Case 111: Shauna Howe

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At the time of Lucy’s call, Oil City police were in the midst of investigating an odd occurrence that had been reported earlier that night...
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[@loriduncan5430]

I want to let everyone know my uncle Dan Paden told the way it went. He was on his way home he lived with us. Who we lived down the street from shauna who I knew. For him to interfer there was no time. To this day I am. Very pleased that my Uncle was there to see it and acted so fast to let know what he saw.

[@VladRadu-tq1pg]

why are you writting so terribly though ?

[@ering.3978]

I love how so many people from Oil City (or have at least lived in the area) are commenting and telling us more about what it was like then. Definitely gives a more insider's perspective on the whole thing...hope all is well there now!!

[@katiekirby5319]

I can promise you that it’s not. Oil City and the surrounding areas have progressively gotten worse and, as a kid in the neighboring town of Franklin at that time, let me just say that we felt the ripple effect of Shauna’s murder for decades.. and we still do. I, for one, am still angry with how this was handled and how poorly her family was treated by the police and the community.

[@ering.3978]

@katiekirby5319 oh no!! Well, I really do hope that you all are able to rise above that somehow. So sad to hear that. ☹️

[@arangojuanp]

Thanks again Team!

[@venangoproductions]

This story hits home, this happened where I live, it was very bad! And it made me mad that her mother didn’t have arrangements made to have her picked up. All of the places you talk about, I know like the back of my hand, this story scares the crap out of me

[@thecatatemyhomework]

I just don't understand how her mother forgot to get someone to pick her up. I'm sure though she's put herself through hell all these years feeling guilty about that.

[@user-mt4ku7jw1y]

​@@thecatatemyhomeworkand so she should

[@Brittney_Jo927]

I grew up in oil city and went to oil city schools and I remember hearing about this my whole childhood. I was only 1 when this happened but her memory never left this town. Oil city is a small town where nothing bad ever happened so when this happened to Shauna people talked about it for decades. I’m almost 28 now and families still talk that horrible Halloween night. It’s a sad reminder to keep our children close. Saddest thing that’s ever happened in oil city for sure.

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Really? With ... was it 20? sex-offenders living quite near the Howe-home alone, no bad shit happens? One of those facts must be wrong, surely!

[@crowtein6104]

A. DUBITANTE You sure have mastered being a complete twat.

[@paint.it.6lack]

I'm 34, born and raised in Oil City, we lived in the downstairs apartment of Shauna's house when she got abducted. This town has tons of unsolved murders. My uncle's case being one of them. Oil City is riddled with pedophiles. Population 8,000 and we have local pedo news stories on a weekly basis. Disgusting pigs.

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[@ulalaFrugilega]

P.S.: anyone knowing about serious maltreatment Tim and Jim are suffering in prison? Shame on me, but I'd like to hear stories, several, long and detailled stories, about such occurences.

[@lw9428]

Shame on me as well then, as I have this very same desire!

[@rockiethedog8792]

He's probably pc'd with other like minded fucks who all sodomize eacheother. Willingly.

[@mitchandopolis2665]

I can only find one of their inmate pictures.

[@giabelo1550]

🙋🏼‍♀️ I know of such a story or two however, I live in San Jose California so unfortunately i dunno bout these two cho•mos in particular, but if the DOC in that state is anything like ours, then rest assured the MoFos are gettin f**ked in every way possible and probably lost their damn mind by now. Tis a real life cement hell on earth for folks like them. Indeed.

[@giabelo1550]

No doubt but them COs dont like cho•mos either and may sometimes accidentally-on-purpose throw em in GP or leave them as a sitting duck for a few minutes. These things happen.

[@user-mt4ku7jw1y]

Heartbreaking

[@LeahWalentosky]

I grew up in OC, on the 300 block. I heard about this case every Halloween. I was two when it happened, the Reed and First street intersection was my bus stop. Strange hearing about this case from someone who lives all the way in Australia. Also to correct you we still had trick or treat it was just during the day on a Saturday. We as children felt no lost.

