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Martha

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The rape/murder trial of landscaper Shane Wheale, 28, began yesterday in
Norristown, PA. Wheale is accused of first-degree murder, as well as
sexual assault charges, in the death of Regina Marie Carr, whose
strangled, battered, bloody body was found slumped in the front seat of
her car in August 1998. Blood evidence led to Wheale.

Since the announcement of Wheale's arrest, several women have come
forward to report that he raped and beat them, attacks that they were
afraid to report to police. Wheale denies all these charges, saying
that the sex was always consensual (including the acts that left Regina
Carr dead), that the women were all upset when he told them to go home
and are crying rape now out of their anger.

Carr met Wheale in a bar and offered him a ride home. She had been out
with friends, her husband having died the year before (I read earlier
that he had died from cancer; today's paper says he was killed in a car
accident), and it was unusual for her to be out at a bar. Witnesses
identified Wheale as the man who left with Carr. He is
striking-looking, big, dark, with ice-blue eyes. He had been described
as "very handsome" in newspaper stories, but the accompanying pictures
did not seem very handsome to me--they were all full frontal, and he
looked sort of like Skeletor--but there was a profile shot in the paper
over the weekend, and he looks to me a little like the actor Ray Liotta.
Anyway, his looks are such, apparently, that he does make an impression
on witnesses, a disadvantage to the career criminal imho.

What Wheale says happened with Carr is this: she was performing oral
sex on him as he sat in the driver's seat of her car. She was
straddling the floor-mounted gearshift (this is to explain the vaginal
and rectal cuts she suffered) while performing this blowjob on his
mammoth member. His penis is so big, Wheale reports, that she not only
choked on it (the strangulation) but bobbing her head up and down on
such a *large* object made the back of her head bang into the steering
wheel (the beating about the head and neck). This explanation was in
Wheale's statement to police, so I would imagine that the state would
want some evidence of the size of Wheale's package, so that the jurors
(ten women, two men from Lancaster County--the Amish haven't heard of
oral sex, I guess, and are untainted) can judge for themselves the
likelihood of this having happened as Wheale says it did. I think, in
fact, that Wheale himself ought to be eager to expose himself to the
jury if he is, indeed, such a whale of a guy.

The only witness who testified yesterday was a 26-year-old woman who
says that Wheale attacked her after she gave him a ride home from a bar.
She said she thought he was really attractive (and had a trace of an
Irish accent--where did *that* come from?) and was hoping he would ask
for her phone number. He invited her up to his apartment, and she went,
still hoping to be asked for a date. He suddenly, she says, told her he
wanted to kiss her--now--and began to tear her clothes off. She fought,
trying to hold on to furniture and the kitchen counter, but he was too
strong, and he raped her. Then he told her that it was probably the
best sex she would ever have and asked, mockingly, if she had any
brothers who were going to come beat him up. The woman went to a
hospital for treatment immediately, and police were summoned, but she
refused to press charges because she was so embarrassed, and because she
did not want her parents to find out because, she said, they would say
it was her fault and would never let her forget it. She said that she
has never told her parents.

Wheale's attorney suggested in cross-examination that the woman had
"turned" on Wheale after he made her leave at 5 a.m. because his
pregnant girlfriend was coming to pick him up for work (think of the
rapes that might have been averted if this guy had had his own car!),
that she had enjoyed a night of consensual sex with his client.

I imagine that this is a well-attended trial--wish I could be there.

Martha

guppy99

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Martha wrote:

> What Wheale says happened with Carr is this: she was performing oral
> sex on him as he sat in the driver's seat of her car. She was
> straddling the floor-mounted gearshift (this is to explain the vaginal
> and rectal cuts she suffered) while performing this blowjob on his
> mammoth member. His penis is so big, Wheale reports, that she not only
> choked on it (the strangulation) but bobbing her head up and down on
> such a *large* object made the back of her head bang into the steering
> wheel (the beating about the head and neck). This explanation was in
> Wheale's statement to police, so I would imagine that the state would
> want some evidence of the size of Wheale's package, so that the jurors
> (ten women, two men from Lancaster County--the Amish haven't heard of
> oral sex, I guess, and are untainted) can judge for themselves the
> likelihood of this having happened as Wheale says it did. I think, in
> fact, that Wheale himself ought to be eager to expose himself to the
> jury if he is, indeed, such a whale of a guy.

