Sherry Stewart Brown was 33 when she vanished from Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the summer of 1996 and was reported missing on August 9, 1996. No trace surfaced for almost two years until July 22, 1998, when a passerby in Walker found animal activity around remains in a ditch near Butterworth Drive SW and Maynard Avenue; the remains were recovered then. Because of advanced decomposition, no definitive cause of death could be determined.

In 2002 the FBI confirmed by DNA testing that the remains were those of Sherry Stewart Brown. Her disappearance and death are one of several homicides and disappearances of women in the Grand Rapids area during the mid-1990s that investigators later suspected might be linked to a serial offender. A dying confession from convicted killer Garry Artman includes admissions about multiple murders and raised the possibility of his involvement, but no definitive link to Brown has been established and no one has been arrested in her case.

If anyone knew Sherry or has information about her movements in 1996, please share what you know.