What happened to Matthew Silliman?

[Nell]

Allegra Rose Dahlquist, 17, from Cary; 18-year-old Ryan Patrick Hare, of Apex; 16-year-old Drew Logan of Apex; and Aadil Shahid Kahn, 17, of Apex were all arrested and charged with murder. All four are being held without bond.

Kahn and Dahlquist are both seniors at Apex High School. Shaw is a student at Panther Creek High School, the same school where Hare was enrolled until he dropped out in February.

"Anytime you have young people involved in something like this it's always shocking, and you hate to see it. It's just families ruined," said Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison.

Apex Police received a call Tuesday night about a body found at 4221 Olive Branch Lane in New Hill.

Sheriff Harrison said the body was found in a trailer, but said he doesn't know if it is a male or female body.

Harrison said officials are investigating to see if the body is that of missing Apex teen, Matthew Silliman. A Silver Alert was issued for Silliman after he was reported missing by his parents. Read more about the Silver Alert issued for Silliman here.

"We are aware of the fact that there is a missing teenager in this area, and the question's been asked, 'could it be the missing teenager?' I don't know the answer to that yet," said Harrison.

http://www.truecrimereport.com/2008/12/what_happened_to_matthew_silli.php

[Unamused Cat]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/mattsilliman.jpg
Matthew Silliman

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/sillimankillers.jpg
Aadil Shaaid Kahn, 17, Allegra Rose Dahlquist, 17, Drew Logan Shaw, 16, and Ryan Patrick Hare, 18,

Silliman's MySpace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=37948487

Kahn's Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/aryantemplar

Dalquist: http://humanpets.com/809893008

Drew Shaw is a Juggalo. Profile not viewable now.

Ryan Hare: http://www.myspace.com/125847184

More details at: http://www.newsobserver.com/267/story/1321411.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Four teenagers charged with Matthew Silliman's death foretold his future using tarot cards, beat him on the head with a hammer, bound him with zip ties, and suffocated him with duct tape, according to unsealed search warrants.

Authorities found Silliman's body in a plastic bag on the bathroom floor of a mobile home on Dec. 2. The 18-year-old Eagle Scout was last seen at his home Nov. 25.

Deputies seized burned incense and ashes from the mobile home where his body was.

A Wake County grand jury indicted Drew Logan Shaw, 16, Ryan Patrick Hare, 18, and Aadil Shahid Khan, 17, and Allegra Rose Dahlquist, 17,on charges of murder in Silliman's death.

The teens were linked by friends and courtships, and through social networking Web sites.

Although the search warrants do not name Dahlquist and Khan, they say that suspects living at their addresses confessed and implicated other people. One of the other suspects also confessed, according to the warrants, though which was unclear.

Suspects told police that they attempted to use medications commonly used for animals to plan the murder and read the deceased his fortune using tarot cards just prior to his death.

The dozen warrants unsealed did not spell out a motive for the crime. Authorities are combing through statements made by all four suspects to make sense of what happened.

All four teens are being held at the Wake County jail without bond.

An autopsy report that would fully describe Silliman's injuries is not complete but a preliminary report indicated the cause of death was asphyxiation.http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1338209.html

[penelopejo]

sooooo, why did they kill him? makes no sense.....

[DarkPrincess]

This fall, life bore down on Matt Silliman.
There was the on-again-off-again love affair with his girlfriend. His dad didn't like his new style: dyed hair and gothlike clothes. Since he turned 18 in August, he had set out to find the mother who gave him up for adoption when she was a teenager, said Taylor Cross, a friend from Apex High School.
"All of this was just stacking up," Cross said.
Matthew Josiah Silliman, 18-year-old Eagle Scout, was found dead Wednesday in a mobile home used for storage in the rural community of New Hill, in southwestern Wake County. Four teens, friends from western Wake County, have been charged with his killing.
In late September, Silliman posted on his Facebook page a vulgar and desperate message, then suggested he would kill himself. Two days later, he was in a psychiatric ward at Holly Hill Hospital in Raleigh, according to Cross and Silliman's Facebook postings.
So, when Silliman disappeared the night before Thanksgiving, friends assumed he had run away. His parents called police, concerned that their son had vanished without his medication. They told friends from church that he'd probably gone camping, said his Scout troopmaster, Bart Vashaw.
No one thought Silliman, who thrived outdoors, could be in danger.

http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=93061551

[ceisdsgil]

this really is a sad story... Matthew looked like someone my daughter might've hung out with... he sure seemed like he might have had a future..:(

i hope the four responsible are punished to the fullest extent of the law...