This guy should have just put in a guilty plea and taken
a chance on whatever sentence the judge handed out. His
idiotic story not only demonstrates he is guilty, but also
insults the intelligence of everyone in the jury, and
shows his complete lack of remorse, by saying essentially
the victim killed herself as he sat there passively enjoying
a blowjob. What kind of lawyer would allow a client to go
into court with a story that not one single person in the
entire world would believe?

I can't wait to see what kind of sentence he and his "mammoth
member" have bought themselves. Please keep us posted when the
jury comes in.

guppy

Martha

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Oct 6, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/6/99
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The woman he allegedly raped a week or so before the murder continued to
be cross-examined yesterday. The defense lawyer elicited the
information that she did not once say "no" to Shane Wheale. The
prosecutor asked her why that was, and she said she was so afraid of him
that she even pretended to enjoy the sex, telling him it felt good.

I think Wheale's strategy is to portray himself as so drop-dead gorgeous
and well-hung that these women raped *him* and then got upset when he
wasn't willing to commit to a LTR with them. The witness, still not
named, did go to a hospital for treatment after the rape, and police
were called, so apparently there was evidence of forcible sexual
assault. She did not have Wheale arrested, however, which (in
hindsight) might have saved Regina Carr's life--or at least postponed
Wheale's murderous attack.

Witnesses outside court told local reporters that Carr was in the bar at
a party for a friend; that the bartender, who knew her, took away her
keys ostensibly because she was too drunk to drive (her blood alcohol
level at post-mortem was .16) but actually because he saw that Wheale
had attached himself to her and was angling for a ride home--he said
that there was something "off" about Wheale. Wheale and a friend left
the bar; Carr's keys were returned to her; Wheale came back in, saying
that his friend had left him without a ride. At that point, the
bartender said, there really wasn't anything he could do to protect her
from Wheale.

Martha

DB

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Oct 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/7/99
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Please don't misconstrue anything I say here as me being an apologist
(devil's advocate perhaps) for what Shane Wheale may have done. That
being said, I may be able to shed some light on the subject from a
different perspective.

Women often seem to have the wrong idea about mens' intentions causing
them to act inappropriately which can launch a cascade of distressing
events.

There is a woman who lives in my apartment complex who glares at me
whenever she sees me in the parking lot. The glare suggests this to
me: "I know what you're up to. You're some kind of criminal and I'm
not going to let you out of my sight." She's been doing this ever
since I walked to my car (at a fast pace since I was in a hurry) which
was parked two spaces over from hers. I never got closer than thirty
feet from her, it was in broad daylight and on a busy street but this
did not deter her from just standing there, single-mindedly staring at
me until I had gotten into my car and driven out of sight. I was
minding my own business but it became apparent every time I looked her
way that she was completely consumed with [totally misguided] fear and
loathing of me and for absolutely no reason. I am a middle-aged
conservative-looking man and she is old enough to be my mother.

Now I'll tell you how *I* feel. I'd like to slit her throat! Her
behavior is completely out-of-line. Her stares are very threatening
and disturbing to me. And the suggestion that these stares make is
absolutely abhorrent and absurd. (And we've never said a word to one
another.) I am gentle and very hard to anger, but that stare says
volumes and it's all lies. And they are lies about me and my
character, about which she knows nothing!

Getting back to Shane Wheale. Extremely attractive men (or women) can
wield tremendous power. I used to know a guy who was so good-looking
that when we walked down the street together, women (and men) would
stop in their tracks, and with their jaws slack just stare at him. He
never flinched or looked back at them but for sure he knew what was
happening. Having learned the effect his looks had on most women, and
with the help of more-than-a-little alcohol, I can imagine how the
lack of an assertive "no" by the witness could have been taken for a
"yes". There was no "no", and there was no "logical" reason for a
"no" either, since he's God's gift and all that (and logic is an
important component in most men's thinking patterns, much more so than
with women it seems). I've seen pictures of him on TV, both moving
and still, and he is easily attractive enough, as my friend was, to
stop traffic.

This leads me to believe that the most likely scenario went something
like this. They left together and during or after performing oral sex
on him she, being drunk and, most likely, insensitive to a man's
ego/sensitivity, may have done or said something insensitive. He,
being drunk and unaccustomed to rejection in almost any form, became
highly agitated and insulted. She, being insensitive and drunk, kept
it up. He, being unaccustomed to rejection and drunk, became violent.

