July 10, 2025 • 32 mins
In late October 1995,18 year-old Shana Jaros had just moved out of her parents home and was renting an apartment nearby with a roommate. What seemed to be a normal ordinary Halloween night soon turned into a nightmare for the Jaros family when 18-year-old Shana was found murdered the following morning. Let’s unpack her story and find out where the case stands today.
Sources for episode:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181546
https://uncovered.com/cases/shana-jaros-nokomis-il
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https://www.houghfuneralhome.com/obituary/Billy-Malloy
Sources for episode:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181546
https://uncovered.com/cases/shana-jaros-nokomis-il
https://youtu.be/IlX6e1jWSvk?si=BDrYItt6sFL3-BkO
https://www.houghfuneralhome.com/obituary/Billy-Malloy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All witnesses, suspects, and persons of interest are considered innocent
until proven guilty in a court of law. Warning this
episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion.
Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now and true crime, and then together we are
going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go, Hi, guys,
(00:22):
Welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's Kylie.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am a little less heated up than I was
last week, but we do have some things to catch
up on. So Brooks how and Joseph Lawson, we're both
found guilty for their role in the disappearance of Crystal Rogers.
I've talked about her quite a bit on here. Crystal
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went missing ten years ago and they still have not
found her body. And then we have poor Tommy Ballard,
Crystal's dad, who went to the ends of the earth
to try to figure out what happened to his daughter,
who also lost his life in this journey of trying
to get justice for Crystal. So ten years Crystal's family
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has been waiting for Brooks's day in court. So he
and Joseph Lawson have both been found guilty for their
role in Crystal's disappearance and murder. Just because we don't
have a body doesn't mean that a murder didn't take.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Place, and they prove that in this case.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The jury spent all of five minutes deliberating their recommendation
for a life sentence for Brooks and five years for
tampering with evidence. He's going to serve those consecutively. And
then for Joseph Lawson, they recommended twenty years for the
conspiracy to commit murder and five years for tampering with evidence,
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So twenty five years for him.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And when I say it is a sweet sweet day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In the true crime world, we finally are on our
way to getting justice for Crystal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They're still more to go.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We still have to make some arrests in Tommy Ballard's case,
and there's a lot more to Crystal's case, in my opinion,
a lot more key players that have yet to been
brought forward and arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm sure there's some issues with.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know, of course, getting enough evidence to charge these people,
so on and so forth to bring a case against them,
but we have not heard the last of it, and
I think it is a sweet day that Brooks Howck
is never going to see the light a day again,
because that's exactly what he deserves. Switching gears now, Donna
Adelson's trial is set to begin next month in August,
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and the witness list came out today, and I was
kind of surprised by some of the people on the
witness list. Of course, we have Charlie Adelson. We have
Wendy Adelson. We have Rob Adelson, who is the estranged
Adelson sibling, the only one with any sense to get
away from his Kookie Kookie family. We have Atherine meg Banawa,
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We have Luis Rivero, we have Sigfredo Garcia. We have
a pretty stacked list. We have Jeff Lecas. There is
going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Some really interesting things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I do feel like we're obviously going to hear a
lot of what we heard in Charlie's trial, which I
previously went over all of that in my summer series
for twenty twenty four. It is a long, convoluted story,
so I do think there's going to be a lot
of the same, but it's very much going to be
catered towards obviously Donna's involvement in everything. But the states
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list has about fifty eight people on it for witnesses,
so it's definitely going to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So with all the news last week Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Coberger pleading guilty to killing Kaylee Maddie Ethan Inzana, he
officially signed his confession, which is so chilling, and it's
basically him saying, yes, I am pleading guilty to killing
these four people.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
His signature at the bottom, and that is.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That he's not required to ever speak about why he
did what he did, what exactly happened when he was
in that house because he's really truly the only one
that is living that can tell us exactly what happened
that night because everybody else that could tell a story
is no longer here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So he's not required to do any of that with
this plea deal.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Now, my own personal opinion on the matter is I
think the plea deal is a cop out. I think
he is a coward and he was willing to inflict
death on four young people, but he himself wasn't willing
to have death inflicted on him via the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You guys know, I don't have a super.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Strong feeling towards the death penalty as a whole. I
have a lot of problems with that. There's a lot
of logistics and outliers that I just don't necessarily agree with.
But for him to so cowardly take a plea deal
and cop out and not even say what happened, or
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be required to say what happened, that's the thing you
would think.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Somewhere along the line in.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This plea deal they could say, the prosecution could say,
if you want death taken off the table this bad
you agree to this plea deal. However, you are required
to divulge to us what happened that night. Now, granted,
he could lie through his teeth and make a completely
ridiculous story up similar to what Chris Watts did, because
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initially Chris Watts had all sorts of stories about what
happened to the kids, why Sanan died, what happened she
attacked the kids, and he got so upset that then
he attacked her. He had so many stories, and then
he finally gave a story about how he tried to
kill the kids but they ended up not passing away,
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and then he killed Shanan and the kids were still alive.
So he had no tes choice but to take Shanan
and the kids and that's when he drove them to
the little site and then did what he did. We're
not going into it because I absolutely hate that man
with every fiber of my being.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And there's no telling.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't believe for one second that Chris Watts is
telling an ounce of truth in anything he says.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I don't believe him.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I really don't. I don't know what is true and
what's not. But he did seemingly give a confession as
to what happened. Whether it's true, whether it's not, we
really don't know. But with this guy, he's not even
required to ever come forward and say what happened. And
if he did, would we believe him? I don't really know,
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but you would think if you're so desperate to have
death taken off the table as a prosecutor, you can
very much use that as leverage to maybe help him say, Okay,
I will confess. I'm going to tell you exactly what happened,
so that way the families know and have some ounce
like you can even have an ounce of closure in
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a situation like this, but have some ouns of knowing
what happened and being able to kind of accept what
has been told to you and start to try to
put the pieces of your life back together. Because these
four people were brutally murdered inside of their own homes,
in their beds. It is awful and tragic, and the
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plea deal is bullshit if you ask me my personal opinion,
and I stand with Kayley's family on that, and they
have every right to feel that way. The other families
feel a different.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Type of way about it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Everyone has a right to feel the way they feel.
