BREAKING: Alleged ‘witch doctor’ arrested in case of missing mom, Leila Cavett, whose toddler was found wandering alone
The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a man on Sunday in connection with the disappearance of missing Georgia mother, Leila Cavett.
Al.com reports that 38-year-old Shannen Ryan,
a self-proclaimed “witch doctor,” was detained in Florida and arrested for allegedly lying to the FBI about 21-year-old Leila Cavett, of Dawsonville, Georgia, who hasn’t been seen by family or friends since July 26.
In an
hour-long video posted on Facebook earlier this month, Ryan claimed he was the last person to see Cavett before she disappeared from a Hollywood, Florida, gas station with a group of men.
Ryan claimed on the same video that he had known Cavett for years. He said Cavett and her toddler son, Kamdyn, previously lived with him in Alabama for months.
Ryan also said he was in Hollywood, Florida, visiting a friend in the hospital when he connected with Cavett online and offered to buy her truck from her, a truck Cavett had reportedly just bought for herself.
“I said, ‘Let me buy that truck from you,’” Ryan said. “‘I’m not selling my truck.’ I’m like, ‘Leila, come on, sell me the truck.’ From my understanding, I thought she was the reason she was coming to Florida.”
Ryan alleged that Cavett showed up with the truck and her son in Florida after their conversation. He claimed he spent the day with Cavett and Kamydyn, going to the beach and treating them to lunch and dinner.
The suspect added that he paid Leila $3,000 for her truck, and at some point, they ended up at the RaceTrac in Hollywood, where Leila and her son left with unknown men.
“Pulled up to the gas station — boom — when I pulled up to the gas station, it’s some guys in a car that she talking to,” Ryan said. “These guys look familiar because they like some [expletive] she was talking to at the beach, and she got no limits [expletive].”