If something like this did happen then they are both guilty of
crossing the line.

DB


guppy99

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Oct 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/7/99
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DB wrote:

> This leads me to believe that the most likely scenario went something
> like this. They left together and during or after performing oral sex
> on him she, being drunk and, most likely, insensitive to a man's
> ego/sensitivity, may have done or said something insensitive. He,
> being drunk and unaccustomed to rejection in almost any form, became
> highly agitated and insulted. She, being insensitive and drunk, kept
> it up. He, being unaccustomed to rejection and drunk, became violent.
>
> If something like this did happen then they are both guilty of
> crossing the line.

Wouldn't you say Mr. Wheale went over the line just a
tad more than, say, the woman he killed?

guppy

Martha

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Oct 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/10/99
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I'm glad somebody else is interested in this guy. I've been away for a
few days and haven't been posting daily updates, so I'll try to
summarize:

After the woman who said Wheale had raped her some months before the
Carr murder finished testifying, the medical examiner testified that
there was no way the injuries Carr received could have come about the
way Wheale said they did. Then Wheale's girlfriend (and mother of his
child--she was pregnant at the time of the murder) testified, under
immunity. She said that Wheale came home early in the morning of the
day the body was found, and his clothes were bloody. He was crying (she
says he cries a lot: Wow. A really, really handsome man with a really,
really big dick, who is not afraid to let his feminine side out--what a
catch!!!1!) and told her to pack up the bloody clothes while he cleaned
up. They took the clothes to a dumpster, where they were later
recovered by police. She said that Wheale told her he was getting a
blow job and the woman choked to death. He said he was sure she was
dead. The girlfriend told him they should call an ambulance, but he
told her that it was no use--he had tried to resuscitate her already.
The girlfriend said she was very upset because Wheale had been carousing
with another woman while she was at home, all pregnant and everything,
but she helped him conceal evidence of his alleged crime. Wheale cried
in court during this testimony.

I watched part of "Corrinna, Corrinna" last night, with Ray Liotta, and
I have to say that Wheale does look almost exactly like the actor.
Wheale's mother's only comment the other day outside the courtroom was
that just because her son had the looks that other men wanted didn't
make him a murderer. The consideration of this man's physical beauty is
absolutely fascinating to me.

Wheale testified on his own behalf, repeating his story about the
enormous member's being responsible for the strangulation, the
gearshift's causing the rectal and vaginal cuts, the banging of the
victim's head against the steering wheel's causing the "beating" about
the head, and a new one--the bruises on her body were from his efforts
to perform CPR.

Martha

KaEfEr

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Oct 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/10/99
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:27:02 -0400, Martha <ma...@erols.com> wrote:

>guppy99 wrote:
*snip*

>
>I'm glad somebody else is interested in this guy. I've been away for a
>few days and haven't been posting daily updates, so I'll try to
>summarize:
>
>After the woman who said Wheale had raped her some months before the
>Carr murder finished testifying, the medical examiner testified that
>there was no way the injuries Carr received could have come about the
>way Wheale said they did. Then Wheale's girlfriend (and mother of his
>child--she was pregnant at the time of the murder) testified, under
>immunity. She said that Wheale came home early in the morning of the
>day the body was found, and his clothes were bloody. He was crying (she
>says he cries a lot: Wow. A really, really handsome man with a really,
>really big dick, who is not afraid to let his feminine side out--what a
>catch!!!1!)

Or what a waste of a piece of good meat!!

>and told her to pack up the bloody clothes while he cleaned
>up. They took the clothes to a dumpster, where they were later
>recovered by police. She said that Wheale told her he was getting a
>blow job and the woman choked to death. He said he was sure she was
>dead. The girlfriend told him they should call an ambulance, but he
>told her that it was no use--he had tried to resuscitate her already.
>The girlfriend said she was very upset because Wheale had been carousing
>with another woman while she was at home, all pregnant and everything,
>but she helped him conceal evidence of his alleged crime. Wheale cried
>in court during this testimony.
>
>I watched part of "Corrinna, Corrinna" last night, with Ray Liotta, and
>I have to say that Wheale does look almost exactly like the actor.
>Wheale's mother's only comment the other day outside the courtroom was
>that just because her son had the looks that other men wanted didn't
>make him a murderer. The consideration of this man's physical beauty is
>absolutely fascinating to me.
>
>Wheale testified on his own behalf, repeating his story about the
>enormous member's being responsible for the strangulation, the
>gearshift's causing the rectal and vaginal cuts, the banging of the
>victim's head against the steering wheel's causing the "beating" about
>the head, and a new one--the bruises on her body were from his efforts
>to perform CPR.
>
>Martha

Man, this guy sounds truely scary. You ever notice that most of the
hot men are either gay or murderers? Damn!

