Cheryl Mason was 39 when she was last seen on August 6, 1996, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A former champion roller skater and mother of six, she had struggled with cocaine addiction and sex work in the months before her disappearance. Her family reported her missing after she failed to show up for her daughter’s birthday—an absence they said she would never have chosen.

On October 13, 1996, an anonymous call led police to a field behind the Acme Insulations building in Grand Rapids, where Cheryl’s nude body was found. Investigators determined the circumstances indicated foul play and opened a homicide investigation, but the case went cold and no arrests or public suspect identifications have been announced.

Some investigators and researchers have suggested Cheryl’s killing might be linked to as many as 17 unsolved murders of women in the Grand Rapids area in the mid-1990s, many victims sharing vulnerabilities similar to Cheryl’s, though no definitive connection has been established. Does anyone who knew Cheryl or who was in Grand Rapids that summer have information that could help solve this case?