Years ago, Alton McDougle — then a young kid from Southeast Washington — asked his mentor Joe Shymanski a tough question: “Why do you trust me so much?”
“As a mentor, he was my guy,” McDougle said. “I always looked up to him. I wanted his approval. I never wanted to disappoint him. He didn’t want disappoint me … We grew together in this life.” After authorities suspected foul play, the release said, a suspect — Brandon R. Holbrook, 47, of Reedsville, Pa. — was arrested in Pennsylvania and charged with first-degree murder and other offenses. An attorney for Holbrook did not immediately respond to requests for comment.that they located human remains in a wooded area “within several hundred yards of Holbrook’s residence” believed to be Shymanski.
“He drove a car down there,” Ted Shymanski said. “He drove a car from Michigan. Everyone thought he was nuts.”