Penny


guppy99

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Oct 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/11/99
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Martha wrote:

<snip>


> Wow. A really, really handsome man with a really,
> really big dick, who is not afraid to let his feminine side out--what a
> catch!!!1!)

LOL! <gasp>

>
> Wheale testified on his own behalf, repeating his story about the
> enormous member's being responsible for the strangulation, the
> gearshift's causing the rectal and vaginal cuts, the banging of the
> victim's head against the steering wheel's causing the "beating" about
> the head, and a new one--the bruises on her body were from his efforts
> to perform CPR.

Hmmm. I thought the "Big Dick" defense was only supposed to
be used if you were anticipating a hung jury.

guppy

Martha

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Oct 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/11/99
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Arf arf <Popeye laugh>

There were a couple of factual errors in my previous post which I'd like
to fix now. The woman who testified about her rape (Wheale is on trial
for rape of one woman and rape and murder of another) was raped only
days before the Carr murder.

Shane Wheale cried and moaned a lot during this trial, and most of his
testimony was punctuated with "I don't understand why you don't believe
me!"

I think, personally, that the prosecutors may have gone too far in
charging him with first-degree murder, though. I believe there really
was no intent to kill this woman, that her death was accidental
(although I don't believe that she choked on his big dick, either, until
I see pictures). The thing is, the law may provide for unpremeditated
homicide's being equivalent to first-degree murder if the death occurs
during commission of a felony, such as rape, and the injuries to Carr's
body certainly seem to me to be consistent with rape, especially the
cuts in her vagina and rectum.

The jury has been deliberating today (Sunday) after deliberating all day
on Saturday. They have asked to see the photos of Carr's injuries as
well as those of the other woman's injuries. What they don't know is
that 12 other women came forward after Wheale's arrest to accuse him of
beating and/or raping them.

Martha

Babyface

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Oct 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/12/99
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Martha wrote:
> > Wheale testified on his own behalf, repeating his story about the
> > enormous member's being responsible for the strangulation, the
> > gearshift's causing the rectal and vaginal cuts, the banging of the
> > victim's head against the steering wheel's causing the "beating" about
> > the head, and a new one--the bruises on her body were from his efforts
> > to perform CPR.

>
> Hmmm. I thought the "Big Dick" defense was only supposed to
> be used if you were anticipating a hung jury.
>
> guppy


Yuck, yuck. I didn't think you were like that, guppy. (-:

Babyface

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Here it is 20 years later and thankfully, he is still in prison. I was out at a bar with friends one night and Shane was an aquaintance of mine back then. He repeatedly tried to get me to give him a ride home or take a ride with him. He was very good looking but also very much aware of it which is a huge turn off for me. I kept telling him no and that I was married and he finally left me alone. This was a couple of months before the rape/murder. My husband was also friendly with the Coroner who examined the body in this case and he explained just how deliberate and awful it truly was, He penetrated her vagina with a set of car keys in his hand and essentially ripped her insides up. HE should have gotten the death penalty. I thoroughly hope that he is being repeatedly raped and beaten in prison. Disgusting "man".

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On Monday, June 18, 2018 at 3:16:14 PM UTC-4, PMF Lucky wrote:
> Here it is 20 years later and thankfully, he is still in prison. I was out at a bar with friends one night and Shane was an aquaintance of mine back then. He repeatedly tried to get me to give him a ride home or take a ride with him. He was very good looking but also very much aware of it which is a huge turn off for me. I kept telling him no and that I was married and he finally left me alone. This was a couple of months before the rape/murder. My husband was also friendly with the Coroner who examined the body in this case and he explained just how deliberate and awful it truly was, He penetrated her vagina with a set of car keys in his hand and essentially ripped her insides up. HE should have gotten the death penalty. I thoroughly hope that he is being repeatedly raped and beaten in prison. Disgusting "man".


