Cold and Missing: Sherri Swalley

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Welcome back everyone.

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Welcome back everyone.

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This is Cold and Missing.

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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And here at Cold and Missing we focus on...

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Cold cases.

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And unresolved missing person cases.

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And this week we are focusing on a...

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Cold case.

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A cold case.

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Yeah.

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Should we get started?

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Let's do it.

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Today we are talking about the cold case of Sherri Swalley.

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And just as a content warning at the top, this case does involve violence and sexual

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assault of a child.

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This case takes place in December of 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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But first a little bit about Sherri.

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Sherri is 8 years old in 1973.

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She was born June 7th, 1965 and she would be 57 years old today.

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Sherri lived in Columbus, Ohio with her parents and her younger brother, Michael.

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She was a third grader at Westgate Elementary School.

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Her father, John Clark Swalley said, quote, she was a bright, friendly child who did well

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in school.

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End quote.

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Now we will get into the timeline of events.

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On Saturday, December 22nd, 1973, John had decided to take Sherri and Michael to Walt

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Disney World as a Christmas treat.

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John's plan was to drive to Atlanta on Saturday and spend the night and all day Sunday with

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a former co-worker, Clyde Williamson, at his apartment in Northwest Atlanta.

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Clyde lived at the Pace Setter apartment complex, which was located on Skipper Drive.

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John wanted to stay on Sunday because he was worried that since a lot of gas stations were

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closed on Sunday and there was a national gas shortage happening at this time, that

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it would be difficult to refuel the car on country Georgia roads.

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And he didn't want to run the risk of running out of gas with his kids in the car.

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So John, Sherri, and Michael arrive at Clyde's apartment Saturday evening.

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Sunday, December 23rd, 1973.

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Sherri spends the day playing with kids of the apartment complex.

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Late Sunday afternoon, witnesses say they saw Sherri with a young teen boy wearing an

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army jacket.

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At around 6.30 p.m., John sees Sherri playing with other children.

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That evening, Sherri was at the apartment of Caroline Ellis.

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Lots of kids had gathered there to play while Caroline made dinner.

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Between 7.30 and 8 o'clock, Caroline sent Sherri to get her father, Clyde, and Michael

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and invite them all for dinner.

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According to Officer E.G.

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Krebs, Sherri was not seen alive after leaving Caroline's apartment.

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At 9.32 p.m., police receive a call from a young-sounding male who refused to ID himself.

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He tells police that there is a dead girl at the apartment complex.

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Police and an ambulance is dispatched, but nothing is found, so they leave.

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At 10.30 p.m., John calls the police to report his daughter missing, but police won't return

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to the apartment complex that night.

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The next morning, December 24th, 1973, this is Christmas Eve, police return to the apartment

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complex as Sherri had not come home that evening.

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At around 10.30 a.m., Sherri's body is discovered on a wooded hillside, about 40 yards behind

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one of the complex buildings.

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Her body was in full view of 150 apartments.

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Sherri was only wearing a blue sweater.

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The rest of her clothes were found about 20 yards away.

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She had been sexually assaulted and was stabbed about 25 times with what investigators described

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as a thin bladed knife.

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Police immediately begin going door to door to interview neighbors.

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The next day, Tuesday, December 25th, Christmas Day, police continue their door to door canvassing.

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They'll interview around 50 people between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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An Atlanta radio station reports that police are holding a man as a material witness, but

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he was not considered a suspect at this time.

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Police refuse to confirm if this is true.

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Detective S.T. Hinshaw says, quote, we are questioning people with any knowledge, but

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we don't have any suspects, end quote.

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Residents of the apartment complex are worried as this is the fifth murder in nine months.

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On March 26th, 1973, two adult sisters were found handcuffed and shot to death inside

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their apartment.

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On August 7th, a young woman visiting a friend was shot in the face when she answered the

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apartment door.

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And two weeks before Sherri's murder, an off-duty police officer was shot when he interrupted

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a burglary.

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Police say that Sherri's murder is not connected with any of these deaths.

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On Wednesday, December 26th, 1973, police say that Sherri's body had been moved.

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They say that she was killed in the woods, but then later moved about 70 feet to a more

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visible spot.

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Police theorize that whoever called on December 23rd at 9.32 p.m. to report a murdered girl

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had watched police search for her in vain.

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After police left, they think that the killer then moved Sherri's body to the spot where

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she was found the next morning.

