Printer-friendly versionAt 2:04:22 a.m., as the night of May 6, 1998 slipped into the day of May 7, Parmatma Greeley called 911.
Greeley: "Hello. My next door neighbor, I just heard her yelling for help."
Operator: "And what's wrong?"
Greeley: "We're on the second floor. I'm on, we're on one side and she's on the other. And I just heard. her yell help. I knocked on the door and I just heard like a. like a choking-type sound and I just called."
Operator: "We'll have someone out as soon as possible."
There was no way that Greeley could have known that at that moment, Troy Graves, the so-called "Center City Rapist," was choking Shannon Schieber to death.
The process by which a forensic pathologist determines a time of death is notoriously inaccurate. Stomach contents, potassium level in eye fluid, rigor mortis, lividity, body temperature; all these factors are used. But these indicia vary from person to person, and so accurately determining a time of death closer than within a few hours is difficult, if not impossible. In a case like the murder of Shannon Schieber, where a few seconds might have been the difference between life and death, pinpoint accuracy can be vitally important.
13 hours.
That's how long it took to discover Shannon Schieber's body. An autopsy was not performed for an additional 18 hours. That makes determination of an exact time of death even more difficult, but court documents filed in the Schieber family's case against Officers Steven Woods and Raymond Scherff, the two policemen who responded to Parmatma Greeley's 911 call, provide some insight as to when Schieber's final moments may have come.
Strangulation, despite what movies often depict, is not a quick process. Mercifully, thankfully, the time it takes for a strangulation victim to lose consciousness is short. But just how short that time is can be a source of confusion. Forensic pathologists are trained in their craft through a mentoring process, and depending on that mentor, one pathologist may have an entirely different view of a situation than another. Dr. Vincent DiMaio, the Chief Medical Examiner for Bexar County in San Antonio, Texas, is an expert witness for the city of Philadelphia. He believes that it takes only five to ten seconds for a strangulation victim to lose consciousness, and another five minutes for brain death. He has testified that "once you get to seven or eight minutes, you're just not coming back." Assuming that Troy Graves began to strangle Schieber at about 2:02 a.m., two minutes before Greeley's 911 call, Schieber would have been brain dead by 2:10 a.m.
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All responsible adult women should be armed . If their homes or bodies are violated , they should be able to defend themselves with deadly force , if necessary .
While law enforcement generally does a good job , it should be noted that they too , are engaging in the habitual rape of women and men . Presently ,it is reported , that law enforcement is permitted to place hidden cameras in homes and businesses. Judith Rodin is said to have been a participant in this perversion , along with D.A. Abraham and others .
Why is this not also considered rape ? Some slimeball , can now legally watch us and our children ...in our own home !!!
Tell the truth Rodin !!!!
gregg, student
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That's Attorney General Slimeball to you buddy.
Ah the era of small conservative Republican government. J. Edgar Hoover must be dancing in his grave (I hope he's wearing an appropriately joyous frock, perhaps something off the shoulder with suitably conservative ruffles).
Lin
I would be totally willing and happy to testify in this case for the victims family as I worked in the sex crimes special investigations unit during this time frame. It was the orders of the supervisors in command during that time to code those rapes that the defendant had committed and others 2701-Investigations of persons, not the Investigators of the sex crimes unit, now known as the special victims unit, and not the Investigators doings. If other rapes were coded properly as I had once submitted a memo stating that to my supervisor that it was wrong to code them anything other than rape when it was a rape, and was never aproved, the special investigations unit would of been handling this case as a pattern case, and this just may of prevented this death. SO, saying this, I blame this and other rapes on the command structures orders, for statistical purposes only, and for any other rapes and/or murders that were comitted as a result of their wrong doing, and I hope this is in their conscience forever. After they became aware of my memo , I was retired early on a ordinary disability pension and was wronged out of a full disability pension as I was injured in the line of duty and this was a punishment for blowing the whistle. I submitted all proper memos and paperwork for a re-occurence of this injury as i was struck down by a drunk driver on duty, and they were approved by all supervisors, but never submitted to the next level. Just another wrong doing on the supervisors who worked in sex crimes at the time of this poor victims death. One in particualr was Captain Eileen Bonner, and others who were mainly in charge of all stats and orders at that time, and then they were moved to a nice cushy positions, as people died and were raped, and I, out on the street, barely able to survive on a 42% disablilty pension with three herniated discs, and a recent heart attack. It was all political and the FOP even was on their side under Richard Costello's command as president of the FOP.....signed ...(another victim of the sex crimes unit)...If anyone can contact the victims family, they can contact me at the above email address....thank you...
Jovo, Retired Police
Philadelphia
jovo9359@aol.com
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