Nobody's feelings are less valid. They've all been through something
super traumatic. I think the plea deal is dumb. I
do not agree with it. But the plea deal is signed, sealed,
and delivered, so he will spend the rest of his
life in prison. His sentencing is set for I believe
July twenty third, but the sentence is you're never going
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to see the light of day again. I personally, now
this is just me speaking. Hope that Brian Coberger has
a really, really difficult time in prison.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I hope the other inmates are not kind to him.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I hope they make his life not enjoyable, and I
hope that every single day of his life is not
fun and he has not one minute of peace. That
is my hope and my wish for him. I do
not like to wish bad on other people. I am
generally a very nice person. But he took four lives,
and he's destroyed so many others that surround them, and
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I just hope that he has nothing but bad things
coming to him in the future. Okay, I think we
are going to call that good for right now. In
true crime, of course, there is so much going on
in the true crime world. It's been a very overwhelming week.
We've also had these awful, awful, devastating floods in Texas
in the whole country. Entire homes swept away by these.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Horrible flood waters.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The campers from Camp Mystick, an entire cabin of girls
being completely swept away. It is so devastating, how fast
that water rose, how quick everything transpired. It was in
the middle of the night, all of them were sleeping.
Everything happened so fast. I can't even put into words
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how devastating all of this has been for that area.
But Texas, like anytime something happens in Texas, Texas is
like a loyal state.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We stick together.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Anytime something like this happens. We've been through it with
floods and hurricanes, and Texas just very much sticks together
and we have each other's backs of course, during any
natural disaster like this that's happened, so I did want
to mention it. There are still a lot of people
who are missing and who are unaccounted for. There are
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more and more coming out every single day because people
are realizing they haven't heard from their family member or
they haven't heard from their friend, and it's just piling
on to a list of people that are unaccounted for.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And it's so horrible. Those poor kids, all all of it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The parents that sent their kids away to this really
nice camp and it's a great camp, like it has
such a great reputation. The guy that owns the camp
was even killed trying to rescue some of his campers.
Like if that's not a good person who left at
a time of tragedy to go help his camp, I
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don't even have.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Words for it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's just all so sad and tragic. So continued thoughts
and prayers sent their way. There are a lot of
really reputable places that you can donate online too. I'm
going to try to share some of those to my
social media as well, because there is unfortunately a lot
of scam artists out there who are creating things that
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look legit but aren't. But there are a lot of
really good organizations that are accepting monetary donations as well
as other donations because they need a lot of things
to help with these search and rescues that they're trying
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Is awful.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's almost been a whole week since this happened, and
it's just unimaginable. But I did want to take a
minute to mention it because it has been very much
at the forefront of everyone's thoughts and prayers for about
the last week. So continue prayers sent their way, for sure.
So with all of that being said, we are now
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going to get into today's episode. Alrighty guys, we are
jumping into a brand new unsolved case. So for this
week's episode, I am going to be telling you about
the unsolved November nineteen ninety five homicide of an eighteen
year old named Shanna Jarros.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Out of Illinois.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Like so many of the other cases that I cover,
this one is sad and unfortunate, not only because Shana
lost her life, but because she was just starting her
life out.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
She was only eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She had so many dreams, so many ambitions, and unfortunately
the person that took her life rob the world of
all of the good that she was slated to do.
As always, I share these episodes in hopes that it
reaches the right set of ears and the person or
persons who are responsible for Shanea's murder finally come forward
with what they know. This November will officially mark thirty
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years since her life was viciously taken. Thirty years without
answers is long enough, so we are going to go
ahead and get into Shana's story. Shana Marie Jarros was
born on July sixteenth of nineteen seventy seven to her dad,
Dwayne and her mother, Debbie in Lichfield, Illinois. Shana was
the old and she had three younger siblings. She had
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a younger sister named Janelle and two younger brothers named
Stefan and Jeffrey. Dwayne and Debbie owned a local cafe
called the Time Out Cafe, and Dwayne also worked at
a bottle making factory in the evening, so he would
work at the cafe during the day and then he
would go into the bottle making factory in the evening.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And work to the evening shift. Shana was described by.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Her father as a loving, giving person who was very
passionate about helping children and the elderly alike.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
She graduated from.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Nacomas High School in nineteen ninety five and had dreams
of becoming an RN and had even gotten a job
at a local nursing home called the Golden Manor Nursing Home.
She worked there since she was about sixteen years old
and worked as a CNA. She went very much back
and forth between wanting to either work with children or
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work with the geriatric population and help elderly individuals with Alzheimer's,
but she was only eighteen years old, so she had
time to figure out exactly what she wanted to do
in the realm of nursing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
She also very much enjoyed babysitting.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
She was well known in the area for being a
great babysitter and a lot of people would rely on
her for that. Shana did have a really good relationship
with her family, but when she turned eighteen, she very
much wanted to get out on her own and kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Pave her own way.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And I think at eighteen, we all we can all
say we've probably been there where we think that we
are old enough to live.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Out on her own and we want to just kind
of have our own space.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So she decided that she wanted to move out of
her parents' home and get an apartment with the roommate.
But her parents were pretty taken aback by this decision,
and they did attempt several times to try and get
Shana to change her mind and not move out, but
she was bound to determine to do her own thing.
She even went as far as to sign a lease
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on her new apartment without telling her parents that she
was going and doing that, and her parents very much
thought that she was too young to live on our own,
which is super understandable. But despite that, the decision had
been made, and after all, Shanna was eighteen years old.
