Ominous Warning Found at Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker Crime Scene

July 11, 2008

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation [OSBI] is examining a cross that once stood at the roadside memorial for 11-year-old Skyla Jade Whitaker and 13-year-old Taylor Dawn Paschal-Placker, two young girls who were shot and killed in Weleetka last month.

According to an OSBI spokesperson, someone recently vandalized a cross that had Skyla's name on it and wrote, "You'll never catch me." Despite the warning, investigators have their doubts that the message was left by the person(s) responsible for the murders.

"I don't really think it is relevant to the case and more than likely its just some kids being kids," OSBI spokesperson Jessica Brown said in a telephone interview with Investigation Discovery.

Despite their reluctance to take the message seriously, investigators are conducting forensic tests on the cross to determine if it contains any evidence that could be relevant to the case.

In regard to the current status of the investigation, Brown said:

"We are still running leads, interviewing people, polygraphing people [and] doing everything humanly possible. We have had more than 450 leads since the beginning of the investigation and we are in the process of running those down. We have more than half of that finished; it just takes time so we are going to continue doing that until it takes us to the killers."

Since the beginning of the investigation, there has been speculation about whether the two girls had been sexually assaulted prior to their death. Brown said that the OSBI has information pertaining to that but was unable to release it.

According to Brown, the case is solvable; investigators just need the right leads to come in and the right people to come forward with information.

"There are a lot of people that are scared to talk to law enforcement down there so they have to...

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Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker photo credits: school yearbook

Comments

[Heather Duncan]

I was barely told today that these girls had died. I was told also that -REDACTED- might have done it. I honestely don't know for sure for thats what I was told.