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Love of God pushes California man to confess ‘on AIR’ to 1993 murder – Brian Hawkins asks for forgiveness, hands himself in, outs ex-girlfriend Shanna Culver and her brother as accomplices

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;808080&semi;"><em>&&num;8216&semi;Brian Hawkins found religion&comma; in search of redemption&comma; he admitted to his crime while giving up ex-girlfriend&comma; Shanna Cluver and her brother&comma; Curtis&comma;  in the murder of Frank McCalister 25 years ago &&num;8211&semi; They now face charges of burglary and robbery&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">44-year-old Brian Hawkins&comma; his ex-girlfriend Shanna Culver&comma; 46&comma; and her brother&comma; Curtis Culver&comma; 45&comma; were arrested Wednesday in California over a 25-year-old cold case<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">All three people were linked to a 1993 murder of a teenager Frank McCalister&comma; 19&comma; in Shingletown&comma; California<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">Break in cold case came after one suspect&comma; Hawkins&comma; tearfully confessed to a TV station on Tuesday saying he could no longer bear the guilt<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">Brian Hawkins&comma; who has found religion and seeks redemption&comma; contacted KRCR-TV and told staffers there that he wanted to confess to his role in the killing of McCalister and outed his accomplices<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">He told investigators that he and the Culver siblings lured McCalister to an area near Hawkins’s hometown of Shingletown and stabbed him to death<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">The three then left McCalister’s body in the wooded area and dumped his car at a local Costco<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">Shanna Culver&comma; her brother&comma; Curtis and Hawkins were taken to jail by the Shasta County Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;080000&semi;">The motive was robbery&comma; cops say and the trio now face charges of burglary and rob<strong>bery<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288113" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brian-Hawkins-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Brian Hawkins 2&period;png" width&equals;"672" height&equals;"342" &sol;>Brian Hawkins o&lbrack;right&rsqb; made a tearful confession to on KRCR-TV in Redding &comma;California&comma; on Tuesday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">This is the incredible moment a man tearfully confesses on television to the murder of a teenager 25 years ago&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Frank McCalister was reported missing in 1993 when he was 19 years old&period; A year later his remains were found near Shingletown by a hiker&period; Now&comma; 25 years later&comma; one of the killers stepped up and voluntarily confessed to the murder&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Brian Hawkins&comma; 44&comma; contacted <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;krcrtv&period;com&sol;news&sol;shasta-county&sol;redding-man-confess-to-cold-case-murder" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">KRCR-TV<&sol;a> in Redding on Tuesday and told staffers there that he wanted to confess to his role in the killing of 19-year-old Frank McCalister&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Unable to bear the guilt&comma; he said could no longer live with the knowledge that he had been involved in a homicide and that his faith in God commanded him to come forward&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After giving the stunning interview&comma; Hawkins then walked next door and handed himself into police&comma; before turning in two alleged accomplices &&num;8211&semi; his ex-girlfriend and her brother&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288114" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brian-Hawkins-3&period;png" alt&equals;"Brian Hawkins 3&period;png" width&equals;"689" height&equals;"506" &sol;><strong>An emotional Hawkins told KRCR-TV that he and two others were responsible for the murder of 19-year-old McCalister in 1993&period; He has found Christ and could no longer live with the guilt<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Hawkins told reporters at the station that he could no longer live with the knowledge that he had been involved in a homicide and that his faith in God commanded him to come forward&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;God and Christ and these things that have happened over the course of 25 years have pushed me and pushed me to do the right thing&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a remorseful Hawkins to the reporter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I know the wrong can&&num;8217&semi;t be changed but this is the closest I can come to doing the right thing&&num;8221&semi;&comma; said Hawkins&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The station told Hawkins that they would not air an interview with him until he spoke to law enforcement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After appearing on camera for a tearful interview&comma; Hawkins met with Redding police and gave a statement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He told investigators that he&comma; Curtis Culver&comma; and Shanna Culver lured McCalister to an area near Hawkins’s hometown of Shingletown and stabbed him to death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The three then left McCalister’s body in the wooded area and dumped his car at a local Costco&comma; according to Hawkins&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Shanna Culver&comma; 46&semi; her brother&comma; Curtis Culver&comma; 45&semi; and Hawkins were taken under arrest and placed in the Shasta County jail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288115" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Shanna-Culver-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Shanna Culver 1&period;png" width&equals;"670" height&equals;"486" &sol;><strong>Hawkins&&num;8217&semi; then girlfriend&comma; Shanna Culver &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was part of the robbery and killing in 1993&period; She has been arrested and charged<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">After appearing on camera for a tearful interview&comma; Hawkins met with Redding police and gave a statement&period; He told investigators that he&comma; Curtis Culver&comma; and Shanna Culver lured Frank McCalister to an area near Shingletown and stabbed him to death<br &sol;>&NewLine;Shanna Culver&comma; 46&comma; is the sister of Curtis Culver&comma; 