Daniel Vanhorn wanted for questioning in child's death

**thebooblady** · April 22nd, 2009, 11:22 PM

http://www.ocala.com/article/2009042...-investigating

On March 20, Baylee Christopher Lee Shoenwolf, was found unresponsive on his bed. Paramedics transported the child to Munroe Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased.

Blair would not elaborate on the death. He would only to say that the cause was blunt force trauma.

Detectives would like to talk with Daniel Anthony Vanhorn, 26, about the case since he was the last person to have contact with the child. Blair stressed that the detectives only want to talk with Vanhorn, who has an arrest warrant for failure to pay child support.

Detectives say at the time of the child’s death, Vanhorn, a lawn care worker, would watch the children at night while Shoenwolf would take care of the child in the days due to her working at night.

There's not a whole lot of info about this, but I'm guessing this guy didn't disappear because he is innocent. The stupid mother appears to still be in love with him. Be sure to check out her MySpace. She also has a 5 year old and he is living with his grandmother(and possibly the mother too).

http://www.myspace.com/heather_julian
" All i need is my Boo and Im good as can be"

From his deleted MySpace:
""I do what i want and say what i think don't like it go fuck yourself"
Children: I don't want kids (guess he didn't)

**Unamused Cat** · April 22nd, 2009, 11:34 PM

""I do what i want and say what i think don't like it go fuck yourself"
Children: I don't want kids (guess he didn't)

That should have been the mother's first clue not to hook up with this guy. Her MySpace says, " IM recentlly engaged to the most wonderful man ever!!!!" I hope they catch that rat bastard soon.

**Nell** · April 25th, 2009, 01:58 PM

She is flipping out. Her MySpace header now is "Why oh Why!!" and this is her about me...

WHY OH WHY!!!!!!'s Blurbs
About me:
My 18 month beautiful baby boy just passed away and ive been harrassed by the police and DCF, and now people that are posting comments on the ocala star banner! This is the hardest thing anyone could go through, nobody really knows how I AM feeling they just all assume im a bad person. The final results from the autopsy havent come back yet so everybody just shut your mouth untill then!!! We had a very happy life and i dont know what happened! I was going to be a teacher, so those of you that say not to let me around kids can fuck off! I didnt do anything to hurt anyone!! Thanks and have a great fucken day!

Sounds like she is in denial and will come around soon enough.

**Anodyne** · April 25th, 2009, 02:08 PM

Her myspace annoyed the shit out of me. That part you quoted, Nell, made me think that regardless of what happened to her child, I'd never want her to be a teacher.

Then when she had bumper stickers and quotes about how awesome her ass was, I scoped her pictures. Let's just say she has a highly overgrown opinion of her self.

She does have lots and lots of pictures of her kids though, and when I got to this one my heart just broke a little.

Baylee on the left.

:(

Poor dang kid.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · July 13th, 2009, 09:57 PM

A Marion County man has been charged with third degree murder in the March death of an infant.

Marion County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Daniel Vanhorn, 26, on July 9 and charged him with third degree murder in the death of Baylee Schoenwolf.
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An investigation revealed Baylee had bruising on her head and an injury to her ear. On June 17, 2009, detectives received the final autopsy report from the Medical Examiners Office which ruled the child’s death a homicide due to blunt force head trauma.

During the investigation, Daniel Vanhorn changed his residence and a warrant was issued for his arrest. On July 9, 2009, Vanhorn was re-interviewed and detectives identified several inconsistencies in his story and we was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news...t_death_charge

I suspect Vanhorn deleted his MySpace. It now says whoever has that custom URL joined MySpace on June 26. (Their bad luck that they picked on a baby killer used to have). I am removing it from the posts above.

**thehesbomb** · July 14th, 2009, 09:57 AM

They found him and arrested him.

Four months after a Belleview woman found her 18-month-old son unresponsive in her home, Marion County sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested the woman's boyfriend in connection with the child's death.

Daniel Vanhorn, 26, was arrested at the Marion County Jail, where he was being held on a charge of failing to pay child support.

He is charged with third-degree murder in the death of Baylee Schoenwolf.

"The autopsy showed that the child died from blunt force to the head," sheriff's detective Mark Peavy said Monday afternoon. "It was ruled a homicide, and Mr. Vanhorn has been charged today."

On March 20, deputies went to the Whispering Oaks Mobile Home Park in Belleview just as paramedics were taking Baylee to Munroe Regional Medical Center, according to the arrest affidavit.

The child was pronounced dead on arrival.

Investigators questioned Baylee's mother, Heather Schoenwolf, and Vanhorn. They learned that Vanhorn was alone with Schoenwolf's two children while she was at work the prior evening.

Schoenwolf said she came home and got her 5-year-old up for school and then went into Baylee's room.

"She went to tickle his feet and found that he wasn't responding," Peavy said. "At the hospital, he had a relatively high body temperature (of 104 degrees)."

The affidavit states that Vanhorn told detectives that he put the two children to bed at about 8 p.m. the night before. Baylee had gotten up out of bed two or three times during the night, he said, and that he went to bed for good around 11:30 p.m.

Vanhorn told investigators that he had not spanked Baylee as he put him back to bed, according to the affidavit.

But further investigation showed that Baylee had bruising on his head and an injury to his right ear. An autopsy on April 3, which was finalized on June 17, determined that Baylee's death was a homicide.

On June 30, investigators questioned the older child, who said that Vanhorn threw Baylee onto the bed, which caused him to "bounce off and hit the wall and then die," according to the affidavit.

Detectives then went looking for Vanhorn but could not find him.

"We learned that he had changed his address and moved after the investigation started," Peavy said. Officials tracked him down in Sarasota County. On Thursday they arrested him on the unrelated warrant for failing to pay child support for his own child.

Vanhorn was transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was being held without bail.

I want to smack this grin off his stupid fucking head.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news...t_death_charge

http://www.ocala.com/article/2009071...-child-s-death

**Dakota Valkyrie** · September 28th, 2009, 07:06 PM

The man charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 18-month-old son has pleaded no contest to third-degree murder and child abuse.

Daniel Vanhorn, 26, was sentenced to eight years in the Department of Corrections, followed by seven years of probation.
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“He picked the kid up, threw him back on the bed, and the child bounced off the bed and hit the wall,” said Donald McCathran, a prosecutor.
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A 5-year-old child who was home at the time told authorities he saw Vanhorn pick up his infant brother and throw him onto the bed.

“He did not die of natural causes,” McCathran said. “Based on what the [5-year-old] child said, [Vanhorn] was the only one there,” McCathran said.

http://www.ocala.com/article/2009092...death-of-child