In 2004, Weld County consolidated its 911 operations with the town of Greeley. She soon met an outgoing detective with the Greeley Police Department named Ignacio Garraus. His friends called him “Ig.” In an
interview with NBC’s “Dateline”, Garraus said he and Shawna kept running into each other around town. “We started talking about some issues. She was having some problems with her husband. I was having some problems with [wife] Heather,” Garraus said. “We started confiding in each other. And one night it became intimate.”
The affair soon became an open secret amongst their co-workers—and in 2005, Ken Nelson caught on.
He asked for a divorce.
Shawna and the kids moved into an apartment. Her free time was spent with her best friend Michelle and she continued her affair with Ignacio Garraus. Ignacio, however, had no plans to leave his wife and did his best to keep the affair a secret. From the outside he appeared to be a loving, doting husband, bringing his wife flowers at work, but at night meeting up with Shawna for sex.
In July 2005, Shawna discovered she was pregnant with Ignacio’s baby, and he asked her to get an abortion. She refused. Instead she returned to Ken Nelson and tried to reconcile. Ken agreed to give their marriage a second chance and even said he wanted to adopt Ignacio’s child and raise it as his own. A boy, Christian, was born in March 2006 and Ignacio relinquished his parental rights at a court hearing that December.
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