Last night I learned another disturbing fact in this case from the Facebook page that her sister runs...When the Ferguson Township PD interviewed Jennifer's husband and oldest daughter, they told them that the last contact they had with Jennifer was on the 14th, the day before she disappeared. Yes, they had dinner with her that night at Fascia Luna, but Jennifer had apparently made plans to come over to the house the following day, on the 15th, to pick up her mail that they had been collecting for her. They told the police that Jennifer told them she would call them sometime that day, on the 15th, and make plans to come over to the house, but they told the police that Jennifer never called them. I find that difficult to believe, as Jennifer was obviously out and about the day of the 15th, shopping, tanning, etc., and she definitely had her cell phone with her. And according to her parents and her youngest daughter, Jennifer called her youngest daughter every single day anyway. So it's hard to believe between the regular daily call to her youngest daughter, the supposed call she made that last day to the house because she lost her wallet and had no source of money, and the call she was supposed to make that day to arrange picking up her mail that the family didn't hear from Jennifer a single time on the 15th, the last day she was seen.
Here's the most troubling aspect of Jennifer's disappearance, according to her family and friends anyway...Even though Jennifer called her youngest daughter every single day and also spoke to her other 2, older kids at least once every other day, by their own admission, none of her 3 kids nor her soon-to-be ex-husband reported her as missing to anyone from the 16th onward. Not a single call, text, or email to the police, but also not to her parents, her siblings, other relatives, or friends. Not a peep from anyone in that house that Jennifer hadn't made any contact with them since the 15th, even though by their own admissions to police Jennifer called the house at least once a day, every day, and had done so since she had left to move back to Orwigsburg a year prior, and certainly hadn't missed a single day without contact to at least her youngest daughter since she moved back to State College on April 13th, 2014. So for over a month they had been hearing from Jennifer every single day, if not seeing her in person, without fail, and then she suddenly just stops calling, texting, emailing, stopping by the house, etc., and none of them even blink an eye about it?
Jennifer also spoke to her parents in Orwigsburg at least once a day over the phone. Jennifer would usually be the one to make the daily phone call to her mother, just to let her know how she was doing that day and what was going on in her life, what her plans were, how she was doing with her kids, etc. So on May 16th, 2014, when Jennifer's mother didn't receive a phone call from her, she naturally tried to call her, got her voicemail, and left her a message. Her mother didn't start to worry until May 17th also went by without any contact from Jennifer, and her cellphone was just going straight to voicemail, indicating that the phone was either turned-off or the battery was dead. And that didn't change on the 18th or the 19th either. Jennifer's mother, step-father, and sister (possibly other relatives and/or friends as well, these are the people I'm sure of) all made contact with Jennifer's husband, as well as her oldest and youngest daughters. Apparently her youngest daughter (who we must remember was only 13 or 14 at the time) was the only person who seemed the least bit concerned that she hadn't heard from Jennifer, or at least curious as to where she was. Her oldest daughter told her grandparents that her mother "Was probably on a bender" or that "She had probably checked herself in to another rehab or something", and showed no concern for her mother's well-being at all.
Something to keep in mind here is that by Jennifer's own admission she was a very troubled alcoholic for quite a long time, and it did negatively effect her children and her marriage. However, what isn't often spoken about (and has never been spoken about by her husband or her oldest daughter) is the total and complete lack of support that her husband and oldest daughter showed her while she was going through rehab and her following recovery...In fact, the best example of her husband's emotional and psychological abuse happened on the day that marked 1-year of sobriety for Jennifer. Her AA group had gotten her a gift and presented her with a special award that you get on your 1-year sober day, and when she came back to State College and was anxious and very proud to show her family (mainly her 3 kids) what she had accomplished in her sobriety, her husband walked up to her and said "Congratulations!" and then handed her a fifth of liquor to celebrate with, with her oldest daughter looking on and laughing. Can you imagine how that must have made Jennifer feel? This woman was not only trying to improve herself and her own life, but she wanted desperately to prove to her kids that she loved them and that they meant more to her than anything else in the world, and because she knew that her alcoholism had hurt her children more than anything else, Jennifer did the work and went through the absolute hell that detox, rehab, and recovery from addiction presents. And she worked extremely hard at it, for both herself and her kids, and she succeeded...Only to have her husband and her kids **** on her huge accomplishment. This no-doubt was a huge factor in why Jennifer started drinking again after returning to State College, ironically only a few days to a week or so after her 1-year sobriety day and the episode with her husband and daughter.
