On the morning of January 20, 1987, twenty-five-year-old Sherry LaNell Higgins was found dead inside her home in Wilson, Oklahoma. Her nude body showed multiple contusions and scratches on her face, forearms, and abdomen. The medical examiner ruled the official cause of death to be an overdose of amitriptyline, with the extensive external injuries listed as a contributing factor, while the Carter County Sheriff’s Department initially pointed to hypothermia; the medical examiner classified the manner of death as unknown. Authorities investigated the death as a homicide.

Sherry’s husband was taken into custody during the inquiry as a person of interest but was later released; no other suspects have been publicly named. Some reports include a contested claim that every inch of her body had been shaven, a detail her daughter disputes and which does not appear in the autopsy report. The case eventually went cold, leaving a family, including at least one child, without answers.

Are there readers who remember Sherry, her family, or the Wilson area in January 1987 and can share anything that might shed light on what happened?