she was going to bed and that her husband, robert durall, had made her a drink. sherry s sister-in-law told police that she was very suspicious because bob seldom served his wife. usually, it was the other way around. they said that it was extraordinarily atypical for mr. durall to ever make his wife a drink of any kind or to serve her any kind of food or drink. and sherry s best friend had one final insight. it was a dream she had about sherry the night before she disappeared. i woke my husband up like at 12:30, 1:00 in the morning, and i said, oh, i had the worst dream about blood everywhere and couldn t get back to sleep. and i feel like that was a message being passed to me, like, do something with this, you know?
people. she cared about others a lot. sherry was also a punctual employee, so when she didn t come to work one day and didn t call, her co-workers were concerned. they called her husband, bob, who said sherry left for work at the usual time that morning, and he didn t know where she was. so sherry s friends called police. a couple of officers look around, knock on the door and nobody answers, but they find an unlocked door. so they go into the house, they walk through the house. everything looks orderly and everything looks tidy. sherry s clothes, jewelry and toiletries were still in the house. it seemed very unusual that a woman with three children would just suddenly disappear. for the next two days, there were no signs of her. then police got a call about a red van driving erratically.
revealed that bob was dating women he met on the online dating service match.com and was doing so at the same time his wife, sherry, was dating kevin johnson. bob s profile on the dating website was also revealing. mr. durall portrayed himself as a man who was living separately from his wife and who was completely unburdened by any other romantic or personal attachments and was open to a relationship with the appropriate woman. in e-mails to prospective dates, bob explained why a divorce was impossible. to one young woman, mr. durall said that he really did not want to pursue a divorce with his wife because it would be expensive and messy. he actually went so far as to say he would be better off if his wife were dead. in another e-mail, bob said
things, was a long letter, a draft of a letter she had written to her husband in an effort to try to explain why she felt it necessary to leave him. my spirit is crushed. i feel that you are too controlling and obsessive and jealous, and i just can t live with those personality traits anymore. i can t go on pretending that there is nothing wrong. i am unbearably unhappy. the bottom line is, i don t love you enough to stay married. also in her desk were books about divorce. she was planning the separation, and she had saved up some money, and she had spoke to a couple of lawyers to get some advice. and she was making her plans to move on to her new life with her children. and sherry told friends that bob had been abusive. no sign of physical violence at all. it was more that she wasn t comfortable around him. he was obsessive, controlling.
to police, he denied it, but to his god, he said something else. in a jail cell, he was observed and overheard apparently asking god to forgive him for what he had done. prosecutors didn t need to find sherry s body in order to go to trial. no one could have survived the amount of blood loss found in sherry s bedroom. but for the sake of her family, prosecutors approached bob durall s attorneys with an offer. we said we would encourage mr. durall to lead us to the location of the body of his wife and that we would not use evidence that he had revealed the whereabouts at trial. surprisingly, bob agreed and led investigators to the cascade mountains, about an hour s drive away. there, at the base of a steep ravine, they found sherry s body