dean andrew shaw, 40 years old
born and raised in utica, ms. daddy (frank) is a taxidermist, momma (patsy) does hair at home for some spending money.
couple of siblings, all younger, all just as delightfully redneck.
siblings are:
travis, 38 - married to jennifer. three kids (jordan, 11. cody, 9. maggie, 6.)
grant, 36 - married to francine (a ginger). two kids (reeghan (also ginger), 10. nick, 8)
carrie, 34 - married to marshall. three kids (joey, 8. megan, 4. kelsey, 8 mo.)
amy, 32 - engaged to calvin. two kids (roman and monroe, 2. twins)
joined the army straight out of high school, age 18.
went to ranger school. was in the batallion that deployed during desert storm (was twenty).
renewed his contract when he was 26 and was in the army for 8 more years.
at 34, he returned to mississippi and had no fucking clue what he was going to do. helped his dad stuff animals for one day and said, literally "fuck this shit" and quit on the spot.
while in the army, he did a lot of self-education on a variety of shit. so he's a helluva lot more educated than you'd think.
tooled around camden for a year or two, ran into some low level idiots who needed a wheel man. their job went sideways and he barely got them away. they went over what had gone down inside and he silently pinpointed everywhere they had gone wrong and how he'd have done it differently.
he went over a few towns and tried it on his own. SUCCESS WAS HIS.
aaand that was when he was 36 and then he hit the road where
he met rachel on the side of the road and gave her a ride into town to find a tow company. they had crazy monkey sex and stuck together.
also before he met rachel he adopted a bloodhound named 'june'. she is his baby.