******I had gone back to the day that her sister had created and launched the FaceBook page for Jennifer's case and made that my starting-point. I started reading every post made by both her sister who runs the page and by all visitors to the page, as well as every single little comment made on each and every post, along with all the photos and their tags/comments/captions. Very early-on there were many troubling revelations that became apparent to me, and that I began to see many other people making comments about as well, so I knew that I wasn't the only person who had made the same observations about Jennifer's disappearance and who had the same questions in their head. And unfortunately most of these questions that I and many, many other people first asked 4 years ago have not ever been answered. Hell, they've never even been addressed by the pertinent people to this day in 2018.
-From the start of her sister's Facebook page, which is the ONLY online website or resource of any kind to discuss this case (ANOTHER REASON I WANT WEBSLEUTHS TO GET-ON THIS CASE ASAP!), only Jennifer's oldest daughter has EVER made a single comment on the page, and most-all of her comments and/or posts are negative towards her mother. She avoids all direct questions asked of her about the details surrounding the time Jennifer disappeared, she makes a point to remind everyone that her mother was nothing but a mean, abusive alcoholic who didn't care at all about her family, and any time anyone says a single kind word about her mother on the page, she makes a point to correct them and tell them that they never really "knew" her mother. She also had a very convenient habit of making horrible comments that only certain people, or maybe even only one person could see, yet she still posted them on the page that was created to help to find her mother. So this created a lot of drama. I'm using the past-tense because the last comment I could see on the page made by her was a few months ago. I could not find a single post or comment made on the page by either of her other 2 kids or her husband, all 3 of which are extremely active on a daily basis on Facebook.
-Over time, other members of Jennifer's family and friends have pointed out that none of her 3 kids nor her husband have EVER made a single comment on their own Facebook pages or other social media accounts about Jennifer or her disappearance. None of them have a single photo of Jennifer on their pages, none of them have any photos of the missing-posters or any information about where to call with tips about her disappearance, not a single word about Jennifer. It's like their mother/wife never existed and certainly never disappeared, or that she has been and currently is the subject of an open police investigation. This all while every other member of Jennifer's family, including people on her husband's side of the family, as well as dozens and dozens of her friends all have tons and tons of photos of Jennifer on their Facebook pages, they are constantly making comments and saying prayers that she is found soon, and every year on the anniversary of her disappearance, on her birthday, and on holidays like Christmas they all speak of Jennifer and how much they miss her and love her. Not a single word EVER mentioned about Jennifer on any of her 3 kids pages or on her husband's page. NOT.A.SINGLE.WORD.EVER.
-Many of Jennifer's family members and friends were horrified that from May 16th, 2014 (the day after Jennifer was last seen) straight through the time when her parents filed the missing-person's report with the Ferguson Township Police Department on May 20th, through the next 30 days when that police department finally decided that Jennifer actually was missing and started to interview her husband and kids and doing what little "investigating" that they did, throughout the next year, all 3 of Jennifer's kids and her husband were actively posting on their Facebook pages, Twitter pages, etc. every single day about everything BUT the fact that their mother/wife had gone missing. In fact, Jennifer's husband took the 3 kids on a long vacation to Florida about 2 months after she disappeared, all of which was documented on all 4 of their Facebook pages in-detail, and this was very upsetting to Jennifer's family and friends. One of Jennifer's family members actually downloaded some of their Facebook pages, starting on May 13th, 2014 (2 days before Jennifer was last seen) and going through until the end of August, 2014, and even to an outsider the total lack of ANY mention of Jennifer's name by any of them is perplexing. Just as perplexing is how happy they all were from the time of their mother's disappearance forward, talking about anything and everything but the fact that they had lost their mother and that she was most likely dead.
-Not one of Jennifer's 3 kids nor her ex-husband ever once participated in any of the local searches for her, nor did any of them ever once make any effort at all to try to encourage the Ferguson Township PD or the Centre County DA's Office to start investigating their mother's/wife's disappearance more aggressively, or at all. In fact, they did everything they could to get them to STOP investigating this case. None of them ever once contacted any local or national media outlets to try to get them to keep running stories about Jennifer's disappearance. Not once did they put up a single missing-person's flyer. Not once did they assist in any of the on-foot ground searches that were organized and conducted by private citizens in State College (Ferguson Township PD never once did an organized search for Jennifer or her body; none of the usual actions that are taken when a person goes missing were done in this case, not even a search of the motel room that Jennifer had been living in for weeks was done until 7 months after she had gone missing, and this was finally and futilely done at the constant insistence of Jennifer's mother and step-father).