45&period; After Hawkins turned himself in to authorities&comma; both Culver siblings were arrested and jailed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to investigators&comma; one of the Culver siblings confessed to their part in the crime&comma; though they declined to say which one&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;All three suspects were taken to jail by the Shasta County Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office&period; They face charges of burglary and robbery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288117" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Curtis-Cluver-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Curtis Cluver 1&period;png" width&equals;"656" height&equals;"462" &sol;><strong>Shanna&&num;8217&semi;s brother <&sol;strong><strong>Curtis Culver &lbrack;photo&rsqb; and Hawkins stabbed Frank McCalister to death after all three robbed him&period; The suspects have been charged with burglary and robbery in the cold case<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Investigators said that after they were taken into custody&comma; one of the Culvers confessed to their part in the crime&comma; though it was not revealed which one came forward&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;God and Christ and these things that have happened over the course of 25 years have pushed me and pushed me to do the right thing&comma;’ Hawkins told KRCR-TV on Tuesday before he turned himself in to law enforcement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I know the wrong can&&num;8217&semi;t be changed but this is the closest I can come to doing the right thing&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;During the interview with the TV station&comma; Hawkins shed tears and appeared shaken&period; He hung his head and spoke about the years during which he was consumed with guilt&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;Horrible&comma; horrible&comma; horrible&comma; absolute horror&comma; absolutely horrible since that day&comma;’ he told KRCR-TV&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After stabbing McCalister to death&comma; the three then left McCalister’s body in the wooded area and dumped his car in the parking lot of a local Costco store&comma; according to Hawkins&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;Every minute of every day has been a nightmare&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s kind of weird&comma; Frank never got to have a life&comma; but we were teenagers and now I&&num;8217&semi;m 44 and still haven&&num;8217&semi;t even had a life and now most likely won&&num;8217&semi;t anyway&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hawkins said that he had lived his life &OpenCurlyQuote;blind’ before he found Christianity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now he wants redemption as a born-again&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve been through hell my whole life because of this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said as he shed tears&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hawkins said that there wasn’t a moment in his life since that time that he hasn’t been remorseful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288118" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brian-Hawkins-Shanna-and-Curtis-Culver-dumped-Frank-McCalisters-car-at-this-COSTCO&period;png" alt&equals;"Brian Hawkins&comma; Shanna and Curtis Culver dumped Frank McCalister's car at this COSTCO&period;png" width&equals;"673" height&equals;"357" &sol;><strong>After robbing and fatally stabbing Frank McCalister to death&comma; Hawkins and the Culver siblings abandoned their victim in the woods and dumped his car at this Costco parking lot&comma; 25 years ago<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">He said that last year he reached out to McCalister’s family&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I talked to them several times and told them I was going to make it there so I could tell them what happened and I wanted their forgiveness&comma;’ he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;By the time I got there&comma; his father had passed away&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hawkins said he seeks forgiveness&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I&&num;8217&semi;m not running&comma; I just need someone that cares&comma;’ he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I just hope the community can also forgive me&period;’<img class&equals;" size-full wp-image-288128 alignright" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brian-Hawkins-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Brian Hawkins 5&period;jpg" width&equals;"384" height&equals;"480" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;After the interview was over&comma; the TV station informed Redding’s chief of police and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office that Hawkins &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; was on his way to confess to a crime&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Investigators said that Hawkins’ confession was their first big break in the cold case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Redding police believe the motive was robbery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to investigators&comma; the killers knew McAlister had recently got some money from a settlement&period; The trio lured him out to Shingletown under the guise of selling him methamphetamine&period; Instead&comma; they robbed him&comma; and Hawkins and Curtis Culver stabbed him to death&period; All three left his body there and dumped his car at Costco&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When McCalister&&num;8217&semi;s vehicle was discovered&comma; investigators suspected foul play as there was a large amount of blood in the vehicle&period; The victim&&num;8217&semi;s remains were found almost a year later by a citizen hiking in the Grace and Nora Lakes area&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 1993&comma; Investigators learned Brian Hawkins&comma; his then girlfriend Shanna Culver and her brother&comma; Curtis&comma; were the last people to see the victim alive&comma; but they denied involvement in his disappearance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The station had told law enforcement officials that they would not report the story until its staff could corroborate what Hawkins told them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Law enforcement officials said they called investigators who had since retired and asked for their help in deciphering the cold case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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