Found Deceased Shana Alison DiMambro Last Seen 7/19/22- 7 AM in Her Home,100 block Mitchell Street, Spring Branch

[5W's]

So nobody but her husband saw her for four days? She did not walk to the laundry area, didn't go to shop, did not walk her dog or do anything outside the RV?
Hmmmmmm.



I'd think it would.

Interesting point.

 

[5W's]

Herr mentioned that he was told DiMambro was wearing clothes and had on flip flops, but when he discovered the body believed to DiMambro, no clothes were found on the body.

“What happened to her clothes, were they taken by animals - buzzards? - because there was some animal activity on the remains, but I don’t know what happened to her clothes and that’s, that’s another part of this investigation I think the Comal County Sheriff’s office is going to look into.”

IDK if animal activity was fully responsible for the clothes missing though. Some of it I can understand but not all. If one thinks about the situation, animals don't have hands, right. So the clothing would be shredded in bits and pieces.And if the animals lived on that property then the shredded items of clothing would show up in their scat.

 

[5W's]

Interesting point.

I agree, and they were both there at pretty much the same time. I'm sure it's possible one didn't approach her body as closely as the other did, but then you'd think they would have agreed on body position before they started reporting to the media. AND if she was lying face up, on her back, they surely would NOT have touched the decomposing body to look for tattoos. They both knew not to do that! Yet they stated the flower tattoo was visible despite decomposition.

Well if that were the case then wouldn't she be face down. They both agree on the tattoo part. So they must have seen her face down. They would not touch the body as they know not do so in order to keep the scene and body as was found. The only reason I can think of the discrepancy is that they want to keep the integrity of the investigation.

 

[5W's]

I think the answer to why cadaver dogs didn't find her earlier is because LE was unable to search this property until they got permission from the property owner. The property owner of this particular property wasn't contacted until DJ Seeger was able to locate a contact number for the owner at which point it seems the owner came out to help right away. (see my post upthread).

Wouldn't the cadaver dogs smelled from a distance? Couldn't they tell from the fence? I'm sure LE would have at least gone outside of the fences and property lines.

 

[5W's]

Her Redbone Coonhound-German Shepherd-mix, Maisie, was out of her kennel — something he (the husband) noted was unusual.
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Peña says the last time DiMambro was seen by someone outside her household was on July 14 or 15.

'We have to bring our baby home': Husband of missing Spring Branch woman speaks out

A Spring Branch woman, 45-year-old Shana DiMambro, has now been missing for 10 days.

www.fox7austin.com

Wouldn't her dog find her if she was out in the open close to home?

Possibly if she was kept in a kennel inside the RV maybe then not. Because maybe the husband once he got home put her inside her kennel. Maybe she is the type of dog who wouldn't go far from home? So when husband came home she was right there.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

This is an extremely frustrating case. I’m totally discombobulated. I do think foul play is involved. How long had they been staying there? She had only been married since May. All I am sure am is that no woman is going to take off her clothes, kill herself, to be left naked for others to find her out in the open like that. No way!

 

[WingsOverTX]

I'm catching up on this case so it may already be known, but was the property the body found on secluded? How visible is it from the RV park?

The RV park is surrounded on all sides by privately owned "ranches". The one where she was found is at least 200 acres, I believe. You can see Mitchell Road in street view on Google Earth. Images are posted upthread. The land is typical Texas Hill Country - open with groves of cedar (aka ashe juniper). It is gently hilly as well. Fences and gates of various kinds surround the RV park but the park itself is not fenced as far as I can tell.

Something not discussed here yet is the impact on Shana of living full-time in an RV. She had a dog but for someone with anxiety and depression, it might not have been the best fit to be in such close quarters IMO. Especially, having relocated from the wide open desert near Reno, NV. She did attend high school in San Antonio, though.

I hope they will seek the help of a larger LE agency. Once buzzards were observed, Comal County SO should have gotten onto that property ASAP. The time lapse which allowed deterioration of her body is going to complicate getting answers to cause & manner of death IMO.

