Cheryl Louise Murray was 43 when she was last seen in Peoria, Illinois, on April 1, 1994. She was described as 5 feet 1 inch to 5 feet 2 inches, about 100 to 115 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes; her right middle finger was amputated at the first knuckle. She may also have used the name Cheryl Louise Smith.

Murray was one of several women who disappeared from the Peoria area in the mid-1990s under suspicious circumstances. Investigators suspected a possible connection to Arlie Ray Davis, a former Peoria resident convicted in the 1995 murder of Laurie Gwinn. Prostitutes in the area reported Davis had a history in the early 1990s of strangling and beating them, and investigators noted he had sexual dysfunction and feelings of inferiority toward women. Davis denied involvement in Murray’s disappearance and died of natural causes on October 13, 2002. The cases of Murray and the other missing women remain unsolved and families continue to seek answers.

Did anyone in Peoria in 1994 remember seeing Cheryl Murray, Cheryl Smith, or anything unusual around April 1?