[@katiekirby5319]

Franklin kid here… I was 7 when it happened. 🥺

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[@user-bq8nc2eq3z]

Who would let a child walk alone during Halloween especially ? Some people should not have children .

[@jennifersprohar4805]

where do you people get ur facts. Lucy was working and Shauna new to get a ride home from the girl scout leaders. as they did every week. but Joeyel wanted to walk home and she convinced Shauna to walk her as Shauna and I walked all the time. It was a very safe town, we would play hide and go seek and push the limits on staying out till dark. so Lucy did nothing wrong and neither did the girl scout leaders. they would go around at end of the night asking who needs a ride home. so lets put the hate where it belongs, w them three men. But thanks for telling her story, so ppl don't ever forget

[@ScrapBaby83]

I am so absolutely disgusted with her “mother” and I use that term loosely, forgetting to pick up this little girl. What an absolute disgrace. How does she sleep at night?! Can’t imagine what that poor baby went through 😢

[@ubtrapper3077]

You're absolutely right! I thought the same thing. They don't focus on that at all and it was worth discussing in the show. I don't know how that mother looks herself in the mirror with that kind of guilt. That poor girl went through unimaginable terror because mom "forgot" to pick her up?!?!

[@ScrapBaby83]

Ubtrapper I personally can’t imagine how much I would hate myself if anything like that ever happened to one of my babies because I was so damn sorry I couldn’t remember to pick my child up and she didn’t even act bothered. My god some people!! This story has me so outraged!

[@DECEPTIONINDICATED]

I thought I was the only one with her forgetting to pick her up the whole time I watched the doc.

[@KZ-cr4ek]

Her mother did not forget to pick her up. What happened was that Shauna had a friend from girl scouts, who's mother would frequently drive them home after meetings. That particular week the family was out of town. That's what Shauna's mother forgot . She was informed that her daughter didn't make it home, when she was at work and then remembered that the family was not home that week...not to justify her forgetting, bc I have a 9 year old and if I know his friend's mom was going to be out of town and unable to get him home, I would make plans so that I was there to get him. That's not something a good parent would forget... hence why I never rely on others to take care of my child . Times were different back then. Children used to walk home by themselves all the time without fear of being kidnapped. It's just such an unfortunate circumstance and so sad to find out that that little girl died from the fall from being thrown off the bridge. If the trauma she went through was not enough to cause immediate death ,it's sickening to wonder how long that little girl suffered in pain from her body being broken.... so awful🥺. Especially with it being a supposed "prank gone wrong". Like wtf...

[@415hispfemale]

Same! There’s a lot of weird signs indicating neglect. She doesn’t have a decent picture of her own kid. she’s a gymnast for Halloween?? Talk about a LAZY costume, mom! Throw a little girl in a leotard. Yeah, that’s special! Lol. Then, she doesn’t look all night?? She goes to sleep?? I’d be out searching door to door all night.

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[@Alex-bm2ux]

I live ten minutes away from oil city, and i live a mile away from her grave, i vist her alot, and it blows my mind that i used to live where she got kidnapped, and ive been to the place her body was found, my mpm also gave ted walker a syico cat before he was arested and put in jail

[@LeahWalentosky]

I use to work at that Wal-Mart,

[@alexhidell8022]

What is an mpm? What is a syico cat?

[@danalove6868]

Alek Hidell I would like to know as well and if she is talking about a cat that’s crazy then that’s fucked up because then he probably did something to that poor cat

[@ontherockswithsalt560]

Alexandra rae Heckathorne He probably abused the cat or killed the cat. Murderers often abuse animals. This town sounds chock full of not the brightest bulbs.

[@ontherockswithsalt560]

Alek Hidell Obviously she meant "mom".

