Found Deceased KS - Savannah Schneider, 23, Wichita, 31 May 2020, Visually Impaired

[fred&edna]

Police: Homicide ruled out in Savannah Schneider’s death

Not final but homicide ruled out.

“After preliminary results from the autopsy, she has no traumatic injury to her body whatsoever which rules out homicide,” said Capt. Jason Stephens, Wichita Police Department. “At the site where her body was located, there was no indication there was any other type of assault or theft. Her purse and personal belongings were still there with her.”


Police are still waiting on toxicology results in that case so they can make a final conclusion.

 

[fred&edna]

WPD: Death of missing Wichita woman not a homicide

Capt. Jason Stephens, with the Wichita Police Department, said early the next morning, Schneider took a Lyft ride to the South Meridian area in Haysville. They said through phone records, they’ve been able to determine that shortly after arriving, she walked around or wandered the large plot of land and for about two hours and about three miles.

Capt. Stephens said Schneider was vision-impaired and her surroundings were already dark.

 

[perfectingpink]

I want to know more about her impaired vision. Was it evident to those who did not know her? Does the Lyft app ID her as having special needs where the driver would have been aware of the impairment was not easily noticed? I had another question but Mr. Pink's toe cramp distracted my brain...

 

[DAMages]

WPD: Death of missing Wichita woman not a homicide

Capt. Jason Stephens, with the Wichita Police Department, said early the next morning, Schneider took a Lyft ride to the South Meridian area in Haysville. They said through phone records, they’ve been able to determine that shortly after arriving, she walked around or wandered the large plot of land and for about two hours and about three miles.

Capt. Stephens said Schneider was vision-impaired and her surroundings were already dark.

BBM because what? That is truly bizarre.

 

[fred&edna]

Was it dark when she arrived at the field? She left home at approx 5:30am, right? Is it an open field? I understand low-lighting for visually impaired is a major, major problem but... when did the sun come up? Did she wander only in the shady areas of the large plot of land for 2 hours?

This case really makes me sad. I still wonder/worry about her cause of death. Will we ever know?

I thought I would include her obit.

Savannah Schneider - Obituary

 

[evilwise]

From her neighbor lady's statement it sounded like she and Savannah walked the dogs together early in the mornings so Savannah was used to being out and about early in the mornings. She may have even been overconfident in her ability to do so - but why would she have wanted to that particular morning?

 

[LucyRocket]

From her neighbor lady's statement it sounded like she and Savannah walked the dogs together early in the mornings so Savannah was used to being out and about early in the mornings. She may have even been overconfident in her ability to do so - but why would she have wanted to that particular morning?

And there, rather than just taking a walk from home? Taking a Lyft to go for a walk? In a remote area? IDK

 

[StarEyes]

You are very correct about the low lighting. I’d prefer no lighting to low lighting. I can’t see either way, but in low lighting, it’s like my brain tricks my eyes into thinking I can see more than I can. That’s a big way we vision impaired/blind people get hurt. The brain kind of “tricks” the optic nerve into filling in what we cannot see with what it thinks should be there. That makes us overconfident and more at risk. I can’t imagine Savannah going to that area without a good reason. I just wish we knew more about Savannah’s case. I feel like we’re missing info. Of course, who knows why Savannah went there if she did indeed end up with self harm. We may never know. I just pray that IF it was a nefarious person, that LE has some type of leads.
JMO

 

[evilwise]

Also, from the info released about her phone location it sounds like she went to the place she was found that morning and never left it. That seems contradictory to her friends' reports that her deactivated Facebook got reactivated five days after she went missing. Seems someone else might have had the login information and reactivated it. Our minds tend to jump toward foul play but maybe it was someone close to her in hopes that if the page was active someone might post a clue to her whereabouts or send a message to it.

 

[fred&edna]

Also, from the info released about her phone location it sounds like she went to the place she was found that morning and never left it. That seems contradictory to her friends' reports that her deactivated Facebook got reactivated five days after she went missing. Seems someone else might have had the login information and reactivated it. Our minds tend to jump toward foul play but maybe it was someone close to her in hopes that if the page was active someone might post a clue to her whereabouts or send a message to it.

Somehow, I missed the deactivated/reactivated facebook info.

 

[evilwise]

Another twist in this story is that at the time she went missing her FaceBook was deactivated. Friends say she deactivated it a couple weeks prior to going missing. It was reactivated last Friday - June 5th - after she was presumably missing for 5 days.

Do you have a source for this info? I've been posting as if it was confirmed and I'm looking back I see that there's no supporting link. Is it just something they were posting on Facebook?

 

[fred&edna]

Nothing new in this report.

Funeral services held for Savannah Schneider

With so many unanswered questions, for loved ones the service provided some much needed closure.

“I think there’s a lot of questions that we’re always going to have,” friend Simone Shields said.

Friends said every day they’re so thankful for Schneider’s Delta Gamma sorority sisters at Wichita State who organized the search that brought her home -- and now laid to rest next to her mom.

 

[Tmw821]

I live right down the street from where she was found. It was in a huge open field! There is only one home within a mile radius. The campus high school that she was dropped off at would of been over an hour walk from where she was found. She would have walked on a high traffic road as well. Also! The sun was up approx 6am. Why did she walk around for 3 hours and only go 2 miles?
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