By David Lohr

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"This man has been giving her problems for several months now.  He used to keep her in his house, and he wouldn't let her leave.  She would call me, and I would say, 'You let my granddaughter come home, or I am coming down there.'  So then he'd let her go.  He likes her; he didn't want her to leave.  He has a crush on her.  He wants to be with her, but she does not want to be with him.  That's the key to the whole thing."

Shirley says that this man, who is in his twenties or thirties, acted strange after the dog's disappearance and the weeks leading up to the delivery of the package.

"On the day Chevy disappeared, he called my house, and he said to my son that he saw the dog down by his house.  He also called my daughter's house, which he had never done before and told her he could see the dog on Genesee Street, which is a block from his house, so there is no way he could see the dog from there."

The man also called Crystal on the day the package was delivered and offered to give her $450 for a new dog.  While that in itself is not very telling, Shirley claims she provided the police with proof that he was involved.

"The box the dog's head came in was a dialysis box, and this kid's mother had dialysis before she died.  She had that for about a year, and this was a shipping box from Baxter where dialysis products are shipped.  They tore everything off the box, except the name Baxter and the shipment's routing number.  I told the police it should not be hard for them to trace the numbers on the box."

Shirley said she spoke with the police department today to see if they followed up on the routing number.  According to Shirley, she was told they were still trying to get a subpoena for the information.

"Maybe I am too impatient, but I'm sorry.  We are on the receiving end of this.  I keep waking up thinking about what he did to that dog and how it suffered.  It's just driving me crazy.  Whoever did this should be put in Saint Peter's with the criminal insane."

Yesterday, a person who claimed to have first-hand knowledge of what happened to Chevy contacted me.  Speaking under the promise of anonymity, the individual named the same person the grandmother told me about, and  shared information on how the dog was killed.

"He bragged about killing the dog," my source said.  "He told me he took the dog down to his basement and hung it from the rafters. Then he cut the dog's head off while it was still alive.  He thought it was funny, and he acted like he was proud of it."

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