Sherry Eyerly was 18 and had just graduated high school when she vanished on the evening of July 4, 1982, while making a Domino’s Pizza delivery in a rural area of Salem, Oregon. Her delivery van was found abandoned with the engine running, the door ajar, pizzas scattered on the ground and her hat nearby; investigators reported no signs of a struggle. The delivery address proved to be nonexistent and the order had been placed under a fictitious name from a local motel. The next day a ransom demand was phoned into the Domino’s but no arrangement was ever made.

Early investigation focused on a local man, Darrell J. Wilson, whose pickup matched a vehicle seen near the van; he took his own life about a month after Sherry disappeared, hours after police questioned him. No physical evidence tied him to the case and investigators later ruled him out. In December 2007 William Scott Smith, then serving life terms for two other Salem murders, confessed and pleaded guilty to strangling Sherry and disposing of her body in the Pudding River; he said an accomplice, Roger Noseff, made the ransom call. Noseff died in 2003 and was never charged. Despite searches and flooding of the river over the years, Sherry’s remains have not been recovered.

Did anyone know where Sherry worked or who she spent time with around July 4, 1982?