Adolph Ray “Sonny” Neal, Age 49, of Dalton, Ga.
Jessica Neal
Don SheddAs the fifth day ended in the search for Adolph “Sonny” Neal, suspected of killing his wife and her grandfather, detectives believe the 49-year-old might be dead.
“It’s a 50/50 split if he’s alive … or [he’s] dead,” said Greg Ramey, Georgia Bureau of Investigation assistant special agent in charge of the Calhoun, Ga., office. “The things we should be finding we aren’t finding.”
Neal, who goes by Sonny, was named a suspect Thursday night hours after his 9-year-old daughter found her great-grandfather, Don Shedd, dead in the kitchen of their Dawnville home. Police then found the girl’s 27-year-old mother, Jessica Neal, dead in the home’s pool house.
Police described the killings as gory and violent but won’t say how Jessica Neal and her grandfather died as long as Sonny Neal is on the loose.
But police aren’t sure how he got away. They believe they’ve accounted for all the vehicles he owned or had access to, Ramey said. The weapons believed to be used in the killing also have been found.