Shawna Garber Cold Case: Boy Who Allegedly Found Body Grants First Interview in 30 Years, Says He Heard the Murder on Halloween Night
Witness says he is speaking now because he wants justice for Shawna; McDonald County Sheriff’s Office confirms he recently contacted them
This is part of a series on the Shawna Beth Garber Cold Case. You can read the first story here.
For more than three decades, Shawna Beth Garber was known only as Grace Doe. After her body was discovered behind an abandoned farmhouse in southwest Missouri in 1990, investigators gave her that nickname because “only by the Grace of God” would they be able to identify her.
Someone had hogtied her in six types of bindings — nylon and lead ropes, coaxial and telephone cables, paracord, and clothesline — then brutally murdered her. Her killer has never been caught.
In April, Grace Doe got her name back thanks to a DNA analysis that linked her to a long-lost half-sister. Now, for the first time in 30 years, the boy who allegedly discovered her body has come forward to speak about what he heard the night she died.
In a 2012 interview, retired Detective Lori Howard mentioned a story about a 10-year-old…