[@LindaMoffitt02]

I know her Mom "Forgot" to set up her ride home All Blame should ONLY Be placed on the "Psychos" who did this to Shauna. She was only like 5 blocks from home and walked most of the way with another girl her age who did not have a ride either and most likely walked home from Girl Scouts every week. Back Then OC was Considered A Safe & Quiet Town For Children To Walk, Play & Hang Out Especially at 7:30 pm on downtown streets (1/2 of the businesses we used to have were probably still open) and on a main residential road (with churches, The Y, a gas station & doctor office(s) along with homes in the 1st couple of blocks and the other block or two are packed with homes with maybe 5 - 10 ft at the most between them) We ALL walked everywhere "Even in the evening" At Least We Did Until This Tragedy Happened!

[@thecatatemyhomework]

The thing is, her mother said that Shana was afraid of the dark. That should have been uppermost in the morher's mind

[@brendajstevens3719]

👏👏👏

[@mariah9301]

I grew up in a town right next to this.. A lot of the kids I grew up with weren't allowed to go trick or treating due to this. Is a sick world we live in. Thats not the half of what goes on there

[@rapitup45]

Yes. Perfect. Just as YT keeps trying to get me watch election coverage.....🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@crowtein6104]

You listen to what those twats have to say?

[@rachelcappello9767]

Also, it’s super SUPER odd that Shauna’s mother forgot to have someone pick up her daughter and that her boyfriend wasn’t her first choice to pick her up.

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Right!?! That was my first thought when I heard about it. Casefile lately tends to brush over things like these. Later there is a short mentioning of the house of the family not being well kept, and many people going in and out... It used to be one got a much better idea of how all sorts of people live, without them being judged, very interesting.

[@babylion2874]

That was my first thought as well. How do you let your young daughter walk back home alone through a dark ally at a halloween night, I mean any other night no but worse on a halloween night where people think they have the opportunity to do crazy things. It was absolute negligence on the mother's part.

[@connorbryan1655]

I live here where this happened. The ally she was abducted in is 3 blocks from me. I was in jail with her brother. It really was a messed up disgusting situation that impacted our community for a very long time. We didn’t even have Halloween at night time for a very long time because of this incident we had to trick or treat during the day for 10 plus years in the last 5-8 years we have been allowed night trick or treatinf

[@thecatatemyhomework]

Is that what you're worried about? That you didn't have Halloween at night time for 10 plus years??

[@VladRadu-tq1pg]

wow the pain of not having a shitty trick or treat at night on a brainless murican holiday is the true horror here, not the poor child getting killed by maniacs

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And mine

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[@mckennablauser2969]

I actually grew up with her she was one of my neighbors

[@ulalaFrugilega]

That must have been so scary, right?

[@loulee628]

Htf her Mama "forget to pick her up"??

[@ScrapBaby83]

Lisa Massey thank you!! I was thinking that very same thing.

[@loulee628]

@@ScrapBaby83 just seems weird to me

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32:39 are you kidding me???!!!

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[@ah-shar-ya2363]

I got annoyed when the mother "forgot" to pick up her daughter. You have to be highly stressed or crazy careless as a mom.

[@LylaDagger]

I can say that it's a small town and people here often have two or three jobs to survive. My mother grew up with and knew Shauna and her mom. She never called the mom neglectful, definitely stressed though. Her mom was horribly distraught to find out her daughter died. I don't remember much, I just know my mother would tell me this story every Halloween. She'd tell us about how Shauna was as a person, and how much she missed her.

[@girlinterrupted243]

So you tell stories and in the middle of telling them you stop to play random music ?

[@LindaMoffitt02]

Probably a paid ad

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Love the narration, great story....but why sooooo many ads? I stopped watching the video because of this. I just wanted to watch/listen to a crime story, but instead got bombarded with a bunch of ads half way through....geesh dude....REALLY?

[@jom9494]

They should have taken the witness Dan seriously and immediately track that car etc would have possibly saved her life. In all abductions ive heard police make mistakes early on ...