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On Saturday, December 29th, Sherri's funeral is held at 11 a.m. at the Jerry Spears Funeral

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Home in Columbus, Ohio.

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And then three weeks after Sherri's death, on January 14th, 1974, a fifth-grade girl,

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Patricia Ann Walker, is found murdered in a wooded area behind her school.

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This is about three miles from where Sherri was murdered.

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The manner of death is different.

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Patricia died from compression injuries to the neck.

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But circumstances are similar.

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Patricia was sent by her mother to a neighbor's apartment to grab a couple cans of beer.

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When she failed to return, her mother called the cops, and they found two full beer cans

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on the sidewalk where she would have had to pass.

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An investigator, who refused to be named, said that the murders were similar to each

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other and that the force used on the victims indicated, quote, a deranged mind or a pathological

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condition induced by drugs, end quote.

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Eventually, a 15-year-old boy will be charged in Patricia's death.

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He'll never be named an official suspect in Sherri's case.

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No one has ever been named an official suspect in Sherri's case.

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And that is actually all the information I could find on Sherri's death.

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There hasn't been any updates since 1974 that I could find.

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So if you know anything about the murder of Sherri Swalley in December of 1973, please

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call the Atlanta Police Department at 404-614-6544.

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Or to remain anonymous, you can call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

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And the sources for today's podcast come from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Greenville

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News, the Times Recorder, the Newark Advocate, the Tampa Tribune, Dayton Daily News, the

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Daily Advocate, Tyler Morning Telegraph, the Marion Star, the Galleon Inquirer, and the

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Atlanta Constitution.

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So that is the case of Sherri Swalley.

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Yeah.

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So what do you think happened?

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Because it seems like there's an overwhelming amount of evidence.

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Although I don't really understand what went wrong there.

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Yeah.

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Well, I'm interested in the thread about the teenage boy, just because witnesses put

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her with a young teen earlier in the day.

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And then the 911 call was by a younger sounding male.

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So I put that as a teen as well.

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And something about watching the police search for the body and then going back to move it

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to a more visible space, there's just something that seems very juvenile overall about the

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case.

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But on the same token, I feel like if things were done correctly in 1973, if the chain

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of command is correct and they were able to save evidence that this would be a case that

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could be solved with today's technology, or at least move it forward if not solved.

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So you think that just no one has been arrested for it?

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Or they're just they just don't can't do it or won't do it?

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Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't seem like this case was ever worked again.

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Outside of the few weeks surrounding it, I couldn't find any updates.

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And it seems since Sherri was from Columbus, Ohio, and not from Atlanta, there was no

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pressure on the Atlanta police to solve it.

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There was no family there requesting updates.

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There was nobody there to put pressure on them.

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And they didn't vote in Atlanta elections.

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So it just seems like they didn't care to solve it.

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Or there was no pressure to solve it.

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So it got put to the back burner, put to the back burner, and now here we are in 2023,

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and it's still not solved.

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I'm sure a lot of our listeners are familiar with the Atlanta child murders.

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And this case would have happened.

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They put the Atlanta child murders starting at 79.

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So this would be a few years beforehand.

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And Sherri doesn't really fit the profile of those at all.

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But I just wanted to put that out there that this is a few years before that, just because

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it might come to the mind of some of our listeners.

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Yeah, I mean, even when I googled her name, there were so many missing and murdered children

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from all walks of life that popped up during that time period.

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Just typing in her first name, there were so many other pictures and names from 1970

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to 1980 of just a lot of old or missing cases of specifically children.

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I mean, yeah, you know, it was before amber alerts were created and really before technology

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that assisted in police departments of being able to like talk to each other and communicate

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with each other and be quick to share information about a missing child.

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And when they could, they didn't want to because politically, it mattered so much at the time

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because there wasn't the internet.

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So local support of what you were trying to do, I think, mattered significantly more because

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word of mouth was the way.

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And I think most cities don't necessarily want a missing and murdered case connected

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to their physical location, really.

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So if it's a case that can be forgotten about or swept under the rug, it seems like that's

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something that happens with political motive.

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Yeah, I mean, why publicize on the year anniversary, the two year anniversary of an unsolved child

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murder if nobody's asking about it?

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Yeah, I think where I'm getting my thought process from is from, you know, watching Mindhunter,

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which is a dramatization of, or at least season two, Atlanta's missing and murdered.

