Skyla Whitaker, 11, & Taylor Placker 13 - Found Murdered - #4

[SeriouslySearching]

Benefit Held For Weleetka Murder Victims

About 300 people showed up at Marvin's Place in Henryetta on Sunday for a benefit auction.

They raised more than $7,500.

http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8494943

 

[SeriouslySearching]

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/jun/15/watson-despicable-human/
To some horrible creature, perhaps more than one, Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Whitaker were nothing more than target practice.
The two young girls, walking down a country Oklahoma road Sunday afternoon, were gunned down as if they were images in a video game.

She was reaching more than we were! Sheesh!

 

[c2cd208]

Wow you have all been busy, I had to take a break to spend time with DH, B was gone and I took full advantage of spending time with DH. We were working on my video project some more!!!

I am praying that we get some answers in the coming week. Its been one week today and I just feel so sad that we do not know much more now than we did when this happened.

 

[lisay]

Interesting related story.....
http://www.newsok.com/article/keyword/3256331/

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I think knowing his face and his truck is significant progress.

 

[ArizonaGiGi]

I'm basically thinking out loud.
Ocean, you get what I'm saying right? :waitasec:lol
If the POI was facing the woods, the witnesses couldn't have seen his face.
argg I wish there was more confirmed facts.

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Maybe he turned his head and looked at them

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I find it interesting what Jessica Brown said today about several people gave his description.

 

[ArizonaGiGi]

(Pictured removed by me.A)

What if someone in the home was abusing the girls?
I'm not talking about the day they were murdered but previous to that day? What if the girls told the person they were going to 'tell'?
I bring up this scenario because the girls were shot so many times.
I recently read that strangers usually shoot a victim once and run.
Someone known to the victim usually shoots them many times.

90% of children murdered are killed by someone they know.

NOTE: I do not want to bring either family undue harm.
But in this type of murder, unpopular scenarios have to be considered.
(Think the Jon Benet Ramsey case.)

IMO the shooting was to send a message. It was done with so much overkill and passion. One or two bullets each could have easily killed them. 6 bullets each is very personal. This is why I think it wasn't random.

 

[c2cd208]

I think knowing his face and his truck is significant progress.

O deffinatly so, I was just thinking motive and an arrest.

I am still trying to wake up. I went to sleep early tonight and got woke up so I still need more coffee to get the full picture of where we are with all of this.

 

[Leila]

Hi everyone, I hope you don't mind me jumping in the discussion. I'm not new to WS, rather new to posting. I pop in here from time to time to read up on certain cases. I've been following these threads for the past few days now.

I do think this is a recap on Nancy Grace, because she has just mentioned the reward being increased to $25,000, which is outdated.

As for the POI, why would he be "blocking" the road as the witnesses have stated? Could he have been serving as a lookout for something going on up the road and/or in the woods which the girls had stumbled on?

Also, I think you are correct in assuming one of Taylor's brothers or sisters is a biological parent. Peter and Vicky Placker look rather young to have a 13 year old granddaughter which leads me to believe that one of their children had Taylor at a very young age and therefore they adopted her as their own daughter. I've seen this scenario several times before, and the bio parent doesn't think of the child as their own, but rather their sibling.

Welcome January!

 

[SeriouslySearching]

If it were for revenge or personal...why didn't someone from the family recognize the sketch?

 

[ArizonaGiGi]

If it were for revenge or personal...why didn't someone from the family recognize the sketch?

a snip from my post #766


The POI may not have been known to the girls, but was a part of the secret. So he was the hitman in effect. Not worried about being recognized because he wasn't from the area. Maybe the girls were set up by the other persons involved, and waited for the girls at the creek, visited with them like normal, then alerted the POI who was waiting nearby.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I guess it is possible, but if there were threats...LE would know.

 

[Patience]

(Pictured removed by me.A)

What if someone in the home was abusing the girls?
I'm not talking about the day they were murdered but previous to that day? What if the girls told the person they were going to 'tell'?
I bring up this scenario because the girls were shot so many times.
I recently read that strangers usually shoot a victim once and run.
Someone known to the victim usually shoots them many times.

90% of children murdered are killed by someone they know.

NOTE: I do not want to bring either family undue harm.
But in this type of murder, unpopular scenarios have to be considered.
(Think the Jon Benet Ramsey case.)

I also see this as a possible scenerio. I feel that maybe one or both of the girls had been sexually molested and they were going to tell. The person who did the molesting wanted to shut them up, and he certainly did.

Please forgive me for my above comments as I do not want to hurt the family with unfounded allegations but I thought this from the very beginning.

 

[c2cd208]

Newest Article: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080616_12_A1_hkicke795342

A week after two girls were slain, Weleetka is still struggling with questions.

 

[poco]

Newest Article: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080616_12_A1_hkicke795342

A week after two girls were slain, Weleetka is still struggling with questions.

Gosh, I sure hope they are able to find the person(s) responsible for this. I don't know what to think anymore - so many possible scenarios. I am still leaning towards the wrong place at the wrong time - they saw something they shouldn't have. Did we ever find out what type of guys they were shot with - and they the usual type of guns that a person who owned or hunted would have ---??

 

[strach304]

I haven't seen this mentioned or just missed it and it probably isn't significant anyway. But one poster several pages back looked up the temperatures for that day, I believe to see if it was hot enough for air conditioning explaining why the father hadn't heard the gunshots. Looks like it was very hot that day.

In the updated description of the POI they describe his clothes as wearing a hat, long sleeved gray or blue shirt and those boots, probably hiking boots. Don't recall if jeans or pants of some sort were mentioned. The girls in shorts and t-shirts.

Dressed for being in the woods is one thought. Could this mean something? Outer clothing prepared to be tossed from blood? Others?

 

[cloudajo]

If you listen closely to the Fri 6/13 news conf from about 2:35 on, it sounds like a reporter asks Brown something about how many witnesses saw POI and how many heard gunshots and it sounds like Brown says there were not more than a ½ dozen combined witnesses. And something like when the witnesses heard what happened they put 2 and 2 together and came forward. I think she says they came forward in the past several days.

I know it won’t be released, but I’d like to know more about these witnesses. Who were the witnesses who heard the gunshots and where were they located? Who were the witnesses who saw the POI? Has their story about where they were going when they saw POI checked out? How old are they? Do they have a teenage son(s)?

Also, if we know the girls made it to the bridge and were on their way back, is that because someone saw them at the bridge or spoke to them? Who was/were that/those persons?

Search videos in last 7 days for “Friday OSBI News Conf on Killings”
http://www.koco.com/video/

 

[cloudajo]

Does anyone think the POI story may be bogus/made up?

 

[strach304]

Cloudjo, I remember one poster bring that up awhile ago and it's a good theory as in the real killers feeding LE false info but LE did say they have verified the witnesses info. or did you mean something else?