My opinions only

 

[#JUSTICE4WILDER]

The RV park is surrounded on all sides by privately owned "ranches". The one where she was found is at least 200 acres, I believe. You can see Mitchell Road in street view on Google Earth. Images are posted upthread. The land is typical Texas Hill Country - open with groves of cedar (aka ashe juniper). It is gently hilly as well. Fences and gates of various kinds surround the RV park but the park itself is not fenced as far as I can tell.

Something not discussed here yet is the impact on Shana of living full-time in an RV. She had a dog but for someone with anxiety and depression, it might not have been the best fit to be in such close quarters IMO. Especially, having relocated from the wide open desert near Reno, NV. She did attend high school in San Antonio, though.

I hope they will seek the help of a larger LE agency. Once buzzards were observed, Comal County SO should have gotten onto that property ASAP. The time lapse which allowed deterioration of her body is going to complicate getting answers to cause & manner of death IMO.

My opinions only

I agree with you. Am I correct in my recall, it took a FOIA request for searchers to learn who owned the property she was located on?

 

[WingsOverTX]

Could this be something like dehydration and heat exhaustion? Has it been horrifically hot there in Texas recently?

Let's say that for whatever reason she decided to go for a walk and had some kind of medical emergency or disorientation. She starts wandering getting worse and worse, and sees the pond and thinks it is a source of water.
Perhaps in her desperation she climbs the fence and in delirium she removes her clothes.

I'm thinking of the case where that whole family perished on a trail. (Gerrish-Chung) Once heat stroke sets in, it's very difficult to cool off in time.

Just brainstorming non-foul play explanations.

That pond is completely dry due to drought. Yes, dehydration & heat could be a factor. But there would most likely be another complicating factor health-wise. She was only about a third of a mile from the RV.

We have so little public info about her life since she moved from Nevada back to Texas. And now that narrative is mostly controlled by her husband, who was once a high school friend.

I think something criminal rather than misadventure happened here. Whether LE will figure it out definitively I'm not at all convinced.

I also think the non-LE searchers, while valuable Good Samaritans in this case, make it more complicated to sort out. LE should have been on scene looking for Shana with the SAR & landowner rather than called in after she was found IMO.

It's too late to change that now. Should this be deemed criminal, it's going to complicate things.

Again JMO.

 

[WingsOverTX]

I agree with you. Am I correct in my recall, it took a FOIA request for searchers to learn who owned the property she was located on?

Yes. But that puzzles me because on Google Maps & Earth, there is a large business sign with a phone number near the gate to this property (assuming I have seen & posted the correct property entrance).

I also wonder why a drone search did not find her. Maybe since she was naked her body blended into the chalky limestone landscape?

Such a sad outcome complicated by too much time elapsing before she was found.
MOO

 

[WingsOverTX]

This is an extremely frustrating case. I’m totally discombobulated. I do think foul play is involved. How long had they been staying there? She had only been married since May. All I am sure am is that no woman is going to take off her clothes, kill herself, to be left naked for others to find her out in the open like that. No way!

"The search for Shana DiMambro proved to be challenging at times for search and rescue."

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[imstilla.grandma]

"The search for Shana DiMambro proved to be challenging at times for search and rescue."

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From your link: thank you.

Seeger said he wanted to search the private property feet away from the park, but continued to run into road blocks.

"So trying to trace down who exactly we need to talk to, proved by challenging," sais Seeger, "I had to file an open records request just to get to the bottom of who is behind this LLC because we have no way of contacting these people."

A property that is surrounded by 5-foot fences with barbed wire, even drones had flown over the property but they were too high up to see anything specific.

 

[SteveP]

Yes. But that puzzles me because on Google Maps & Earth, there is a large business sign with a phone number near the gate to this property (assuming I have seen & posted the correct property entrance).

I also wonder why a drone search did not find her. Maybe since she was naked her body blended into the chalky limestone landscape?

Such a sad outcome complicated by too much time elapsing before she was found.
MOO

I believe your pic is the entrance to one of the other properties. ]f you look at this video, the gate at the entrance to the property Shana was found on is shown, called Mitchell Ranch, with an address of 200 MItchell Dr, and there is a sign on the gate, but no phone number can be seen. You can see the entrance at about the 50 second mark. Also, the entrance looks nothing like the gate in your Google map pic. When I pull up Google maps, I see an address of 123 Mitchell Dr for your pic. JMO

Just for reference, the address for Tx 46 RV Park is 185 MItchell Dr. She was that close to home!

