15 Year Old Shaylee Snyder Was Lured & Murdered

#JusticeForShaylee: She Was Not a Runaway

Fifteen-year-old Shaylee Snyder disappeared from Indianapolis on February 10, 2025. Her family went to police with burner phones, medical records, and eyewitness accounts — and were told, "She's probably bipolar. There ain't nothing we can do." Twelve days later, Shaylee was found dead beside railroad tracks, bruised from head to toe, next to a burning car. She was a Jane Doe for three days. No one has been charged.

In this episode, we sit down with Shaylee's aunt Laura Davis to hear what really happened — and what law enforcement doesn't want you to know.

Justice for Shaylee. She was not a runaway.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

We're here with Laura Davis and we're talking about her niece, uh, Shaley. Um Shaley went missing in Indianapolis, Indiana, uh a couple of years ago. And um so uh Laura, tell me uh what type of person Shaylee was.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Shaylee was very, very caring. She always cared about everybody's feelings. Um she was always there to help you. She was funny and she was very athletic. Um she played basketball for a long time for uh Indie Hoops and uh where we were from, Warsville, Indiana, she played there as well.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Okay. You shared you shared with me that uh she was having problems uh at home um as far as her mental health and everything. Um could you tell everybody about that?

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah, so uh Shaley was just having some recurring trauma memories. Um so we were taking her to um counseling to help deal with those. Um and she just like she totally changed. She was getting bullied at school all the time, um uh with by by some girls that were with her, her entire wife, like they grew up together, they played basketball together, so it didn't make any sense that they always were bullying her and making fun of her. Um but she was going to the doctor, and they you know they're always with mental health medications, it's usually just trial and error. So that's that's what we were going through. We were trying different medications to see w what would help her. Um and the medications weren't working.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Yeah. Yeah, and um, you know, that happens a lot with uh at age and everything with uh with you know changes, hormones and and then also trauma and all that kind of stuff. So so you know, she was going through a rough period and she may have made some decisions that she shouldn't have made, you know. And like you told me she was talking to people online. Um could you tell me more about that as well?

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yeah, so she she had she would talk through various I guess organizations. Like she would have Facebook and Instagram, Roblox, um the what's what's not or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Minecraft, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Yeah. Um she had that, there was some dating Minecraft, I think. Um it was crazy. Um but it was to the point where she was like talking to people on the telephone. My children, you know, noticed like mom she's talking to, you know, some grown men online and um she says she's gonna go meet 'em and all this stuff and so they they told me and we were, you know, you do what you do, you take the phones away, you take the games away, you take the computers away. If she had to do school work, she had to sit in the living room floor and do her schoolwork in front of everybody. So how did they gain access after Shaley passed? We found several burner phones in her room.

unknown 4:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Say at least three three or four. Yeah, three or four phones in her room. And like they were one of them was like almost up underneath the floorboard.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yeah. Um so I should mention that Chailey had called me two weeks prior from her cell phone. She had gone into her mom's room and got her phone and left at one o'clock in the morning. She was only out for two hours because she called me to come pick her up on she's pretty far away from home. South Keystone. Oh, South Keystone. Yeah, at three o'clock in the morning. Oh wow. So and I believe that whoever she was with at that moment gained enough trust of hers that they told her, You don't need anything, just come with me, don't bring anything, and set the whole thing up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

And then um can you tell me more about how she was found and everything?

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Ooh. Yes. Um, this is hard. This is this is so hard. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Um you're fine. You're fine.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Take your time.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

She left February tenth of twenty twenty-five. Um, and that day. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Sorry, my son's upset. On February tenth, Shaley left. Her body was found. Her body was found February. Um my gosh. Her body was found February twenty second, twenty twenty-five by some railroad track on the west side of India. The complete opposite side of town. She was found by a train conductor. And of course she was a Jane Doe for three days. Because the police never made it. They didn't like put anything out to the public. They didn't they didn't do anything.

unknown 8:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

They made us wait forty-eight hours to even be able to speak to a missing person's detective.

unknown 8:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

On a fifteen year old. Who does that?

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

And we went there and we met with the missing person's detective. Her name, I don't know if I should say on here. Um but anyway, the missing person's detective. We took Shaley's full computer, her Nintendo Switch, her um the phone uh you know, a couple a phone or two that we had found. We took her medical folder and everything as she was going through. And she kind of laughed at us and said, Well, her exact words were, well, she's probably bipolar. There ain't nothing we can do about it.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

That's messed up.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

And I said, Well, we can you know, can we like an embrill or or something? Like she's fifteen years old and we know that she's talking to people she shouldn't be. And it's like it doesn't make it it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

She doesn't have her medications and we are fearful that something is going to happen.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Yeah. Somebody somebody lured her and then did all this to her. And and we need to find the person who did this because they might do it again or something, you know. I'm sure that's and and this is she was only fifteen years old, you know? And this is horrifying that somebody could do this, you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

She when they found her, she was um bruised from head to toe. She had bruises everywhere. Oh my gosh. And um uh so her pants were around her ankles and she was like half in a sleeping bag and half out of a green sleeping bag.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

That's awful.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Well, I'm gonna call you back. Uh we're gonna write this up. We're gonna write this up, and I'll call you right back one second.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Okay.