Back in 1998 I lived in South Philadelphia, and Shane Wheale was at the time of his arrest for the Regina Carr murder he was living with my boyfriend and I. He at 1st was our neighbor and we had all became friendly as we would see him on our way to school every morning, and (We didn't know the real Shane, until mths later when we were having a dinner party at our residence with a bunch of our friends and decided to shut off our video game wars to put on the news and seen him in the same clothing he had left our house in like 4 days prior with a towel over his head crying and saying he didn't do it and he was not guilty!) Our jaws dropped and I'm like Holy shit! thats' Shane!!)
We would see him always reading a scuba diving magazine as we'd walk past him religously morning after morning walking to school, and he'd still be out there when we'd return from school. We started talking to him a little more and more as the days passed and supposedly thought we were getting to know him a bit more from everything he'd tell us. He told us he was disabled and that he used to work as a scuba diver building the base of bridges, we were fairly young at the time and believed every word he said, he was very believable. Thus saying he got injured and could no longer work. He currently was living on the 2nd floor one door over from where we lived with his girlfriend at the time, she used to work in the pizza place just around the corner. long story short we came home one day and turned the corner onto our st when we witnessed Shane standing on the sidewalk crying (he always cried about everything), and looking up and his girlfriend was throwing his clothes and stuff out their 2nd floor window basically she was telling him to get the fuck out of her life, she wanted nothing to do with him ever again. So naturally we stopped and were like whats' the deal, and I can't remember what he told us was the reason she's ( I think her name was Christine but don't quote me on her name it's been over 20 yrs), so my bf felt bad for him and when Shane asked if it was possible for him to stay with us just for a few days until he figured out what to do), against my better judgement as we were living in a small studio and it was small for just my bf and I, my bf agreed (just for a few days).. So then there were 3, ugh I was still in school so I wasn't there during the day but supposedly Shane was figuring his situation out.) a few days turned into a few weeks, and can't remember exactly just how long he wound up staying with us but he was very odd with certain things he was very ocd and he would faithfully iron his underwear and socks every day, and would freak out if they didn't come out just right, like (fucking weird right?), gets weirder.. he would nonchalantly mention how much he hated his mother and wished he could kill the bitch!, I'd just look at him like wtf is wrong with you I don't wanna hear that shit.. then he'd apologize and then start cracking up hysterically.. He would leave and then return like 3-4 days later that started to be his schedule. He never told us where he would go or who he was with, he'd play it off that he was doing little side jobs but yet he never had any money to give us to help with anything.. Then he was gone one time and thats' when we had a few friends over for a dinner party and video game wars and eventually we shut the friggen video games off and put the news on and that's when we seen him crying uncontrollable saying it wasn't him, and he was innocent. He was in the same flannel shirt and jeans he was wearing when he had left our apt on a few days prior.. We were beside ourselves, and we couldn't believe it, we're all like WTF did he do?? The next morning his face took up the whole front page of the Philadelphia daily news or inquirer and in the bottom right hand corner were 3 wallet size pics that they were comparing him to Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and the 3rd pic was of a black male that used to have sex with dead bodies, then there was like a 5 pg write up about him and how several other women as far as Washington State had encountered him and he had either raped them or beat them, ect.. That was the last I've ever seen him thank god.. and as whacked as this sounds, I had gotten raped one night before all this and I made it home and I couldn't reach my bf and he wasn't home, so I went out looking around for him and eventually Shane comes walking up the sidewalk and I asked him if he knew where my bf was and he said no and then he's like wtf happened to you? as my clothes were all ripped and I was bleeding so I had told him I had gotten raped earlier that night and was hit in the head with a big rock and had gotten knocked out for a bit when I was able to get up I basically walked home in tons of pain from south street because I used to spend a lot of time there watching bands. long story short it was him (Shane) that brought me to the hospital to get a rape kit done. I still can't believe it I think about that moment after we found out what he had been arrested for and my hair stands on end every time I think about it to this day.. He also brought a girl that he said he was just dating at the time she was a DJ at some radio station in PA somewhere (but really they had a baby together) she happened to be African american and was a sweetheart, he would introduce her to us as his nigger.. I felt so bad for her she was really nice and I was absolutely livid with him about the way he addressed her and I left the house with her afterwards so she didn't have to deal with the disrespect at least while I was there to witness. And then I had seen him trying to get custody of his son while in prison I'm like he should never be able to see that child.. I l0ok up to see if there is any recent news on him because I still am in awe of just the whole situation and the fact that my bf and I didn't even have a bed at the time so Shane was sleeping on one side of me and my boyfriend on the other side just unbelievable..I'd like to know which prison he is in...