Rest in Peace Matthew...


~shadow

[Dakota Valkyrie]

And I thought this one could not get any more weird:
The search warrants also show investigators are combing through messages and entries on social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace for clues to a motive. On Shaw's Facebook page, he refers to himself as a "Jugalo."

According to the Urban Dictionary website, a jugalo is someone who is "any person identifying with or supporting the Insane Clown Posse."

The Insane Clown Posse is a hip hop duo from Detroit that performs under the personas of murderous wicked clowns. Their music is known as "horrorcore," and is full of dark lyrics that have been targeted by some critics for being too violent and immature for many of the young fans who support the group.

Eyewitness News began reading through some of those lyrics Thursday and came up with some disturbing similarities between the words and what allegedly happened to Silliman.

In the song "Murda Cloak," one line reads: "I tied a ***** up, I had to duct tape the ***** face." The song "Wax Museum" says: "It seems my cards of tarot have dealt you a very odd hand," and the song "Like It Like That" says: "Sometimes my dome feels like a cherry bomb. I gotta pound his ***** head with a hammer to keep him calm."http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6562548&rss=rss-wtvd-article-6562548

PDF of search warrants/info: http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wtvd/20081217215953.pdf

[MISSanthropic]

I'll never be able to express how much I hate the retardedness (if that's not a word, it is now) that is a juggalo.

[Tazzzz]

NOOOOOOOOoooo, say it isnt sooooooo, Not another damn Juggalo. I have been trying to forget the other insane retarded couple who posted picts of there dead baby on myspace. This sounds just like something a Juggalo would do.

...Im down wit the clown till Im dead in the ground...http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/images/kirsch/smilies/gtnsmilies/puke.gif


AssClowns is what they are.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k54/darleneyk/assclown2520cereal.jpg

[DarkPrincess]

I never heard about the dead baby pix on myspace. That's fucking sick. I never liked ICP. My friend used to listen to them all the time and it drove me crazy. Not that I blame the group for the actions of other people.

[Maggie Mae]

I loved ICP. For about a month, when I was 16. Then I went to one of their concerts and looked around me at the freak show and was like, "Is this an accurate representation of the quality of people enjoying this music?" I haven't listened to them since.

[Unamused Cat]

Update:

RALEIGH, N.C. --[B] Autopsy findings released Tuesday show a teen found dead in a North Carolina home late last year had been tied up, his mouth covered with duct tape and his head had been covered with a plastic bag.

The report also said Matthew Silliman, 18, of Apex, died of asphyxiation and suffered blunt force injuries to his head. Doctors wrote that a lethal amount of antidepressants was found in his system but wasn't listed as a cause of death.

Silliman's body was found Dec. 3 in a sleeping bag in a Wake County mobile home owned by the parents of 17-year-old Allegra Rose Dahlquist, one of four teenagers charged with murder in his death. Aadil Shaaid Kahn, Drew Logan Shaw and Ryan Patrick Hare also face murder charges, and Hare and Shaw are also charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/18847152/detail.html#-

[philly_phan]

sooooo, why did they kill him? makes no sense.....
NO MORE OUIJA BOARD! Now I know why my mom wouldn't let me bring the one I received for a birthday gift one year into the house - I had to keep it in the garage. And when me and Krista Denlinger wanted to have a seance for the DeFeo family (Amityville Horror fame) she flipped the fuck out! We didn't want to do it for satanic or hurtful purposes, of course! Lol. We saw the movie and heard about the story and thought it would be interesting to channel someone.

These kids took this shit too far and someone got hurt. I don't think we can blame actions on music....or movies...or any kind of media. People who are sadistic and sick are going to do their bullshit whether they listen to Celine Dion or ICP. While I do not enjoy ICP and do not listen to them, I think it's unfair to blame their music for influencing these fools. Not just ICP, but ANY music being blamed for assbackwards bullshit like this is unfair and scapegoating.