And like I said, I can very much put myself
back into being eighteen and thinking like a typical teenager,
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you want your freedom, you want your own space. So
I very much understand Shana's mindset around this period of
time in her life. I understand it. I get it,
And hindsight is twenty twenty. You never think as a kid,
as a teenager, that anything bad is going to happen
to you, it's.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Just not in your realm of thinking.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And the apartment that she rented was going to be
in pretty close proximity to where her parents lived, and
it was in the town that she lived in and
grew up in.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So she ended up moving into this apartment with the roommate.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And the apartment was located at five twenty seven South
Maple Street in Nacomis, Illinois. So this isn't your type
of apartment building where you think there's several floors on
all of that. This was one big building that was
one story and it had essentially been divided into six units,
so they're all pretty small spaces and in very close
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proximity to each other, all of the apartments. So it
was also around the same time that Shana's sister Janelle
said that she started hanging out with a not so
great crowd. These weren't the typical people that Shana would
hang out with, and they were just generally not great influences.
Shana also had a boyfriend at the time, although they
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hadn't been dating long at the time of her death.
But like I said, Shana is bound and determined to
figure life out for herself. She moved into this apartment
only one week prior to her murder. Now, the town
that she lived in, Nacomis, Illinois, it was very safe.
The last murder that had occurred there was in nineteen
sixty nine, and I'm sure although Shana's family wasn't happy
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about her leaving, they did feel safe knowing that she
was at least going to be living close by and
in a town they knew was relatively safe. So we
are now going to get into the night that Shana
lost her life. It was Halloween night, October thirty first
of nineteen ninety five. She had taken out one of
her friends and neighbor's daughter out trigg or treating. Shana
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worked with her mom at the nursing home and this
woman had to work the night shift and she didn't
want her daughter to miss the Halloween festivities, so Shana
graciously volunteered to take her out.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Which is just the kind of girl Shana was.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
She was young, but she was very sweet and very
thoughtful and wanted to help people. So she took this
girl out and then brought her home before returning to
her own apartment. Shana then decided to host her very
first get together at her apartment with some friends around
eight thirty PM.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And this event was mostly just a.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Few of her friends, but she also very much wanted
her younger brother to stop by for trigger treating, so
her dad, Dwayne, took Shana's younger brother, Stefan, over to her.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Apartment around nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now, Stefan was only nine years old at the time,
so I'm sure in his mind he was excited to
go visit with his big sister and get some Halloween candy.
So Dwayne arrived, pulled in the driveway and saw about
four people inside Shana, Shana's roommate Tanya Gilmour, her boyfriend
Jason Carver, and a man named Billy Molloy who was
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the girl's neighbor. They were all sitting at a table
playing a card game, and Jason and Billy were having
a beer. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing wild and crazy.
Stefan went inside for a little while while Dwayne waited
in the driveway in the car. He got his candy,
visited with his sister briefly, and then went back out
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to his dad's car. Dwayne said in an NBC News
article interview that she had on a blue house coat
and looked out to the car. He then said that
he would usually always turn on the light and wave,
but for whatever reason, he didn't do it that night,
and he said it haunts him to this day. Unfortunately,
this would be the last time that Dwyane or Stefan
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would see Shana alive. What transpired in the next few
hours is unknown. The Halloween party ended around midnight, and
it's assumed Shana went to sleep. However, the next morning,
at six point fifty on November one of nineteen ninety five,
Shana's landlady, who was also a next door neighbor, had
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noticed that her door was left open, and even though
Shana had only lived there for about a week, this
was unusual for her door to be open, so the
landlady would call out for her and got no response,
and with that she ended up pushing the door open
and finding a horrific site. She saw Shana laying on
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the floor, partially cut with a quilt and covered in blood.
She immediately called police. Shana had been stabbed over fifty
times in her upper neck and chest area, and her
throat had been slit. The suspected time of Shana's death
was around four a m. They found no signs of
force entry into the apartment or any sign of sexual assault,
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but who could have possibly done this? So following this discovery,
Duane received a phone call from a detective about his
daughter's murder. Now, initially, he didn't really think anything of
this phone call coming in other than maybe somebody was
contacting him about Shana's Camaro that had been wrecked a
few weeks earlier. Now, he had just gotten off from
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working the night shift, so he heard the phone ring
and didn't answer it. However, shortly thereafter he knew something
was wrong when law enforcement showed up at the Jari's
home and they told him Shana had been murdered. Duane
immediately yelled for Janelle, who was homesick that day. Janelle
is quoted as saying, I was upstairs sleeping. My dad
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yelled at me from the bottom of the stairs. Janelle, Janelle,
they killed her. They killed your sister.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And then Dwayne called Debbie, of course, who was working
at the diner, to tell her the horrific news. And
when she did come home, she just completely collapsed. Now,
law enforcement, of course begins their investigation, and initially they
said they didn't believe that this was a random act
of violence. They also stated that nothing was taken from
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the apartment, so they knew that they could rule out
robbery as a motive. Things in the apartment when Shane's
body was found looked pretty similarly to how they looked
the night prior, so there was nothing really out of place.
It didn't look like anything had.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Been gone through.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Law enforcement received over one hundred tips, however, none of
them amounted to anything. They of course wanted to speak
with the people that Shana was last wit that evening,
and they were all very quickly ruled out as suspects,
and honestly, there is much available in regards to this
as to why they were ruled out, but they were
ruled out. They also wanted to speak with the neighbor,
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since they all lived in pretty close proximity. They thought
if this horrific attack happened, somebody had to have heard
something or saw something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Now, there was one neighbor.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Who was out of town, so that person, of course
could not be spoken to, and another neighbor who was
the landlady, did report hearing shuffling or scuffling noises from
Shana's apartment around four fifty six a m. But didn't
see anybody entering or exiting the apartment. After the fact,
nothing really looked suspicious. Nobody else close reported seeing anything
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suspicious or anybody coming and going that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Looked like they were up to no good.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Authorities definitely thought this was a crime of passion and
personal But who would want to do this to Shana?
She was very well known in town, didn't have any
known enemies, and was very well liked. Was she attacked
as she was answering the door or was this somebody
she knew and trusted and willingly led into her apartment?