Heather Lynn

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On Tuesday, October 5, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Martha wrote:
> The rape/murder trial of landscaper Shane Wheale, 28, began yesterday in
> Norristown, PA. Wheale is accused of first-degree murder, as well as
> sexual assault charges, in the death of Regina Marie Carr, whose
> strangled, battered, bloody body was found slumped in the front seat of
> her car in August 1998. Blood evidence led to Wheale.
>
> Since the announcement of Wheale's arrest, several women have come
> forward to report that he raped and beat them, attacks that they were
> afraid to report to police. Wheale denies all these charges, saying
> that the sex was always consensual (including the acts that left Regina
> Carr dead), that the women were all upset when he told them to go home
> and are crying rape now out of their anger.
>
> Carr met Wheale in a bar and offered him a ride home. She had been out
> with friends, her husband having died the year before (I read earlier
> that he had died from cancer; today's paper says he was killed in a car
> accident), and it was unusual for her to be out at a bar. Witnesses
> identified Wheale as the man who left with Carr. He is
> striking-looking, big, dark, with ice-blue eyes. He had been described
> as "very handsome" in newspaper stories, but the accompanying pictures
> did not seem very handsome to me--they were all full frontal, and he
> looked sort of like Skeletor--but there was a profile shot in the paper
> over the weekend, and he looks to me a little like the actor Ray Liotta.
> Anyway, his looks are such, apparently, that he does make an impression
> on witnesses, a disadvantage to the career criminal imho.
>
> What Wheale says happened with Carr is this: she was performing oral
> sex on him as he sat in the driver's seat of her car. She was
> straddling the floor-mounted gearshift (this is to explain the vaginal
> and rectal cuts she suffered) while performing this blowjob on his
> mammoth member. His penis is so big, Wheale reports, that she not only
> choked on it (the strangulation) but bobbing her head up and down on
> such a *large* object made the back of her head bang into the steering
> wheel (the beating about the head and neck). This explanation was in
> Wheale's statement to police, so I would imagine that the state would
> want some evidence of the size of Wheale's package, so that the jurors
> (ten women, two men from Lancaster County--the Amish haven't heard of
> oral sex, I guess, and are untainted) can judge for themselves the
> likelihood of this having happened as Wheale says it did. I think, in
> fact, that Wheale himself ought to be eager to expose himself to the
> jury if he is, indeed, such a whale of a guy.
>
> The only witness who testified yesterday was a 26-year-old woman who
> says that Wheale attacked her after she gave him a ride home from a bar.
> She said she thought he was really attractive (and had a trace of an
> Irish accent--where did *that* come from?) and was hoping he would ask
> for her phone number. He invited her up to his apartment, and she went,
> still hoping to be asked for a date. He suddenly, she says, told her he
> wanted to kiss her--now--and began to tear her clothes off. She fought,
> trying to hold on to furniture and the kitchen counter, but he was too
> strong, and he raped her. Then he told her that it was probably the
> best sex she would ever have and asked, mockingly, if she had any
> brothers who were going to come beat him up. The woman went to a
> hospital for treatment immediately, and police were summoned, but she
> refused to press charges because she was so embarrassed, and because she
> did not want her parents to find out because, she said, they would say
> it was her fault and would never let her forget it. She said that she
> has never told her parents.
>
> Wheale's attorney suggested in cross-examination that the woman had
> "turned" on Wheale after he made her leave at 5 a.m. because his
> pregnant girlfriend was coming to pick him up for work (think of the
> rapes that might have been averted if this guy had had his own car!),
> that she had enjoyed a night of consensual sex with his client.
>
> I imagine that this is a well-attended trial--wish I could be there.
>
> Martha



