Sheryl Evans was 19 when she vanished from the Talladega area in mid-February 1986. Known to hitchhike between Talladega and Anniston, Evans was missing for about a week before her body was found on or about February 22, 1986, discarded by a rural road in neighboring Calhoun County.

Calhoun County investigators determined she had been killed and transported to the discovery site, and the death was classified as a homicide. Her killing occurred amid a string of strangulation murders in the same region, and authorities publicly said the timeline and body disposal were consistent with those other crimes. Investigators identified drifter and itinerant art teacher Daniel Lee Siebert, who used the alias Danny Spence, as the principal suspect in the cluster; he was arrested September 3, 1986, in Tennessee and later convicted of five Alabama murders. Siebert did not make a formal confession to Evans’s killing, and prosecutors did not file a separate indictment for her death, so the murder of Sheryl Evans remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone in the Talladega–Anniston area know Sheryl or recall seeing her in February 1986?