Now this next part take it for what it's worth.
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This is all that I could find. And I don't
know the validity of this or exactly who they're talking about,
but it is reported that people that Shana interacted with
leading up to her murder left the state shortly after
her murder.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Now, like I said.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's not really reported what this means, or if it
was everyone she interacted with that day or the people
that were at the party, But it's an interesting thing
to talk about, to say the least. Now, if they
are talking about Tanya Jason, and Billy. We can break
this down a little bit, right. I will say, if
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my roommate was brutally murdered in the apartment that I
shared with her, I would probably want to leave town
to and I'm sure Jason, being her boyfriend, would have
gone with her since I'm sure this was a very
very traumatic event for her and Billy was her neighbor.
So again, if something like this happened to somebody that
I lived in very close proximity to, I would also
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probably want to leave the state. I would personally be
worried that the killer would come back and that I
could be next. So while this could look suspicious from
one angle, I could also rationalize it making sense that
they left if that was the case, If this is
even who is being talked about when it's reported that
some of the individuals she interacted with.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That day left the state.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Also, if we are talking about her roommate, the roommate's boyfriend,
and the neighbor, these are all very young people, and
actions following a traumatic event can't really be judged because
we don't know what we would do if we were
in a situation like that. Trauma does really wild things
to a person and their actions. Not that I think
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leaving the state after my roommate is murdered is a
crazy action. Like I said, I understand that and can
rationalize it. I just wanted to kind of flip the
other side of the coin because I very much think
in a situation like this, the last three people that
were seen with Shana are automatically going to be under
a microscope and they've never ever been publicly named as
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anything other than they were at a party at her
apartment that night, and according to what I've seen, they
were cleared, like I said, very early on as suspects.
So while there are a lot of questions with this case,
that is kind of where this investigation leaves off. Shana's
Stanley said that they have on and off heard from
law enforcement over the years, but nothing really has changed
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with the process or the progress of the investigation. As
with all tragic murder cases, this changed the trajectory of
the Jarros family's life. Duyne told ABC News during an interview, quote,
I had four pieces of my heart and they just
took one piece away from it.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Duyne and Debbie would eventually divorce, and Dwayne said of
Debbie that she just wasn't the same person after Shane's murder.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Understandably so, the.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Trauma and after effects of something like this impacts a
family every single.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Day for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Janelle, Shana's sister, is quoted as saying, whoever did this
to Shana actually did it to our entire family.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They killed a piece of all of us. End quote.
Now Shana's siblings have all grown up.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
They have gone on to live very productive lives and
be very productive, great members of society, despite this horrific
thing happening to them while they were younger. To their sister,
Janelle's daughter has even expressed interest in becoming an investigator
so she can solve her aunt's case. And if that
just doesn't simultaneously break your heart and also make it
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swell about four times the size, then I don't know
what will. Because that is such a sweet sentiment for
somebody that never got a chance to meet her aunt
to want to go into that field to solve her
aunt's case. This whole story is just really sad and
tragic all around, and honestly, I don't really know where
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this one goes from here, because it doesn't really seem
at least as far as we know, as far as
what's been reported to the public, that law enforcement has
any physical evidence. Do they have DNA, do they have fingerprints,
do they have anything?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We really don't know now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I did see in an ABC News article that some
of the people involved with Shana leading up to the murder,
the people that were present at the party, had passed away.
I was only able to find an obituary for Billy Molloy,
who was her neighbor and at the party that night.
He died in twenty twenty three. Now, everything with these
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partygoers really does make me very intrigued and very curious.
I truly hope that if the roommate, the roommate's boyfriend,
and Billy were truly not involved, that they didn't have
to live under a cloud of suspicion. Although law enforcement
did roll them out and they were never publicly named
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as suspects. Sometimes these kind of things can kind of
follow you and stay with you, and you become thrust
into the situation. I really don't know where they stand,
what exactly the timeline of events was that night, and
really the only people that know what happened in the
hours leading up to Shana's murder.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Are those three people If they did leave at midnight.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
That leaves a whole four to five hours before Shana's
murder occurred, So there is a lot of open time
there for somebody else to have come to the apartment.
My question is did the roommate stay there that night
or was she sleeping maybe at her boyfriend's house.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm just kind of throwing out scenario. Was Shana alone
in the apartment? Did anybody else come over after? These
are all questions, of course. I hope law enforcement has
looked into and investigated over the years. Unfortunately, unless they
do have evidence that we do not know about, this
case is only going to be solved as someone decides
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it's time to come forward, if somebody remembers something from
late Halloween night in nineteen ninety five, or someone has
been holding in a secret for far too long and
decided that thirty years is too long to hold on
to that secret for I really hope and pray for
the Jarros family. I hope that they get some resolution
in Shana's case and that twenty twenty five is the
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year for it, because it is about to be thirty
years since this horrific homicide occurred. I know her family
is still very active in trying to keep her case
out there and celebrate her life, because she was a
truly wonderful human. I can just tell from reading about her,
researching her, and seeing pictures of her, I can tell
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she had a super bright future ahead of her, and
it's so unfortunate that unfortunately her life was taken by
a horrible person. Whoever did this was a horrible, horrible person,
and I truly hope that their time is running out
and that justice is going to be coming in twenty
twenty five. Anyone with any information is urged to contact
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the Illinois State Police Zone six Investigations at six point
eight three four six three nine nine zero or crime
Stoppers at A one eight hundred three five two zero
one three six.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
As always, I.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's
episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm going to link all of my sources below.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I did listen to a couple of YouTube videos on
Shana's case to kind of familiarize myself a little bit,
and I will be sure to link those below as well.