On Tuesday, October 5, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Martha wrote:
> The rape/murder trial of landscaper Shane Wheale, 28, began yesterday in
> Norristown, PA. Wheale is accused of first-degree murder, as well as
> sexual assault charges, in the death of Regina Marie Carr, whose
> strangled, battered, bloody body was found slumped in the front seat of
> her car in August 1998. Blood evidence led to Wheale.
>
> Since the announcement of Wheale's arrest, several women have come
> forward to report that he raped and beat them, attacks that they were
> afraid to report to police. Wheale denies all these charges, saying
> that the sex was always consensual (including the acts that left Regina
> Carr dead), that the women were all upset when he told them to go home
> and are crying rape now out of their anger.
>
> Carr met Wheale in a bar and offered him a ride home. She had been out
> with friends, her husband having died the year before (I read earlier
> that he had died from cancer; today's paper says he was killed in a car
> accident), and it was unusual for her to be out at a bar. Witnesses
> identified Wheale as the man who left with Carr. He is
> striking-looking, big, dark, with ice-blue eyes. He had been described
> as "very handsome" in newspaper stories, but the accompanying pictures
> did not seem very handsome to me--they were all full frontal, and he
> looked sort of like Skeletor--but there was a profile shot in the paper
> over the weekend, and he looks to me a little like the actor Ray Liotta.
> Anyway, his looks are such, apparently, that he does make an impression
> on witnesses, a disadvantage to the career criminal imho.
>
> What Wheale says happened with Carr is this: she was performing oral
> sex on him as he sat in the driver's seat of her car. She was
> straddling the floor-mounted gearshift (this is to explain the vaginal
> and rectal cuts she suffered) while performing this blowjob on his
> mammoth member. His penis is so big, Wheale reports, that she not only
> choked on it (the strangulation) but bobbing her head up and down on
> such a *large* object made the back of her head bang into the steering
> wheel (the beating about the head and neck). This explanation was in
> Wheale's statement to police, so I would imagine that the state would
> want some evidence of the size of Wheale's package, so that the jurors
> (ten women, two men from Lancaster County--the Amish haven't heard of
> oral sex, I guess, and are untainted) can judge for themselves the
> likelihood of this having happened as Wheale says it did. I think, in
> fact, that Wheale himself ought to be eager to expose himself to the
> jury if he is, indeed, such a whale of a guy.
>
> The only witness who testified yesterday was a 26-year-old woman who
> says that Wheale attacked her after she gave him a ride home from a bar.
> She said she thought he was really attractive (and had a trace of an
> Irish accent--where did *that* come from?) and was hoping he would ask
> for her phone number. He invited her up to his apartment, and she went,
> still hoping to be asked for a date. He suddenly, she says, told her he
> wanted to kiss her--now--and began to tear her clothes off. She fought,
> trying to hold on to furniture and the kitchen counter, but he was too
> strong, and he raped her. Then he told her that it was probably the
> best sex she would ever have and asked, mockingly, if she had any
> brothers who were going to come beat him up. The woman went to a
> hospital for treatment immediately, and police were summoned, but she
> refused to press charges because she was so embarrassed, and because she
> did not want her parents to find out because, she said, they would say
> it was her fault and would never let her forget it. She said that she
> has never told her parents.
>
> Wheale's attorney suggested in cross-examination that the woman had
> "turned" on Wheale after he made her leave at 5 a.m. because his
> pregnant girlfriend was coming to pick him up for work (think of the
> rapes that might have been averted if this guy had had his own car!),
> that she had enjoyed a night of consensual sex with his client.
>
> I imagine that this is a well-attended trial--wish I could be there.
>
> Martha



