By 8 p.m., she left the event and started walking home alone, but she never arrived. On the evening of Oct. 27, they spotted Shauna on her way home. Shauna Howe was brutally murdered trick-or-treating in 1992. In a statement, they stated that “our boys did not do this crime.”After the verdict was read, Shauna Howe’s mother told the that “this is justice.

What Walker thought was just a Halloween prank to make Oil City police Her body was found underneath an abandoned railroad bridge in East Sandy Creek in Rockland, Venango County. The prosecution's key witness, Eldred "Ted" Walker, who pleaded guilty to charges of third-degree murder and kidnapping last month, told the jury he was the one who grabbed Shauna from the street and handed her off to the O'Brien brothers. One thing he could say with certainty was that Shauna was alive as she plunged to her death. ``Ted Walker is a murderer, a child molester,'' Hundertmark said. Just a short time later, while Walker said he was cooking spaghetti in the kitchen, he heard Shauna screaming “get off me.” That’s when he told James and Timothy to leave her alone.Walker said that it was the last time he saw Shauna Howe alive. She was a student at Seventh Street Elementary School at the time her body was found below a 30-foot drop train trestle, just several miles … They had gotten another call a couple of hours earlier, a report from a witness who said he saw a tall, unkempt man snatch a little girl and force her into a rust-colored car.

As months sped by with no arrests, fear gripped Oil City, and locked doors became the norm for the first time in this once peaceful community.

The autopsy report also indicated that Shauna had been sexually assaulted. Detectives launched an investigation, interviewing several individuals in the area, but it didn’t get them any closer to finding out who killed Shauna Howe.For nearly a decade, Shauna Howe’s murder remained unsolved.

With 175 signatures on a petition, Roess persuaded the City Council to set aside the 16-year tradition of fear and revived Halloween for the children of Oil City. Trick or treating on Halloween, 1993, was limited to a couple hours in the afternoon, and stayed that way. He said he placed his hands over her mouth to prevent her from screaming, then shoved her into a vehicle with the O’Brien brothers.Timothy forced her into the backseat before they drove away, and Walker said he left in a separate vehicle. Walker said he didn’t want to kidnap Shauna Howe, but he said he “was scared” and “didn’t know what to do” as Timothy and James when he protested the idea.

Children seldom ventured out alone. Walker approached, asked about Girl Scout cookies, then grabbed her, put his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams, and shoved her in the car. Around 10 p.m., her worried mother, Lucy, called police. in 1992 that “her feet were partially submerged in a shallow stream.”Her body was transported to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. It was during that time that Heath claimed Timothy explained what happened to Shauna Howe. Timothy purportedly told Heath that he and his brother drove to Coulter’s Hole with Shauna in the trunk of their car. Another Oil City Halloween horror, in 1997, raised hope that there might be a break in the Howe case.

When two hours went by and the shy, blue-eyed brunette hadn’t made it home, her mother — Lucy Brown Howe — contacted the Oil City Police Department and reported Shauna Howe missing.Just a few hours earlier, an Oil City resident, Dan Paden, called 911 and reported seeing a tall, disheveled man snatching a little girl at the corner of West First Street and Reed Street and forcing her into a rust-colored car, according to For two days, FBI agents, police officers, and volunteers searched for the missing Oil City girl for two days. Nicholas Bowen, 17, one of the more than 100 volunteers who searched for the little girl, was later arrested for her rape and murder, pleaded guilty, and received a life sentence. She was laying facedown, pinned between a rock and a log. James and Timothy were charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder.In June 2005, a Venango County jury of six men and six women deliberated for 16 hours before finding the O’Brien brothers guilty of second-degree murder and third-degree murder, following a two-week trial. She may have lingered, with one of her fractured ribs poking through her chest, for as long as 30 minutes. Injuries from a fall from the top of the trestle were the likely cause of death, the coroner said. She is also a writer who has been writing about crime for more than a decade, contributing to a myriad of online publications, including Monsters and Critics, Inquisitr, All That's Interesting, Liberal America, and Crime Online.Shauna Melinda Howe was 11 years old when she was murdered in 1992 by two brothers, James E. O’Brien and Timothy M. O’Brien. They drove to his home, where the O'Brien brothers took her to a second-floor room. ``He's evil, sadistic and cruel and the commonwealth made a deal with the devil and now we're going to live with it.'' By 8 p.m., Shauna was on her way home, but she never made it. A $15,000 reward was offered for information in the case that would lead to her killer’s arrest.In 2002, investigators got a break in the case when the “DNA from the semen found on Shauna’s leotard” matched the genetic fingerprints of James O’Brien, who was incarcerated at the time for attempting to kidnap a woman in Oil City, It was during that time that detectives went back and re-interviewed a man named Eldred “Ted” Walker, who had confessed to taking part in Shauna Howe’s abduction. It was impossible to say, however, whether she "was forced or thrown, jumped or fell." Only one person knows what happened to Shauna Howe between Oct. 27, 1992, when she was snatched from an Oil City street corner, and Oct. 30, …