I'll ask some news articles as well, and At the
end of the day, it's all about getting Shanea's name
out there and hopefully the right person will happen upon
her case so that way her family can finally get
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Really need to be at the forefront of what we do,
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Speaker 2 (31:53):
The right set of ears.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Maybe reinvigorate investigators to take a second look or look
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for a brand new unsolved case. Have a good one bye,
All witnesses, suspects, and persons of interest are considered innocent
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Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now and true crime, and then together we are
going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go, Hi, guys,
(00:22):
Welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's Kylie.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am a little less heated up than I was
last week, but we do have some things to catch
up on. So Brooks how and Joseph Lawson, we're both
found guilty for their role in the disappearance of Crystal Rogers.
I've talked about her quite a bit on here. Crystal
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went missing ten years ago and they still have not
found her body. And then we have poor Tommy Ballard,
Crystal's dad, who went to the ends of the earth
to try to figure out what happened to his daughter,
who also lost his life in this journey of trying
to get justice for Crystal. So ten years Crystal's family
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has been waiting for Brooks's day in court. So he
and Joseph Lawson have both been found guilty for their
role in Crystal's disappearance and murder. Just because we don't
have a body doesn't mean that a murder didn't take.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Place, and they prove that in this case.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The jury spent all of five minutes deliberating their recommendation
for a life sentence for Brooks and five years for
tampering with evidence. He's going to serve those consecutively. And
then for Joseph Lawson, they recommended twenty years for the
conspiracy to commit murder and five years for tampering with evidence,
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So twenty five years for him.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And when I say it is a sweet sweet day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In the true crime world, we finally are on our
way to getting justice for Crystal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They're still more to go.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We still have to make some arrests in Tommy Ballard's case,
and there's a lot more to Crystal's case, in my opinion,
a lot more key players that have yet to been
brought forward and arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm sure there's some issues with.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know, of course, getting enough evidence to charge these people,
so on and so forth to bring a case against them,
but we have not heard the last of it, and
I think it is a sweet day that Brooks Howck
is never going to see the light a day again,
because that's exactly what he deserves. Switching gears now, Donna
Adelson's trial is set to begin next month in August,
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and the witness list came out today, and I was
kind of surprised by some of the people on the
witness list. Of course, we have Charlie Adelson. We have
Wendy Adelson. We have Rob Adelson, who is the estranged
Adelson sibling, the only one with any sense to get
away from his Kookie Kookie family. We have Atherine meg Banawa,
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We have Luis Rivero, we have Sigfredo Garcia. We have
a pretty stacked list. We have Jeff Lecas. There is
going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Some really interesting things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I do feel like we're obviously going to hear a
lot of what we heard in Charlie's trial, which I
previously went over all of that in my summer series
for twenty twenty four. It is a long, convoluted story,
so I do think there's going to be a lot
of the same, but it's very much going to be
catered towards obviously Donna's involvement in everything. But the states
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list has about fifty eight people on it for witnesses,
so it's definitely going to be interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So with all the news last week Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Coberger pleading guilty to killing Kaylee Maddie Ethan Inzana, he
officially signed his confession, which is so chilling, and it's
basically him saying, yes, I am pleading guilty to killing
these four people.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
His signature at the bottom, and that is.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That he's not required to ever speak about why he
did what he did, what exactly happened when he was
in that house because he's really truly the only one
that is living that can tell us exactly what happened
that night because everybody else that could tell a story
is no longer here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So he's not required to do any of that with
this plea deal.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Now, my own personal opinion on the matter is I
think the plea deal is a cop out. I think
he is a coward and he was willing to inflict
death on four young people, but he himself wasn't willing
to have death inflicted on him via the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You guys know, I don't have a super.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Strong feeling towards the death penalty as a whole. I
have a lot of problems with that. There's a lot
of logistics and outliers that I just don't necessarily agree with.
But for him to so cowardly take a plea deal
and cop out and not even say what happened, or
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be required to say what happened, that's the thing you
would think.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Somewhere along the line in.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This plea deal they could say, the prosecution could say,
if you want death taken off the table this bad
you agree to this plea deal. However, you are required
to divulge to us what happened that night. Now, granted,
he could lie through his teeth and make a completely
ridiculous story up similar to what Chris Watts did, because
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initially Chris Watts had all sorts of stories about what
happened to the kids, why Sanan died, what happened she
attacked the kids, and he got so upset that then
he attacked her. He had so many stories, and then
he finally gave a story about how he tried to
kill the kids but they ended up not passing away,
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and then he killed Shanan and the kids were still alive.
So he had no tes choice but to take Shanan
and the kids and that's when he drove them to
the little site and then did what he did. We're
not going into it because I absolutely hate that man
with every fiber of my being.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And there's no telling.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't believe for one second that Chris Watts is
telling an ounce of truth in anything he says.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I don't believe him.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I really don't. I don't know what is true and
what's not. But he did seemingly give a confession as
to what happened. Whether it's true, whether it's not, we
really don't know. But with this guy, he's not even
required to ever come forward and say what happened. And
if he did, would we believe him? I don't really know,
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but you would think if you're so desperate to have
death taken off the table as a prosecutor, you can
very much use that as leverage to maybe help him say, Okay,
I will confess. I'm going to tell you exactly what happened,
so that way the families know and have some ounce
like you can even have an ounce of closure in
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a situation like this, but have some ouns of knowing
what happened and being able to kind of accept what
has been told to you and start to try to
put the pieces of your life back together. Because these
four people were brutally murdered inside of their own homes,
in their beds. It is awful and tragic, and the
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plea deal is bullshit if you ask me my personal opinion,
and I stand with Kayley's family on that, and they
have every right to feel that way. The other families
feel a different.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Type of way about it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Everyone has a right to feel the way they feel.
Nobody's feelings are less valid. They've all been through something
super traumatic. I think the plea deal is dumb. I
do not agree with it. But the plea deal is signed, sealed,
and delivered, so he will spend the rest of his
life in prison. His sentencing is set for I believe
July twenty third, but the sentence is you're never going
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to see the light of day again. I personally, now
this is just me speaking. Hope that Brian Coberger has
a really, really difficult time in prison.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I hope the other inmates are not kind to him.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I hope they make his life not enjoyable, and I
hope that every single day of his life is not
fun and he has not one minute of peace. That
is my hope and my wish for him. I do
not like to wish bad on other people. I am
generally a very nice person. But he took four lives,
and he's destroyed so many others that surround them, and
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I just hope that he has nothing but bad things
coming to him in the future. Okay, I think we
are going to call that good for right now. In
true crime, of course, there is so much going on
in the true crime world. It's been a very overwhelming week.
