Episode 138: Shauna Howe | The Town That Dreaded Sundown

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The story I have for you today will be, just as they always are, hard to get through, especially because it involves a child. Just around Halloween in 1992 a vicious crime would shock the blue collar town of Oil City, PA, changing it forever. In fact, the town would put a ban on night time trick or treating for 16 years after the case I am about to tell you, and even now the time is restricted to not go past 8 PM. Halloween is a time of great excitement for children. It is electric in the air, kids playing innocent pranks, mischief nights, talking about what they are going to dress up as, and of course, the promise of mounds and mounds of candy after trick or treating. But lurking beneath all that fun is a terrifying truth, something the good people of Oil City had to learn the hard way, that monsters are real, and sometimes they are the ones you least expect.

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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/1266-wda-2012.html
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/pa/oil-city/KDUJ/date/1992-10-27
https://www.leagle.com/decision/inpaco20130722469
https://www.thederrick.com/ (Archives)
Lake Erie Murders (2018) Devil at the Crossroads
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/FBI/a0632/intro.htm#:~:text=CODIS%20Development%20and%20Design&text=CODIS%20began%20as%20a%20pilot,NDIS%20became%20operational%20in%201998.
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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 138 of the True Crime Couple.
0:03.6	I'm Kay.
0:04.4	And I'm John.
0:05.2	We hope you're all doing well.
0:07.0	But before we get started, I just want to share this message.
0:10.7	The next episode we release will be the Listener Stories episode.
0:14.4	Now I know that that's kind of like a trend right now because I see a lot of podcasts doing it.
0:19.5	But this is something that we've been doing for five years.
0:22.2	So it's not a tradition that I want to stop.
0:25.0	And I love it because I get to talk to listeners on a different level.
0:29.2	So it's always really cool.
0:31.2	But this is your last chance to get your stories in.
0:35.0	And it's going to be really hard to top the past listener stories episode because we've always
0:40.0	gotten like intensely crazy ones.
0:43.4	And they've always been really scary.
0:45.2	I mean, they really have been.
0:46.2	And also you just like this time of year because you just like to scare me.
0:49.1	You put on all these movies that like scare the shit out of me.
0:51.6	And then I can't go to bed at night.
0:53.2	But yeah, I mean, you know what?
0:54.7	It's, uh, it is fun, but it's scary.
0:57.5	Yeah, we are doing the 31 days of Halloween challenge where we watch a scary movie every night.
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