when sheryl didn t turn up for church one december sunday in 2007 and then missed her sunday school class, red flags went up. next door neighbor and friend tonya lad. sunday morning i turned around and looked at her usual spot and she wasn t there. she didn t teach her class? she didn t. immediately we knew something was wrong. that wasn t like her. everybody knew her agreed. 46-year-old sheryl was reliable, a woman solid in her faith and set in her habits. her fellow nurse friend and prayer partner, laura walker. she always liked to hear what we call our praise reports, like something good that p happened with a patient or a co-worker. when monday morning rolled around and tonya still hadn t been able to reach sheryl, she walked next door. i went back down to the house and saw the dog was at the house but the car was gone. i called her office several times and they hadn t seen her. sheryl s daughter-in-law tabitha called the sheriff s office to report her missing.
when tonya said she didn t it show up work, i knew there was a problem. after the missing person s report was filed, the friends heard about a car that looked like sheryl s spotted on the side of the highway leading into tallahassee. they headed up there. it was sheryl s car and immediately they sent a deputy up there and just took over from that point. are you apprehensive? yes. i was very uneasy. i knew something was wrong. sheryl s car was parked well off the highway. annie white. it was pretty clear it wasn t some place she would have parked it as well as the tire looked like it had been purpose flattened on the vehicle. an abandoned car, a flashed tire. lord, where is she? searchers, law enforcement, volunteers began fanning out into the adjacent 57,000 acre appalachia national forest. all of them with dread in their heart. i would be devastated if this happened to my family. i want to help.
another woman who had gone miss being, sheryl dunlap, a nurse and mother. when sheryl didn t turn up for church one december sunday in 2007 and then missed her sunday school class, red flags went up. next door neighbor and friend tonya lad. sunday morning i turned around and looked at her usual spot and she wasn t there. she didn t teach her class? she didn t. immediately we knew something was wrong. that wasn t like her. everybody knew her agreed. 46-year-old sheryl was reliable, a woman solid in her faith and set in her habits. her fellow nurse friend and prayer partner, laura walker. she always liked to hear what we call our praise reports, like something good that p happened with a patient or a co-worker. when monday morning rolled around and tonya still hadn t been able to reach sheryl, she walked next door. i went back down to the house and saw the dog was at the house but the car was gone. i called her office several times and they hadn t seen her.
sheryl s daughter-in-law tabitha called the sheriff s office to report her missing. when tonya said she didn t it show up work, i knew there was a problem. after the missing person s report was filed, the friends heard about a car that looked like sheryl s spotted on the side of the highway leading into tallahassee. they headed up there. it was sheryl s car and immediately they sent a deputy up there and just took over from that point. are you apprehensive? yes. i was very uneasy. i knew something was wrong. sheryl s car was parked well off the highway. annie white. it was pretty clear it wasn t some place she would have parked it as well as the tire looked like it had been purpose flattened on the vehicle. an abandoned car, a flashed tire. lord, where is she? searchers, law enforcement, volunteers began fanning out into the adjacent 57,000 acre appalachia national forest. all of them with dread in their heart. i would be devastated if this
it is. the apb went well beyond the georgia border. hilton s name and picture were all over the regional news. light bulbs began going off to the south around tallahassee, florida s capital, when people there saw his photo on tv. the search for gary hilton was about to widen. the mystery man person of interest in the meredith emerson case looked familiar to people who thought they d seen him just about the time they learned of a sad case of another woman who had gone missing. sheryl dunlap, a nurse and mother. when sheryl didn t turn up for church one december sunday in 2007 and then missed her sunday school class, red flags went up. next door neighbor and friend tonya lad. sunday morning at church, i turned around and looked at her usual spot and she wasn t there. and she didn t teach her class? she didn t. immediately we knew something was wrong. that wasn t like her. everybody knew her agreed. 46-year-old sheryl was reliable, a woman solid in her faith and set in her h