CHIPLEY — It’s been nearly five years since the eyes of the nation were fixed on Chipley, watching as the search for 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick unfolded.
The conclusion was a rare happy ending, with Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock reporting “Baby Shannon,” as she became known worldwide, had been found.
“We are the proud papas of a baby girl,” Haddock said in a national press conference in November 2009. “There were a lot of grown men crying and shedding tears. Percentage-wise, we usually don’t get this kind of ending.”
But Baby Shannon’s story had just begun.
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