On Tuesday, October 5, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Martha wrote:
> The rape/murder trial of landscaper Shane Wheale, 28, began yesterday in
> Norristown, PA. Wheale is accused of first-degree murder, as well as
> sexual assault charges, in the death of Regina Marie Carr, whose
> strangled, battered, bloody body was found slumped in the front seat of
> her car in August 1998. Blood evidence led to Wheale.
>
> Since the announcement of Wheale's arrest, several women have come
> forward to report that he raped and beat them, attacks that they were
> afraid to report to police. Wheale denies all these charges, saying
> that the sex was always consensual (including the acts that left Regina
> Carr dead), that the women were all upset when he told them to go home
> and are crying rape now out of their anger.
>
> Carr met Wheale in a bar and offered him a ride home. She had been out
> with friends, her husband having died the year before (I read earlier
> that he had died from cancer; today's paper says he was killed in a car
> accident), and it was unusual for her to be out at a bar. Witnesses
> identified Wheale as the man who left with Carr. He is
> striking-looking, big, dark, with ice-blue eyes. He had been described
> as "very handsome" in newspaper stories, but the accompanying pictures
> did not seem very handsome to me--they were all full frontal, and he
> looked sort of like Skeletor--but there was a profile shot in the paper
> over the weekend, and he looks to me a little like the actor Ray Liotta.
> Anyway, his looks are such, apparently, that he does make an impression
> on witnesses, a disadvantage to the career criminal imho.
>
> What Wheale says happened with Carr is this: she was performing oral
> sex on him as he sat in the driver's seat of her car. She was
> straddling the floor-mounted gearshift (this is to explain the vaginal
> and rectal cuts she suffered) while performing this blowjob on his
> mammoth member. His penis is so big, Wheale reports, that she not only
> choked on it (the strangulation) but bobbing her head up and down on
> such a *large* object made the back of her head bang into the steering
> wheel (the beating about the head and neck). This explanation was in
> Wheale's statement to police, so I would imagine that the state would
> want some evidence of the size of Wheale's package, so that the jurors
> (ten women, two men from Lancaster County--the Amish haven't heard of
> oral sex, I guess, and are untainted) can judge for themselves the
> likelihood of this having happened as Wheale says it did. I think, in
> fact, that Wheale himself ought to be eager to expose himself to the
> jury if he is, indeed, such a whale of a guy.
>
> The only witness who testified yesterday was a 26-year-old woman who
> says that Wheale attacked her after she gave him a ride home from a bar.
> She said she thought he was really attractive (and had a trace of an
> Irish accent--where did *that* come from?) and was hoping he would ask
> for her phone number. He invited her up to his apartment, and she went,
> still hoping to be asked for a date. He suddenly, she says, told her he
> wanted to kiss her--now--and began to tear her clothes off. She fought,
> trying to hold on to furniture and the kitchen counter, but he was too
> strong, and he raped her. Then he told her that it was probably the
> best sex she would ever have and asked, mockingly, if she had any
> brothers who were going to come beat him up. The woman went to a

Heather Lynn

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victor...@gmail.com

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So weird I remember him randomly. We used to frequent a local bar and I drove him home many times, he always asked to hold my hand during the drive which I told him was weird. But still always felt semi comfortable with him putting his arms around me in the bar, but I always had a strange feeling I shouldn't let him hug or kiss me in my car. Gave him a ride home very close to when this happened, still freaks me out.

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Wow this is an old discussion. I recently spend several years in state prison, and for a year or so of that time, Shane Wheale was my neighbor. One wall of concrete blocks separated me from the guy. You hear all sorts of stories about people you meet in prison, and Shane has done a good job of making himself look like the victim, you wouldn't think in a million years that he could have done any of the things he did just by listening to him. I always got a weird feeling around him, and now I know why. The crazy part in all of this, for me, is that he isn't even the worst person I met in my travels. For every person like him, there are more that are even worse, not to diminish the evil and sickening things he did to those women, and Ms. Carr in particular. He is still going on about getting a new trial, how much he loves his son, and parole for lifers. He is one that definitely deserves to be where he is.

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I was celled up with this asshole in Frackville he lied and i was reading him clearly with his bull crap. he should of got death row in my book after reading all about his crime when i got home in 13+ years ago. today i remember him and i taught i'd take a look under his name with google. what a cry baby he was. why house him and make us pay for his crime? he needs to be execute and put to sleep. he is a monster

Dave Schwartz

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On Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 8:23:17 PM UTC-7, lowespr...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was celled up with this asshole in Frackville he lied and i was reading him clearly with his bull crap. he should of got death row in my book after reading all about his crime when i got home in 13+ years ago. today i remember him and i taught i'd take a look under his name with google. what a cry baby he was. why house him and make us pay for his crime? he needs to be execute and put to sleep. he is a monster


I grew up in the same neighborhood as Shane when we were kids. He was my "bully". I hated that motherfucker with everything I was and still am. It came as no surprise when all of this happened to him, considering his violent history with me directly. He was a tormentor and downright evil person. Anything else he says or plays off as is a lie. The boy is a naturally born bad person to the bone. He is right where he belongs and right where I always wished he would end up. I hope he dies in prison a very lonely person. I have since had the best life possible while he has been rotting in a cell for the last 20 years. Fucking scumbag.

Gregory Carr

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Hope he dies in prison shame that rape is not a death penalty crime.
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