I recently finished watching, "Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio." I found it very compelling and of all the women featured, Shasta Himelrick captured my interest the most. While her death has been deemed a suicide, I still have lingering questions that hours of scouring the internet have not been able to answer. They are as follows:
1. She was seen at 3:15 at the gas stop. How is it possible that the gas station did not have additional security cameras available to see her car drive in/out? Considering the high volume of traffic as well as the customers, most always have an outside camera or two.
2. At some point between 3:15 when she was seen on security camera until 7:15 when her car was discovered, she changed clothes. There is no accounting for this? The clothes in her autopsy where not the ones from the 3:15 security photo. She had to stop along the way somewhere? If you want to say that she removed layers, then it is important to remember there is no mention of clothing being found in the car.
3. What did she purchase/do at the gas station? I see there was an ATM receipt found in the car. Was the ATM located inside the mini mart?
4. There is a mention of the tip that police received stating a man saw a blonde woman and 2 men in a vehicle, which was stated to be the car she was driving that night. -
https://www.chillicothegazette.com/...imelricks-boyfriend-took-polygraph/520543001/ - Why was this found to be of no relevance?
5. Shasta was extremely active in various social media sites. It was ridiculously easy to see where she was going and what she was doing up until her death. Her "fiance" at the time even got onto her FB and posted looking for her, which means he had access to her password(s). What is the chance that she posted her location on foursquare, for example, and a person of interest is able to find her after she left her Grandmother's? Then potentially having a password, since the person has her phone or knowing it by her telling it to that person, they simply delete the location/entry?
6. Considering the suggestion of Shasta being involved in sexual exchanges, why wasn't a paternity test run on the fetus? We know that at least 20% of pregnancy-related deaths involve the father. If there had been any question, at any point, this could have lead to her death. Looking at her autopsy results -
https://www.scribd.com/document/267578389/Shasta-Himelrick-Autopsy-And-Toxicology-Report - It states "early in pregnancy." Now, considering that paternity DNA testing was quite decent in 2014, why wasn't this step considered? While she claimed her "fiance" was the father, it doesn't take a far stretch of the imagination to consider that it may not have been.
7. Shasta unfortunately ran with the wrong crowd. Many of whom wouldn't think twice about ending a life for any reason. Many of the "players" are currently in and out of prison. Why hasn't more pressure been put on these individuals regarding what happened that night to Shasta? Even the documentary series didn't show informants being pressured regarding information regarding Shasta, obviously since it was deemed a suicide.8.
8. I have been unable to find any mention of what position Shasta's shoes were found in. Also, no photo? I think it can speak volumes to the events of those hours if they are found neatly on the bridge, suggesting the possibility of staging, vs clearly having been thrown off or pulled off?
Being this is a 4-year old cold case, I don't know if anyone can help to answer some of these questions. However, I think it is important that we never stop asking the hard questions.