Searching for Shana DiMambro

A body found in Spring Branch off of Mitchell Drive is believed to be the missing body of 45-year-old Shana DiMambro who went missing on July 19.

news4sanantonio.com

 

[WingsOverTX]

I believe your pic is the entrance to one of the other properties. ]f you look at this video, the gate at the entrance to the property Shana was found on is shown, called Mitchell Ranch, with an address of 200 MItchell Dr, and there is a sign on the gate, but no phone number can be seen. You can see the entrance at about the 50 second mark. Also, the entrance looks nothing like the gate in your Google map pic. When I pull up Google maps, I see an address of 123 Mitchell Dr for your pic. JMO

Searching for Shana DiMambro

A body found in Spring Branch off of Mitchell Drive is believed to be the missing body of 45-year-old Shana DiMambro who went missing on July 19.

news4sanantonio.com

Thanks @SteveP for clarifying that!

 

[indicolite22]

IF this was foul play, why was she left out there and not buried?

 

[SteveP]

IF this was foul play, why was she left out there and not buried?

That is a question that bugs me too. Perhaps to make it appear that it WASN'T foul play, especially if whoever may have put her there knew that it was on private property, and guessed she may not be found before decomposition could destroy evidence on her remains. Clearly, a suicide victim cannot bury herself, so burial would immediately alert authorities to foul play.

If it is wasn't foul play, where are her clothes? Even if animals had found her, there would surely still have been at least pieces of clothing, unless she walked out there naked, in which case, her clothes would likely still have been at home. JMO

 

[indicolite22]

I also think the non-LE searchers, while valuable Good Samaritans in this case, make it more complicated to sort out. LE should have been on scene looking for Shana with the SAR & landowner rather than called in after she was found IMO.

It's too late to change that now. Should this be deemed criminal, it's going to complicate things.

Again JMO.

SBM. The SAR member was experienced:

Herr has been involved in search efforts for about 30 missing persons cases. "One of the jobs I have is mortuary affairs, so I teach Army students how to search and recover remains from a battlefield, from an accident site," Herr said.

Texas man recalls finding possible remains of missing Spring Branch woman

Eric Herr, Search and Support San Antonio Vice President, found the possible remains of a 45-year-old missing Spring Branch woman not far from where she was last seen.

www.fox7austin.com

 

[Hexe]

IF this was foul play, why was she left out there and not buried?

I don't think it's easy to dig a grave anywhere in that area. Soil looks bone dry and rock hard.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

That is a question that bugs me too. Perhaps to make it appear that it WASN'T foul play, especially if whoever may have put her there knew that it was on private property, and guessed she may not be found before decomposition could destroy evidence on her remains. Clearly, a suicide victim cannot bury herself, so burial would immediately alert authorities to foul play.

If it is wasn't foul play, where are her clothes? Even if animals had found her, there would surely still have been at least pieces of clothing, unless she walked out there naked, in which case, her clothes would likely still have been at home. JMO

Coyotes scavenged my brother’s body after laying out in the woods for three months in the hot August sun. When I found him, there were pieces of his flannel shirt around the skeleton. They even tore his shoes off but I was still able to find one of his feet scattered…

 

[indicolite22]

That is a question that bugs me too. Perhaps to make it appear that it WASN'T foul play, especially if whoever may have put her there knew that it was on private property, and guessed she may not be found before decomposition could destroy evidence on her remains. Clearly, a suicide victim cannot bury herself, so burial would immediately alert authorities to foul play.

If it is wasn't foul play, where are her clothes? Even if animals had found her, there would surely still have been at least pieces of clothing, unless she walked out there naked, in which case, her clothes would likely still have been at home. JMO

If the (hypothetical) perp tried to make it appear as natural, they would not have removed her clothing. Unless if it was bloody/torn or contained the perp's DNA? Surely it wouldn't be just to delay the identification?