I'm still a bit confused on the conflicting reporting of her coworkers at Hobby Lobby calling for LE to perform a welfare check on Karen due to her not showing up for her scheduled morning shift at the store..and then the reporting about it being actual church officials who came to the Shahan residence and found Karen's body when she did not show up for a scheduled appointment of some type with or involving the church..???..
I'm still confused on how that morning events went down and what exactly it was that set off the official warning bells..was it her coworkers in deciding to call in LE for a welfare check simply due to the fact Karen didn't show up for her Tuesday morning work shift.. As others have mentioned it does seem to be odd that her coworkers would have immediately resorted to LE involvement when she didn't show up for work that morning.. I agree with most that it seems to be an extreme reaction if it is simply just the fact that a coworker didn't show up for one shift...
Or what was it that set off official warning bells with the church officials that led to their going to the Shahan home that morning and entering it to find Karen deceased on the couch??.. Did both of these events happen that morning, as in both the church officials and the coworkers were sounding the alarm in the coworkers calling LE for a welfare check AND the church officials entering her home and found her, thereby calling 911 at that point?.. Did both of these two sets of people/events happen that morning??
If so IMO it does make one question what possibly did they all know prior to this happening that would have made them find it necessary to immediately sound the official warning bells that something very grave/dire had possibly happened with Karen?.. I hope I'm being clear enough in what I am asking, as it is not in any way accusatory or even alluding to anyone/anything in particular.. For example when I am thinking about possible preexisting knowledge being present regarding Karen's welfare that would have made both coworkers and church officials immediately sound the alarms..could it be that Karen had recently had a scare of some type or even had been getting a weird or uneasy vibe about someone(and that someone could be someone she knew or it could be a complete stranger)..if say, she had seen someone lurking around, popping up in different places she was, or even saying or acting inappropriate in some regard.. Something like this I could see Karen having mentioned, if even briefly or just in passing, to fellow coworkers or people at the church..therefor this preexisting knowledge IMO would have made them take immediate notice when she suddenly didn't show up for work/appt..KWIM??
Hopefully that makes sense as its something that I've been thinking on while trying to figure out which of the two reporting is correct regarding who/why sounded the official warning bells that morning..was it the coworkers who called LE for a welfare check when Karen didn't show up for her morning shift??.. Or..was it the church officials who entered the Shahan home finding Karen on the couch and therefor alerted 911??.. Or did both of these events happen as we have seen/heard these two different accounts of why/who sounded the alarm in contacting LE about Karen that morning??
The article that supposedly is quoting authorities indicates that their involvement stemmed from a call reporting Karen's body had been found in the Shahan home.. IMO this is consistent with it being true that it was church officials who entered the Shahan home and found Karen deceased on the couch..this leading to their calling 911 and reporting it..thereby marking the point of how/when LE were contacted with the information of Karen's body being found in the Shahan home..
Could it be that Hobby Lobby employees separately contacted LE about Karen Shahan as well Tuesday morning?.. I suppose that's possible, but once again I have come full circle in it leading me to believe that if indeed two separate groups of people were immediately fearful of Karen's welfare to the point of contacting LE..well, IMO I would strongly believe its possible that there was some issue that Karen had atleast made mention to others regarding someone/something that she was leery of, uneasy about, or was somehow troubling to her...
All jmo in looking at the possibility of there being someone, whose actions/behaviors had caused concern or worry for Karen to a degree that she had shared or spoken about it to others in the time leading up to her death..
But they were together at Shades Mountain and Shahan did leave shortly after Carter's retirement.
