This is a redo of a cache that has haunted me in several ways. Firstly, I have searched for it at least a half dozen times. There are so many ways that one might think to go into the woods after this but after looking so many times, pretty sure, my listed way point is the easiest. It was archived because the owner didn't answer the call for maintence. I knew it must still be there because the location was so far of the beaten path it couldn't have been muggled. This is a very secluded area in SGL 285 and this story really surprised and shocked me, such a tragic event happend nearby. I wanted to peserve the story even though I could not preserve this very old cache placement.
State Game Lands -During hunting season wear orange!
PREVIOUS PLACEMENT - GCQHZP -A cache by Prof_Fate Hidden: 09/11/2005
"A cache placed in the State Game Lands in memory of Clairenda Collins and Loretta Haines whe were shot to death in a senseless kill for thrill in May 1999.
Here is the story: By Torsten Ove, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Nineteen-year-old Todd Butler had a new 12-gauge shotgun, and one Tuesday night (May 25, 1999) he wanted to go drinking and target-shooting. But he and his buddy, Nathan Criss, 23, didn't have a car to take them to one of their favorite spots -- the secluded Pennsylvania State Game Lands in Beaver County, across the border from their homes in Columbiana County, Ohio.
So they persuaded two Ohio friends -- Clairenda Collins, 21, of Rogers, and Loretta Haines, 18, of East Palestine -- to drive them to a popular party spot about two miles into the dense woods off Cannelton Road in South Beaver. A 16-year-old boy, also from Ohio, came along for the ride, and the party of five picked up a 30-pack of discount beer.
They arrived about 6 p.m. and for several hours partied among the maples and pines along Watts Mill Road while Butler and Criss fired the shotgun at beer cans and rocks.
But as the evening progressed, the mood changed. State police said Butler began talking about turning the shotgun on Collins and Haines, best friends who had attended an Ohio vocational school together. Then, police said, sometime between 8 and 9:30 p.m., Butler suddenly opened fire on the women. Ohio and Pennsylvania authorities said Butler, for reasons they don't yet understand, first shot Haines from close range as she sat on the ground near a bush, hitting her in the upper chest. Then Butler aimed the gun at Collins, who was a few feet away, and fired twice, also striking her in the upper chest.
"As far as I know, there is no motive. It appears to be a kill-for-thrill kind of thing," said state police Trooper Don Neill. "They shot at some cans and drank some beer, and eventually Mr. Butler apparently decided to shoot the two women."
BEAVER, Pa. — An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to killing two women with a shotgun was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life prison terms without any chance of parole. Todd Butler, 20, of Columbiana, was sentenced by Beaver County Common Pleas Judge George James. Under Pennsylvania law, a person convicted of first-degree murder can be punished only by the death penalty or life in prison without chance of parole."