"The All-American boy, he sounds like," Van Sant commented. "I think that's what attracted him to be a fireman."Īnd George Tiaffay is so handsome he was even featured in a firefighter pin-up calendar. "He likes to serve people," his sister, Bernadette Tiaffay said. In fact, George Tiaffay is a West Point graduate who served in the Army Corps of Engineers. "Just to look at him, he's very handsome, very charismatic," Stokes-Richards said. He was a star athlete and homecoming king at his California high school. In 2002, Shauna hit the jackpot when she met George Tiaffay at the Palms. She made close to $100,000-a-year in salary and tips, often paid in casino chips, which in Vegas is the same as money. "She just loved cocktailing," added Emmett.Īnd customers loved Shauna. She loved her job," said another co-worker, Siana Nikolav. She was just so bubbly and laughing at everything," said Randee Emmett, who worked alongside Shauna for about 10 years. "I never saw Shauna with a frown of anything. But I think the people that work there were really like family and they looked after each other." "I think she really felt like the Palms was a family environment, which may sound contrary to what you would think. "She just loved the Palms," Stokes-Richards said. Her dreams of finding fun and fortune came true when she became a glamorous cocktail waitress at one of the hottest casinos in town, the Palms Hotel Casino. But to Shauna, Vegas was more than just one big, glitzy party it was a city of opportunity. Shauna, a Mormon born in Salt Lake City, was just 28 when she came to Las Vegas. "And for something like this to happen to her -it's just unimaginable." "It's sad because I just miss her," Stokes-Richards said. You know she had this innocence," said John Richards. Shauna's murder has been a devastating loss for her sister, Paula, and her husband, John. "When she was with Maddie, it was like nothing else was going on around her," said Paula Stokes- Richards. Shauna Tiaffay loved to laugh and sing with her daughter. Produced by Allen Alter, Alec Sirken, Chris Young Ritzen, Cindy Cesare and Chris O'Connell
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