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Sherry Lynn Marler is a Missing Child

She was just running across the street to buy a soda while her stepfather ran errands in the bank. Then she was gone.

Full Name: Sherry Lynn Marler

Nickname: Little Farmer
Alternative Name: Unknown

La Apoda: Little Farmer
Nombres Alternativos: Desconocido

Date: June 6, 1984 (Wednesday)
Location: First National Bank, 100 W Commerce Street, Greenville, Alabama, United States 36037
Situation: Missing

Fecha: 6 de junio de 1984 (miércoles)
Falta en la fecha: First National Bank, 100 W Commerce Street, Greenville, Alabama, Estados Unidos 36037
Situación: Desaparecido

The Stringfellow — Marler family lived in a 400 acre farm about 12 miles west of Greenville, where they raised various crops and Sherry grew up with a passion for farm tools, so much so she was nicknamed “little farmer” amongst her family and the townspeople in nearby Greenville. She was a good girl, cheerful and close to her mother Betty and stepfather Raymond (‘Ray’). As May ended and June arrived, Sherry was excited to see summer days setting on with the promise of sunny days and the opportunity to help her stepfather out on the farm. Her stepfather fondly recalls that Sherry was a regular tomboy, far more interested in tractors than school, and this week was to be first week of summer vacation for the girl.

As the morning of June 6 dawns bright and early, Better wakes up with the sun and heads off to work at the Waffle House shortly before 7:00am. She leaves her young daughter Sherry asleep on the couch where she had spent the night due to extended family visiting their home.

Not too long afterward, Sherry wakes up as Ray heads into the kitchen to put on coffee to brew as he goes over the plans for the day. He needs to repair a combine and visit the local bank to discuss a farm loan he needed to extend.

As he heads out the door, he sees Sherry putting on her shoes as she tells him she wants to ride along, and together they set off to start their errands. They start by working on the combine for a while and then check on some of their fields, enough fun outdoors that Sherry is thoroughly dusty by the time they head on into town. They arrive at the First National Bank at approximately 9:30am but Sherry doesn’t want to go into the Bank with him. In exchange, Ray agrees that Sherry can run down the street to grab a soda at the Chevron gas station* while he finishes up inside. He left a dollar on the seat for her to use and turned to go into the bank.

*Most sources say “across the street” but the bank and parking lot were across from each other with no sign of a gas station or what might have been a gas station in the immediate vicinity. The only Chevron we found (even historically) was one abut 6 blocks down (9 minute walk) which would still fit the scenario. If someone knows differently and could tell us the correct location in 1984, we’ll update the map below.

The last time Ray saw Sherry, she was in the truck parked at the city parking lot right behind Jernigan’s Furniture Store and the General Telephone building but that is where her trail ended. He thought he heard the passenger door slam and believes she took the dollar and set off towards the gas station. Fifteen minutes later, at around 9:45am, Ray returned to their red pickup truck only to discover that Sherry had never returned.

Ray began combing the area to see if perhaps Sherry had wandered off somewhere and considered weather she might head to see her mother at the Waffle House; though it seemed out of character for her to leave without telling him where she was headed. Nonetheless, he called her mother shortly after ten to see if she has seen Sherry near her workplace, but she denied having spotted the girl. Ray then turned to the nearby farm stores that Sherry often enjoyed exploring, but he was increasingly concerned as Sherry would never typically run off like this.

When the search failed to turn up any sign of Sherry’s whereabouts, the family promptly contacted police at approximately noon to file a missing person report. Despite an in-depth police search, Sherry has never been located. There were no other witnesses who recalled seeing Sherry in town that day, and a search of vasts farmlands, swamps, and fields surrounding the town were searched in vain.

Police do not believe Sherry’s father or stepfather were involved in her abduction; the occasional rumors about her stepfather’s involvement have always been unfounded and there is no evidence to suggest anything happened beyond the way he described it. Although it initially appeared unlikely, there have been signs that she may have been alive for sometime after her disappearance but the unwitting victim of a stranger abduction.

Greenville was a relatively small town at the time, home to around 7,800 people and a generally tight knit community. The police and local residents were surprised that a stranger would have been able to abduct Sherry off the streets without anyone noticing, and no one recalled seeing a stranger in the area at that time. Sherry was a stocky (sometimes described as ‘pudgy’) child with a fierce personality and an ability to hold her own in a fight with the boys her age. She had matured early and appeared older than her age; some thought she could have passed for an older teenager, which may have put her at risk to someone who mistook her for an older child.

Then the reports of potential sightings became to trickle in, responses to missing person notices the family had posted with the help of a Florida-based missing persons organization and a $2,000 reward posted that July. The witnesses offered potential, though unconfirmed, sightings at various truck stops and shopping malls across the southern United States and then once as far north as a truck stop Dubuque, Iowa. Several in the southern sightings suggested she was seen with a truck driver. Some of the locations that popped up included Birmingham, Alabama; Meridian, Mississippi; Interstate 65 in Grand Bay, Alabama; and at least two claims of sightings in Memphis, Tennessee.

Particularly notable are three sightings that all reported that they had seen the girl across the southern United States in the company of an unidentified man. Each time, the witnesses said they saw Sherry with a middle-aged man, approximately 50 years old. He is described as husky at about 5’8″ with wrinkles near his eyes and a ‘weathered’ complexion. One witness believed they heard the girl refer to the man as “B.J.” and all agreed that she appeared dazed, unkempt, and upset. It is thought possible he was a truck driver which would fit the fact that all sightings were along major interstates. That said none of these sightings was confirmed.

The sightings occurred in:

Some do not believe Sherry was taken by a stranger, nodding to the difficulty in which it would have been for a stranger to not only have grabbed the heavy-set, physically strong Sherry with no one noticing, but to have come and gone from the small town without witnesses observing the strangeness of an unknown person in the area.

Although the details into the who, when, and how are left unclear, the Facebook post stated that the women were eventually led to a 10.2 acre farm in Butler County that was home to a hog farm in the 1980s when Sherry disappeared. The exact location is unknown. There they found what appeared to be the remains of a child’s size pants with blood stains (not matching the clothes Sherry was wearing when she disappeared and it is not clear if they would have matched her size either). They claim to have sent the pants to the Butler County Sheriff’s Department who stated later that the pants did not reveal any new information.

They also claim to have found a photo showing what appeared to be human remains beside a pig in a photo taken at the time, owned by the spouse of the person they believe killed Sherry. They say the police are aware of the photo but have not responded to requests for a followup.

In 2019, Sherry’s brother shared a couple photos that he had found left inside a Bible abandoned in an empty trailer in Butler County. The photos showed a young woman who might be an older Sherry lying on a bed in a room that the family say is unfamiliar to them and certainly not in their home. If it is Sherry, the family believes the photos were taken after she disappeared.

Date of Birth: August 18, 1971
Age at Disappearance: 12
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Nationality: United States
Gender at Birth: Female
Hair: Brunette
Eye Color: Brown Eyes
Height: 5’4″ (162 cm)
Weight: 120lbs (54.4kg)
Language: English

She may use August 16, 1971 as her date of birth.

Fecha de Nacimiento: 18 de agosto de 1971
Años: 12
Etnicidad: Caucásica
Nacionalidad: Estados Unidos
Sexo al nacer: Feminino
Cabello: Pelo castaño
Color de los ojos: Ojos marrones
Altura: 5’4″ (162 cm)
Peso: 120 libras (54,4kg)
Idiomas: Inglés

If You or Anyone You Know Has Information About The Disappearances, Please Contact:

Greenville Police Missing Persons Unit

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