On March 28, 1998, in rural Portageville, Missouri, 38-year-old mother Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter Megan were found murdered in their home by the husband and son who returned that evening. Sherri was discovered face down, bound, gagged, and shot in the back of the head. Megan had been shot and sexually assaulted.

Initial forensic testing produced only a partial DNA profile and the investigation went cold despite many leads and a national television feature. Advances in DNA testing in 2006 produced a full profile that matched evidence from a 1990 murder in Greenville, South Carolina, linking the Portageville killings to other violent crimes including a 1997 rape of a 14-year-old in Memphis.

Genetic genealogy work in 2018 identified a probable suspect as Robert Eugene Brashers. Family reference samples and exhumation of Brashers later that year produced a direct DNA match confirming he was the perpetrator. Brashers had died by suicide in January 1999 during a police standoff in Missouri and never faced trial for these murders.

Did anyone in the Portageville area know Sherri or Megan, or have information that was not previously shared with investigators?