Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? (113 page)

Mike Shinn is back out on the Columbia River sail-boarding.
 
He bought

some hilltop property in Hawaii where he plans, one day, to build a

house.
 
In the meantime, he has more cases than he can handle and he

presents trial seminars with criminal defense attorney Gerry Spence.

Susan McNannay Keegan gave birth to a baby girl, Anna Marie Keegan, in

May 1995.
 
She would have loved to share Anna Marie with Cheryl and she

had always believed that accidenes of birth had hastened her sister's

death.
 
"The thing that killed Cheryl," she said, "was that she gave

Brad three boy children, and she tried to keep them.
 
If she had only

had one childþa girlþshe'd be here today.
 
If Loni Ann had had two

boys, instead of a boy and a girl, she'd be dead now.
 
If Lauren had

had a boy instead of Amy, she'd be dead.
 
But Cheryl had three

boys...."

Bob McNannay still lives in Longview and he dotes on the only child of

his only child.

Mary and Betty Troseth have moved away from Longview.
 
Betty still

works as a therapist for the mentally ill.

Loni Ann Cunningham is hoping to move back to the Northwest, now that

she no longer has to hide from Brad.

Rosemary Cunningham Kinney died in 1993 in Washington.
 
To the end of

her long illness, she hoped that Brad might call her.
 
One cousin says,

"I think he did callþbut she was already gone."
 
Kit Cunningham stood

at her grandmother's grave and gave a eulogy, after telling the

minister, "You didn't know my grandmother.
 
How can you speak of

her?"

Brad Cunningham found that the Oregon State Penitentiary was not much

more to his liking than the Washington County jail.
 
Two longtimers who

had been in the jail at the same time he was remembered that he had

"snitched them off" about their secret places for hiding cigarettes.
 
A

few weeks after he got to the Salem prison, he was eating lunch in the

chow hall when a convict walking down the row popped him in the face

and broke his nose.
 
He will probably be transferred to an eastern

Oregon prison for his own protection.

Brad has appealed his conviction.

In the spring of 1995, the proceeds from Brad's Houston suit were

disbursed.
 
After his legal fees, he had something more than six

hundred thousand dollars left.
 
Secured creditors and others in his

bankruptcy got all but two hundred thousand.
 
Garvey, Schubert and

Barer, Cheryl's law firm, had spent twice that amount to sue him

civilly.
 
"We split what was left with Cheryl's sons," Greg Dallaire

said.
 
"We'll hold it in trust for them."
 
Brad got nothing at all.

The taxpayers of the State of Oregon took a heavy hit from the cost of

Brad's defense.
 
The entrepreneur (now indigent) defendant's

attorneyscum-"legal advisors" and his private investigator cost the

state $261,435.
 
That amount did not include the general costs of his

lengthy trial.

Sara Gordon wants her sons to remember the mother they lost.
 
She has

asked all of Cheryl's family to write down their memories of Cheryl,

and to send pictures and videos so that Jess, Michael, and Phillip will

know what a wonderful woman their mother was and how very much she

loved them.

the end.