Little Girl Lost
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party. Two decades later, a detective's obsessive attention to detail exposes a shocking mistake that kept the case's most obvious suspects on the streets for 20 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick warning before you begin. This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and sexual assault. |
| 0:06.0 | It might not be appropriate for younger listeners or anyone who might be triggered by these topics. What do you see when you think of Halloween? |
| 0:18.0 | Costumes, candy, parties? |
| 0:22.2 | When the people of Oil City, Pennsylvania, think of Halloween, they might think of death, |
| 0:27.0 | sadness, and loss. |
| 0:29.5 | How we see things is shaped by our experiences. |
| 0:32.4 | They color our lenses. The lenses in Oil City were |
| 0:35.5 | colored by the death of Shauna Howe in October of 1992. |
| 0:38.9 | There are 120,000 unsolved murder cases in America. |
| 0:46.0 | Each one is called a cold case and only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:50.0 | This is one of those rare cases. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Brooke and this is cold case files, the podcast, |
| 0:57.0 | based on the hit show currently airing on A&E. |
| 1:00.0 | On this particular Halloween, the one in 1992, there was no candy, no costumes, and plenty of tears to go around. |
| 1:13.0 | Halloween was cancelled, but it's not like the people in Oil City, Pennsylvania would have gone out anyway. |
| 1:19.0 | Just days before, a little girl only 11 years old was killed. |
| 1:23.0 | Her name was Shana Howe. |
| 1:25.0 | This is her mom, Lucy. |
| 1:27.0 | I remember that morning, Shana come over and she says, |
| 1:30.0 | Mom, I've got the Girl Scouts tonight. |
| 1:31.0 | We've got the Halloween thing. |
| 1:32.0 | We're going up to the nursing home. |
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