Walmart worker trapped in walk-in oven – IOTW Report

Walmart worker trapped in walk-in oven

A Walmart worker gives a chilling new take on how the 19-year-old employee ‘baked to death’ in the store’s walk-in oven.

22 Comments on Walmart worker trapped in walk-in oven

  1. This is a horror movie in real life!
    As I think about it, I can only conclude she was knocked out by someone and put in there to die. only way to explain why she wouldn’t use the emergency release.
    PLEASE tell me there were security cameras in the area like there are in every other area of your typical Walmart!?

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  2. A WOKE Target Store employee did it because the Target was losing money and layoffs were right around the corner. This way by getting the competition shut down and more people now having to shop at Target this person could insure his / her continued employment.

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  3. I believe either injured or murdered outside of the oven and then put in to destroy the evidence.
    Why was the oven on? Was there any product in there baking or only her body? My guess is the product is on rolling racks that fill the space and no room for a person is something was baking.

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  4. The Wal-Mart employees said they could hear her screaming for help but couldn’t find her? The oven had a glass door.Why didn’t she say she was in the oven? How could they hear her, was there a intercom in the oven? why, wouldn’t the heat melt it. Somethings not right.What a horrifying way to go.

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  5. I have more questions. Was there an on button inside the oven? If so how stupid,or was the button on the outside in which case she turned it on before she went in or somebody did it after she went in. This is what I get for reading all the mystery books I buy.

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  6. …I’ve seen a burn victim or two in my time and thought about ways to discuss this, but since this is more likey a murder and less likely stupidity, I dont want to say much about the possible mechanisms of a death like this out of regard for this young victim of extreme violence.

    But I do have to say something to explain why I say I sincerely hope she was dead and gone before being placed in this device, it would indeed be the only true mercy in this story if she were.

    …I once helped pull a man from a bathtub in which he hastily filled and immersed himself to escape the flames of the burning house he was entrapped in the windowless central bathroom of. He was apparently driven by pain and confusion to try this last act of desperation in the fruitless hope it would save him. The condition of his body said much of how he suffered, but he didnt burn to death, the smoke got him first.

    And that is one thing that would make this young woman’s ordeal worse than his, were she consious. She didnt have the smoke to kill her, only the relentless and increasing heat, and that would take far longer and leave her in full posession of her faculties to feel exactly how she is dying.

    …I work in a food processing factory and so get news from others in the industry, so I have seen accounts of a man who entered a retort (essentially a large, automated pressure cooker) under controversial circumstances but without “locking it out”, and so he had an industrial sized load of tuna placed in on top of him, the door closed, and was literally cooked for a good long while. Bad as this was, he was most likely dead before loading was completed and if not, the shock of the initial steam would have killed him immediately on start up like a boiled lobster.

    Again, hers would have been worse due to this lack of a rapid mechanism of death. Only the heat to end her, nothing more.

    All this should be a consideration when bringing her murderer to justice.

    And I DO believe it murder because any other explanation seems implausible.

    This is considered a machine space and not designed for occupancy so it is not designed to have the door pulled shut from the inside, and certainly with no provision to be started from there. Its not possible to be sure without specific information of the incident oven (they may not be consistent OEM through the chain and CERTAINLY not all the same year), but it is VERY likely it has a push knob for escape for this very reason. These do take some force to operate but its all linear and not complicated at all (basically you slam the knob straight out away from you very intuitively), and its very mechanically simple so its unlikely to fail unless restrained from the other side.

    I did see a comment in the article that the knob in their version was metal, “so it would get hot”. While thats true as far as it goes, having seen disoriented basement fire victims try to literally to have tried to claw their way through solid concrete until their fingers were destroyed, I would not expect that to be any real deterrent at all under the circumstances. With a hefty load of adrenaline, thats a burn you’d not even NOTICE until much later…if you HAVE a later. And the oven is not a basement, so youre not going to be far from it, and even if you dont see it you would likely contact it just flailing around.

    And thats another thing. If she were conscious, the condition of the body and marks in the enclosure would bear witness to this. Also, while a bakery oven will destroy flesh evidence like bruising, bone evidence of impacts would likely be discernable, as well as any broken appendage and even deep defense cuts, if any.

    Murder will out.

    …again without knowing specifics its not possible to be sure, but given Walmart has more than one bakery product they would require more than one recipe which would likely need entered at start-up. Hard to do if you’re inside.

    It would be posdible it has a timed start feature, but given that there are limits to how long you can typically “hold” raw product prior to processing, this seems unlikely. And it would take a particuarly suicidal person of rare aplomb or heavy drugs to simply stand there and wait for the heat to kick in.

    These things dont pressurize so they arent perfectly sealed either which is why you can smell baking in stores, and even the thickest of Wal-Mart employees are going to know thats not what CAKE smells like so she must have been alone in there for AWHILE, but thats a whole different rabbit hole to go down as to who can access the area when and how Walmart tracks and supervises their bakery employees in off hours, but thats a different subject for another day.

    …for now, pray for this young woman’s family in their hour of need, and pray that her killer is brought swiftly and completely to justice.

    And let us hope indeed that she was either unconscious or dead when in the oven, because there WILL be very unpleasant evidence if she WASNT that this poor family will have to live with for the rest of their lives.

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  7. There was a gruesome story that took place in LA a few years ago. The security guys at a downtown high rise were alerted to a fire in an upper floor. They sent a guard up to the floor in the elevator to check it out. As soon as the elevator doors opened on the floor, the fire had gotten much larger and the fierce fire engulfed the elevator. The flames killed the poor man in a second and left him a smoking pile of ashes.

    It was a very sad occurrence.

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  8. Tim Buktu
    Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 19:01 at 7:01 pm

    “As soon as the elevator doors opened on the floor, the fire had gotten much larger and the fierce fire engulfed the elevator. The flames killed the poor man in a second and left him a smoking pile of ashes.”
    …elevators are an absolute no-no in a fire, for this and other reasons. Most buildings they automatically disable with a fire alarm except for use with a local FD key, which changes the operation completely. Also, theres a difference between a door opening on a guy in SCBA and 60 pounds of flame resistant clothing and a guy wearing a polyester shirt.

    We called the police ‘Canaries’ because they would sometimes rush in with much bravery and few breathing precautions, which occasionally gave us another patient to treat. Security guards are that squared…and sometimes, this is the outcome…

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