We've also had these awful, awful, devastating floods in Texas
in the whole country. Entire homes swept away by these.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Horrible flood waters.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The campers from Camp Mystick, an entire cabin of girls
being completely swept away. It is so devastating, how fast
that water rose, how quick everything transpired. It was in
the middle of the night, all of them were sleeping.
Everything happened so fast. I can't even put into words
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how devastating all of this has been for that area.
But Texas, like anytime something happens in Texas, Texas is
like a loyal state.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We stick together.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Anytime something like this happens. We've been through it with
floods and hurricanes, and Texas just very much sticks together
and we have each other's backs of course, during any
natural disaster like this that's happened, so I did want
to mention it. There are still a lot of people
who are missing and who are unaccounted for. There are
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more and more coming out every single day because people
are realizing they haven't heard from their family member or
they haven't heard from their friend, and it's just piling
on to a list of people that are unaccounted for.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And it's so horrible. Those poor kids, all all of it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The parents that sent their kids away to this really
nice camp and it's a great camp, like it has
such a great reputation. The guy that owns the camp
was even killed trying to rescue some of his campers.
Like if that's not a good person who left at
a time of tragedy to go help his camp, I
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don't even have.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Words for it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's just all so sad and tragic. So continued thoughts
and prayers sent their way. There are a lot of
really reputable places that you can donate online too. I'm
going to try to share some of those to my
social media as well, because there is unfortunately a lot
of scam artists out there who are creating things that
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look legit but aren't. But there are a lot of
really good organizations that are accepting monetary donations as well
as other donations because they need a lot of things
to help with these search and rescues that they're trying
to do.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Is awful.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's almost been a whole week since this happened, and
it's just unimaginable. But I did want to take a
minute to mention it because it has been very much
at the forefront of everyone's thoughts and prayers for about
the last week. So continue prayers sent their way, for sure.
So with all of that being said, we are now
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going to get into today's episode. Alrighty guys, we are
jumping into a brand new unsolved case. So for this
week's episode, I am going to be telling you about
the unsolved November nineteen ninety five homicide of an eighteen
year old named Shanna Jarros.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Out of Illinois.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Like so many of the other cases that I cover,
this one is sad and unfortunate, not only because Shana
lost her life, but because she was just starting her
life out.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
She was only eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She had so many dreams, so many ambitions, and unfortunately
the person that took her life rob the world of
all of the good that she was slated to do.
As always, I share these episodes in hopes that it
reaches the right set of ears and the person or
persons who are responsible for Shanea's murder finally come forward
with what they know. This November will officially mark thirty
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years since her life was viciously taken. Thirty years without
answers is long enough, so we are going to go
ahead and get into Shana's story. Shana Marie Jarros was
born on July sixteenth of nineteen seventy seven to her dad,
Dwayne and her mother, Debbie in Lichfield, Illinois. Shana was
the old and she had three younger siblings. She had
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a younger sister named Janelle and two younger brothers named
Stefan and Jeffrey. Dwayne and Debbie owned a local cafe
called the Time Out Cafe, and Dwayne also worked at
a bottle making factory in the evening, so he would
work at the cafe during the day and then he
would go into the bottle making factory in the evening.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And work to the evening shift. Shana was described by.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Her father as a loving, giving person who was very
passionate about helping children and the elderly alike.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
She graduated from.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Nacomas High School in nineteen ninety five and had dreams
of becoming an RN and had even gotten a job
at a local nursing home called the Golden Manor Nursing Home.
She worked there since she was about sixteen years old
and worked as a CNA. She went very much back
and forth between wanting to either work with children or
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work with the geriatric population and help elderly individuals with Alzheimer's,
but she was only eighteen years old, so she had
time to figure out exactly what she wanted to do
in the realm of nursing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
She also very much enjoyed babysitting.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
She was well known in the area for being a
great babysitter and a lot of people would rely on
her for that. Shana did have a really good relationship
with her family, but when she turned eighteen, she very
much wanted to get out on her own and kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Pave her own way.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And I think at eighteen, we all we can all
say we've probably been there where we think that we
are old enough to live.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Out on her own and we want to just kind
of have our own space.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So she decided that she wanted to move out of
her parents' home and get an apartment with the roommate.
But her parents were pretty taken aback by this decision,
and they did attempt several times to try and get
Shana to change her mind and not move out, but
she was bound to determine to do her own thing.
She even went as far as to sign a lease
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on her new apartment without telling her parents that she
was going and doing that, and her parents very much
thought that she was too young to live on our own,
which is super understandable. But despite that, the decision had
been made, and after all, Shanna was eighteen years old.
And like I said, I can very much put myself
back into being eighteen and thinking like a typical teenager,
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you want your freedom, you want your own space. So
I very much understand Shana's mindset around this period of
time in her life. I understand it. I get it,
And hindsight is twenty twenty. You never think as a kid,
as a teenager, that anything bad is going to happen
to you, it's.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Just not in your realm of thinking.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And the apartment that she rented was going to be
in pretty close proximity to where her parents lived, and
it was in the town that she lived in and
grew up in.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So she ended up moving into this apartment with the roommate.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And the apartment was located at five twenty seven South
Maple Street in Nacomis, Illinois. So this isn't your type
of apartment building where you think there's several floors on
all of that. This was one big building that was
one story and it had essentially been divided into six units,
so they're all pretty small spaces and in very close
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proximity to each other, all of the apartments. So it
was also around the same time that Shana's sister Janelle
said that she started hanging out with a not so
great crowd. These weren't the typical people that Shana would
hang out with, and they were just generally not great influences.
