Cherrie Mahan - Lecture notes 6-8 PDF

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10 Lesser Known But Truly Baffling Disappearances...

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Cherrie Mahan THE CASE OF CHERRIE MAHAN

On February 22, 1985, eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan got off her school bus along with three schoolmates. Her friends got into a car waiting for them, driven by Debbie Burk, one of the girls’ mother. Burk saw Cherrie walking past a bluish-green Dodge van and then turn the corner to walk the last 150 yards to her house. This would be the last time anyone laid eyes on Cherrie. Cherrie never made it home. Her stepfather heard the school bus stopping and leaving and expected Cherrie to arrive home within a few minutes. He wanted to meet her at the end of the long driveway but her mother thought it would be fine for the girl to walk home because it ‘was a nice day.’ However, as the minutes passed and Cherrie still wasn’t home, they started to worry. They went outside to look for her, but couldn’t find her anywhere. There were no footprints in the snow on the driveway, but there were tire impressions in the soil around 50 yards from the house. Police were notified and a search started, without success. Authorities believed the child had been kidnapped and that she likely knew the person who took her. Witnesses later stated that they’d seen the Dodge van a few times before Cherrie’s disappearance and that it had been painted black after she went missing. Cherrie’s face was printed on thousands of postcards to help with the search and there were many potential sightings of her, but nothing ever panned out. In 2018, Cherrie’s mother, Janice, received an anonymous letter from someone who claimed to have murdered Cherrie. They described how and why and also where her body was buried. This disturbing letter too was a dead-end lead. The mystery of who kidnapped Cherrie, remains....