Phone Call, Ambush?

Re: 810413: The Strange Story of Phillip Shearer & Meeks
Postby 7Scarlet » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:36 pm


The problem I have with elaborating is that I don't know what is true or not. The gist of what I have been told so far is this:

Philip was dropped off by Wade/Dale and John/Blaine like we know. He slept for awhile and woke up, still drunk, and thirsty, so he went to buy a drink where he ran into two men in a pick up truck who were going to drive Dana & Johnny to Keddie. He (allegedly) didn't like Dana so he didn't want to go when they asked him to come. He apparently had a bad feeling, but was talked into going. He allegedly fell asleep again in the truck and when he woke up again, the truck was empty except for him and parked over by the general store.

The story remains pretty much the same as always from there.
Except:

-The killers unscrewed the light bulb in the front earlier in the night. Were there and left and went specifically looking for Johnny & Dana because they knew they were coming, while two people stayed behind and waited.

-There was a second vehicle, and four people. I don't know for sure if they meant four people including Philip or not, but I got the feeling they were not including Philip in the four.

-I was told that Marty was there to protect Justin when he found out what was going to happen.

-The murders apparently were not planned in advance. They thought they could get what they wanted with only the threat of the pelet gun they brought. It started out as a threat and escalated to what it was. There was no specific target, but multiple targets and motives spread out across the group.

Anyway, he allegedly left the truck and walked to the cabin and saw part of the crime from the kitchen doorway. he was threatened afterward, but no one in attendance believed he was really a thereat because no one would believe what he said (which is true). Tina was allegedly taken, alive, to Oakland Feather River Camp or somewhere nearby there. One of the four guys was Johnny & Dana's age; the others were adults.

I was told that he would bring it up over the years afterward, when drinking, and become pretty upset. He would cry and want to discuss it, and then change his mind and deny it. I was told that he felt a certain amount of guilt for it, though there was nothing he could do about it, so when he left the area he tried to forget about it, but never did. His mother and her family would never speak about it, and when asked about it by anyone, they would mention the fact that Philip is a drink and what he says cannot be believed.

I've been kind of doing research on my own for the last couple years. Some of it is clearly not sure, some of it only probably not true. I don't think Philip was lying altogether. I think he was telling what he thought really happened, whether he was remembering it correctly or not.

I think someone told Marty what to say about Philip because they knew what Philip was going to say to the cops, and I don't think the police was that someone.



Re: 810413: The Strange Story of Phillip Shearer & Meeks
Postby 7Scarlet » Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:08 am

I agree D. I find it hard to trust anyone, so I Just don't say anything at all. I've been called some terrible names. Ive come across things I've wanted to share, but kept them to myself. I figured Philip was fairly safe ground.

Aug 08 '16#11

I have it as it was told to me. Keep in mind that it comes from a third party who allegedly heard it from Phillip years after the fact.

He said that he woke up from his evening out with the boys, in the church, and went to the store for a drink, where he ran into several men in a pickup truck. One of the men was Marty Smartt, the other fellow he didn't know. There might have been a third man; I am unclear on that. Johnny & Dana were in the truck bed. They convinced him to come along, and he went.

He passed out a second time and when he woke up he was alone, parked across the street from Cabin 28 and down the way a bit, half way between the store and Cabin 13. He watched a van circle the block and stop in front of Cabin 28 (at what point this happened, I don't know). It was implied but not expressly said that the men in the van took Tina, while the others stayed behind.

The next part you know. He walked up to Cabin 28 and looked through the window and watched part of the attack. He wanted to save Tina, couldn't, and ran away. Some of the men went after him.

The guy who told me this said that Philip would get drunk and cry, for years after the murders. His story always stayed the same and he never stopped telling it.

At about 9pm, Dale M dropped Philip off, drunk, at the Methodist church in Quincy.
Sometime thereafter, Philip said he decided to go to the Exxon Mini Mart, where he ran into Johnny & Dana. They were with three men in a 1954 or 1955 Chevy truck (similar to the one Steven Howard drove at the time). He identified one of the men as Marty S, but could not identify the other two.
According to Philip, all six men drove to Keddie together. He said he saw parts of the murders through the window, and at one point hid in Johnny's basement bedroom. He also said he ran to the lounge for help, but couldn't attract anyone's attention. He said that he went back to help Tina, but then left again.

He said he was chased to Gasner airfield, but eventually got away and went back to the church, where he slept. The following morning, when he was asked to leave the church, he told his mother he had witnessed the murders, and seemed to know about them before it was common knowledge.

"Subject #1 - No recognition at all. The little wire rim glasses make him think he should know but he couldn't remember.


Subject #2 - There is a local fellow who drives a blue Chevy pickup, approximately a 1956-57 model who looks similar. The face on the drawing is not the same because the face is more rounded on the drawing. The glasses and the brown stringy hair are the same, his cheeks drop in under his cheek bones, Adams apple is fairly big. He's real tall & thin, approximately 6'5" - 6'6", probably 27 - 30 years old. He can't recall the subjects name but said he lives near Keddie. This subject has been in the store with another male subject. D. Albin also thinks this subject has had a woman in the truck. This subject used to come to the Keddie Store frequently but hasn't been in much lately. He was probably in within the past 2 weeks buying a couple of six packs of beer. He might have been in bar as well."