Shana also had a boyfriend at the time, although they
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hadn't been dating long at the time of her death.
But like I said, Shana is bound and determined to
figure life out for herself. She moved into this apartment
only one week prior to her murder. Now, the town
that she lived in, Nacomis, Illinois, it was very safe.
The last murder that had occurred there was in nineteen
sixty nine, and I'm sure although Shana's family wasn't happy
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about her leaving, they did feel safe knowing that she
was at least going to be living close by and
in a town they knew was relatively safe. So we
are now going to get into the night that Shana
lost her life. It was Halloween night, October thirty first
of nineteen ninety five. She had taken out one of
her friends and neighbor's daughter out trigg or treating. Shana
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worked with her mom at the nursing home and this
woman had to work the night shift and she didn't
want her daughter to miss the Halloween festivities, so Shana
graciously volunteered to take her out.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Which is just the kind of girl Shana was.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
She was young, but she was very sweet and very
thoughtful and wanted to help people. So she took this
girl out and then brought her home before returning to
her own apartment. Shana then decided to host her very
first get together at her apartment with some friends around
eight thirty PM.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And this event was mostly just a.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Few of her friends, but she also very much wanted
her younger brother to stop by for trigger treating, so
her dad, Dwayne, took Shana's younger brother, Stefan, over to her.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Apartment around nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now, Stefan was only nine years old at the time,
so I'm sure in his mind he was excited to
go visit with his big sister and get some Halloween candy.
So Dwayne arrived, pulled in the driveway and saw about
four people inside Shana, Shana's roommate Tanya Gilmour, her boyfriend
Jason Carver, and a man named Billy Molloy who was
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the girl's neighbor. They were all sitting at a table
playing a card game, and Jason and Billy were having
a beer. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing wild and crazy.
Stefan went inside for a little while while Dwayne waited
in the driveway in the car. He got his candy,
visited with his sister briefly, and then went back out
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to his dad's car. Dwayne said in an NBC News
article interview that she had on a blue house coat
and looked out to the car. He then said that
he would usually always turn on the light and wave,
but for whatever reason, he didn't do it that night,
and he said it haunts him to this day. Unfortunately,
this would be the last time that Dwyane or Stefan
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would see Shana alive. What transpired in the next few
hours is unknown. The Halloween party ended around midnight, and
it's assumed Shana went to sleep. However, the next morning,
at six point fifty on November one of nineteen ninety five,
Shana's landlady, who was also a next door neighbor, had
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noticed that her door was left open, and even though
Shana had only lived there for about a week, this
was unusual for her door to be open, so the
landlady would call out for her and got no response,
and with that she ended up pushing the door open
and finding a horrific site. She saw Shana laying on
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the floor, partially cut with a quilt and covered in blood.
She immediately called police. Shana had been stabbed over fifty
times in her upper neck and chest area, and her
throat had been slit. The suspected time of Shana's death
was around four a m. They found no signs of
force entry into the apartment or any sign of sexual assault,
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but who could have possibly done this? So following this discovery,
Duane received a phone call from a detective about his
daughter's murder. Now, initially, he didn't really think anything of
this phone call coming in other than maybe somebody was
contacting him about Shana's Camaro that had been wrecked a
few weeks earlier. Now, he had just gotten off from
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working the night shift, so he heard the phone ring
and didn't answer it. However, shortly thereafter he knew something
was wrong when law enforcement showed up at the Jari's
home and they told him Shana had been murdered. Duane
immediately yelled for Janelle, who was homesick that day. Janelle
is quoted as saying, I was upstairs sleeping. My dad
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yelled at me from the bottom of the stairs. Janelle, Janelle,
they killed her. They killed your sister.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And then Dwayne called Debbie, of course, who was working
at the diner, to tell her the horrific news. And
when she did come home, she just completely collapsed. Now,
law enforcement, of course begins their investigation, and initially they
said they didn't believe that this was a random act
of violence. They also stated that nothing was taken from
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the apartment, so they knew that they could rule out
robbery as a motive. Things in the apartment when Shane's
body was found looked pretty similarly to how they looked
the night prior, so there was nothing really out of place.
It didn't look like anything had.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Been gone through.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Law enforcement received over one hundred tips, however, none of
them amounted to anything. They of course wanted to speak
with the people that Shana was last wit that evening,
and they were all very quickly ruled out as suspects,
and honestly, there is much available in regards to this
as to why they were ruled out, but they were
ruled out. They also wanted to speak with the neighbor,
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since they all lived in pretty close proximity. They thought
if this horrific attack happened, somebody had to have heard
something or saw something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Now, there was one neighbor.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Who was out of town, so that person, of course
could not be spoken to, and another neighbor who was
the landlady, did report hearing shuffling or scuffling noises from
Shana's apartment around four fifty six a m. But didn't
see anybody entering or exiting the apartment. After the fact,
nothing really looked suspicious. Nobody else close reported seeing anything
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suspicious or anybody coming and going that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Looked like they were up to no good.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Authorities definitely thought this was a crime of passion and
personal But who would want to do this to Shana?
She was very well known in town, didn't have any
known enemies, and was very well liked. Was she attacked
as she was answering the door or was this somebody
she knew and trusted and willingly led into her apartment?
Now this next part take it for what it's worth.
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This is all that I could find. And I don't
know the validity of this or exactly who they're talking about,
but it is reported that people that Shana interacted with
leading up to her murder left the state shortly after
her murder.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Now, like I said.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's not really reported what this means, or if it
was everyone she interacted with that day or the people
that were at the party, But it's an interesting thing
to talk about, to say the least. Now, if they
are talking about Tanya Jason, and Billy. We can break
this down a little bit, right. I will say, if
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my roommate was brutally murdered in the apartment that I
shared with her, I would probably want to leave town
to and I'm sure Jason, being her boyfriend, would have
gone with her since I'm sure this was a very
very traumatic event for her and Billy was her neighbor.