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And there was so much political stuff that I learned that I didn't understand, you know,

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when I first took interest in true crime, specifically marginalized people in true crime.

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I had zero awareness around political influences.

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And it's sad that that's even a factor when a child has been, you know, brutally discarded

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in this way.

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That's the thing is like, it seemed like so many of the clues were there, like how I'm

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just echoing you, I guess.

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It's like, it seems like there were a lot of arrows and evidence and the fact that her

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body was there.

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And a child walking around then even with like a younger looking adult, like a teen,

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like a young girl walking around with an older boy wouldn't have looked as odd back then

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as it would now.

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Like I would immediately notice that especially if anything looked off.

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And I know you would too.

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But back then, I mean, kids would get into cars because they were just learning in real

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time that you really should not do that like stranger danger.

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I think what I'm, I guess I'm just affirming myself in yes, there is a lot of evidence.

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But even if people saw them, look, saw them walking around and saw what he looked like,

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the descriptor like the your brain wouldn't pull to fill in the details because it wouldn't

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have looked odd.

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Even though it's maybe evidence walking right in front of you.

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Right.

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So I guess I'm speaking to the time because right now I'm saying how is this not solved.

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But I want to make space for the fact that maybe of course it wasn't at the time.

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You know, my mom grew up.

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She was around this age in 1973.

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And her stories from childhood are very similar to this of just like getting out of the door,

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running around and coming back when lights turned on.

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So to me, there's nothing like peculiar about her running around this apartment complex

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and like playing with the kids at the apartment complex.

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Like there's nothing strange in that or like, and all it takes is a moment for like someone

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to walk by and just be like, hey, come with me.

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And it's if there's enough people around enough moving parts, it doesn't look or present

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as odd.

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Right.

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And, you know, she was sent from Carolyn's apartment to go invite her dad and you know,

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everybody over for dinner.

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You know, whatever happened, I think happened right there is before she got to the apartment,

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she ran into whoever it was.

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And honestly, I would say when the 911 call comes in, so between Caroline says she sent

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Sherry between 730 and eight o'clock and the 911 call comes in at 932.

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So that leaves an hour and a half to two hours depending on the exact time she left that

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apartment.

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You know what I mean?

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So I really think it's those two hours is like where it happens.

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I don't think it went overnight.

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I don't think you know what I mean?

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Like I think the time of death was shortly after she left the apartment.

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So, yeah, I but again, I don't know.

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I really think this is a case that could be solved or again, at least move forward.

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I think there could be a DNA profile developed and put into CODIS.

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And, you know, if nothing comes back, nothing comes back.

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But it seems like it should be there.

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Oh, and I'm sure someone knows something, whether they're alive or dead, I don't know.

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And I don't necessarily mean the people involved specifically with her, her murder, Sherri's

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murder.

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But there wasn't one other set of eyes on it who maybe like helped cover it up, helped

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the boy out if it was him, you know, like, yeah.

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And you know, her when her body was found the next morning, it was later in the morning.

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It was around 1030.

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And granted, it was Christmas Eve.

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So people are usually, you know, not on their usual schedules that day.

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Any any way.

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You know, things are usually a little disrupted.

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But according to all the newspaper reports, she was within view of 150 apartments.

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So it's like somebody saw something.

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Like just statistically, how is it?

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It's yeah, it's like too probable that someone saw something.

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Somebody had to have seen unless everyone was gone.

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You know, I don't know.

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And I mean, and we know that they weren't because police were able to talk to around

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50 people between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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So people were there.

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And and again, that time period people are like, not my business, not my problem.

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Like if you see even like people, you don't necessarily see that it's a child, but you

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see like a tussle.

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Even like if it's like not your family, you are taught to like, that's not your business.

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So yeah, even if you did notice something, it's like maybe.

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So again, if you know anything about what happened to Sherri Swalley in December of

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1973, please call the Atlanta PD at 404-614-6544 or to remain anonymous, you can call Crimestoppers

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at 404-577-8477.

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Because again, this is solvable.

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It feels like it's right there.

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And if we just went back and looked at it, applied today's technology.

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If not solved, it could be punted forward.

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I think that's a sports term.

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Punting.

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It's in football.

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But does that, does it move it forward?

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It's like when the kicker kicks the ball and it goes through the goal post and like, go,

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you know.

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So that works here.

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Take it.

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We will be posting some photos of Sherri.

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