I just happened to be at the Court TV web site moments ago when I learned that tonight's episode of Forensic Files will be airing an episode about the murder of Dan Short.

For those unfamiliar with the case, Dan Short was a Missouri bank president who was murdered in October of 1989. His killers did him in by tying him to a chair and throwing him in a river, drowning him. UM aired a segment on the case a few months later, in early 1990.

The episode, entitled "Stick 'em Up," will be shown on Court TV tonight (Thursday, July 15) at 9:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time).

This is one case that has stayed with me since the first time that it aired. It is a very sick, cruel way to die. I am glad they caught the monsters who did this. They used to show the clip years ago on the NBC show. It was the guy being thrown over the bridge in the water. It was in the intro of the show. This case always scared me.

Originally posted by unsolvedfan4life
This case always scared me.

It was one of those cases that intrigued me. There's no denying that Dan Short died an extremely cruel death, but what piqued my interest in the case was the initial mystery to why he was murdered.

A bank employee entered the Noel, MO bank one morning, only to find that the door was strangely unlocked, and the safe was open and in disarray. When Dan Short was noticably missing, it seemed as though he had robbed his own bank--that was, until his body was discovered a few days later.

When it came to light that Short had been brutally murdered, the local townspeople wondered if he had any enemies bent on revenge. To me, that theory sounded plausible; by some accounts, the bank had made some repossessions, and some bank customers were being denied credit. So it was possible that there were people who were disgruntled enough to seek retribution against Dan Short.

The case was eventually solved: Shannon Wayne Agofsky and his brother, Joe Agofsky, were both convicted, and are each serving a life sentence.

Shannon Agofsky was recently convicted of an unrelated murder: the January 2001 killing of Luther Plant, a fellow inmate. He could get the death penalty. Check out the following link on the story:

http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=6340

From memory the murder of Dan Short in Noel, Missouri was featured on the FBI Files episode of Blood Brothers.

Originally posted by Rieder
From memory the murder of Dan Short in Noel, Missouri was featured on the FBI Files episode of Blood Brothers.

I have seen that episode.

By the way, I mentioned in a previous post that Shannon Wayne Agofsky was recently convicted of a 2001 prison murder. Well, as mentioned at the link below, he has been sentenced to death.

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2049360

Does anyone know the motive on why these brothers would kill his man and especially in the sick way they chose to do it? If money was the motive, surely it would have been easier to just kill the man with a bullet to the head. I can't see any reason why it would be necessary to drown a man by chaining him to the chair for a slow and agonizing death (hopefully he was unconscious)