So again, if something like this happened to somebody that
I lived in very close proximity to, I would also
(24:12):
probably want to leave the state. I would personally be
worried that the killer would come back and that I
could be next. So while this could look suspicious from
one angle, I could also rationalize it making sense that
they left if that was the case, If this is
even who is being talked about when it's reported that
some of the individuals she interacted with.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That day left the state.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Also, if we are talking about her roommate, the roommate's boyfriend,
and the neighbor, these are all very young people, and
actions following a traumatic event can't really be judged because
we don't know what we would do if we were
in a situation like that. Trauma does really wild things
to a person and their actions. Not that I think
(24:55):
leaving the state after my roommate is murdered is a
crazy action. Like I said, I understand that and can
rationalize it. I just wanted to kind of flip the
other side of the coin because I very much think
in a situation like this, the last three people that
were seen with Shana are automatically going to be under
a microscope and they've never ever been publicly named as
(25:20):
anything other than they were at a party at her
apartment that night, and according to what I've seen, they
were cleared, like I said, very early on as suspects.
So while there are a lot of questions with this case,
that is kind of where this investigation leaves off. Shana's
Stanley said that they have on and off heard from
law enforcement over the years, but nothing really has changed
(25:43):
with the process or the progress of the investigation. As
with all tragic murder cases, this changed the trajectory of
the Jarros family's life. Duyne told ABC News during an interview, quote,
I had four pieces of my heart and they just
took one piece away from it.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Duyne and Debbie would eventually divorce, and Dwayne said of
Debbie that she just wasn't the same person after Shane's murder.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Understandably so, the.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Trauma and after effects of something like this impacts a
family every single.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Day for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Janelle, Shana's sister, is quoted as saying, whoever did this
to Shana actually did it to our entire family.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They killed a piece of all of us. End quote.
Now Shana's siblings have all grown up.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
They have gone on to live very productive lives and
be very productive, great members of society, despite this horrific
thing happening to them while they were younger. To their sister,
Janelle's daughter has even expressed interest in becoming an investigator
so she can solve her aunt's case. And if that
just doesn't simultaneously break your heart and also make it
(26:53):
swell about four times the size, then I don't know
what will. Because that is such a sweet sentiment for
somebody that never got a chance to meet her aunt
to want to go into that field to solve her
aunt's case. This whole story is just really sad and
tragic all around, and honestly, I don't really know where
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this one goes from here, because it doesn't really seem
at least as far as we know, as far as
what's been reported to the public, that law enforcement has
any physical evidence. Do they have DNA, do they have fingerprints,
do they have anything?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We really don't know now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I did see in an ABC News article that some
of the people involved with Shana leading up to the murder,
the people that were present at the party, had passed away.
I was only able to find an obituary for Billy Molloy,
who was her neighbor and at the party that night.
He died in twenty twenty three. Now, everything with these
(27:52):
partygoers really does make me very intrigued and very curious.
I truly hope that if the roommate, the roommate's boyfriend,
and Billy were truly not involved, that they didn't have
to live under a cloud of suspicion. Although law enforcement
did roll them out and they were never publicly named
(28:14):
as suspects. Sometimes these kind of things can kind of
follow you and stay with you, and you become thrust
into the situation. I really don't know where they stand,
what exactly the timeline of events was that night, and
really the only people that know what happened in the
hours leading up to Shana's murder.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Are those three people If they did leave at midnight.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
That leaves a whole four to five hours before Shana's
murder occurred, So there is a lot of open time
there for somebody else to have come to the apartment.
My question is did the roommate stay there that night
or was she sleeping maybe at her boyfriend's house.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm just kind of throwing out scenario. Was Shana alone
in the apartment? Did anybody else come over after? These
are all questions, of course. I hope law enforcement has
looked into and investigated over the years. Unfortunately, unless they
do have evidence that we do not know about, this
case is only going to be solved as someone decides
(29:18):
it's time to come forward, if somebody remembers something from
late Halloween night in nineteen ninety five, or someone has
been holding in a secret for far too long and
decided that thirty years is too long to hold on
to that secret for I really hope and pray for
the Jarros family. I hope that they get some resolution
in Shana's case and that twenty twenty five is the
(29:41):
year for it, because it is about to be thirty
years since this horrific homicide occurred. I know her family
is still very active in trying to keep her case
out there and celebrate her life, because she was a
truly wonderful human. I can just tell from reading about her,
researching her, and seeing pictures of her, I can tell
(30:04):
she had a super bright future ahead of her, and
it's so unfortunate that unfortunately her life was taken by
a horrible person. Whoever did this was a horrible, horrible person,
and I truly hope that their time is running out
and that justice is going to be coming in twenty
twenty five. Anyone with any information is urged to contact
(30:27):
the Illinois State Police Zone six Investigations at six point
eight three four six three nine nine zero or crime
Stoppers at A one eight hundred three five two zero
one three six.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
As always, I.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's
episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm going to link all of my sources below.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I did listen to a couple of YouTube videos on
Shana's case to kind of familiarize myself a little bit,
and I will be sure to link those below as well.
I'll ask some news articles as well, and At the
end of the day, it's all about getting Shanea's name
out there and hopefully the right person will happen upon
her case so that way her family can finally get
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some resolution and finally get some answers. So please share
this episode. I'm going to be posting pictures of Shana
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Speaker 2 (31:31):
Support the show, support the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I very much appreciate every single one of you who
listens and tunes in and helps me share these cases
that people really aren't talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
These are the cases that.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Really need to be at the forefront of what we do,
because that is what's going to help get them to
the right set of eyes.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
The right set of ears.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Maybe reinvigorate investigators to take a second look or look
at it with a fresh set of eyes. That is
what really matters here, and that is why I do
what I do, and I know a lot of other
podcasters in the true crime space do what they do
for this very reason. I hope you guys have a
fantastic weekend. Ahead and I will see you next week
(32:16):
for a brand new unsolved case. Have a good one bye,
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