. She was a scared girl, failed by the adults around her, and devoured by a justice system more interested in headlines than truth.
The real “Show & Tell”? It was the state of Nevada parading her trauma for the cameras.
📌 Final Thought
“When the headlines lie…
When the courts fail…
When truth is buried under narrative
It’s up to us to dig it back up.”
And Richie just did.
🖋️ By Richie D. Mowrey
📰 The Sassy Gazette: Dicking Around With Richie A True Crime Feed
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His name? Wade Wilson.
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