-It's very well-known in the State College area that Jennifer's husband and especially her oldest daughter are extremely involved in Centre County and national politics, and I'm talking in a very hands-on way. Jennifer's oldest daughter is an active participant in ANYTHING pertaining to the Democratic Party in State College or the entire Central PA area. She has been actively and constantly in-charge of organizing many, many fundraisers, rallies, polling activities, parties, speeches, etc. since she was a very young teenager, long before her mother ever disappeared. Now there's nothing at all wrong with this in and of itself, however it is a HUGE source of frustration, anger, confusion, and yes, suspicion to the rest of Jennifer's family and friends, as they strongly believe that if her oldest daughter put only a fraction of the effort into trying to find her mother that she has put into her political and social activities, Jennifer may have been found long-ago. I believe that truthfully, more-so, Jennifer's family and friends just cannot understand how her daughter can care so deeply about politics and the Democratic Party and be so actively in-charge of organizing and attending all of the events and functions that she does (including throughout the entire time her mother went missing forward), yet she did not participate in ANY activity regarding her own mother's disappearance, including just simply uploading a photo of her missing-person's photo onto her Facebook page. I cannot stress this enough, JENNIFER CAHILL-SHADLE'S 3 KIDS NOR HER HUSBAND DID A SINGLE THING TO TRY TO FIND HER, NOR DID THEY SHOW ONE SINGLE IOTA OF CARE THAT SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE FIRST PLACE. I don't think anyone reading this can fully understand how much Jennifer's 3 kids and her husband did not give a single **** about the fact that their own mother/wife just vaporized into thin-air.
Actions speak louder than words. That's not just a cliche, it's a very truthful statement. In the case of Jennifer Cahill-Shadle's children and her husband, there were no actions OR words of concern that she had gone missing, nor have there been since, to this very day 4 years later.
********As sad, disturbing, and suspicious as the total lack of caring of Jennifer Cahill-Shadle's children and husband has been to the rest of her loving family and friends for the last 4 years, it must be said that it is not their responsibility to investigate this case and to try to locate Jennifer. Yes, it's quite possible that the political influence of Mr. Shadle and the rest of his family, particularly that of his father, in Centre County, has directly or indirectly effected the way that local law enforcement and media has handled Jennifer's disappearance. This is quite obvious by simply taking a very quick look at this one fact: Next month, on May 14th, 2018, Jennifer Cahill-Shadle will have been missing for 4 years. The Ferguson Township Police Department, who has been in-charge of investigating this case since day 1, has not received a new lead or found a new piece of physical or circumstantial evidence in 3 years, since they updated the time and place that Jennifer was last seen to being just before 8:00 p.m. on May 14th, 2014, at Simply Tan, when she went back in to the salon to ask employees if they had found her wallet, which she had lost. This correction was made on the 1-year anniversary of her disappearance in May of 2015. That is the last time that not only we the public have heard of any progress at all in this case (if you can call that "progress"), but also that her family and friends have been informed of by Ferguson Township Police, who have repeated many times over when asked, that "This is still an active investigation" and "We don't have the man-power to concentrate a lot of our efforts on cold cases, as we have recent crimes, kidnappings, abductions, etc. that we must focus our time and effort on".
*********That being said, the Ferguson Township Police Department and the Centre County District Attorney's Office (which got a new DA, Bernie Cantorna, this past January, to replace the corrupt, immoral, unethical, criminal former DA, Stacey Parks-Miller, who not only did NOTHING to try to find Jennifer, but who never once answered a single question asked of her publicly about Jennifer's disappearance with any response except "No comment".) STILL REFUSES TO "INVITE" THE FBI OR ANY OTHER OUTSIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN TO STATE COLLEGE TO START THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JENNIFER CAHILL-STADLE, EVEN THOUGH THE FBI HAS TOLD JENNIFER'S PARENTS THAT THEY ARE READY AND WILLING TO GO TO STATE COLLEGE THE SECOND THAT THE FERGUSON TOWNSHIP PD GIVES THEM A CALL AND "INVITES" THEM TO DO SO!
. I do hope she is found one day and Justice will be served for her.
